Unnamed: 0 int64 0 12k | prompt stringlengths 4 324 | story stringlengths 587 7.18k |
|---|---|---|
100 | Your reflection in the mirror this morning ... whatever it is , it sure as hell ai n't human .
| When I woke up last night, I was thirstier than I have ever been in my life. My tongue felt weighed down like a dry stone. My room was dark and the red light of my alarm clock showed it was half past midnight. Slowly, I leaned my feet out of bed and shuffled to the bathroom. In the dark I found the bathroom faucet, too... |
101 | Make me support and sympathize with a character who does something immoral .
| OK! So this is my 1st post on this subreddit. Criticism is welcome.
“ He is awake ” I thought to myself as the blade slowly slit down the man ’ s leg. Crimson blood gently started flowing, staining his jeans. They were nice jeans. Expensive.
“ W…what ’ s happening? ” he asked. He could barely speak. I don ’ t kno... |
102 | Zombies biting humans turn humans into zombies. Little did we know we just had to give them a taste of their own medicine and bite them back to turn zombies into humans | What is dead may never die.
See, that statement was passed through ages of literature. Collectively, we imagined that simply translated to: “If it’s dead, it stays dead.”
Boy were we wrong.
One late Tuesday afternoon, archaeologists stumbled upon more than they bargained for. The Egyptian desert had revealed ruin... |
103 | A child is afraid to go to sleep with the night light on .
| “ What about this one? ” Jenny asked, holding up a box with Thomas the Tank Engine insignia splayed over the sides so her six year old could see. This was her fourth such attempt, following a quick but firm rejection of Bob the Builder, Winnie the Pooh and Big Bird. “ Look, Thomas ’ face glows! Isn ’ t that cool? ”
... |
104 | Theme Thursday - Jeopardy | Symbiosis
Dead leaves crunch as the undead stumbles out from behind the tree, its body a rippling mass of purple and black. The air reeks of pus and spoiled meat.
A chill crawls up your neck. You barely see the undead under the armor of Purple Emperors. Hundreds of orange irises blink from the corners of the butterfl... |
105 | Today you skipped work .
| 4:57 a.m.
If I don ’ t get up and shower now, I ’ m going to be late for work.
I don ’ t want to go to work, but continuing to lie here and watch my alarm clock judge me would be slightly more unbearable than getting up.
4:58 a.m.
I could just not shower.
4:59 a.m.
I hate everything about sitting up, so... |
106 | You wake up in a white room with nothing . Nothing except a button . Under it , a label reads 'Pointless Button ' . Under that label , 'Do not press '
| Nothing, I can see nothing in this room... Except a button, exactly in the middle. So why am I here? I believe yesterday I was just sitting in front of my TV. I was bored so I moved the channel up and down until I was sleepy. I remembered that I slept in front of my TV. Wait, did I? A memory suddenly comes to my head. ... |
107 | Write a genuinely scary story about the most ridiculous monster you can imagine .
| Down the stairs I ran, trying hard not to stumble. Oh there were so many stairs. I do n't hear him, but I know he is behind me. I do n't stop to look, must keep running. Finally I reach the end of the stairs. I need to hide, and I have no time to think. I look around my living room, a chair! I run for the chair, and sl... |
108 | You are an assassin, top of the game, hired to kill owners of competing companies in a dystopian society. You live a double life as a normal family man and a trained killer. One day, you come home from work after a ‘business trip’, and you find your wife and 2 kids dead, along with a note. | (This is the first time i've ever posted. Bit of a lurker.)
It was finally done. A lucrative enough of a career with a lucrative enough end, one I wouldn’t have to share.
They were the perfect cover really and Rachel’s small business worked wonders at laundering the contracts from side gigs. The kids weren’t really a... |
109 | You've checked the closet and behind the curtains. No monsters. Drawers, empty. Desk, nothing. Still no monsters. Under the bed, noth... | The large white teeth, the beady eyes, and the shock white skin was more than he could take. And although he didn’t mean to scream, the monster under the bed couldn’t hold it back.
“Ahhhhh!” Then he scurried further back under the bed until his fury tale touched the back wall. Kids can be terrifying. Their hands are s... |
110 | everything is suddenly and irreversibly sentient. | I woke to a chorus of torturous screams, babies crying, and metal clanging. I flew forward in my bed, heart pounding, and scrambled to find the source that seemed to come from every direction. I fumbled in the dark to my light switch, which flipped on with a strange audible groan.
“Stop, stop, I’m burning!” I jumped a... |
111 | Your bedroom door slams open, and your roommate demands to know whether he's alive. You, dazed, confused, and still half asleep, reassure the guy that he looks pretty alive to you. "Oh, good," he says, "so the dead thing in the living-room just looks exactly like me." | I blink at him.
Lewis always had this itch to play pranks on me. He would stick a piece of paper under my mouse that would have me banging my it against the table in hopes that it would work again. Some prank were harmless and others not so much.
