There’s a reason a manuscript has to be read and revised several times before it’s published. Our editors get to read submissions at all levels of preparedness, and some sentences are downright horrifying. Want examples? We’ve got examples!

He ran a thumb and forefinger up his nose.
Never had her nineteen-year-old gullet succumbed to such horror.
He put his jaw into his neck and looked to be puckering up for a kiss.
Everything went black, there was a stinking sensation stretched through her body.
Her stupendous fairytale had dilapidated to a gut-wrenching nightmare.
She stirred herself.
She set the wrapped caramel apples in her bowels.
Her heart raced in a frantic attempt to pump blood into the necessary areas of her body.
I pooped the pills in my mouth, washing them down with some coffee.
Her head popped outside the hotel room door.
A rouge wind whipped through the branches encircling the garden in a violent vortex of leaves and debris which swirled menacingly through the yard as it gained speed.
The room fell silent and all eyes were torn from their place to stare in fright at the sound of their master’s voice.
The thought made me shutter.
He couldn’t manage to put baloney and mustard on the same two pieces of beard.
Her eyes glowed like golf balls.
His knees buckled and he crumbled to the floor like a crackers on a thick tomato soup.
We hope you’ve enjoyed these unintentionally scary sentences, and we wish you all the good kinds of spookiness this Halloween.

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