RE: STACH Short Story Contest #23: 199 words, 5 winners, 15SBD prize pool!

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STACH Short Story Contest #23: 199 words, 5 winners, 15SBD prize pool!

in contest •  7 years ago 

After every heavy downpour, the sky would usually turn blood red in the part of the world where Sophie lived. Sophie was a baby sitter for one wealthy home around. This experience was so weird because each time it happened; the kids would come down the stair case crying over nightmares of a clown artifact.

The wealthy home that Sophie worked for were into the business of colleting old artifacts from all over the world and there was this particular one that the kids complained that it was similar to the one they saw in their nightmare. This event repeated severally and at a point it became unbearable for both Sophie and the kids so this particular day when the scenario repeated itself, Sophie locked all the windows to shield the sight of the blood red sky, covered the clown artifact with a blanket and put a call across the father of the kids asking for his permission to remove the clown artifact permanently from the basement.

“Listen very keenly,” said the man to Sophie. “We do not have any clown artifact on the basement!” Sophie hangs up the phone, turns around and the blanket was on the floor; the clown artifact had disappeared! More so, the sky cleared up. From then on, she associated red skies with horror and lived in its fear.

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