SylverMoon Chronicles by Confederacy of the Quill

Author:Confederacy of the Quill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy, horror, science fiction, adventure, short stories, anthologies
Publisher: Quicksylver Publications
Published: 2018-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

Inside the Ladies’ Room

(Fantasy Short Story)

By Madolyn Locke

“So... there I was... I’m going to the restroom like it’s any other time, not knowing what was about to happen. Not knowing that my world was about to be turned upside down.

I get out one of the seat covers and sit... Everything is fine and perfectly normal until I ‘courtesy flush’, you know, like you do. At that precise moment, a vortex is suddenly created in the bowl of the toilet, and it just keeps going and going at an insane speed. There’s nothing but wind beneath my nethers and this swirling tourbillion of fluid. The bowl is not filling up, but inside it is a constant cyclone of surging water. As it spins and spins, it is splashing up at me like a friggin’ bidet, and I’m just sitting there, stunned. In a brief moment of clarity, I realize that I am REALLY grateful that the toilet flushed the business down before turning into a tsunami.

I decide it’s clearly in my best interest to quickly expedite matters and get out of there, so I reach for the TP. NONE. Absolutely no scrap of paper in either side of the dispenser. Even though I could see the empty roll, I still tried to reach up in there and check. A twisted, upside down, wrist curl while recreating a reverse splash-dance on your ass is really not the most comfortable of situations. I think I even won over the Russian judge. But, stuck in my predicament, all I can say is... thank all the fates for sanitary seat covers!

So there I am, being liquidly-pummeled from underneath by the whirlpool vortex, grabbing seat covers and crushing them up to substitute for TP... seat covers that were subsequently vacuum-sucked out of my hands into the eye of the wormhole before I could finish with them. It definitely took some doing, but I was ultimately successful.

Fighting against the hoovering happening behind me, I grabbed onto the far side of the empty, useless, TP dispenser and pulled myself up off the toilet. As I reached for my underthings and pants, I heard a gravely, growling rumble approaching from a distance. It sounded as though it was coming through a tunnel. I hurriedly got my clothes situated, desperately apprehensive about what might be happening.

Just as I slid the latch to release the door – and myself – from this possessed facility, suddenly the sound grew deafening and there was a crash. I screamed, because DUH, and looked on in horror as this... thing... came bursting up out of the toilet. Swear to god, it happened. And it HAD to be a daemon. Swear. To. God.

It was tall, slender, and covered in swirling mists so much so that I couldn’t tell what its skin looked like. There was just a dark nebulous shape that could be seen through the slightly less dark mists. The temperature in the bathroom dropped like twenty degrees, and I shivered straight through my middle. Its eyes were like ice-blue daggers, cutting through the swirling darkness and right into my soul.

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