Location Taken: Arcadia, Michigan
Time Taken: December 2006
I was up far far too late last night, and slept somewhat poorly. It’s thanks to a lovely little collection of short scary stories I stumbled upon. And when I say short, I mean a couple paragraphs at most. So I literally read hundreds of scary stories last night.
Mind you, that wasn’t why I slept poorly, though it was why I was up so late (It’s tough to stop reading when you know the next one will only take half a minute to read…). I’ve never had any problems with scary stories disturbing my sleep one bit. Scary pictures, on the other hand… But that’s a story for another time. The poor sleep was mostly due to staying up so late and then getting woken up far too early and not being able to fall back asleep. Pure chance.
Still, if you’re not the type to have problems with scary stories, give that sight a check. Especially if you’re like me and find the suspense that’s such a common feature of the genre to be more annoying than tension-building. It’s tough to build up suspense in 275 words or less. On the other hand, that’s plenty of time for the lovely mental twists and terrors that make the genre so delightful.
And besides, they only take, say, half a minute to read! Really!
Let’s see, half a minute times three hundred is 150 minutes, and I suppose I did read a lot of comments too… Yeah, I can see why I was up until 4AM…
