Short Horror Stories

Short Story #27

Arthur arrived home to a darkened house. It was now a little past midnight, and Arthur knew better than to expect his wife, Nora, to wait up. As he walked down the hall, past his 14-month-old son Isaac's room, he could hear muffled sounds on the other side of the door. Isaac had been horrible at sleeping through the night since he was born, and Arthur dreaded another sleepless night...

As Arthur crawled into bed, he listened with a weary smile as Isaac formed his little words in the baby monitor. He has just learned how to say several new words and would delight himself for hours pronouncing them.

Arthur was almost asleep when Isaac's last word suddenly caught his attention.

"Cut"

"That's odd," thought Arthur. Most of Isaac's words up to this point had been simple things like "kitty" or "mommy". "Maybe he heard it on one of Nora's cooking shows," Arthur told himself, laying back down to sleep.

"Slice"

Arthur sprang back awake. It wasn't so much the word itself, but the way it had been said. The "c" had been drawn out over several seconds. Isaac had never done anything like that, and it sent a chill down Arthur's spine.

"Kill"

That was the last straw for Arthur. He shook Nora awake and pointed to the monitor, gasping as he said "Where did he learn those things!?".

Nora stared at the baby monitor for several seconds, heard the words, and turned white as a sheet.

"You were complaining about not getting any sleep because of Isaac..." Nora whispered, her voice wavering in between her sentence.

"...which is why I dropped him off at your mom's house for the night"

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Oooh, scary! Guys. Seriously. Thank you so much for all your support! <3 Thanks especially to one of my best buddies, Kavs (aka. RoastPotatoes) who made the cover of this book for me! You should go check out her story and follow her. :D Thanks again! x

-A (NOT a PLL reference - I don't even watch it!)

P.S. Can you please check out my new story? - It's called Birthday Surprises. It's basically about what my BFFL got me for my birthday, and I've entered the story in the #JustWriteIt compitition. I really want views, please (and maybe votes? (;). I've got 59 so far <3