August 27th, 2011 at 06:29pm
Whoa… I'm entered in the same contest as you and I couldn't resist reading this because the title had caught my eye. The whole story kin of sucked me in and even though I felt like I should stop reading it I kept going because I wanted to see where it was leading. I don't think I've ever heard of this poem before, but now when if I see it I'll be reminded of this story x)
This was really good. No grammatical corrections, except to say that Kat up there used the wrong kind of *there* in her comment :P But any who, good luck!
That was probably the most twisted piece I've read yet. The fact that the boy was eleven and committing those acts only added to the gore. I'm a big fan of torture in horror and you pulled it off in a classy way. (If, you know, torture can be classy.) The bit where he tied the yarn around the cat and used it as a kind of noose was genius, probably my favorite part.