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1,100 | Why would you murder ?
| “ Rose get up. ” I whispered. “ Somebody ’ s broken in. ” I had slid out of bed and was already retrieving the case where the rifle was kept. “ Load it, I ’ ll cover you. ” I grabbed my folding three inch knife from the night stand, opened it, and stood next to the bedroom door.
There were soft metallic clicks as R... |
1,101 | You are locked in a coffin .
| Darkness.
Total darkness.
This isn ’ t the type of darkness you are thinking about, nothing like being at home with the lights off. Not even like being in the forest when there is no moon and the stars aren ’ t out. This is that type of darkness that you read about in books, the kind where you can ’ t see your ... |
1,102 | You are the first angel to be cast out of Heaven since the devil himself tell us your story as you approach the gates of Hell
| Bright, brighter than heaven—blinding, even. It curls into and under retinas like a burrowing maggot, feeds itself on the memory of what serene darkness once felt like. I am in the place Without Sleep, Without Dreams, and I know that before me lie only tunnels of endless, endless light. I traverse them without admirati... |
1,103 | Equipped with a time machine that randomizes your appearance on use , you decide to explore the world , only to realize everyone you ever met is actually just you .
| I ’ ve lost count of the number of time jumps I ’ ve made, but it took me a long time before I recognized the truth. I imagine the jumps number in the tens of thousands - perhaps more.
At first, the randomization of my appearance fascinated me as much as jumping through time itself. I made it a point to always exam... |
1,104 | While hiking in the wilderness , you come across the body of another hiker . In the corpse 's hands , you find a note .
| Neil woke up. It was a warm summer morning, and Neil was lying on the forest floor in a sleeping bag, looking up into the sky. It was blue, Neil thought to himself. He couldn ’ t say that he was surprised, but it was just a nice colour.
He carefully unzipped the bag and turned sideways. Next to him was a corpse.
... |
1,105 | Psychologists spent years trying to help people overcome their phobias . But then something happened that made them necessary for survival .
| The infamous muscle men that I grew too familiar with were dragging them both to the car while they were kicking and screaming. I knew it would be the last time I saw my parents, I knew this day would come.
Did I really think we could hide forever? I didn ’ t have to turn around to know Dr. Sideon would be there re... |
1,106 | [ Wp ] The zombie epidemic came and went in the developed world , most people survived , the military easily defeated the undead horde , and cures for the virus were created . However , zombies remain major issue in the developing and under developed world not getting nearly enough attention on the news .
| Thursday 10th November 2022. 11.21pm.
I heard the television turn off as I turned the key. I wasn ’ t surprised to see Jess still awake. Annoyed but not surprised.
“ You were meant to be asleep by ten ”, Marie called out to her. “ Is Harry ready for school? ”
M and I had just returned from my brother Bill ’... |
1,107 | Last night, as you prepared for your dash up the basement stairs... something monstrous grabbed you. Little did you know at first, that something saved your life... and it seems to like you. | I grabbed the book from the dusty shelf and turned to go, feeling that chill just below where spine and skull connect and I glanced backward before starting my sprint up the stairs, toward the sliver of light under the heavy door that separated the basement from the house. I took two steps at a time until I felt a shar... |
1,108 | Whenever someone dies , the person responsible will always be able to see the ghost of their victim for the rest of their life .
| It was 3 o ’ clock in the morning when I finally got the call. “ Mr. Green, it ’ s your wife. It ’ s time. ” That was it. Nothing more to say. During the drive down to the hospital I doubt I was aware of my surroundings at all. Perhaps it ’ s for the best that I have no memory of it. No memory of how I felt driving at ... |
1,109 | ( NSFW ) A gay couple undercover as roommates at a christian family christmas .
| You did a good job of pitting a wild character against a more moderate one. Maybe you could even have them work together for something at one point.
Them discussing their relationship felt too brief and shallow. It could be a way to shift the tone and keep things fresh. I want more details of what they had - memori... |
1,110 | An unusual black ice-cream truck has been appearing on street corners, as if out of thin air. It plays a very slow and melancholy version of Greensleeves, and all who hear it are compelled to eat ice-cream. The children who eat this frozen confection are never the same again. | A few years ago, my son changed.
His mother and I fought constantly. I tried to do the best I could for my family on a small-town police officer’s salary, but my efforts were thwarted by my wife’s incessant drug use. I’m sure you can imagine how I looked to my peers when her addiction became public knowledge.
