Work has been finished and my stomach is growling. I’d love to head to bed already but I need to feed myself or I might just suffer worse consequences later.
I don’t think I’ll be sleeping again tonight anyway. The sandman left me eons ago, such is the burden of being an adult.
Well, I might as well eat while there’s still some food left in the fridge.
I gathered some leftovers and opened the TV. Better to listen to something at this time of the night rather than be engulfed by the pure dread of silence.
Coincidentally, The Shining is playing. It really has to be that scene, huh?
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
That’s most probably true. Maybe I should try to relax more…
(The television cuts into static. A gentle familiar tune faintly plays in the background.)
This story is a submission to a writing challenge from the Metroidvania Month Jam Discord server (https://discord.gg/kDkGQNAWVC) where you write a story daily during the span of a week and whoever gets the most votes wins a nice role. The challenge started on March 1, 2021.
For this challenge, I decided to get 3 words from a random word generator and use it as a prompt. I got television, quote, and sleep. From there, I came up with an idea for a short horror(?) story.
I'm posting the same story I'm using for the challenge with minimal editing (proofreading and stitching parts that could have been together but were posted on different dates to follow the challenge's rules).
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