Posted inCreative Hall Short Stories
Reluctant Protagonist Meets Badly-Written Horror Story
Written by Koh Ze-Wen
Arin woke to pouring rain. It sounded like someone was trying to drown the world in rain, which she respected, as a college student who had an 8am class. Still, if she didn’t get that sweet sweet 80 percent attendance, she wouldn’t even have the opportunity to flunk out of Physics. Lost in thought, she dumped her bag on her seat and was suddenly and rudely acquainted with someone’s butt on her desk. “Excuse me,” she said to the butt in question. “Hey,” the owner of the butt said. He looked vaguely hungover, and he was dressed in a varsity jacket and skinny jeans. Which was interesting, because their college didn’t have sports teams with varsity jackets, which meant he had possibly acquired......
Arin woke to pouring rain. It sounded like someone was trying to drown the world in rain, which she respected, as a college student who had an 8am class. Still, if she didn’t get that sweet sweet 80 percent attendance, she wouldn’t even have the opportunity to flunk out of Physics. Lost in thought, she dumped her bag on her seat and was suddenly and rudely acquainted with someone’s butt on her desk. “Excuse me,” she said to the butt in question. “Hey,” the owner of the butt said. He looked vaguely hungover, and he was dressed in a varsity jacket and skinny jeans. Which was interesting, because their college didn’t have sports teams with varsity jackets, which meant he had possibly acquired......
