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They Came in the Night!

A slapstick horror short story.

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Maximilian Siddell
Jun 13, 2025
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They came in the night. Great swarms of flying roaches. They hungered for eyeballs and eyeball related excretions.

It must’ve been sometime between two or three in the morning when little Barry woke us with his screaming. Torturous shrieks echoing from his room down the hall.

I groaned and rolled over, wrapping my pillow over my head. “Your turn,” I murmu…

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