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The Girl with No Eyes
Hey! Ingrid i hope you're doing well. This was an interesting story. I like to record stories on my Youtube channel and was curious if i could read your story to everyone?! :)
Sir Escko
PETER, PETER, PUMPKIN EATER
This is a grim, vividly atmospheric horror story with a strong folkloric shape. The opening establishes Peter’s possessiveness effectively, and the imagery of the farm—sour soil, sulfur, compost, white pumpkins—keeps turning domestic control into something physical and grotesque. The transformation of the pumpkins into Molly’s faces is genuinely disturbing, especially because the horror grows out of Peter’s attempt to bury and contain her. The repeated rhyme gives the ending a cruel nursery-song inevitability, and “with the spring thaw, the seeds inside would only split, and take root again” is a suitably bleak final note. I did find Peter’s characterization somewhat too explicit in places. His violence and obsessive fantasies are clearly established, but lines like “Panic was for men who had no land” explain his mindset when the surrounding actions already convey it. I also wondered whether forty pumpkin faces slightly diffuses the emotional impact of Molly’s death; one or a few might have felt more intimate. Still, this is polished, nasty body horror with a memorable central image.
Eleanor Hart
Diary of a Ghost
Heart wrenching! I wanted to cry too. Great atmospheric description and switching between centuries...very smooth. Even I got confused! Well done.
Patty Stepp
# Freddie Fox and the Very Important Acorn
What a great children story about friendship and adventure!!
Thomas G. Schmidt