Excerpt from Deadmouth Quarry
Chapter 11
Evan was grinning madly, all braces and bright eyes. He even waved. “Hi!”
“Hello.” She glanced at Fred, who nodded encouragingly, and then held out her hand. “I’m Clara. Freddy’s my brother.”
“Evan!” The kid grabbed her hand and shook it way more enthusiastically than Fred had expected. Clara clearly felt the same, shooting him a mildly panicked look. “Do you like cryptid stuff?”
Oh, no, thought Fred.
Clara, on the other hand, lit up like a gas-soaked bonfire. “Yes,” she said breathlessly. “Do you want a Snickers?”
“Sure!”
Well. Great. Fred was standing halfway through the quad with two kids who were bonding over candy and urban legends.
“There was a sighting this weekend,” Evan said around his mouthful of chocolate bar. He’d barely swallowed when he continued, “Someone put a video on TikTok— it’s really dark and hard to see, but if you squint—”
Fred sighed, looking around at the other people milling about. This was certainly better than talking to some random girl whose name he’d never actually gotten, but he wasn’t sure it was worth missing the class he was supposed to be in.
“Freddy, look!”
Clara all but shoved a phone in his face, and— well. Fred had never been very good at denying her much of anything, so he looked— watched. Whatever.
And, yeah, Evan was right. The video was dark, horribly lit by a coppery orange streetlight—
Wait. That was the quad.
The video had been taken not ten feet from where they were standing just now.
Fred took the phone from Clara and squinted at it. The person filming was swearing and muttering, but there was a strange sort of undercurrent to the sound, like a buzzing noise, or— a hum? Maybe? And there, in the tree line… something was…
God, was that tree moving?
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I had a dream a bit ago where L had managed to convince Light to go on Wheel of Fortune
(because both him and Light are incredibly extra and overthink everything and “if I go on this show I’ll look like Kira but if I don’t I’d still look like Kira! Damn you L!”)
But the entire dream was just L paying off the show runners to make all the answers basically Kira confessions and Light trying really hard to purposefully throw the game but constantly winning because he’s a prideful ass and having to pretend he doesn’t know the answer which is suspiciously spelling out “I am Kira” and intensely monologuing about while Misa and Ryuk goof off
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Also off topic but I finally caught up with the most recent chapter of Twisted Wonderland and this is what I have to say about it:
-Vil’s progression with overblot was probably the most reasonable out of all the housewardens so far. I was legitimately like yeah you know what you can go off as a treat you deserve it
-DEUCE PERFECTING HIS SIGNATURE SPELL??
-ALSO DEUCE AND EPEL ARE FUCKING GAY AS HELL FOR EACH OTHER. OH MY GOD. FELLAS is it gay to take a cute boy for a ride on a fancy motorcycle to the BEACH at SUNSET so you can give him a pep talk and then PROTECT HIM FROM ASSHOLE BULLIES
I mean, LOOK AT THEM.
They’re in love your honor
-Also Rook secretly being gay af for Neige LMAOOO KING SHIT
-Why did they turn every single Disney character into a cute boy EXCEPT for Mickey. How the fuck am I supposed to take these conversations seriously when we go from this
to this
IS THIS EVEN THE SAME GAME?? HELLO???
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To this day, one of the best gifts this fandom has given me is the moniker, "Drama Queen Ozai," and to this day, I cannot watch him shed his Phoenix King robe and immediately burn it without thinking of that and legitimately laughing out loud.
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