Tick
What terrifies
does not need claws
or fangs.
does not need claws
or fangs.
It doesn't always
come with screams
or pools of blood.
Sometimes
what stops the heart
is something small:
a shadow,
or a skittter,
or a scratch.
Or in a dark
and sleeping house
you hear a tiny tick
and realize
that you don't have
a
clock.
Published by Tina Twito
I'm 39, with a wonderful husband (in Iowa), and a daughter who lives in NC with her hubby (love them both!). I write mostly children's stories and poetry (rhyming poetry, traditional poetry, haiku, but mostl... View profile
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12 Comments
Post a CommentThanks! Interesting comment Walton:)
Oh, nice that for some reason was just eerie, great job on the ending loved it!
Thanks all, I had fun with this one. And Charlotte I don't blame you! (You know I though of that when I titled it, JL!)
Excellent. By the way, I'm deathly afraid of ticks - - the real ones.
that was brilliant!
Very good Tina So very very good.
Hah! What was that?haha...creepy again...
I was thinking how I jump when someone walks up behind me and says hello. Then I was hit with "the clock"! That was great!
When I read the title I thought it was going to be about the big blue guy so I was pleasantly surprised. &)
OMG!!!! This was all cute and fun and then "no clock"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW! Genuinely creepy! PERFECT!