Story of the Day: Horror 22 by Adam Dugas

Sydney was a naughty girl and got her fingers bit
A rabid dog was chasing her and jumped her in a pit
The canine jaws were strong and sharp and tore her flesh to shreds
Had she survived the loss of blood her rabies would need meds.

Young Simon liked to disobey and venture in the wood
So it was no surprise to find him strung up in a hood
The torture had been long and hard, his little body struggled
But now his head would be cut off for goblin boys to juggle.

Sweet Nester had an evil dad who sold her to some witches
So she became the cruel hags’ slave, forced to dig deep ditches
But they were graves for other kids who got lost on their way
Lured by the witches in the night, they’d never see the day.

George Martin was a fiery lad, as brave as he was stupid
He flirted heavy with a maid, said he was struck by cupid.
The lady was a werewolf, though, and not so kind to men
She ripped his gullet wide and then his throat she did open.

And finally came Percy who was partial to the night
He met a striking vampire who drove him out of sight
Then made the kid undead with the blood magic of the change
The two of them forever bound to make home on the range.

October 31, 2022

Story of the Day: Horror 21 by Adam Dugas

In the beginning there was the slop of evil, the sloshing stinking pit of vile stew from which belched forth the sensational violence of life and death. The stench was of course of sulfur and melting tar and a deep organic funk that would make your eyes roll back in your head. When the Giver decided it was time, a hand burst forth from the simmering, bubbling stew, a great muscle-covered purple hand covered in warts and matted hair, the fuschia nails tipped like razors. Rising along with the hand came the shape of Vigornam the Champion. The first of the great ones, the warriors, the guards. Once the Giver let loose with his unholy spawn, it would the great ones, the guards, who enforced the rules of the games, unleashed true punishment. Vigorman’s fists were massive with a force like a iron block dropped from a tower, flattening anything under their crushing power to oblivion. Following the liquid birth of Vigorman came Chonterseth the Smiter, a white-skinned adrogynous creature with jet-black hair and eyes like fiery rubies. Chonterseth wielded two massive swords of fire, and its scream caused any who heard it to freeze in place and drop to their knees, begging for mercy, so unsettling, unearthly, unholy was its tone. Finally, the third guard reeked up from the muck, Gongadelle, the whispering freak. Chaos itself was the child of this guardian, whose every action served to undo reality itself. Sexes switched, weather overturned, health eliminated, she was the least understood and the most feared. Such was the Giver’s intent, to keep his children cowering in fear of him, obeying his every command, serving with gratitude at his mercy from holding back the guards. This was the way, this was the beginning and it was great and awful and good.

