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October 2024 Drabble Challenge: Spooky
Halloween is upon us. Give me a spooky prose story in exactly 100 words using standard English, punctuation, and spelling. Stretch those flash-fiction claws and rake them across the screen with a gut-wrenching tale of woe and horror. Please do not tag me, I'll read each entry and select a winner in early November. There is a HUGE CASH PRIZE of two hundred pennies for this amazing competition!
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dctezcan in Horror & Thriller
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This is not the first time

I have pages of notes delineating dreams I've had. Vivid, feels-real-how-is-this-a-dream-thank-God-this-is-a-dream-type dreams. Some of these dreams have led to feelings of déjà vu in daily life and cold fear as my subconscious reacts to a memory of something that did not happen.

As I write this, the water is spilling into the tunnel around me. People are running, screaming.

Stay, or run?

The first body just floated by.

I hear the sounds of steel bending, cement blocks exploding.

Now, it is dark. It won't be long.

If you read this, find my notes.

This is not the first time I've---

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