One example could be 'Coronavirus news. Every day more deaths. The world turned dark.' This story reflects on how the constant stream of bad news during the pandemic made the world seem like a very dark and scary place. People were constantly bombarded with news of increasing death tolls, which was truly terrifying.
Sure. 'The baby monitor picked up a voice. No one was in the nursery.' This short story is horrifying as it makes you think about some sort of unseen and uninvited presence in a place where a baby should be safe.
An example could be 'The letter came. Goodbye world.' Here, the arrival of the letter might signify some bad news, like a terminal diagnosis, which makes the person feel that they are about to say goodbye to the world, and it's all expressed in a very short and sad manner. It gives a sense of finality and despair.
Sure. 'The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.' It's short but creates a sense of mystery and suspense.
An example could be 'They met. They kissed. They never met again.' It shows a very brief and intense moment of love, a kiss, but then something happened that made them not cross paths again. It could be a chance encounter that was beautiful in the moment but couldn't be continued, like two people from different worlds who shared a brief moment of passion.
It could be about the sudden spread of the virus, like 'The coronavirus entered the city. People fell ill. Silence prevailed.'
Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Lily. During the coronavirus time, Lily couldn't go to school. But she found a way to have fun at home. She learned to draw beautiful pictures of doctors and nurses who were fighting the virus. Every night, her mother would tell her this story as a bedtime story. It made Lily feel that even in tough times, there are good things to do.
One example could be 'The Shining'. The story of a family isolated in a haunted hotel, with the father slowly losing his sanity due to the malevolent forces there. The idea of being trapped in a place with something evil preying on you is really scary.
One example could be a story where a group of friends goes camping in the woods. At night, a deranged man with a shotgun shows up. He starts hunting them one by one, and they have to run and hide. The fear of being shot and the isolation of the woods add to the horror.
A married man noticed his wife acting very strangely. She was dressing up more often and being very secretive about her phone. One day, he was cleaning their bedroom and found a hidden key. He was curious and used it to open a locked drawer in her dresser. Inside, he found love letters from another man. He was heartbroken. Later, he discovered that she had been having an affair for months. This discovery led to a lot of pain and turmoil in his life, as if his whole world had been turned upside down.
One example could be a story set in an old, abandoned asylum. The main character, a journalist, enters to do a story on the place. Initially, he hears unexplained screams echoing through the halls. This is the first horror element. As he delves deeper, he discovers that there are hidden rooms with old medical experiments gone wrong. And in these rooms, he starts to see apparitions of the patients who were experimented on. So the horror of the apparitions piggybacks on the initial horror of the unexplained screams.