“How co... |
1,111 | Your daughter wakes you up in the middle of the night insisting there 's something scary in her room . You go with her to check it out and prove she 's just imagining things . After you turn on the light , she does n't see anything out of the ordinary and calms down . You 're frozen with fear .
| 3 a.m. on the dot. I can hear the door to the bedroom creek open and her little footsteps on the cold hardwood floors.
`` Daddy it's in my room again.'' It was almost a nightly ritual now. I would go into her room, turn on the lights, search under the bed, in the closet, nothing. Then I'd crawl into bed with her un... |
1,112 | Choose a fact that is universally accepted as true and write a convincing conspiracy theory arguing it to be a complete fabrication
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( DISCLAIMER: I do not associate with any of the pronouncements made in this story. it's just fiction and it's part of the character. fun reading; ) )
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So you just blindly believe in everything the system wants you to?
No?
I don ’ t think so. And let me prove this with just one simple fact:
Our... |
1,113 | You’re a parent in a kid’s Christmas film. Your children are so innocent, asking Santa every year for presents under the tree. The creepy thing is though, sometimes their requests are fulfilled…and it’s not you. So on Christmas Eve, you await in front of the chimney, shotgun in hand. | At midnight your starting to think maybe it’s just your wife playing a joke on you and are getting ready to get up when all of a sudden you hear a clack on the roof remembering the things you were told as a child you retreat to your room quickly and load your gun your wife is fast asleep not seeming to hear any of this... |
1,114 | You are walking around inside your house barefoot . You step in dog shit .
| Tuesday, 3AM. I woke from a bad dream with a dry mouth in the silence of the night; somewhere in the distance a car starts up. Something doesn ’ t feel right. My plush rug feels soft between my toes as I get up from the bed and head to the bathroom. The light flickers on and the ventilation kicks in, offering a low dro... |
1,115 | Aboard the International Space Station , looking back at Earth , you see atomic explosions detonating across North America .
| Oh! Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
SpongeBob SquarePants!
I groan and open my sticky tired eyes. I can not help smiling. The song reminds me of my daughter in Portland Oregon. She loves Sponge Bob Square pants. I imagine her tiny body wrapped in pink unicorn embroidered sheets. Her silky red hair wild an... |
1,116 | You are a first year med student . On the first day of anatomy lab , they assign each lab group a cadaver for dissection . You open the bag and discover your group 's cadaver is someone you used to know .
| I ’ d seen dead bodies before. My lab partners were always impressed with how well I kept my calm and wasn ’ t over with the others throwing up in the bin. When the one had been a little bloated, even Cole had taken off for that one. It takes a while to get used to the scent of dead bodies. A little disturbing to be do... |
1,117 | Scientist have just discovered how to harness the power of people spinning in their graves. | My father’s grave started spinning three weeks after they buried him. Not metaphorically—though he had been the kind of man who’d argue with a stop sign—but literally, the soil churning like a drunk tornado, his headstone wobbling like a loose tooth. By then, the Energy Solutions folks had already installed the turbine... |
1,118 | As a hunter of dangerous supernatural creatures, you stalk dating profiles looking for signs their owners aren’t human. Some are quite obvious. | BlogZone post: New target: Joshua… (2,102 views / 47 comments)
Posted on January 12th, 2019 at 4:31PM by VampireHunter69
I lurked on Slinder during the witching hours. Apt, but I always swiped left when it comes to warlocks. Telltale hints of a werewolf? The brows, always a little hairier. The skin walkers are the cr... |
1,119 | You dreamt of your killer , but found out that he was already dead .
| I woke up early and the television was already switched on. So I began watching the morning news, and I saw that a man had been killed in a tragic high speed car accident. I recognized his face... somehow, from something. The news anchor then said that the man was a convicted murderer, and was escaping the scene of a c... |
1,120 | You are the first schizophrenic patient to be admitted to an insane asylum . Your best friend is your flash light , and there is a real demon after you .
| whispers and whispers
i can hear them getting louder
whispers and screams
they've met each other
screams and screams
the screams killed the whispers
what are they screaming?
``... coming closer''
I dash for my light and stare at the glow
in tears, i fall to my knees
hes coming fo... |
1,121 | You realize you 're on a date with Satan , which goes both good and bad .
| She answered the door in a sexy form fitting black dress, her curves were screaming touch me. The black was in stark contrast to her china white skin, yet a perfect match for her hair and eyes. Remind me thank my friend Judas for fixing me up.
