Jul 10 2009
One Shots #7 A Wolf at the Door.
Heavy Metal Thunder Productions
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Copyright protected on May 2009.
The persons, places, entities, and events depicted in this story are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, places, entities, or events is unintentional and purely coincidental.
Warning! Some stories may contain adult language, explicate violence, adult situations, and some sexual content. These stories are intended for a mature audience.
One Shots #7
Written by Stacy James Meadows
With Concepts Created by Stacy James Meadows, Larry William Van Hoorebeke, and Donald Edward Van Hoorebeke.
Editor’s Notes: This is another horror story project that I did in a horror writing class that I took in college. It is about werewolves. The story sort of has sentimental value to me because it sort of describes an apartment I rented one time.
A Wolf at the Door
Linda was at home in her rather small two bedroom house. Linda sat in the small kitchen, at the kitchen table. She was playing games on her computer, that was sitting on her kitchen table. She was playing a game about exploring ancient dungeons, and was currently fighting some skeletons, when the phone rang. The ring of the telephone startled her, and caused her to lose her character’s life on the game.
She walked toward the front door to where the only phone in the house was sitting on the coffee table, and answered it while sitting down on the living room couch. It was her annoying younger sister, Jennifer. Jennifer had just gotten home from a school dance, and wanted to come over. It was all right with Linda, she didn’t care if her sister came over or not. Secretly, though she wouldn’t ever admit it, she didn’t mind the company, and kind of enjoyed it, so Jennifer was on her way over.
Linda was twenty-six years old, and her sister was eight years younger than her. At eighteen years old, Jennifer was still in her senior year of high school, and still lived with their parents. Linda was now living on her own, and working as a secretary for a big company. She worked eight to five during the week, and got all weekends off. Tonight was just another Friday night to her.
Linda liked to play video games, and both Jennifer and her liked to watch wrestling on television. The wrestlers were so hot. If it was a Saturday, they would be watching the comedy shows of late night, but since it was just a Friday, there wasn’t much on, so Linda just had the television set to the music channel, mostly listening to, and occasionally watching certain music videos, though all in all she didn’t really care for most of the bands nowadays, because she still liked the old heavy metal stuff that only a few bands even came close to today. She was now trying to ignore commercials, while she went back, and continued to play her dungeon crawler game restarting from her last saving point on the computer.
She paused the game she was playing, but only long enough to put a bowl of quick making noodles into the microwave oven. When she poured the faucet water into the bowl, she couldn’t help but to remember all of the times that her mother had warned her against using the house water to drink, but she couldn’t help it. Though her job paid rather well, she had way to many bills to pay, and it was cheaper to use the sink water, and even drink tea, instead of soda, even though she had some soda too.
She decided to pour herself a glass of soda, and then went back to her computer to continue playing the game. That’s when she heard the howling from outside in the distance. She knew that it was just the neighborhood dogs that had gotten loose, but still something about the howling unsettled her somewhat. The howling had disrupted her concentration on the game again, and another skeleton killed her again.
She decided that her character wasn’t strong enough to be in this section yet, and that she could build her character stronger in the earlier levels if she restarted. She started designing her new character, and began the game anew on the computer, just as the porch boards began to creak, and the knock on the door occurred, causing her to die again, this time by what should have been an easy to kill slime creatures.
“Oh, no!” Linda muttered to herself, as she answered the front door. Jennifer was at the door, and Linda beckoned her to come on in.
Jennifer came halfway in the door when she suddenly stopped. Behind Jennifer, Linda could see the outside trees and long narrow gravel sidewalk leading to the street, which was currently out of view. Linda looked at Jennifer a little confused, and Jennifer spoke saying, “Wait a few moments before I come in. I think I heard someone outside in the yard. It was kind of creepy and eerie. I am going to go check it out.”
“All right, but be careful. I heard some dogs howling earlier, and they could be loose in the yard. If someone is out there, come back, and we’ll call the police.” Linda said as she sat back down, and went back to playing her video game. She knew her sister all to well, and there would be no point in arguing with her about it, because Jennifer was to thick headed to listen anyway. Besides Jennifer had always wanted to be a female wrestler like the ones on television, and she was pretty well built from working out with weights all the time. She could easily take care of herself.
“I think it might be a burglar or something, but then again, it might not be anything at all. Listen for me though, and come to the door if I yell.” Jennifer said as she went back outside, and closed the door behind her.
Getting lost in her game, because now she was tearing up all the enemies, Linda failed to realize how long it was since Jennifer had left. In fact, she had completely forgotten that Jennifer had even came over. She finally made it to one of the first bosses of the game, a giant, and she was low on healing items. Her guy finally dies, and her game is over, when she remembers that she had the noodles in the microwave oven. She glances at her watch, and also suddenly realizes that Jennifer should have been back by now. As she got her noodles out, which were now only luke warm, she wondered where Jennifer was, and what was taking her so long.
She finished the bowl of noodles, but Jennifer still hadn’t shown back up. Now Linda was getting worried. She hadn’t heard her sister yell out about anything, but then again, she had been pretty absorbed into her game, and might have missed her screaming. Maybe, she also realized she knew the person, or met and found them interesting. She was probably talking up a storm with whoever it was, after all she did love to talk about anything with anyone. Still something could be wrong. Linda was debating whether to call the cops, or even her parents, to check up on her sister, when the porch boards began to creak again.
Linda began to go towards the door to open it, and yell at her sister for taking so long, but it suddenly occurred to her that something was wrong about the sounds that she heard.
Suddenly, the door burst apart, and the cheap wood of the door flew in every direction. Standing in the doorway, was the biggest wolf that she had ever seen in her entire life. Through the doorway past the wolf, from outside in the sky, Linda could make out the full moon.
Linda screamed in horror, and turned to run, but it was way to late, as the wolf jumped from the doorway on top of Linda, ripping her to shreds.
Next One Shots # 8 Out of the Movies. A short story starring Kat Man 7 & Dollarbill. Two of my favorite more background heroes. This story is more about Kat Man 7 trying to enjoy a night on the town.