“Oh, no, is that suppose to scare me?” I roll my eyes as I turn around ... |
112 | The disease strikes without warning, and progresses violently. It attacks the bones and joints, turning them to metal. In a few short weeks, the victim is reduced to a rusted pile of scrap iron. Your only hope is to remove the affected limb, and pray... | People talk about Rust Rot in whispers, like the very invocation of its name will seep through your skin and poison your blood. But it won’t. The Rot forms from the inside and travels outward, immortalizing your remains in solid iron, starting with your bones.
But the most dangerous part is that it’s not a matter of i... |
113 | The Darkness felt like grasping claws, but also like a warm, enveloping hug. | There is just something about it that I could never quite put my finger on. Maybe it was the simple fact that I grew up surrounded by it. Away from the city, deep in the mountains where light pollution simply didn't exist.
In the summer my friends and I would spend hours in the woods behind my house playing hide and s... |
114 | As a young child afraid of ghosts and monsters, your mother taught you that you can use your imagination to fight them. Since they 'aren't real', you can use weapons that 'aren't real' to hurt them. She had no idea she was preparing you for your career as a demon hunter. | I breath in and out. The demons aren’t dangerous, she said. Mum never lies; in fact, she says that lying is bad. Why would she lie herself then? I just have to use my imagination, that’s all I need to do to get rid of them.
My sweaty fingers are cramped and my eyes are tightly closed. Finally, I slowly open them. My b... |
115 | After Thanksgiving, humans hibernate for five months until April. The ones who refuse to succumb to the deep slumber disappear within those five months. You lie down to rest after your Thanksgiving feast, but you have the sudden urge to see what happens during the world's heavy sleep. | My belly isn’t full, I threw up all the food. Around me, my family snores.
Thanksgiving’s the most wonderful time of year, and it’s tradition to eat the biggest plate you can. We’re supposed to welcome the Deep Sleep and love it but I, well, hate it. Losing five months of our life just feels stupid. The village leader... |
116 | Sunday Free Write : Leave A Story , Leave A Comment - CliffsNotes Edition
| One of the stories I have for a collection of really short stories ( most flash fiction ) aimed at young readers.
PAPER BAG
Melanie watched the paper bag bounce across the parking lot, seemingly carried along by the mild wind. It was not an unusual sight, as trash blew by all the time but, something about this ... |
117 | Creature that hunts groups of humans, every person it kills will be forgotten by the rest, their actions attributed to another member of the group, but when there is only one person left, the changed memories make no sense, how can you help yourself gather wood? Why did you bring 5 backpacks? | Copy to BlackBox
Why do I have five backpacks? I wonder, dazed and confused. A forest surrounds me, the leaves black ignoring that it’s fall and they’re supposed to be all sorts of colors. I remember I went here for some kind of Halloween celebration, but my memory is too foggy, just like the forest. Dapples of moonlig... |
118 | You are kidnapped by strange aliens, and taken to a room with advanced tech and large cryochambers, where you will be stored temporarily for "future use". Upon waking up, the room is dilapidated and filled with overgrown shrubbery. A mysterious man stands confused at the power switch. | I awaken.
While I cannot see due to the thick, gooey substance that I seem to be suspended in, I am vaguely aware of a presence outside of my pod. My limbs twitch, my body slowly regaining sensation and warmth. Little by little, I can feel the heat of my blood flowing through my veins.
My pod does not open. Whatever ... |
119 | You find a user in a social media service (SnapChat, Instagram) that uploads footage of different places around the world. One night, you see a recent update, which is footage of the inside of your house. | It’s a Saturday night and I have absolutely nothing to do. I’m sat here in front of a TV screen that’s doing nothing but making noise. You must know how it is, there’s hundreds of channels and I’m stuck with nothing to watch.
I’m pretty sure I’ve been sat here for three hours refreshing Instagram and looking through t... |
120 | It has become a law to hibernate during the winter with the help of a machine , but there is a glitch , and you wake up halfway through winter and find the reason why the government made hibernation manditory
| I always imagine myself like Fry from Futurama every time I climb inside my sleep chamber. I wonder if I'll accidentally be frozen for 1000 years instead of 6 months? I'm sure that wo n't happen, but I hope my body will heal this damn kidney infection while I'm hibernating. Damn my back is sore!
My husband is on his ... |
121 | You’ve died. As you arrive in the afterlife you see a sea of people all kneeling before a huge source of light. As you walk up to one of them to ask what’s going on, they look toward you and whisper “start kneeling right now”. | I stare at the kneeling congregation. This can’t be right. I’m pretty sure I should be sitting in my car. To be factual, driving my car. My very expensive car. I step closer and watch. I see glassy eyes turned upward, staring at an unknown entity
I reach forward to clutch my steering wheel. To be factual, my bespoke l... |
122 | A child is home alone when their house is broken into . Alone , except for the monster under their bed .
| “ Do n't worry, we'll be right next door. ” Craig told his wife as they entered their neighbors house. Justin had already been tucked away into bed and Pam and Dylan from next door had invited them over for a drink. She smiled at her husband in reluctant approval as they walked through the front door.
...
Ju... |
123 | Gimme the best scare you can using 500 words or less. | They don't like to be noticed. They've gone for hundreds of years with no one giving them any trouble.