October 30, 2022

Story of the Day: Horror 20 by Adam Dugas

What’s a girl to do? I was sold by my parents as a young girl for what I believe was the sum of two hundred dollars. That’s how desperate and poor they were. I was taken to the city to be a child prostitute. How I survived what I endured from ages eight to fifteen is beyond me. The fact that my little body was able to handle it all, survive the disgusting infections and violent abuse that came with the sex. The men were already too big for me, but I got through it. By the time I was a teenager, I was ready to kill them all. I wanted to start with Ninto, the man who took me from my family, but that would have left me more vulnerable, so I plotted in secret. Eventually, I met Madame Sarago, who lived on the outskirts of town. I was sent to her to get a medicine for a weird sexual infection that was going around, and when she saw me she knew what I really needed. I told her my life story over tea, and she explained to me that something similar had happened to her as a young girl, and that she had removed herself from society and dedicated her life to the study of plants and magic. She gave me my first orgasm, as well, teaching me how to actually find pleasure in my body instead of letting it be used as an object for others to get off in. In addition to the medicine for the infection, she gave me a packet of powder to use on my visitors. The next one that visited was a sad, lonely man, but I saw him with new eyes, I saw myself with new eyes. This was a privilege to be with me, he sensed this change in me and could not get hard enough to get off. I offered no assistance. Ninto could tell something was off when the man left, but he had paid so there was nothing he could really scold me for, but I knew he was watching me. The next one was violent, I had seen him before and he liked to hit my face. I offered him water before he left and made sure to sprinkle a quarter teaspoon of the powder from Madame Sarago and mixed it in well. He downed it, and I never saw him again. She had told me to try to give it to them as they were leaving, but when Big John came I couldn’t help it, I gave it to him when he arrived. Big John was one of the most violent customers, I usually was bruised and slightly bloody when he left, so I thought it best to administer this powder, whatever it did, in advance. Sure enough, he drank it, and as soon as he started messing with me the hitting began, harder than usual, I thought, although I was also hardening myself to all of this, finding objectionable what I had come to expect as not quite deserved but part of my place in the world. It was while he was thrusting in me, an action I could tell he tried to make as painful as possible to me, that his heart must have just exploded, for he gagged on his tongue and his eyes bulged and all two hundred and eighty pounds of muscle collapsed on top of me. I screamed and Ninto came in to help deal with the mess. There was no reason to suspect anything, but Ninto didn’t trust anything or anybody, so I knew that was my one mistake. In fact, it seemed clear that it was time to remove Ninto from my path. Whatever came next would be better than this, I didn’t need to know what it was, I trusted that Madame Sarago might even know people who needed someone to help with work.  There was no way to get Ninto to drink something I offered, he would immediately sense my intent. No, I would have to kill him good and proper with a weapon but he was much stronger than me. I began stashing weapons all around the room and while lying in bed practiced reaching down and grabbing them and whipping them up to where his neck might be. I would have one shot, one movement, that was it. There was a hammer near my dresser, long knives in the closet. But it was the razor that did the trick. As he usually did once a week or so, Ninto came in to use me for his gratification. When he took me from behind it was impossible to do anything, but then he said he wanted to lie back and have me bounce on him. This was a rare request, and the position was ideal. I watched his face intently, waiting to see when he began to lose himself in his pleasure, and that was when I whipped out the razor tucked under the mattress and slashed his neck as hard as I could. The look of shock on his face as the torrent of blood splashed my body was one of the most joyful and satisfying sights of my life. Will it ever be topped? Let’s hope so, by something more joyful. Knowing that I had succeeded was everything. I felt his penis ejaculate in the frenzy, which made me laugh. Then i laughed even harder, thinking that the last thing this stupid, evil man would see was my beautiful naked body slathered in his blood laughing at his death while he feebly ejaculated. The French call it the “little death” so how poetic to have it accompany such a grand, big death. I sat atop him as he died, taking immense pleasure in savoring his demise, the seeping out of his life, his cock and body both going limp for the last time. When it was over I just looked at his face for a while, studying the man who controlled such a huge portion of my life. From now on, my life would be mine. Mine and no one else’s. I washed languorously, unconcerned with anyone interrupting me. The keeper was here in the room, dead. Afterward, I collected my things, packed some food from the kitchen and walked out of the house with my bag, never looking back, never wondering what would happen. I would vanish into society, a free woman.

October 29, 2022

Story of the Day: Horror 19 by Adam Dugas

Doug hated his life, hated everything about it. His children, his wife, his parents, his siblings, his job, his coworkers, his boss, his commute and especially his neighbors. They just were the last straw. The rest of it he had no choice in, or felt like he had no choice, but the neighbors just grated on him. So he determined to destroy them, get rid of them. He was tired of seeing them prosper and get more and more delightful things in their yard. He was tired of their happy children succeeding and having lots of friends. So he went to his sister, who was a black witch who knew all about he dark arts. He asked her to curse them in exchange for a hefty sum of money - and a promise to get her a baby. He didn’t know where he’d get the baby, but he promised. So she cast the spell, the curse, and within a few weeks the neighbor lost his job and there seemed to be some chaos coming from the house. They could hear the neighbors yelling a lot at each other, and at the kids. Then one day, the neighbor snapped and started shooting his wife and kids, Doug saw the kids screaming, running out of the house. He almost felt guilty, but then he realized he wouldn’t have to think about them anymore. It turned out that both the neighbor and his wife died that day, the father killed himself after shooting his wife and two kids, but there was one child left, a young child of two. Doug didn’t know if that was young enough for his sister, but he offered to shelter the child and then gave it to her. It didn’t occur to him what kind of trouble that would get him in, he was reeling from the whole series of events unfolding, but his sister was quite powerful and sent a powerful confusion wave through the area so that no one really bothered Doug about where the child was. Problem was, he still didn’t like his life.

Story of the Day: Horror 18 by Adam Dugas

Dear Mother,

It has recently come to my attention that you used me to participate in occult meetings of the Vulture Children when I was a very small child. While I do not have memories that I can piece together from the period, I did come across photographs of my young body being held aloft in a violent and creepy ceremony at Aunt Celia’s house. She was mortified that I found them and didn’t want to speak of her own participation, but eventually she confessed it all to me. While I can understand that you were in thrall to powerful forces at the time, it is still hard to see how you could have let me be used in such a diabolical way. Is this where the scars came from on my back and wrists? The fact that you can’t just tell me about things like this is what makes it impossible to trust you. Is this why nobody in our family will talk to us? Why your own mother refused to speak to me when I found her years ago? She ran away from me like I was the devil’s spawn. Who is my father, anyway? I tried to track down a woman from your address book and she asked me if I was Rosemary’s baby? I said that yes, I was her son and she started crying, saying she was sorry but she was going to hang up. It would really help me to understand where I come from so I can better figure out where I am going.

Please don’t wait to write back, I need to hear from you. Either that or answer my calls or pick up the phone.

