Buyer Beware
“She bought the place sight-unseen,” my sister explained. “The agent said it was cheap because the previous owners had disappeared a year prior and left everything behind, stressing the police investigation determined there was no foul play."
“When my sister said that,” she continued, “I got a bad feeling, and said so, but she isn't one to listen to ‘bad feelings’.”
Now I wish I had. Lying bound and gagged under the closet floor I couldn't make a sound to tell her, or the cop she was talking to, that I was there and dying next to several corpses.
- Category: Horror, Chillers & Ghost Stories
- Tags: real estate, serial killer, police, death, dying
5 comments add one below
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Neville Hunt over 8 years ago
Makes me shiver!
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Neville Hunt over 8 years ago
What I particularly like about this Drabble is that it prompts great visualisation of the scene and it can stand multiple readings. Good stuff.
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Melanie over 8 years ago
Thanks Drew!
Thank you Neville. I'd hoped that it would withstand multiple readings, and reveal a little bit more with each one. -
Christopher over 8 years ago
Wow! Drew is right, that is chilling. Edgar Allan Poe would've been proud to have written that one. Great job.
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Melanie over 8 years ago
Edgar Allan Poe is the best! Thanks Christopher.
