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and on Apple, Spotify, or your podcast player of choice. Welcome to micro terrors. Scary stories for kids where it's always the spooky season full of chills

thrills and spine tingling spooks.

Micro terrors are family-friendly frights for those ages 8 and up,

and while our stories are for young... for those ages 8 and up.

And while our stories are for younger ears, we are still talking about things that go bump in the

night, and some children may not be able to handle what others can.

Parental consent is recommended.

Now, for tonight's micro terror. Micro Terror. Beware of the Mutant Burritos.

The Mega Cade Expo was coming up at the end of the week. My friends would be there, and I was grounded.

I can still see my mother waiving my history test at me saying, look at this grade, it's because of those video games, Nick Jacobs.

It wasn't. It's just that the past doesn't interest me, only the future. I'm a science and technology kid. The way I see it, playing

video games online with my friends was a skill. Mom would never understand that. She was

determined to make me have the most long, most miserable

week of my life. This included not being online at all. She changed the Wi-Fi password before going to work, leaving me to realize

how quiet the house was without the sound of a virtual battle booming from out of my

headset.

The sudden knock at the front door and the

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