Bradley

October 27, 2022

Story of the Day: Horror 17 by Adam Dugas

The mist suffused the air around Warbling Towers, the family estate of the McDonohugh clan. Hester McDonohugh stepped through the misty air almost as if stepping through a fog. Her body seethed with passion, her breasts heaving with fury. Hair flowing in the October breeze, she breathed in the cold damp air and tried to calm down. An owl screeched and she turned back to gaze at the spires of Warbling Towers, but all she could see was an image of what she had left in the upstairs bedroom of the west wing. For in that room lay the body of her brother, Jethro, bled out and lifeless after she stabbed him furiously at least fifty times. It was the last straw. He had started using her for sex when she was just a little girl, but when she discovered that he had attempted to control her with a slave spell, a binding enchantment that would have had her doing devil-knows-what. No, she wanted control over her life, for once. Killing him was easier than she expected, emotionally, but physically it had taken everything she had in her. The raging energy still surging through her, she knew she would need to clean up the mess she made and destroy the gown she was wearing, but so be it. It was time for the next phase of her life, one in which she reigned as Lady of the House of Warbling Towers, sole heir to the McDonohugh fortune and the last of her name. She would make an heir, but she wouldn’t take some man’s name, no. She would collect the seed from a worthy father and sire a son or daughter to reign after her. It was her time, she thought as the clock struck midnight and she calmly walked to her fate.

October 26, 2022

Story of the Day: Horror 16 by Adam Dugas

The swamp down by Kelly McGregor’s farm was slick with algae and teeming with gators. Kelly had lost at least five dogs to the critters, and he knew exactly how much to fuck with them and how much ground to give: zero. Still, it was a thrill fishing for mugwumps in the dank, marshy wetlands and he liked seeing all the other creatures of the swamp. He was out with his buddy Bobby when they encountered the thing. It was about seven feet tall and humanoid but covered in moss and grime, its skin looked like it had thickened to accommodate being in water all the time. It clearly did not like intruders, and Kelly and Bobby had gone way way off course deeper into the swamp looking for new fertile patches to fish. The thing turned the boat over and then smashed it to bits, which meant even if they did survive they would be wading and walking through snake and gator-infested waters and marsh grass. It wasn’t likely they’d make it out with all limbs intact as it was. But they didn’t have to worry about that, because the swamp thing drowned Bobby right quick, just grabbed the back of his neck with a hand that went all the way around to his windpipe. He just dunked the dude and held him down until he stopped moving. Kelly had already shit his pants and his body was screaming to flee, but he didn’t know how to move fast enough, he turned and waded as fast as he could dodging trees to get some distance, but a plank from the boat knocked the wind out of him and then he, too, was pushed under the water to drown. In his last moments he tried to keep his eyes open and see under the dark swamp water, but it was dark and murky and it just faded to black.

October 25, 2022

Story of the Day: Horror 15 by Adam Dugas

What happened? Tina woke up and didn’t know where she was. It was a hotel room? No, it was a very swanky home that looked like a boutique hotel. Okay, piece it together, who was she with last night, what was the last thing she could remember? She could picture getting dressed, getting her keys and putting them in the studded purse. There was the museum party, and then… A taxi to where? She heard a flush. Whoever it was was about to make an appearance. It had been awhile since she had had to do this. Fuck it, she’d just be honest, who could this guy be, anyway? Tina braced herself as the bathroom door opened and revealed Garret Fortham, movie star. That’s when she realized the light was different, she looked outside quickly and saw palm trees. Holy shit, she wasn’t in New York. Fortham stood looking at her. “You want to go back to the place today?” Tina turned back and smiled. “This is going to sound crazy, but - I’m coming out of a blackout. I don’t know what you’re talking about.” His expression didn’t change as he came over to her in the giant bed. “Interesting. What’s the last thing you remember?” Tina took a deep breath and let it out, “A museum gala in New York. That’s what I dressed up to do.” Garret looked concerned and curious, “That was five days ago. Do you know how you got here?” Tina looked at this handsome actor, looking very much more realistic in person. “I remember a beige airplane?” He smiled, “Yes, I flew you here on my jet. But you don’t remember anything else? Where we’ve been the last few days?” Tina squeezed her eyes, now that she could picture the plane, other strange images filled her mind, confusing images that seemed like a dream. Wandering through a darkened house. Searching for someone she didn’t know well. But then a strange ritual, people making out, wildly sexual, covered in blood, and a woman holding up a baby. But was the baby the source of the blood? Tina put her hand over her mouth as it all came together, looking up at Garret, who now looked terrifying, hard, searching her eyes for what might be Tina’s next move. She shook her head in disbelief, and the look in his eyes told her she wouldn’t see the light of day again.

October 24, 2022