There was a time long ago when we saw them every day in plain sight. We feared them, so we tried to kill them. But they can't be killed.
They slaughtered thousands of humans without a care. Finally, we begged them to ... |
124 | You have stopped at an intersection . You glance at the car next to you , and see a kidnapped girl tied up in the back seat .
| `` Ma? Mommy!'' Jackson screamed.
`` What?! Why are you calling me like that boy?'' my mom snapped.
`` Ma! It's a girl in the car next to us tied up!''
`` What? What are you talking about boy?'' my mom said, a little more quietly but still tense.
`` I see a girl in the back of that car right there. She ... |
125 | Write a horror story . Difficulty : the protagonist has a fully functional cell-phone with them at all times .
| Alice must have fallen asleep while watching YouTube on the iPhone. The phone was showing the video selection menu, so it wasn ’ t the phone woke her up. There was a sudden, loud, deep thud that did. At least, that ’ s what she thinks woke her up.
She sat up, tried to get her bearings back. She was still in the liv... |
126 | The original word for `` bear '' is rediscovered . And it actually works as ancients feared - saying it summons them . But the bears are not what we know as bears , they 're something ... else .
| Cassandra was bent over her desk in a dark basement, a lock of red hair dangling in front of her eye. She pushed it away, swallowing dryly as she scribbled furiously onto a faded yellow piece of paper. Every so often the woman glanced back at a computer screen and reread a few lines of a document.
`` Yes!'' Cassand... |
127 | Give me your scariest story. | I had gotten a habit over the past few months, that every day after school finished, I would go on a walk around my town. I would go explore forests, or walk through abandoned buildings and car parks. I had found a strange fence in the middle of the forest a few weeks ago, so I decided that as soon as the weekend start... |
128 | [ wp ] while tucking in your only child for the night you hear from the closet `` help me daddy '' .
| -Help me, daddy!
For the moment I was thinking its coming from the closet. I turn around, slowly walk towards it, than again, unmistakably: Help me, daddy, please!
- ‘ What the… ‘
The same way how I can stop watching horror movies, I just step forward and open the door. Nothing. Not a thing. Except some clo... |
129 | You find out your mum and dad aren't your real parents. When you ask if you were adopted, they just reply "err not exactly..." | Part 1
The silence in the room was suffocating. My parents—no, the people I had called my parents for my entire life—sat stiffly on the couch, exchanging glances that screamed we should have prepared for this.
I had found the paperwork purely by accident. A misplaced envelope in my dad’s desk drawer, one that had fal... |
130 | Using the line `` I 'm a perfectly normal human being , and no one can prove otherwise . '' write a story that sends a chill down my spine .
| ( This is my first time contributing to this subreddit, so please be gentle with me! I think this might be too long so thank you for reading if you took the time! )
“ I ’ m home, ” I called lazily, flicking on the hall light. “ Mom? Dad? ” I furrowed my brow. The cars were in the driveway, but the house was oddly q... |
131 | Reincarnation exists with children recalling their previous lives as they grow up . A loving father who was brutally tortured and murdered in a previous life is conflicted when he realizes that his only child is starting to remember things that only his tormenter/killer would have known .
| `` Do n't. Do n't. Please. I have a wife, a family, they need me to survive...!''
Cackling filled the room, and the coals inched closer to my forced-open mouth.
`` No... you ca n't do this... you can-''
As my screams filled the room, the world turned black and...
I woke up.
Holy shit, it happened again. W... |
132 | When someone is murdered , their name appears on the skin of the killer . You wake up with a name on your arm and no knowledge of how it got there .
| “ Go back to sleep ”, she said while rolling over. I stared up at the blank ceiling as a rush came over my thoughts. I started to panic but paralyzed with fear.
If I move, it may cause something to happen, but if I don ’ t move, nothing will happen. Right? The ink which was slowly presenting itself on my right fore... |
133 | Whenever you go to sleep, you always wake up with blood on your hands. | Every morning is the same. My alarm buzzes at 6am. Every morning I get up slowly, make my way to the bathroom. I relieve myself, brush my teeth and stare in the mirror at the blood dripping down my arm from my right hand. The blood on my left hand pools where I’ve rested it on the edge of the sink. Today there’s a lot ... |
134 | 5-foot tall chickens are terrorizing humans .
| It was just another morning.
I woke up to the deafening screech of my alarm clock, like always I press snooze right until I know I am running late to my shitty job.
I drag my sorry self out of bed and wander to the kitchen to make some bacon and eggs for breakfast. The sun is streaming through the kitchen window ... |
135 | Write something dark , macabre and bleak but with a hopeful ending . Not all out happy ending , just slightly optimistic .
| My leg hurts. I think it ’ s broken. It ’ s so dark down here. Why did she do it? What did I do wrong? I ’ m sorry, mommy, I didn ’ t mean to make you angry.
I remember falling, and I hit my head. I think that ’ s when my leg broke, but it didn ’ t hurt like I thought it would. Everything was blurry, and I felt lik... |
136 | When the black and white camera was first created the only thing that had color to it were peoples eyes .
| Those eyes haunted me, day and night. I couldn ’ t get the image of their startling blue out of my head, and it was driving me crazy. Hell, I was already crazy, but seeing those aquamarine eyes through black-and-white cameras just terrified the hell out of me.
