Previously: “Hammer.”
This week, a quick and crafty tale of revenge: The creepypasta “Hurricane Season,” which sees the neighborhood scourge get his comeuppance in what some might consider to be the perfect crime. Mwahahaha.
Written by Creepypasta Wiki user CertainShadows and uploaded to said wiki in August of 2024, this one is quite short — just in the neighborhood of 500 words. But brevity, as they say, is the soul of wit, and the economy of the storytelling here is truly A-plus, making it an incredibly satisfying read.
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A few commenters observed that they had expected the story to go in the way the real-life incident involving Ken Rex McElroy did — and although it doesn’t, it’s perhaps understandable that this might be the assumption. What does happen, though?
Well, you’ll just have to see. (CW, by the way, for brief mention of pet death.)
Find a brief excerpt below, and read the full story at the Creepypasta Wiki.
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Everyone hated Grady. All these decades later, I can still clearly recall when he moved to our quiet little town early one year and into a large house down the road from my own modest home. His parents had left him an enormous inheritance, and he took great pleasure in flaunting his wealth at every opportunity. But we didn’t despise Grady because he was well-off — we hated him because he was a pestilence that wreaked havoc throughout our once-peaceful community, and there was nothing we could do about it.
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