We walked down the street and she found little reasons to touch me. `` I... |
1,122 | Write about a dream you 've had .
| The room reminded him of old people. The furniture was dated, leftovers from the 70 ’ s and 80 ’ s. There was a small tubed television, fuzzy with seemingly a game show being broadcast; by the presenter and the fashion on display, this was another leftover from the 80 ’ s. What held his attention the most was the man, ... |
1,123 | The dead do not die , they simply rest . They awaken again once a threat is near to help combat it . One day , they begin wandering seemingly without cause .
| “ I thought they only come back when there was a threat they could help with? ” Jess said looking out at the huge crowd of corpses trying to break through the security parameter of the compound.
“ They are, ” Mustafa looked up from his screen, eyes red from long nights trawling through datasets, “ The fact that eve... |
1,124 | `` How 'd you get that scar ? ''
| Thought I'd go ahead and tell a true story.
One week a few years ago during the summer my dad broke his foot and my mom got appendicitis within days of each other. Both bed ridden and high on their own pain meds I was in charge of things around the house including cleaning, business stuff, taking care of my younger... |
1,125 | The year is 2021 . The newest fad are clone clubs , where visitors can spend up to 12 hours with a clone of any person whose DNA they provide . The clones are disposed afterwards .
| Tommy ’ s eyes widen in recognition. His heart begins to beat quickly. He can feel the emotions bubbling up into his throat. It feels tight, a sob catches. There stands John, the man who took it all away.
Tommy reaches into his pocket nervously jingling his keys. He can feel his face growing red and his ears getting ... |
1,126 | You're a detective and the murderer who you are trying to track down starts tracking you down. | Drip. Drip. Drip.
The smell of coffee filled the air, almost covering the musky smell of the cheap motel room. I glanced at the pot from the corner of my eye, waiting impatiently for it to fill. My eyes stung. Each blink threatened to put me to sleep, despite my best efforts.
A mess of papers and brown folders were s... |
1,127 | You have the ability to turn invisible but only when your eyes are closed . What do you do ?
| When Sarah is five, she likes to play a game with her parents. She closes her eyes and they pretend like they can ’ t see her.
“ Where has Sarah gone? ” Her mother marvels as Sarah stands in the kitchen, eyes clenched shut. “ She was here a moment ago but now I don ’ t see her anywhere. ”
Sarah opens her eyes a... |
1,128 | While walking though the forest, you stumbled upon a plum tree. The fruits were all deliciously ripe. You picked and ate like 10 of them. The next several days, news came to you that 10 people that you don't really like were all dead with their heart ripped out and seemingly consumed. | I certainly didn’t know it would kill people, but I won’t say I was sad about it. At first I was worried police might suspect me. I mean most of those people have nothing in common but me so I’d certainly be a suspect. But in the end there was nothing to prove. All of my information proved I was walking in the woods wh... |
1,129 | Write a murder from the perspective of a cheerful inanimate object
| Golly! It sure looks hot out there today. Look at him sweat. Beads on his forehead. He and the lawnmower must be working really hard. That lawnmower…always outside…in the sun. I hate that guy so much. ‘ Oh, look at me. I ’ m outside rolling around in the grass with the sun warming my shiny red paint. ’ Put me in the sa... |
1,130 | Theme Thursday - Rage | In the castle overlooking the city, a pair of sisters swap stories in the dining hall over a pre-dawn snack. Nearing the end of her account, Lillian lifts the crystal pitcher from the table.
“I mean, I’ve heard some famous last words,” she cackles, pouring herself another drink. The maroon liquid winks in the candleli... |
1,131 | Growing up you where told to never go outside with out headphones , without music . You ran out of batteries today .
| I have n't been writing very much lately but I decided to give this a try:
“ She ’ s strange… ”
Strange; what a word. Such a horrible word to describe someone, yet so powerful. To think, had my music player not completely drain its battery, I would have never learned this confusing adjective. What other mysteri... |
1,132 | People who die before their time have a 'grace ' period of 27 minutes before their bodies become useless ...
| “ Ah Shi…t-aaaki mushrooms. ” I didn ’ t why I had corrected myself. It wasn ’ t as if me suddenly not swearing was going to get me into heaven. Still, the angel guy had visited so someone from Beyond was watching us. Somewhere in my head, a clock was ticking down in milliseconds. I didn ’ t really like that. Made ever... |
1,133 | Twas the night after Christmas and under the house a creature was stirring ...
| 'T was the night after Christmas, when under the house
we heard something stirring, too big for a mouse.
The stockings were flung on the floor all askew,
having long been pillaged of toys and treats anew.
