Worms

Something to tell your children...

It was so tiny, resting in my sweaty palms. It squirmed in my grasp like a tiny worm and drooled like an infant. Then, it began to lose its warmth. Just a little hint to you: Children's fingers don't stay warm forever.

In the corner was the child whose finger I chopped off. She was crying, rocking back and forth, clutching her hand that was soaked in blood. She was scared. She looked up at me. The fear was momentary. She smiled at me and held up her hand. Her pinky was but a nasty stub.

"More, please." She croaked. I could tell she was still in pain. Tears flowed down her cheeks but I could not turn away. I pulled out my giant shears that hung from my back pocket and snipped. Plop. Her finger dropped to the ground, followed by a crimson cascade. The girl whimpered softly and I tilted my head. I realized that she was giggling. Her soft eyes beckoned me as she lifted her bloodied hand once more. I snipped and snipped and snipped until all her fingers were off. The girl was laying on the ground, smeared in her blood. Smiling.

"I still have another hand." She yelled at me this time, practically grinning to both ears. It was my turn to be scared. The way she laughed after I backed away scared me more. The way she starting wailing when she followed me upstairs from the basement and onto the asphalt road scared me the most. Pale moonlight shined on us both. The girl's little teeth glistened in that wide smile of hers as she lifted her other hand that was full of short fingers. She was tracing circles along the road with her stub for a hand. So I walked closer. I kneeled down and got so close to the girl, that I felt her breathing down my throat. And I snipped. But this time, her head went tumbling. It tumbled down the road, leaving a trail of blood. But still, that smug smile of hers with her tiny teeth and those big eyes was chiseled into my mind like how a sculptor chisels marble. And in my basement were her five little fingers that looked like squirming pale worms, drooling on the floorboards beneath my living room. And on the road was the girl's corpse, left to rot and to be forgotten until her head comes tumbling back and her worm-like fingers come squirming to reconstruct the girl into her old lively self, just to end up in my basement once again so I could snip and snip until her blood floods the streets and swallows the world whole in a river of the little girl's blood.

The End.

Author's Note

Hahah... I was bored, so I typed up my own little bedtime story...
The title is something I want to change though. Ah well!

Reviews

[Dominik D. Rites]

I really love the narration and how you added detail to the story to make it even eerier. It grasps your audience and builds them up for a good ending. The ending was terrifying yet not to the point where it became too disturbing. Don't get me wrong, I don't think the ending should be disturbing. I like it the way it is.

don't change a thing lmao

[Mother_Yolk]

Hahah, well, disturbing is my specialty! But thank you! I appreciate your review regardless (:

[Honor'd]

ah. a very chilling read here... the ending is a running sentence but it actually succeeds in bringing out the panic built in the narrator. his prey becomes the demonic predator... fantastic!

[Mother_Yolk]

Thanks! What an 'honor' to get reviewed by you, friend! Haha.. And yes, the sentence is a lengthy and curt, but you managed to come up with a signification for it. (:

[UseMeAbuseMeCureMe]

Well jeez, this has made me speechless. I love the way the narrator is at first in control but then it changes to the victim having the power. This was amazing

[Mother_Yolk]

I'm glad you found it amazing. Thank you!

[The Fortieth]

This story is scary. Very, very bizarre. In a good way, obviously. I like how he just resorts to cutting the little girl's head off. Nicely done, Mother!

[Mother_Yolk]

I really didn't want this story to end with the girl being handless and just... Blah. I wanted a brief millisecond of relief for the main character hahah... I suppose it didn't end quite nicely; he just ends up panicking and have the image of the little girl branded into his memory forever. Anyway, thank you for reading this!

[Bluefire]

At first I thought it was about a baby. Holding a young child's finger in the beginning, then it moved on to cutting the girls fingers and I thought that this couldn't get any more twisted.
Who does that to kids?
Then the girl turned into some kind of demon and I was actually afraid, like you are in a nightmare when something's chasing you.
I was like, "Kill iiitttt!" xD
This is epic.
Well done!

[Mother_Yolk]

Hahah I can't name anyone who does that to little children, but I can't say no one has not done it! Thank you for reading!

[Bluefire]

Oooooh~ Scary thought~
No problem! ^^

[Chadvonswan]

Wow. You have outdone yourself, Mother_Yolk. I thought your other stories were weird and gruesome and morbid....But This...........This was the peak of your stories. My god...This was Hilarious and perfectly Horrible at the same time. My favorite part was when the little girl said, "I still have another hand." Soo f*****g funny and twisted. Good job. This one is my favorite of your shorts.

[Mother_Yolk]

Thank you for reading! That is truly an amazing thing to hear from writers like yourself. Thanks again, mate!

[Chadvonswan]

No problem man. Keep that blood flowing!

[Darkimmortal]

I. Love. This. Story!
I really love the first few sentences, it really caught my attention and made me curious as to what was happening. Especially "it squirmed in my grasp and drooled like an infant" that description is so macabre and effective! I really love every aspect of this story, the descriptions are amazing, the feel is dark and it made me smile.
The only problem I have is that I felt it ended the tiniest bit abruptly, but it did manage to surprise me! I was hardly expecting the ending that you put there. Well done. :)

[Mother_Yolk]

I'm very aware of how sudden the ending is in this story... I wrote the ending when I realized I had nothing else to type in order to expand the story, so I suppose I grew lazy and typed whatever came to my head for the final sentences... Not the best solution, but I'm glad it surprised you! Thank you very much!

[Darkimmortal]

Not a problem at all. :p Keep writing these awesome stories because they are very entertaining to read.