It was my first day as a tutor. I needed the money for school, so as long as the student wanted to learn I was ready to teach anybody. I wasn’t expecting to be hired by someone who lived in a place that was one moat away from being a castle, however.



    

The place must have been four stories tall and bigger than the state

    

It was a cool and dark night. The sky was clear, speckled with stars unclouded by city lights, as the full moon shined brightly on the wayside country road by Chris’s home. His parents were out on a business trip, leaving Chris free to play as many video games as he wanted. On the way home from school, he’d rented a horror movie. It was

a

perfect atmosphere, a

    

It was a hot summer afternoon. Two girls, Stephanie and Kelsey, were still in their soccer uniforms after a long weekend practice. They were pulling off their long orange socks, sheepishly eyeing a small cardboard box between them.



    

“Are you going to do it or what?” Kelsey asked impatiently, though she was just a

An
Appetizing Experiment
By
Bearboy95
Sophie
was dressed in her usual outfit: a pair of black denim shorts,
complimented by a long pink t-shirt and fluffy orange socks. The
mixed sense of style was bolstered even more by a long white
scientist’s coat – more of a tongue-in-cheek decision, due to
tonight’s occasion.
For
three years, Sophie had taken care of a large male pixie frog. From
the get-go, Sophie thought it was a hilarious name for such a huge
frog and decided early on to name it

(Transcribed anonymously by an attendee)



Speaker:

“Imagine for a second that you are trapped. All around you is darkness. You cannot move, you cannot see. Terrifying, isn’t it? The only thing you are sure of is that, wherever you are, there is no getting out. For you, there is no end, except for when you finally succumb to hysteria, and pass out from the shock.


But wh

Jasmine’s Helpless Prey



By Bearboy95



It worked, it actually worked!

Jasmine thought to herself, indulging in her racing heartbeat and the butterflies in her stomach. Leaning over her dresser, she stared at a shoebox in which her prey slept soundly - a nineteen year old boy, Chris. Ever since Jasmine’s first day of college, in her Rena