Fall Writing Frenzy 2024

The Fall Writing Frenzy is one of my CP group's favorite contests. It's amazing how much creativity a collection of seasonal pictures can inspire. I think this is the first year we all chose different pictures! Thank you Lydia Lukidis, Kaitlyn Sanchez and Ebony Lynn Mudd for this year's contest. I'll share my entry below.

STUCK FOR ETERNITY IN THE GRAVEDIGGER'S HOUSE

(192 words)

You’re not supposed to die in a graveyard. Graveyards are like lockers, meant to hold all the useless junk you don’t actually need while you’re brain dead in class. Or in my case, when you’re all over dead. 

You’re supposed to die somewhere interesting, somewhere you can haunt your friends. I would’ve loved scaring Bri. When we watched that slasher movie, she always followed her blood-curdling scream with the best bubbly laugh. 

But instead of haunting my ex, I’m stuck in this gravedigger’s abandoned, cobweb-adorned house with only the mangy Mr. Bones to keep me company. He’s useless as a security dog, but at least he chases away the cats that curl up on my grave. It’s like they’re taunting my allergies. Thank the shadows those don’t follow you into the afterlife or the dust in this place would do me in all over again. 

But I have a plan to get out of here. It involves a shovel and a fair bit of fire, which I’ll need Mr. Bones’ help to set. Hopefully all those games of fetch— No, not the twig, Mr. Bones. The large stick!— will have paid off.