Twelve Days of Christmas Horror by Rick Wood

Author:Rick Wood [Wood, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rick Wood Publishing
Published: 2019-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

4

I look around to everyone else, and it seems that we are all thinking the same thing:

Is it real?

After all, giving a realistic artificial head may seem like a humorous joke to some. Not to me, I might add, but to others with a cruel sense of comedy, it could be.

I reach my hand down, lift out a finger with a nail painted in festive glitter, and gently prod the loose bloody entrails hanging from where the neck used to be.

I immediately stand and take a few sudden steps back.

“Oh my God, it’s real!” I exclaim.

Everyone else instantly does the same thing.

Everyone, that is, except Jake, who remains on his knees.

“Jake, what are you doing?” asks Drake.

“It can’t be real,” Jake insists. “Whoever is doing this, it’s just some kind of joke, I don’t believe–”

Jake’s face changes as he leans over the head. He turns pale, his bottom lip quivers, and he turns to his brother, staring wide eyed.

“What? What is it?” Drake says.

Jake doesn’t answer at first.

He stutters over inaudible syllables but doesn’t quite answer.

“Jake?” Drake persists. “What is it?”

“It… it’s our dad.”

“What?”

“That’s not funny,” I say. “Was it you? Did you do this? Because giving me a replica of your dad’s head like this is not–”

“You think I’d do this?” Jake screeches, then turns to the others. “Who had Sheila?”

No one answers.

“Who the hell had Sheila as Secret Santa?”

“We’re not supposed to say,” answers Barry.

“Are you fucking kidding me?” Jake stands and arches toward his boss. “It was you wasn’t it? Wasn’t it? It was–”

The lights go out.

We all fall silent.

We hear a scream.

Time passes. Quite a bit of it, actually.

But the screaming stops, almost exactly before a minute is up. As if the power outage was timed.

The lights come back on.

And they reveal a lifeless body on the floor.

Jake.

With a bloody slit across his throat.

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