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Arnold, a Night Worm, farms terror in sleeping children. Squirming through ears or noses, he sinks his fangs into their brains. The demon’s smokey venom turns dreams into nightmares. Harvesting their fears, he gobbles them up before dawn. Wriggling free, he leaves a gooey residue of fright in his wake.
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A 50-word story written by Bruce Arbuckle, inspired by the Freewriters Writing Prompt on Hive, “frighten the children”

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