[ CW ] Write a horror story with no gore or death , not even implied .

It ’ s not the creepy things that go bump in the night that scare you. In reality, there are no ghosts that haunt the world ’ s battlefields and abodes. Crop circles and abductions are just fabrications of the deluded and wishful. Monsters like Frankenstein and Dracula exist solely in black and white, either on the page or projection screens. 
 
 Instead, true horror is the realization of the atrocious, yet ordinary nature of life. 
 
 The mundane is real terror. 
 
 There are movies and comedy specials that try make light of this truth, attempting and failing to mock it. Life can be boring. It can leave you trapped and bound, constricting your every decision. “ Nine to five ” is a term that all fear. Routine, without break or end, is life ’ s mechanism for capturing prey. In the end, no one can escape it. 
 
 A person ’ s soul is no match for the greatest horror this earth has to offer. Once the tedious, the monotonous, the commonplace clasp onto a person, it is too late. Bit by bit, the remnants of a person ’ s sanity is chipped away. 
 
 Eventually, what once was so bright and vibrant will be numbed and drained. Nothing will be left in the void.
