Read Short Horror Stories :: Bomb

Tick

A ticking noise wakes her up.

Tick

She closes her eyes. The clock sounds a bit louder than usual but that’s ok. She’ll deal with that tomorrow.

Tick

The clock is keeping her from sleeping.

Tick

She gets up to see why the clock is so loud.

Tick

There’s something glowing in her living room? It has a clock on it.

The clock reads 04:00

03:59

03:58

Is it counting down to something? It looks like a bomb. A bit more advanced than the ones she’d seen while serving but she knows a bomb when she sees one.

03:30

03:29

03:28

She found the bomb kit her friends teased her about but jokes on them now. Now how to open a bomb again? She couldn’t see a visible panel and it appeared to be seamless?

02:00

01:59

01:58

She was definitely panicking now. Why was the room feeling hotter?

01:25

01:24

01:23

She was almost out of time. She opened the bomb-proof safe she had bought. Through sheer luck, it was big enough to fit the bomb.

00:05

00:04

00:03

She plugged her ears and hoped for the best.