The young'ns were fighting o'er whose turn was next,
while Katie complained'bout'the fam' ove... |
1,134 | As a little kid, you liked to pull harmless pranks on the local cryptids. As you grew older you realized the danger of going out into the woods and stopped visiting them. Turns out, the cryptids had fond memories of your antics and want to come and see you again. | Out in the unclaimed neighborhoods between Tiyam Garden and the Voggamp, a man named Renvidd scrambled between half a barrel and some signage. He wondered why he’d been called out here - he hadn’t seen these haunts since he was a boy, exploring the blown-out husks of buildings and pretending to hunt for some treasure t... |
1,135 | Having just bought a new refrigerator your inner child gets the better of you . You climb into the box it came in only to discover it 's a portal to another dimension ! When you exit the box you find yourself in your own home ... .but ... .
| Something isn ’ t right, I think.
I step out of the box in the kitchen and look down to the floor. My sandals aren ’ t where I left them, by the side of the fridge. Addie must have gotten to them when I was inside. How long was I in there for? It couldn ’ t have been more than a few minutes. Oh, it doesn ’ t matter... |
1,136 | You live in a world where people 's shadows show who they truly are at their core . Some shadows look like monsters , some look like animals . You are the only person in the world with no shadow .
| The sound of the sea wakes me from my sleep.
I open my eyes and am greeted by darkness. Bewildered, I grope around in a panic until I realise I ’ ve been dreaming. It ’ s the same dream every time- I ’ m walking on a sandy beach. The sun is beating down on me, and I ’ m pleasantly hot. I can taste the salt of the o... |
1,137 | As an experienced criminal prepares to break into a house, a voice on the other side of the door says five words. The criminal gathers his tools and immediately leaves. | It was a house most other thieves avoided.
The windows were all boarded up on the first floor, and had some sort of red curtains on the second. The lights would go on around 5 at night, and there would be shadows moving across the red curtains. Laughter could sometimes be heard down on the street, but it was cold and ... |
1,138 | You come home and find a second `` you '' dead on the floor .
| 657 days. That ’ s how long I ’ ve been coming home to see my dead, lifeless body on the floor. Mostly just bones now; the stench has almost entirely left. It was hard in the beginning. I had looked at that sad, lonely face in the mirror for every day of my worthless life, only to see it rot away into nothing but a gen... |
1,139 | You wake up in a house . It 's nice place , with all the comforts of home . However , the front door is cold steel , with a note on it . The note warns you never to leave the house . After years of compliance , you decide to go through the steel door ...
| There are a number of reasons, I tell myself everyday, why I have n't stepped out of that damn door.
1 ) I'm afraid
2 ) Of what?
3 ) Of everything, anything
4 ) I do n't know what's beyond that steel door
5 ) The note haunts me more than what's ( or what's not ) outside
Ignorance is bliss. Even more so ... |
1,140 | Depict a suicide , from the perspective of the object used . ( Gun , knife , rope , etc . )
| He keeps me in his bedside table drawer; he likes to take me out and hold me by the handle whenever he feels upset. The feel of my cold metal against his skin is comforting to him... Some nights he even breaks his skin with my blade, and lets his blood dry onto me. But tonight, tonight is different, he has me pressed a... |
1,141 | The police raided your home, and found the 50 bodies buried in the back. They put you on trial and locked you away. It's only after that an FBI agent comes to ask how all the bodies have the same DNA sequence, Yours. | I could hear the sirens from blocks away. As the sound got closer, it never occured to me that they would be coming for me; but I was wrong. They knocked on my door with great force and I opened it without a second thought. “Yes officers?” I asked, not really expecting the answer I got in response. The next I knew, I w... |
1,142 | There's a door you've walked by a thousand times and it's always been locked. Today it wasn't. | I never should have moved in to this apartment complex. It smells like a dying animal, probably because of all the disgusting rats in the wall, or whatever that scratching animal is that I keep hearing.
