Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Half Minute Horrors

cs10 told me about a fabulous new children's book called Half Minute Horrors. They were inviting new submissions, so I wrote one for cs10.

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"File Under 'Friends, Robot — Important Considerations' "

Do not say to your robot friend,

"There is more than one way to skin a cat,"

Unless you have more than one cat.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome. Though more of a five second horror.

Halfway through a conversation, stop and whisper "Somebody died here."

(OK, I guess that's more of a recipe than a horror itself)

- Dan

Bittersweet Sage said...

Glad you liked it, Dan. Sort of a "horror haiku." Steven King I'm not.

(Oops. Stupid Internets. Everything's been done.)

Bittersweet Sage said...

This story is now posted on the Half Minute Horrors website. You can see it (and rate/comment it!) here.