I ’ ve worked in this hospital for about three years no... |
137 | a prompt for bad people
| Geese
Sometimes I like to take long walks by myself. It helps calm me down. I don ’ t really go anywhere, but it helps to clear my mind. That all changed, however, when the geese attacked.
I was just walking along the riverside, minding my own business, when suddenly I felt something long and beak-like enter in... |
138 | After waking up in your home at 3:54am to a warning , you do what it specifically tells you not too .
| Last night, my partner shook me awake. She stood at the side of the bed, fully clothed, her face wearing an expression of determination or panic - it was hard to tell. I groggily asked her what was wrong, and she merely turned on the television. A frazzled newsman on CNN repeating the warning -
Remain in your homes... |
139 | A person approaches you on the street and asks you for fifteen seconds of your time in exchange for an object from your past . Something about the person does n't seem right to you . What 's the most horrifying thing that could happen ?
| `` 15 seconds, that's all it takes I swear. No tricks'' he said. I paused before responding. This smelled strongly of bullcrap. `` I suppose I have nothing to lose. I want.....'' I thought about it. What did I really want from my past? What would make me the most happy? `` My great grandmother. Alive and well. `` Alrig... |
140 | There is something outside the door that will say anything or sound like anyone to get you to open the door .
| It ’ s coming for me. I've hidden as well as I can, but I let it in. It will find me. I don ’ t have much time.
I had n't been warned of anything strange going on in my neighbourhood, but you don ’ t get far in my line of work without being suspicious of everything. So, when I heard the doorbell ring, I did n't ans... |
141 | The day after Halloween , everyone has magically turned into what they dressed up as .
| I stumble through the flat. It is an adorable studio flat, just on the edge of town. It looks like it ’ s been sponsored by IKEA and it is very clear that a girl lives here. It is organised, with every effort being made to make it less grey all round. There are photographs on the wall, books rammed into book shelves an... |
142 | Start the story with the sentence , `` Have you ever seen a clown that looked better with the make-up on ? ''
| Have you ever seen a clown that looked better with the make-up on?
I have, and it was terrible. I live in an apartment building with my mom, and across the hall there's this man who's a professional clown. I had never seen him without makeup on, because he usually only came out of his apartment to do his clowning j... |
143 | Your left hand has been trying to kill you since you were a child . You managed to keep it subdued ... until now .
| First attempt here. Sorry for any grammatical errors, but I'm in a rush.
It started with little things: involuntary spams; a dropped fork; a spilt drop of water. Soon enough the little things became clearer: a knife reaching closer to my throat; a razor blade hovering above the wrist, that so far as I know, I can t... |
144 | it 's 2147 and NASA confirmed their mission : 'edge ' . A mission that sends 3 astronauts into space to go as far as possible . What they 'll find is beyond anybodys imagination .
| The whole thing started with an innocent sounding ’ pop. ’ Lights flashed before our eyes, our guts were in our mouths, the pain was n't pain, it was a cold fury raging through our bodies. In those few instances, my world faded to black as sparks and indescribable shapes appeared before me.
Beep…beep…beep…
I wo... |
145 | That thing in the corner of your eye , that movement in the dark . That thing that goes bump in the night . Someone finds out what it is .
| I awoke, yet again, to the sound of subtle thumping somewhere down the hallway of my home.
The first time this noise had stirred me into a hazy state of consciousness. The kind where you are not completely certain whether you are awake or still lost in a stupor of dreams.
It was in this state that I had blamed th... |
146 | Your dad suffers from memory loss . On a rare lucid day , you tell him some stories about things he 's done and people he 's known . Maybe you take a little creative license .
| He was in a bed, teething on his pillow like a child. He loses a part of himself everyday, a tree shedding leaves and reverting to bare root. He was so excited by things I was saying.
I set the scene:
It was a rainy day, and you were walking to work as usual, stubborn as ever. I remember thinking that you walki... |
147 | A child goes to summer camp , leaving the monster under his bed with no fear to feed on . Starving , it breaks the rules and feeds on adults .
| Three months. It ’ s been three months since I ’ ve eaten, and I am fucking hungry.
My kid went off to summer camp, unexpectedly, and I didn ’ t have time to get reassigned. Now I think the bureau has just forgotten me. I normally like being left alone, as do all “ monsters, ” but on the rare occasion when they nee... |
148 | A person realises that someone else is living in their house .
| It took me a while to realize that my friends were making up excuses to not visit me anymore. When I had first moved into the new house, I had invited them over often. I had been the first of us to really get my own place. Somewhere where we could all hang out, and not have to worry about neighbors on the other side of... |
149 | You’re the paramedic that arrives at the end of a horror movie | As your ambulance pulled into the driveway, it was clear this was going to be one of those nights. There was a body impaled on the high metal fence, whose wounds should have been deadly, yet it was reaching out for you and snapping its jaws, with a head turned at a strange angle, like, all the way back.
