Greetings. Here's a horror story I've been sitting on for a long time. I am posting this piece to the Steemit blockchain as part of a few contests.
First, The Harbringer, @calluna's Tell A Story To Me #11
Second, @thewritersblock's Halloween Contest
There's a number of halloween contests on Steemit, and that's great since I love horror and enjoy writing the genre.
To any reader, I hope you enjoy it. This is basically my inspiration from Thomas Ligotti.
Lone Vigil
By T. Dalton
The funeral lit hallway reeked of garbage. A compulsory smell, pungent, sweet and rotten. It wafted out from the apartment next door. Management had taped a notice over the handle. I could read the Korean Hangul but the meaning was lost. I figured the occupant, an old man in his seventies, had split. He probably didn’t bother to pay his last month’s rent and left food rotting in his room. Soon enough I had the opportunity to be wrong.