By Gregory Maguire
You turn the page in the anthology of nightmares. Your head throbs. At least this is the last story.
But you begin to anticipate-the way one does-the infamous two words centred in boldface type. Farther on.
Don't look. Don't dare glance ahead. You will come to them in time. We all do.
They wait for us.
That omega prophecy curses the turn of the page.
Inevitable. Final. What if-when you get there-you find out the truth of this bedevilled book-that those words mean what they say.
They really are . . .
YOU ARE READING
Half Minute Horrors
AcakA collection of very short horror stories. I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THESE STORIES OR THE CHARACTERS IN THEM. I WILL SPECIFY WHO THE REAL AUTHOR IS OF EACH STORY. I GOT THEM ALL FROM A BOOK I HAVE CALLED HALF-MINUTE HORRORS.