“Don’t come cl... |
150 | There's a priest within the town that instantly cures possessions and hauntings. Not because he is a paragon of good, but because the spirits claim that he harbors a far greater evil than any of them expected | I chain my sister to her bed with a heavy heart. No other rope could keep her possessed ass down. My mother is on the phone with the priest, who says he’ll be there shortly. Meanwhile my sister is screaming things like “Release me cowards!” And “You’re only delaying your own doom!” Standard things she would say even if... |
151 | You just accidentally downloaded the Kindle version of the Necronomicon .
| “ That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die. ”
Sheryl looked at the words and read them again. What the hell? She thought.
She scrolled back to the cover and saw the title.
“ Dammit, ” she whispered.
‘ What ’ s up? ”
“ Nothing, Jan. I just…it ’ s this new Ki... |
152 | As you drift off to sleep , you realize something : your front door did n't open inwards like it always does .
| I stumbled against the apartment door and whacked my head hard. It didn ’ t really hurt though. I have no idea how much I ’ d had to drink, but it was certainly keeping the pain at bay. I fumbled the key out and somehow got the door unlocked. I fell against the door and was surprised I didn ’ t fall into the entryway. ... |
153 | You 're a 911 phone operator . You recieve a call from your neighbor .
| It was a normal graveyard at the communications center. I was exhausted. My wife and I had been arguing for the last three weeks. I loved Susan but I swear to God she knows how to really push my buttons! Our two boys were in middle school and were starting to get rebellious. We really needed a vacation but could not af... |
154 | `` It is time to come home ''
| Terminal brain cancer the doctors said. The size of the mass was too big for them to operate on. i ’ d be better off just waiting for it to stop my vitals. I ’ ve lost track of how long I ’ d been in this hospital. The only sounds that I hear are the footsteps outside my room and the beeping of the machine.
Beep.
... |
155 | A half-naked man rings your doorbell at 2am to ask for peanuts . Why is he there ? - Use primarily dialogue .
| The beating on my apartment door came like an expected pinch. I had been waiting all night for this to happen, but I still wasn ’ t prepared for it.
“ Hey, motherfucker, let ’ s talk peanuts ” came that piercing, frenzied roar.
Captain Giggles had come for his peanuts and there wasn ’ t a thing I could do to st... |
156 | The impenetrable Mist creeps slowly forward , grasping trees and shrubs as it tightens the noose around you .
| The mist came in the late night, just before the dawn. Its evil flowed over the hillside and soaked into the woods, the leaves, the stones and streams. Its fringe carried with it an unnatural cold, something vile and wet that found its way into your bones like moisture working through the mortar of old brickwork. We al... |
157 | I started seeing them 2 years ago. They called me crazy, and maybe I am, but today I saw her. She tried to hide it but she was watching them out of the corners of her eyes. I know she can see them too. | I started seeing them two years ago, just before Mum and Dad sat me down and told me they were ‘taking a break’. I remember Mum’s face, the tears in her eyes that wouldn’t fall until I was out of the room. I remember the stony way Dad sat beside her, his hand curled awkwardly between the two of them, not touching her.
... |
158 | My hands tremble as I attempt to press play on the video camera. I see myself on screen, sporting a black eye and covered in dried blood. I take a deep breath to compose myself before I begin. "To whoever finds this message, something has gone disastrously wrong." | The box had arrived two days ago, addressed to me but from an anonymous sender. When my mother strode into my room, a grin on her face and the package in her arm, she told me it was probably from a penpal that I’d come into contact with through a program via school. This puzzled me, however, because I had never replied... |
159 | You're in a group chat with 6 other friends. One day, your closest friend texts in the chat, "Check it out guys, I'm on the news!" You turn on the TV and switch to the news channel and see the report. It says your friend was murdered. | There was no mistaking it was Johnny. The picture they were using on the news was taken directly from facebook and a camera was showing Johnny's mum Anne hugging a neighbour as tears ran down her face. The story was so real I could feel my own eyes welling up, captured by the thought that my best friend was gone foreve... |
160 | Zombie apocalypse has happened . The survivours have survived and are thriving , so much that people can go their entire lives with out seeing a zombie . You see one today .
| They were gone, long gone, monsters inhabiting only history books, medical case studies, and the odd scary story told around a camp fire. Yes, they had spread far and wide. Yes, they ’ d conquered cities, killed billions, ravaged lives and pushed us close to extinction, but we ’ d defeated them. Stories passed on from ... |
161 | when you were five your dad left to get milk, twelve years later, he shows up with said milk, looking the exact same as the day he left, wearing the same clothes and very confused about how it seems years have passed in an hour | I took a different perspective, I hope that’s ok.
“Mom!” My son calls from downstairs.
Bleary eyed, I roll over onto my husband of 7 years and kiss him soundly on the mouth, morning breath and all.
“Morning, lover.” I mumble.
