Woman Takes On A Tumblr Writing Challenge & Nails It With Her Story About The Monster Under The Bed
There’s an infinite amount of different ways and platforms to express your creativity. And Tumblr has long proven to be a great place to have your own creative corner. What it’s filled with is up to you to decide – thoughts, memes, paintings, written stories. Furthermore, there’s always something to reignite your creative spark if you’re just not really feeling it at the moment.
This was exactly the case of how the spooky story about the Monster Who Lives Under The Bed came to life. Someone on Tumblr got inspired after seeing a writing prompt and responded with an amazing piece that’s somehow strangely heartwarming even though it will probably leave you feeling unsettled.
The mastermind behind the story is Bethany Harper, more commonly known as Bethany the Martian. She’s a writer and pizza delivery lady, who also likes to call herself “an expert only on the least expected”. While she loves her main job delivering pizza in Norman, Oklahoma, she says that she loves writing as well and got serious about publishing after losing her work that’s been scattered over several old webpages and blogs. She’s mostly writing fiction and is currently working on a series “that’s yet to be named about a person from our time blinking into a magical future, and the family and adventures they find along the way. It’s a series of shorts, interlinked, that may or may not have novel potential,” she shared on her Patreon site.
This writing challenge was posted on Tumblr
Bethany got so inspired, she wrote a whole story about a monster that lives under a bed and we’re just not sure how to feel about it
People loved her piece and were quick to respond with witty remarks and words of admiration
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Share on FacebookVery, very nice. I was grinning at the end. This is my kind of story.
Oh no! My dog eats the crunch water I drop. What if the thing under the fridge is really suffering because of that?
That was fantastic! I wish my house guests were that cool. I just have really ballsy mice who know I won't set out snap traps for them. I caught all the dumb ones in the catch and release traps. Now I'm left with the smart ones which I kinda respect. We nod to eat other in the hallway every night. 'Sup? You off to eat the crumbs? Cool. Try not to chew up the recliner.'
Absolutely loved this. Great ending. I'd like more about this friendship, why her, etc.
Stories like this and Toy Story and Wally is what makes me be super polite to inanimate objects and talk to the noises in the walls. People think I am crazy... I prefer to think of it as being prepared for all possibilities.
Me too :D. Also I talk to the spiders and thank them for eating the mosquitoes. I don't see the spiders often, as they are scared of humongous humans.
Load More Replies...Oh, sooo gooood! I wanted the story to go on and on.... I'm also glad to know that our monsters are friendly... :-)
I checked out under my fridge and my bed, no response. Some people have all the luck. Great story.
That is a fabulous story. My day is instantly better for having read it.
We have a snake in our basement....a blacksnake. I am equally polite to them. They eat mice. I do fuss because occasionally they miss one though.
Whoever wrote this, could you keep writing and publish a book please?
I lay in my bed with my hand dangling off the siide. the demon under my bed grabs it. i stare up at the ceiling and say, "what are we?"
This is a wonderful story- the kind I used to read by flashlight under the covers when I was supposed to be sleeping!
Very, very nice. I was grinning at the end. This is my kind of story.
Oh no! My dog eats the crunch water I drop. What if the thing under the fridge is really suffering because of that?
That was fantastic! I wish my house guests were that cool. I just have really ballsy mice who know I won't set out snap traps for them. I caught all the dumb ones in the catch and release traps. Now I'm left with the smart ones which I kinda respect. We nod to eat other in the hallway every night. 'Sup? You off to eat the crumbs? Cool. Try not to chew up the recliner.'
Absolutely loved this. Great ending. I'd like more about this friendship, why her, etc.
Stories like this and Toy Story and Wally is what makes me be super polite to inanimate objects and talk to the noises in the walls. People think I am crazy... I prefer to think of it as being prepared for all possibilities.
Me too :D. Also I talk to the spiders and thank them for eating the mosquitoes. I don't see the spiders often, as they are scared of humongous humans.
Load More Replies...Oh, sooo gooood! I wanted the story to go on and on.... I'm also glad to know that our monsters are friendly... :-)
I checked out under my fridge and my bed, no response. Some people have all the luck. Great story.
That is a fabulous story. My day is instantly better for having read it.
We have a snake in our basement....a blacksnake. I am equally polite to them. They eat mice. I do fuss because occasionally they miss one though.
Whoever wrote this, could you keep writing and publish a book please?
I lay in my bed with my hand dangling off the siide. the demon under my bed grabs it. i stare up at the ceiling and say, "what are we?"
This is a wonderful story- the kind I used to read by flashlight under the covers when I was supposed to be sleeping!
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