surprisingly scary short stories

The longer I wore it the more it grew on me. She had such pretty skin.

Being the first to respond to a fatal car accident is always the most traumatic thing I see as a police officer. But today, when the crushed body of the little dead child boy strapped in his car seat opened his eyes and giggled at me when I tried to peel him out of the wreckage, I immediately knew that today would be my last day on the force.

I was having a pleasant dream when what sounded like hammering woke me. After that, I could barely hear the muffled sound of dirt covering the coffin over my own screams.

In all of the time that I have lived alone in this house I swear I have closed more doors than I have opened.

They celebrated the first successful cryogenic freezing. She had no way of letting them know she was still conscious.