Dripping

Short horror story.

Drip…Drip…Drip.  The blood splattered on the white paper.  Laurie stared fascinated at the patterns the drips made, her head cocked to the side, lips slightly parted as she breathed.

 

Her eyes widened as she watched the spreading drops of blood.  Laurie slowly smiled as the meaning became clear and swiped a hand at the blood dripping from her nose creating a crimson smear across her mouth and cheek.

Looking up from the red stained paper on her desk, Laurie saw that the entire class had turned in their seats and were staring at her with sickened expressions.  The teacher’s mouth was hanging open and as Laurie’s eyes focused on him, his body shook with a sudden chill.

“Laurie, are you all right?” Mr. Candler asked nervously.  “I think you should go see the school nurse, dear.”  The kids around her desk were leaning as far away as they could without falling out of their seats.

Laurie stood crumpling the piece of paper into a ball and shoved it into her pocket.  Walking with her head bowed and eyes on her unlaced shoes, Laurie made her way down the rows of desks and opened the class room door with her blood smeared hand.

Turning back to stare condescendingly at her teacher and class mates, Laurie softly spoke.

“You’re all going to die today.”

Laurie pulled the door closed behind her and skipped grinning down the hallway to the nurse’s office.

Author's Note

I've been wanting to use the Chiller font for something. Muahaha.

Reviews

[Darkimmortal]

How did you use a different font?!?!?! O.o I have never seen that before!
That definitely makes me curious about the story. Also, I did not pick up on any grammar mistakes so thank you for that. The only bad thing I have to say about this story is that I WISH THERE WAS MORE. You caught my attention and your descriptions were pretty good, and I was so upset by how short the story is. Darn it people, you all need to write more gore. I am not just saying that because I would personally like to see more gore, but putting in more writing packs a little more suspense into the story and those last few lines pack a lot more of a punch. If you really want something to hit home, make the reader wait as long as possible (without making them bored) before you hit them with the clever one liner, or the grotesque actions that you have for them.

All in all, very good writing but you should definitely add to this. Keep penning!

[Old Heathen]

Thanks for the review! The font is from Microsoft Word, I just copy-pasted. More gore and story would be good, it just seems like most people's attention spans are like my nephew's (aka short as a gnat's). Glad to know the grammar was good, it's been a long time since school, and so much writing here reads like text messages.

[Darkimmortal]

Why did I not think of that...? I also agree that more people are unwilling to read stories that they have to scroll down for these days, which is sad really because most of the time those stories are some of the best ones.