Skip to content

Courtney Cantrell's COURT CAN WRITE

  • Court Where?
  • Court Who?
  • Court’s Shorts
  • Epic Fantasy
  • Paranormal Fantasy
  • Sci-Fi
December 17, 2013 / Courtney / Creativity

Three-sentence horror story: SERVICE

Okay. OKAY. I know I said not all of my three-sentence fic would be horror. But I can’t help it! These three-sentence stories just lend themselves so ridiculously well to the genre! Like pumpkins to jack-o’-lanterns. Or cats to patches of sunlight. Or pancreatic juices into duodenums. Duodena. Whatever.

Anyway.

Here’s another three-sentence story. @BenHoward87 inspired it, because he asked for a bedtime story on Twitter the other night.

Yes. A bedtime story. And I came up with horror. Go figure.

ANYWAY.

Here ya go. Enjoyyyy…. 😉

SERVICE*

by Courtney Cantrell

She woke gasping from another nightmare of murder in the shower.

When she rushed into the bathroom to check, she sighed with relief.

The maid had cleaned up the blood again.

THE END

______________

*I’ve embellished the story a bit from the ~140-character original.

For more three-sentence fiction, click here.

Share this…


  • Facebook



  • Twitter


  • Linkedin


  • Pinterest


  • Whatsapp

Post navigation

Previous Post:

Cranberry Salsa with Cream Cheese Recipe

Next Post:

Flash Fiction Challenge: Continuing Someone Else’s Story, Part 4

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Find Stuff

Check out Court’s newest!

Front cover of a novel. Title and author's name in white font with serifs, all CAPS. Title: The Priestess Murders. Author: Courtney Cantrell. The image depicts a gnarled tree reaching from the bottom left corner up the left side and across the top half of the image. The tree is silhouetted against a star-spangled, dark blue night sky. In the background (lower third of image) are leafy, densely growing trees dimly lit by what might be moonlight (light source not shown). In the center of the image is a honeybee viewed from above. The bee glows a pale gold and is surrounded by a nimbus if pale gold light. The bee also exudes rays of pale gold light reaching up and down and left and right. A gash is torn in the bee's thorax, and red blood trickles from the wound. Novel published October 2025.

1
Courtney Cantrell: filthy chaos gremlin with vorpal unicorn morphing powers. She writes fantasy, sci-fi, and weird -- reads many, many books -- and questions ALL the things. Made of coffee, chocolate, and glitter glue.

Ogle Court's Shorts for free short stories.

Keep up with Courtney!

Subscribe to Court Can Write

Loading...

Rummage around

©2025 Courtney Cantrell's COURT CAN WRITE - Powered by Simpleasy