“MOM!” I could sense growing panic in his voice. What could my grown son possibly be needi... |
162 | At the scene of a terrible crime , the only piece of evidence is a fingerprint , from someone who died decades ago .
| It was last January as I recall. It was a grizzly murder. The kind that reminds you that evil is alive and kicking. Got the call to investigate the murder of Joan Gelford. Walked into the house and noticed signs of forced entry. Joan's body was on the kitchen floor. There was blood everywhere. What was strange about he... |
163 | Frighten me without using any blood , gore or explicit violence .
| 2 years, zero months, and zero days ago, my daughter committed suicide. Or at least, that ’ s how we found her. She laid there with a paracord collar around her neck, which was attached to a hook above in her closet. On the floor rested her, an open bottle of high-strength sleeping pills, and a few stray pills in her l... |
164 | A man is actively trying to encourage ghosts to haunt his house. The reason? It's cheaper then actually getting a AC. | My bedroom overlooks the street.
He lives across from me.
Every night when I try to get some sleep I see lights from window. 11pm, 2am, even at 5am they’re still going off. I never understood what these lights were doing, but they always come from the same house, right across the street.
It had been two years since ... |
165 | You've been a devout, and outstanding Christian your entire life. Today you're very excited to be meeting the pope! The encounter was going well, that is until you shook hands, and your hand began to burn with immense pain as though it were on fire. | I’ve waited for this moment so long. When your father is a deacon and your mother is a religious teacher you have two options, you become the most Christian guy in your class and get bullied or you become an atheist and get repudiate by your parents. Since I’m going to meet the pope it is clear what I am. I was very lu... |
166 | You discover a door in your home or place of work that was n't there before .
| I was tickling my wife on the couch, a cold December night. We were watching some movie on Netflix, enjoying our night in together. At her behest, I removed myself from the couch and went into the kitchen to grab another bottle of wine.
“ Hurry up! ” she moaned from the living room, which was just out of sight. The... |
167 | You rise from the grave as the first zombie ever , you died a vegan ... you try and form a sentence but all you can manage is a low moan `` Graaaiiiinnnnnszzzz '' !
| ...
I'm... Awake..?
Its... Dark...
Why..?
Thinking... Hard...
Ca n't... Remember...
...
Where... Am I..?
Ca n't... Move..?
So... Dark...
Touching... Wood..?
Smells... Gross...
Is this... Closet..?
...
No... Door...
Why..?
Ca n't... Open..?
*Shouldn't*... Open..?
...
Coffin?
Did... I... |
168 | A young boy only begins to see the true nature of his parents after being kidnapped .
| “ Let me go! ” I screamed. “ Where is my dad? ”
“ Be quiet, kid. It ’ s for your own good. ” The man put his hand over my mouth. I bit down. “ Jesus, kid! ”
The woman grabbed and gagged me. I was at Mrs. Anderson ’ s house across the street, but she wasn ’ t home. The house had been ransacked and trashed. I had... |
169 | Every day, the same stray cat walks you to school. The same stray dog sees you home. Even after you moved, it kept happening. You didn't think it was weird until a friend pointed it out to you. | “It’s weird, but weird is normal somewhere,” Jamie responds to his pal Paul.
“I suppose so. It’s kinda cool too. They’re like your friends right?”
“I guess. Well we don’t talk but I can’t imagine doggo not being there when I finish school, and I can’t imagine kitty not picking me up in the mornings. Once, back when w... |
170 | A child pops the birds and bees question . Panicked parent spins an epic convoluted tale .
| “ Is he asleep? ” my wife asks as I enter our bedroom.
“ Yeah honey. You ugh…. you think tonight ’ s the night? ” I asked as I shrugged my shoulders and gave her a failed attempt at a seductive wink.
“ Fine, Ok. But let ’ s be quick about it. I ’ m always afraid he ’ ll walk in. ”
“ Don ’ t worry. We ’ ll b... |
171 | ( WP ) You had a Nightmare filled with terrors , when you wake up you feel safe . Until you see all of the monsters you fear are in the real world ...
| Real
It was real, it was so real, I told myself as I wipped the cold sweat from my forehead. Just a vivid dream. And yet it seemed so clear, so definite. I closed my eyes, trying to go fall asleep again, hoping I would forget about everything. I was safe now, I had no reason to be scared.
But I just couldn ’ t.... |
172 | as you die, the people around you sob. And after you close your eyes, you quickly reopen them, and realise no one around you can hear or see you. Except one little girl in the corner, who won’t stop staring directly at you. | So, this is the afterlife, huh. Watching my loved ones grieve as this hollow excuse of a apparition shows me at my prime… What a load of bullshit. There’s a girl in the distance. Shallow, ghostly. Just like me. She’s staring. It’s only her. No ancestors watching over me as I was told time and time again. I was always t... |
173 | Fire Drills are just a way for office buildings to hide their secrets. You stay behind during the next one, hiding beneath your desk as Security chases something otherworldly into the break room. | People called me a paranoid lunatic, but I like to think of myself as a free thinker. I knew the government was keeping major secrets from us for a long time, but I finally got proof, what I saw with my own two eyes was all the evidence I needed.