There's this one room I walk by every time I'm about to head to class, and the door used to say something back whene... |
1,143 | Theme Thursday - Mythology | Iktomi
++ Statement of Jeremiah Cribbins, regarding the death of HM Customs Officer Herbert Watts, taken 28th March 1875 ++
It had been a cold morning, icy and bitter. The cobblestones turned to a particularly vicious skating gallery for the unwary. I suppose that’s why I’d noticed it so much when I crossed over to t... |
1,144 | A zombie has just attacked you . You can feel yourself starting to turn . What 's going on in your head ? What happens next ?
| When she was nine, she ’ d gotten bitten by a doberman pinscher pitbull mix. On Labor day. Someone had let their dog off its leash, and she ’ d been playing tag. She hadn ’ t seen it until it was attached to her arm. Her brain went to another place, stupider and more focused than her usual scattered thoughts. “ It won ... |
1,145 | You 're a surgeon , and one of your patient just died under your knife . You have to announce the death to the family . Your speech must contain the following words/groups of word : `` Delighted '' , `` Purgatory '' , `` Banana '' , `` Slaughterhouse '' , `` Careless '' , `` Made my day '' and `` Blame it on the temp '... | There was nothing I could do. Industrial accidents happen. Sometimes it ’ s just a quick patch up; sometimes, like today; things go tits up pretty quick. I spent more than 15 hours trying to put this guy back together. Just a kid really. 19 years old and working in a meat packing plant It ’ s good money, but it ’ s god... |
1,146 | After searching for years, you have finally found the perfect partner. | After searching for years, I had finally found the perfect partner. She was smart, sweet, funny and we just clicked.
From the day we began to live together, she always woke up at 1 in the night and gave me a kiss in the lips. Then she would look at me and go back to sleep. The first few day I found it sweet and quite ... |
1,147 | A man gained the ability to see how long people have left to live as a number floating above their head , he 's been able to avoid mirrors until this moment .
| He was more miserable than usual. Ordinarily, he would kick open the door, his worn boots clashing against the rotten wood, then walk the few paces to the tattered and dirty mattress amongst the trash on the floor, and collapse upon it, hearing the rusty groan of protest from the springs. Tonight was different. All he ... |
1,148 | You died. It doesn't surprise you that you get assigned to hell, actually. What is surprising however, is the fact that when you get there, there's no fire in sight. Just a very proud firefighter dude and a concerned mycologist arguing in the damp floor. | When I died, it wasn’t with a bang or a scream, but a dull thud and the smell of gasoline. I suppose I expected fire after that an eternal inferno, red and roaring, for the kind of life I lived. But when the darkness pulled back like a heavy curtain, what met me wasn’t flame, but fungus.
Hell, it turned out, was damp.... |
1,149 | After washing the blood off your hands , you light a cigarette at the edge of your bed in the motel bedroom .
| Why does this keep happening? I black out, lose time. It ’ s been happening more frequently of late. I don ’ t know what triggers it or causes it. Normally I ’ m back within an hour or so but once I lost an entire day. I woke up under a bench in the park, I was covered in mud and had no idea what I had done or where I ... |
1,150 | You are a serial killer who has chosen their next victim . But after a month of stalking them you realize that they are already being followed by ... an unnatural entity . You must save your new target , so you can kill them instead .
| She is an ideal victim, really. Lives alone, only really travels from home to work. Hell, the last time she left her house for anything not relating to work was two weeks ago, when she got groceries. Yep, 20 year old Catherine Simmons. The perfect victim. Oh, how I lust for the moment my blade glides along her throat, ... |
1,151 | The Alphabet Game : Write a 26-sentence story , beginning with a letter and continuing each new sentence with the subsequent letter .
| ‘ Alex, look out ’!
BAM – the truck slammed into him at full force, throwing him like a rag-doll from the middle of the crosswalk and deep into the adjacent intersection.
‘ Call 911, someone quick! ’ Melissa screamed as she rushed towards Alex ’ s crumpled body. Down near Alex ’ s feet, a pool of blood was begi... |
1,152 | You have the power to see how many people someone has killed , based on a number above their head only you can see . Most people are at a zero , but one day you spot a particular toddler with a 109 .
| At first, I did n't know what the numbers meant. It's something I stopped bringing up once I realised that other people could n't see them, and that mentioning it would only elicit strange looks and visits to a therapist. When my brother, who'd always had a 0 above his head, came home, clammy and pale faced, with a 3 h... |
1,153 | You're the last human in a civilized world of vampires, werewolves and other legendary monsters. You only exist in bedtime stories used to scare children. You've been able to keep your existence secret until one day, you're finally discovered. | Scratch. Scratch. Scratch.
“What was that?”
Vladimir blinked his eyes awake.
He waited, listening carefully. Nothing.
He tried to close his eyes, but there it was again…
Scratch. Scratch. Scratch.
Vladmir tried to calm himself. “You’re 15. Stop acting like a kid.” But despite his best effort, an old nursery rhyme... |
1,154 | The dead have come back to life across the world , but they 're not here to eat us . They 're all fleeing from something terrible in the afterlife .
| As a morgue worker in his early 30's, Josh was unfazed by the woman in the body bag. Found dumped near a swamp. For shame.
