SMM 2017 Halloween Horror Writing Contest: Winners & Gifts

  Sharpen your wooden stake and get ready to stab the nearest innocent vampire—the SMM Halloween Horror Writing Contest has risen from the dead. Slather some popcorn with blood: the winners are about to be announced.  ** First Place ** $50 + 1 Free SMM Subscription (1 month) Master of Pumpkins L.T. Garvin submitted her

2017 Halloween Horror Writing Contest Graveyard

  Boo! The ghosts, ghouls and goblins stuffed their ethereal maws full of caramel-chocolate. Yum. The 2017 SMM Halloween Horror Writing Contest inspired our spines to quake and shake—now it’s time to take a stroll through the graveyard…if you’re brave enough.       Click Here & Read “Diary of Sarah Richards”     Click

SMM 2017 Halloween Writing Contest: Memories You Never Forget

    My friend told me a creepy story from his childhood. I wouldn’t believe him, if I would know him so well. That night we were drinking and he, usually being very serious, spoke of one time, when he was ten… Kids love scary stories and like to test their bravery. Our little “squad”

SMM 2017 Halloween Writing Contest: The Elf

        Kris opened her eyes and stretched and tried to blink the sleep away, then she quickly turned and snuggled in, not wanting to start the day. But as her eyes began to close, shutting out all forms of life, She saw him beside her, the Elf on the shelf, holding a

SMM 2017 Halloween Writing Contest: The Girl on the Stairs

Madness neatly folded into softly bundled mayhem pressed firmly underneath that staircase. Those stairs pulled me upward in my formative years. The little girl at the top of the steps whispered in her eyes a preternatural glow “I’ll bet you can’t make it so fast… come!” she said slowly her teeth, sharp and gleaming every

SMM 2017 Halloween Writing Contest: Burning Fears

      I’m frightened, and I’m too scared to wait. And knowingly, I’m arriving late. The ghouls are spying from the hill. And lower fools are poisoning her will. Underneath her, a wicker complete. Above, she’s suspended from a stake. The bonfire’s started, against the rules. And the crowd’s rejoicing, as the fire drools.

SMM 2017 Halloween Writing Contest: Jack’s Trick

  “Trick or treat,” the children giggling say, and as trickster I made my hateful way. “Deceiver,” my epitaph would have read had anyone cared to know I was dead. My infamy spread from Heaven to Hell, and Satan himself wanted to dispel rumors I’d outfox the father of lies; so, in drunken travels, to

SMM 2017 Halloween Writing Contest: Diary of Sarah Richards

  An excerpt from the diary of Sarah Richards   September 11, 1692 My dear sister presented me today, my birthday,  with a lovely leather bound diary! It is so lovely and she is such a sweet sister, I shall write as often as I can! How wonderful it will be to look back upon my

Create Your Own Haunted House

Before we start our new event, congratulations to !!! Megaeggz !!!  He won Ali’s Mini-Monster Hama Bead Painting. Boo! Turn on your proton pack, and don’t cross the streams, because we’re gonna kick the haunted house’s door down! Are you ready? Wait…have you ever been possessed? Don’t worry—you’ll start to like it after a while. Watch out

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