I was just a low paid janitor working in the Pentagon at the time, I had... |
174 | You are a goldfish in a bowl , your owners are out for the weekend and the other goldfish in the bowl dies .
| I will forever be haunted by the events of yesterday. I live alone in a comfortably sized bowl. I have everything I need: a little castle, colorful rocks, a bubbler, and good owners. Well, they ’ re relatively good — the little one acts and treats me differently than the tall ones do. It ’ s clear that he is very irres... |
175 | A love letter is slipped under your door at your college . It would be cute , but it came from the closet door .
| Only a couple more problems to go on my math homework then I ’ m done, thank God. My flat mates all went out for the night, to celebrate Anna ’ s birthday, but I spaced and completely forgot an assignment due in the morning, so I get to be the lucky one to miss out on all the fun. Life of an engineer, I guess, right? A... |
176 | Your Amazon Alexa keeps on waking you up at 3:00 AM reading a list of funeral homes near you. | At first I thought it was a glitch.
I was a bit of a late-bloomer in my use of 21st Century technology. I still had a dumb phone until I finally got an old iPhone 5c in 2016. I know you’re thinking it and you don’t have to tell me I’m a Luddite, thank you very much. I’m already well aware.
Well, now that Alexa is bec... |
177 | Someone who can not die is lost in a desert .
| It was the thirst that got to you first. Just because one couldn ’ t die didn ’ t mean that you didn ’ t get thirsty. It just meant that you couldn ’ t die of it. I don ’ t know which is worse yet. Imagine that rasp, when you feel thirsty on a hot day, that touch of sandpaper at the back of your throat. Got it? This is... |
178 | Lets see how this one plays out .
| `` Murder is such a filthy thing and I did n't want to do it. Thank god for Craigslist. I wanted my wife, kid, even that obnoxious fucking Pomeranian dead, but I'm not a killer I'm a business man, so I did what any good supervisor would do, I hired someone to do it for me.'' Jared starred at his family who were tied to... |
179 | You wake up in an empty hospital with an envelope taped to your chest , you read the letter inside . `` If you 're reading this , that means you have awoken . Inside the envelope is a syringe with a small dose of a chemical that will kill you in seconds without pain , use it . DO NOT GO OUTSIDE . ''
| My name is Emily. My name is Emily Mason. That ’ s all I know right now.
Actually, I have plenty of memories, too. I remember growing up in the mountains. I remember smelling the sweet pine air. I lived there all my life. I remember my parents, and I remember when they died. I remember my little cabin in the woods,... |
180 | In the not-so-distant future a group of crazed zombie movie fans repurpose medical nano-technology to reanimate the dead and bring about the apocalypse we 've all secretly day-dreamed of .
| Did you know that at there are approximately 110 million dead bodies out there? It ’ s a fairly simple calculation, take the daily mortality rate, around 150,000 multiply it by 365. Then assume that it takes around 2 years for all the flesh to rot off a body, give or take a few years and you have a number around 110 mi... |
181 | The Dark Hedges
| “ Help me! ” A woman voice emerged from the misty road ahead of me.
“ I ’ m coming, I ’ m coming. Stop running and let me help you! ” I called out, I ’ ve been following the voice for hours, I remembered waking up to a scream. I stormed out of my house and kept hearing pleading. Been chasing her ever since.
“ P... |
182 | You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar 's body . The bigger the lie , the deeper and larger the mark . One day , you meet someone that only has one scar ; it is the biggest one you have ever seen .
| You want to know how I got these scars?
Well, for one thing they aren ’ t ‘ scars ’, if you look closely you ’ ll see it ’ s one continuous scar that travels around my face, neck, down my body, all around wrapping itself around my arms, legs, fingers and toes.
The only part of my body that isn ’ t scarred tis... |
183 | Theme Thursday - Sleepless | “Angie? Angie?”
Angie smushes her face into her pillow. She recognizes the pitched whisper of her younger sister in the dark and is determined to ignore her.
“Angie-ie-ie!” The child’s hiss is edged with consternation as she insistently pumps Angie’s shoulder.
“Wha-aa-aat?”
“Are you awake?”
“For your sake, I bette... |
184 | You are in school when suddenly a zombie apocalypse breaks out .
| I checked my temperature again. This had to be the flu. Maybe something was wrong with my response to it. I'd just have to buck up and go to work until I could see a doctor. Fever, chills, joint pains, headache, sour stomach: Yup, this was probably the flu.
I was going to have to buck up and go to work. Lucky for m... |
185 | : make me feel claustrophobic
| I wake up
Waking up this morning took me long enough. It was n't until I thought about how I ended up in my bed that I realized I had on an armband. It read `` November hospital.'' Weird? I thought to myself.
I wondered how I got back home to bed while I was obviously at the hospital last night. Who brought be ... |
186 | Make a especially cheerful memory from your childhood seem like a sad or abusive memory without changing anything but the wording .
| We were going down to the sea, my mother and I.
I loved the sea. The sea meant hours of doing nothing but waiting. In the calm and the stillness I would focus on just one little spot on the wide ocean, and that would be all that remained of the world. Nothing else.
