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Tiny Nightmares

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by Lincoln Michel

hair and - 17

  man- 147

  brain 10

  -like carnivorous plant stamen 53

  dancing - to - 95

  hungry for -s 167

  broom

  - raised like spear 216

  broomsticks

  legs like - 122

  brother 30, 38, 50, 115, 117, 178, 180, 182

  not like a - 28

  burial

  - at sea 125

  - of one’s shadow 187

  - wraith 162

  camera 127, 192

  police -s switched off at the time of gunshot 43

  spinning in front of 51

  trail - 171–75

  carnivorous plant 53

  carnival 4–5, 38, 163–64

  cat 84

  - in heat 50

  - knocking keepsake 115

  - meowing mournfully 83

  cellar door 93

  cemetery 128

  -ies, trolls guarding 162

  choose your own adventure 113

  claw 21, 172, 176

  - hammer 167

  clatter

  - of cloven hooves 230

  cold patch 258

  counternarrative

  not around to offer a - 45

  corpses 210

  - of frozen climbers 125

  cosmically positioned rock 240

  creature 24–25, 68, 114, 143–44, 175, 197, 201, 206, 253

  all God’s -s 93

  - in shape of leg 195–96

  - living in the basement 33–35

  darkened hallway

  naked and hairy in a - 102

  demon 163, 230

  - in art installation 47–50

  - in the movie Legend 68

  husbands defeating -s in video games 114

  dog 4, 57, 96, 125, 127, 180, 187, 190–91, 236

  - let out to pee 54

  - park 25

  - paws instead of human paws 26

  - with crescent scar on face 186

  good - 161

  hot -s 34

  Yorkie - 93

  wild -s 126

  gas mask 73–77

  ghost 107–109, 111, 129, 242

  - in painting 234

  - of wheat 90

  -ly white fingers 142

  specific conditions -s only emerge under 106

  gnarled horns 163

  grimalkin 17

  finger 9, 40, 56, 83, 91, 97, 102, 107, 121, 128, 141–44, 147, 166, 181, 188, 191, 206–207, 236, 244, 255, 258

  final - of liquor 62

  -s in bubbling mud 141

  long-nailed - 39

  -nails 179, 243

  severed vampire -s 173–74

  lick

  - of the neck 158

  -ed lips 80

  -ed nose 96

  -ed toes by foam 115

  man’s face

  - grinning 63

  mask 181, 208

  gas - 73–77

  man named only the - 177

  maze 127, 129, 142

  meat 61, 88–90

  always hungry for - 50

  - stew 121

  pink - of heel 76

  thin strips of - 213

  two slabs of - 212

  milk 237

  human - 219–24

  -ing of toxins 247, 249–50

  moaning 50, 116

  moonlight 109, 142, 183

  morgue 161

  mother 9–14, 18–20, 29–30, 38, 87–91, 102, 121–23, 143, 188, 208

  avenging - 245

  - as provider 209–13

  - eating meat out of a napkin 89

  - looking for shelter 34–35

  - struggling with addiction 9–15, 68–72

  - tossing flesh in trash with chopsticks 190

  -hood, anxiety about 251–55

  -in-law 116–17

  -mayhem 189–94

  -’s milk 219

  single and missing - 226

  step- 94

  oil 205–208, 241, 243

  paint 227–31

  not - but blood 135

  -ing with blood 231

  peeled - 31–32

  painting 233–37

  iconic -s 234

  - of Heaven 227

  parakeets 257–58

  raccoon

  not intimidated by -s 60

  - paws 122

  rat 210, 215–18

  scaled flesh 33

  scar

  dog with - on face 186

  - tissue 254

  -s on left shoulders 121

  shriek 41, 141, 199

  sister 4, 17–21, 117, 131, 136, 166

  identical -s 121–23

  kitten climbing out of - 17

  lost -s 131

  milk -s 220

  - distrustful of brother-in-law 115

  -s boiling remnants of a body 121

  skeleton 258

  - hand 191, 193–94

  spine 196

  bulging disc in lower - 122

  knotted - 32

  - made of little eyes and ears 148

  weak spring sun on -s 206

  subterranean torture chamber 72

  subway 147–49, 215–17

  underworld

  video games about - 114

  vampire 171–73

  veins

  - filled with oil 205–207

  - in a cat’s ear 18

  - in webbed fingers of fortune teller 40

  - of mold 32

  Vermeer

  - next to cursed object 234–35

  vertigo 51

  vetala 27

  wail 71, 116

  werewolf 171–72

  - heart 175

  wheat woman 87–91

  wight 162

  wings 184

  angel - 227

  arms opened like - 187

  bat - 18

  bird - 82

  buffalo - 168

  witch

  - doctor 107

  -es who eat children 133, 121–23

  zombie apocalypse 166

 

 

 


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