Short Stories For The Dark

Very Short Stories

I thought the scariest sound I'd ever hear was me doorknob rattling violently in the middle of the night. 

But I was wrong. 

It was the jingle of my lost keys.

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A man leaves his house every morning to walk to work and passes a mental hospital surrounded by a wooden fence. Every morning the patients are out in the yard and he can hear them saying in unison,

"10, 10, 10, 10, 10".

One day, he gets curious and looks through a hole in the fence.

Suddenly, a stick shoots out and pokes him in the eye.

"FUCK! He says to himself."

While walking away pissed off he can hear the patients saying,

"11, 11, 11, 11, 11"

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I can't move, breathe, speak or hear and it's so dark all the time. If I knew it would be this lonely I would have been cremated instead.