As we walked the steep forest path my mother w... |
187 | You are the world's best doctor. Your secret; Being able to step into your patients' consciousness and feel their pain. A man walks into your office complaining of mild pain. You step into his mind and feel the worst pain you have every felt. | My services don’t come cheap. My specialty? Well, I wouldn’t say I have just one specialty. The strangest, worst, most confusing medical enigmas come to me. You want your illness cured? I got you covered. If you can pay up, of course. So when I got an appointment with only the prognosis of “mild, persistent pain,” I wa... |
188 | The Collector Cometh . 400 Words . ( Contest )
| My daughter, Jacqueline, was born at 6:37 PM on August 31st,1993. My amazing wife and new mother Rebecca, pushed that 11-pound baby out of her without any painkillers. God damn, it was so disgusting with all the tearing and the blood and the shit, but I was so proud them both.
All of the doctors and nurses left us,... |
189 | You 've just realized every time you blink or close your eyes , time stops .
| - Something changed last week – I told her – I went to sleep at midnight and when I woke up, it was still midnight, but I felt completely refreshed, as I ’ ve been sleeping all night.
Her eyes were open wide, looking at me as if they could see through my flesh. She twisted her mouth, uncertain how to answer
- W... |
190 | Write a legitimate horror story about the darkest evil the horror genre has ever known : the tickle monster .
| & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; It ’ s small, like a child. Not a very young child, but not a very old one either. It ’ s arms are thin and it ’ s legs are long. It has greasy black unkempt hair sprawled out over the top of it ’ s head like an old mop. It has thin little eyebrows that almost seem not to... |
191 | You find a user in a social media service ( SnapChat , Instagram ) that uploads footage of different places around the world . One night , you see a recent update , which is footage of the inside of your house .
| It ’ s a Saturday night and I have absolutely nothing to do. I ’ m sat here in front of a TV screen that ’ s doing nothing but making noise. You must know how it is, there ’ s hundreds of channels and I ’ m stuck with nothing to watch.
I ’ m pretty sure I ’ ve been sat here for three hours refreshing Instagram and ... |
192 | Those who play for ghosts
| It was time for him to practice.
The piano was kept in a small vacant room in the back of the house. His mother said it was to be used for guest in the future, but for now it would make due for his practice room. He gazed at the wooden stairs that led up to a hallway, and at the end of the hallway this room. Each s... |
193 | For your entire life , your parents kept you in complete isolation in an underground bunker . They told you nothing existed above the bunker . One day , you find the key .
| All my life I ’ ve been kept underground. I was told nothing exists above me, that it ’ s just a barren wasteland and that we are the last people alive. My parents ’ have a bunker twenty feet away, they get to it by traveling through tunnels, but they rarely visit; only to top off my food and water supply. I have a doo... |
194 | After years of research, you uncover the horrifying truth behind why some people are left handed. | I run my hand over the weathered pages, the crude depiction making more sense than ever before.
Rubbing my eyes, I try to clear my hazy vision. For the past five years, I’ve made some progress but this is leaps and bounds of anything I had found before.
Recently fired from my previous job, I somehow landed this job w... |
195 | Cannibalism has been widely accepted for over 20 years . A renowned chef before dinner service checks tonights product . In the caging area he sees his activist sister .
| We walked into the delivery room. Dad tapping the cages to see if we got any response from them then waved his hand over toward me. Not often, but on occasion we had to send back some that was either dead already or out of their minds on drugs.
“ Come here and give this one a look. ” Waving impatiently at me. “ Dam... |
196 | Daddy wearily walks in , his boots trailing mud , his axe trailing blood . You stare at the blood and say ...
| “ Is it done, Daddy? ” I said.
“ It ’ s done. ” On the nights when Daddy went out, he wore the mask. He wore it now, standing in the doorway, the axe at his side. He had tailored the mask with his own hands, sewing together patches of human flesh, long since dried out like strips of jerky. A matted, greasy mane of ... |
197 | A person approaches you on the street and asks you for fifteen seconds of your time in exchange for an object from your past. Something about the person doesn't seem right to you. What's the most horrifying thing that could happen? | "15 seconds, that's all it takes I swear. No tricks" he said. I paused before responding. This smelled strongly of bullcrap. "I suppose I have nothing to lose. I want....." I thought about it. What did I really want from my past? What would make me the most happy? "My great grandmother. Alive and well. "Alright" he sai... |
198 | "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth." Heaven filled up instead. Kind and orderly zombies mill about amongst the living. | Michelle fumbled with her keys, trying to urge the correct one into the car door lock. She turned around and could see the figure lurching towards her, slowly but with determination. She dropped her keys for the fourth time and stooped to pick it up. Success. She had grabbed the car key. I’m an idiot, she thought. This... |
199 | After being cryogenically frozen you awaken in a large spaceship with what remains of humanity . They only woke you up to experiment on you , but after hundreds of generations in a low gravity environment , they are hilariously weak compared to you
| I wake up to their chattering. `` Ahin, alamin ecco.'' The language has changed, mutated beyond recognition. But they have taught me the basics, and little by little I adjusted, learned. I can understand some of their words now, basic phrases.
They. The shock is always fresh as I open my eyes. Their long limbs, thi... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.