SCREAMS!!!

How are my playthings doing on this glorious Sunday? Are you hungry? Here, let me fill your food dish. I'm feeling rather generous today so there's plenty of entrails for everyone. Eat up now, you'll need your strength! Soon I will unlock this rusty cage door and the great hunt will begin...

In my travels, I happened across a pair of sinister stories involving a ghastly little girl desperately in need of an attitude adjustment. Both proved to be enormously entertaining. These are sure to pop up in future newsletters, I suspect! Which one was the better of the two?

These are always damnably difficult desicions, for it's much like asking someone what their favorite song or food is. Of course everybody has a preference but depending on the current mood, time of day, even the season - your answer might be different tomorrow or next week. I have chewed my nails trying to decide, but at last I have an answer.

The spoils go to:

STATIC

The Swing  (18+) A young girl swings while her brother drowns. Winner of SCREAMS!!! July 30 2023. #2300570 by Beholden

Loved the moodiness of this work! This time, beauty is in the eye of the Beholden. *ba dum tss*

Now for your next challenge:

A family dog runs away from home. He returns a year later to the delight of his family. But there's something different about him. Something... demonic.


The next round ends on 8/15! You have two weeks and 3000 words to bring fresh new terrors to the halls of SCREAMS!


*Edit*

Due to some gross oversight, I neglected to put forth a prompt selected by the esteemed caffeine queen Quilli ☕ . Please disregard the previous one! We look forward to your demon dog stories