Here is my entry.
An Open and Shut Door
The door swung open even though I had locked it. What the…? I pressed my back to the wall. Footsteps in the darkness. One foot dragging along the floor. What the…? There was grunting with each footstep and drag.
“Jack?” I said, barely audible. “Is that you?” My chest heaved, my breasts stiffened.
Another footstep and foot drag.
“Jack, if that’s you, I’m going to kill you for this.” I slid along the wall until I bumped into a side table, knocking something over, breaking it. Without looking at the table, I felt around in the darkness until I felt a saucer-sized piece of broken glass.
A large shadowy figure with large shining yellow eyes appeared before me in the darkness. What the…? “Jack, this isn’t funny.”
The yellow eyes were beautiful. They were alluring. I couldn’t stop staring at them. They offered warmth. But I knew they were alluring for all the wrong reasons. “What are you?” I muttered. “Keep back.”
“I want you,” the gravelly voice said. “Please let me have you.”
What the…?
“I need you,” he said.
Those yellow eyes…I wanted them. They were beautiful. “Okay. I’m yours.”
All of a sudden, the door swung shut.
That's it. Exactly 200 words.
28 comments:
Okay, I don't know who or what Jack is, but I'm intrigued. this is great getting to see what everyone comes up with. I'm #72
I want to know more!
Good grief, those yellow eyes sound intriguing -- and the gravelly voice and dragging steps seem diametrically opposed. Somehow I feel it's not Jack. :-) But you have me wondering who. Or what . . .
Good job.
The yellow eyes thing was unexpected. Great job!
Almost like enthrallment...gives me the shivers! These frightening tales are really quite good, but I'm afraid to keep reading. Ha! (I'll give myself nightmares:) Saying hello from our shared fiction group as well as reading your challenge entry ~ Nadja
Freaky.
My kinda freaky.
Interesting! Yellow eyes are always a nice touch!
I immediately thought of Little Red Ridinghood and the wolf :)
Hi Richard, thanks for coming by my blog the oter day and the follow. I can't wait to find iut what the yellow eye belong to.
Good job! Quite eery!
I don't think there would be any circumstances where I'd find yellow eyes beautiful. Unless it was my cat. But I don;t have a cat any more. So it would just be eery!
Awesome story! I loved how it ended in a way I didn't expect. And congrats on making it exactly 200 words!
Ugh! Now you have to write more!
Great suspense, plenty of good, creepy stuff. Loved it!
Wow! This is good. Creepy. Suspenseful. Ooh, the possibilities...
Ann Best, Author of In the Mirror, A Memoir of Shattered Secrets
Alluring yellow eyes...that sounded cool. Who is the owner of those eyes?
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Uh, I think your MC made the wrong decision for a long life, but the right one for an interesting, riveting read! LOL. Roland
Sounds like someone isn't long for this world ;) Great work!
Very interesting. Great suspense and chill factor. I like the yellow eyes too.
Scary good. Like the yellow eye thing going on. What was it? Certainly not human.
Wow yellow warm eyes...Scary good!!
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What the...?
Whose or what's yellow eyes are those? Open that door back up and show us what happens next.
You did well in maintaining the suspense.
Lee
Tossing It Out
Love it. Makes me want to read more.
I like the way you described the yellow eyes; eerie, but irresistible at the same time. Great entry!
Dear Richard, my name is Elizabeth Moss and I'm one of the judges for the campaign challenge. I'm delighted to say your story really struck me and you'll be going through to Stage Two of the contest.
Congratulations!
What I liked about your story was the way you built the suspense by employing most of the senses: the sound of the dragging steps, then touch - 'I felt around in the darkness' - then that striking image of the 'shining yellow eyes', and a gravelly voice which strikes us as sinister. All that's missing is taste. (But maybe that comes AFTER the door closes.)
I also enjoyed the cheeky way you leave the story unresolved, with us not knowing WHO this is - is it Jack? has Jack been transformed in some way? is he good or evil? - or exactly what he intends to do with the narrator.
Not sure breasts can stiffen though. Lol.
Best of luck in the next round!
Interesting stuff. It could lead in a lot of directions.
Good pacing, tight writing. I like it.
Very suspensful and eerie!
Fellow group 18 Campaigner,
C.M. Cipriani
Oh writing in first person female POV, eh??? I like it! I'm glad you're challenging yourself! Lots of desire in this snippet. Very nice!
I definitely want to keep reading!
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