Spinning Blade

A short horror story by:

Vince Leonardi

      Kramer Watson was fired from his job and hated his coworkers. He was divorced from his wife. He was so angry about it all. He spent most of his time at home after that. One day he was out cutting the lawn. He was pushing the mower and heard a strange noise. The blade stopped cutting. He flipped over the mower to look at it. He cut his hand on the sharp blade. It was gushing blood and was difficult to stop. He got an idea for getting payback on his coworkers.  He invited them over, hoping they would forgive him. He ended up baiting them into his trap. He was intending to harm them from the start. Once he was done "slicing and dicing" he put their limbs in the lawn. He pulled out his mower and started it. He ran over their limbs with the mower. He set them up in a special way....

      His son Trevor's birthday was the next day. He was 20 and hadn't seen his dad in 2 years. Trevor drove up and saw the words "Happy Birthday!" in all red on the lawn. Trevor hugged his dad and was excited. "Wow this is awesome" Trevor said. "Is this spray paint?" He asked. "Yes that's exactly what it is" his dad lied. They then went inside and stayed in one room. All the other rooms smelled odd to Trevor. "It's just some new freshener I am trying out" his dad said. Kramer tried to take Trevor's attention off the rooms. "You should go see my cars in the garage." He said. They walked into the garage and he was amazed. He then saw a streak of red on the ground. He followed it and it lead to the mower. He didn't say anything and thought about that.

       Trevor knew his dad had done bad things. He backed away from his dad. His dad handed him a present. "Open it!" he yelled. Trevor opened it and screamed. He dropped the box and it closed back up. His dad pulled out his wife's head. "You should have never left me" and threw in the trash.