Fiction by Ricardo Garcia
In the spirit of Lord Byron and Halloween, our founder Adam Morgan launched a microfiction contest called the 1816 Challenge, awarding one horror story, of 50 words max, $100, and four finalists publication in our journal. Here is one of the four finalists.
It’s Friday night as a storm is about to roll in and I can hear thunder coming from a distance. It wakes me up and all I hear is silence, no dogs barking, nobody outside. I walk outside and see lightning. I look up and it’s not a storm.
Ricardo Garcia is a first-time writer, long time reader. He writes for fun.
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