Halloween 2016 IF – Day 15
[New and want to jump in? Please read the Instructions, but go ahead!] You take a moment to consider the pulsing heart in your hands. Objectively, it’s terrifying. You can recognize that fact. For some reason, the still-beating heart of some inhuman creature is clutched between your palms, pumping air through it, hot and slick […]
Halloween 2016 IF – Day 14
[New and want to jump in? Please read the Instructions, but go ahead!] “It’s all right, Sweet,” Septimus said slowly. “You already told me that some things that might happen would be personal. I’m okay with whatever it is, but you know, it’s fine that you want me not to see it. You can have […]
Halloween 2016 IF – Day 13
[New and want to jump in? Please read the Instructions, but go ahead!] “I’m fine,” Septimus said sheepishly. He pushed away from the wall, his shoulder a little bruised for his efforts, and picked the comforter off the floor. “You cold?” For a moment, Sweet just stared at him in that same blank confusion, like […]
Halloween 2016 IF – Day 12
[New and want to jump in? Please read the Instructions, but go ahead!] It had taken about six minutes of ‘real’ time before time skipped previously, so that felt like the time limit Septimus was working with. He didn’t want to take too long here—didn’t want Sweet to come back and find himself alone. He thought […]
Halloween 2016 IF – Day 11
[New and want to jump in? Please read the Instructions, but go ahead!] The candles were providing plenty of (admittedly unnerving) illumination, flickering in the faint movement of air as Sweet shifted to the end of the bed and began to rise, casting long and deep shadows around the room. Septimus leaned forward and grabbed the […]