Dead End | A 100 Word Story

#114 KimBoo’s Scriptorium 🐉 House of York

A flat tire made me do it. Knock on the door of a cottage nestled at the end of a dead end street. The proprietor was pleasant enough. He let me use the phone in his study. There were books on the shelves about anatomy with a mix of horror and mystery classics.

The tow company couldn’t get to me till the next morning. In hindsight, I probably should’ve slept in my car.

The hairs on the back of my neck told me I was being watched. I wasn’t sure until I crept down to the basement where I found—

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KimBoo’s Scriptorium 🐉 House of York

Welcome to KimBoo’s fiction, non-fiction, and rando musings on being a writer! House of York is my “publication arm” covering my many A.I.s (Authorial Intelligences), and the Scriptorium is the room in the house filled errata and etcetera!

By ☕ KimBoo York

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