MicroFiction Horror Stories

Grandmother’s Warning

Opening my eyes from deep sleep, my long lost childhood doll, talked to me from the end of the bed. The soft moonlight cast long ominous shadows across its stitched face.

Abandoned for years, it told me of the horrors it had seen in the attic. It whispered secrets that only I could know, in a tongue and dialect I hadn't heard since my grandmother died.

As I listened, frozen in fear, I felt an icy hand grip my shoulder, and heard my grandmother's voice whisper in my ear, 'Don't trust the doll's treachery, my dear.'

Microfiction is a form of storytelling typically limited to 300 words or less. Due to the its extreme brevity, microfiction relies on suggestion rather than explicit detail to convey its meaning.