He un-zipped the body bag and carefully removed her rigid body, placing it on the table with the help of a trusty pair of assistants. After the assistants left, Josh looked over her body. He al... |
1,155 | You wake up in a tub of ice with a two insicions on your back and a note that reads `` Why do n't you have any kidneys ? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ? ''
| I awoke to sharp pains on my sides. Oww. What the heck.
I suddenly realize how cold I am. “ I might as well get out of this tub of ice, ” I think to myself and rise just as the thought ends.
There is absolutely no one in the room. I think about making a call to my designated guardian but can ’ t find a telephon... |
1,156 | You live in a village in the dessert. One day it is raided by terrorists and all village members are killed, except for you. You lost most of your memories and now wander through the dessert, thinking you are the last of your species. | You don’t know pain until you’ve held your loved ones in your arms, their custard crème insides staining your hands. Our humble village of pastries, obliterated in one fell swoop. By some miracle I have survived, but it is a curse rather than a blessing.
The terrorists - terrible hands descending from the sky like Jur... |
1,157 | Describe the experience of being turned into a frog | It was in the summer of 1987 that I first developed a liking for flies. It was shortly after I‘d had an encounter with an odd woman at a fair who cursed me for laughing at her home-made Bon Jovi t-shirt. She muttered something about frogs.
I woke up craving flies and luckily, I found one. It was a good one, buzzing ag... |
1,158 | You awaken in the woods at night. No memories, your only possession the loincloth on your body. You stand, but seeing the distant light of a city makes you afraid, you know two things for sure: that the city is filled with your mortal enemies, and Humans no longer rule this planet. | A sense of dread washed from my throat down to the pit of my stomach. Goosebumps prickling on my arms in the light evening breeze. I stared out into the darkening horizon, peering out from behind the rock I perched on at the vast land beyond. City lights on the horizon blinked back, a piercing reminder that I was not a... |
1,159 | It's quiet. Way too quiet. | Every day is exactly the same. Everything just seems to work in a certain way, with a certain order. It has been like this pretty much my whole life. I wake up each morning, get ready, and head to school. I come home afterwards and my parents and 8 little siblings are awaiting me. It never happens any differently. Toda... |
1,160 | Write up your favorite Edgar Allen Poe story or spooky campfire tall tale as if it was breaking news .
| Earlier tonight officials confirmed that a woman who had been missing for several weeks was discovered walled up in the basement of the man's house, hacked to death with an ax.
The accused individual is believed to have started by abusing his pet cat by tearing its eye out. It is believed that after several days of... |
1,161 | You are a member of an isolated , un-contacted tribe . Your tribe worships airplanes as gods . One day , one of your mighty gods falls from the sky nearby .
| The whole tribe was out in the open. The elders stood near the wreckage with the exact same expression as everyone else. God had fallen. Ever since the gods had begun to fly overhead, prosperity had followed. Bountiful harvests, fertile women, life was good. However, a few moons ago, plague and pestilence came upon the... |
1,162 | In an outburst of frustration, you smacked a broken machine with a wrench. What you never expected to see was the hunk of junk quite literally fixing itself in response. | “4, 7, 9, 2, 3, 5, 4” I pause for a moment at the realization I’d messed up my sudoku puzzle for the 5th time in a row
“DAMN IT” I shout grab the closest object(which happened to be an old wrench) I can and slam it into that old washing machine
Then I rip my paper in two and go to get a new one from the book to conti... |
1,163 | “I will admit bringing victims of cancer back to life without the cancer is a novel cure, but the medical board has a strict no necromancy policy. The Frankenstein dog incident kind of poisoned the well there.” | They said no. No, they said. Strict no necromancy policy, they said. And I said, "But—BUT—hear me out. No cancer." Just living. No cancer. Healthy. Lively as a spring morning. They said no again. Not a big no, but a tight-lipped, squinty-eyed no, the kind that doesn’t even try to be polite, just judgy. And then Sheila—... |
1,164 | Begins with `` We 're the ones who ask the goddamn questions here ''
| “ We ’ re the ones who ask the goddamn questions here. ”
I wake up tied to some chair way too small for my frame. It ’ s flimsy, made of plastic, and sitting in it almost forces my knees into my chin.
“ Listen Mr. Patterson, we know you ’ ve got more stashed around here. Just tell us where it is and this whole ... |
1,165 | Children 's story gone adult . [ WP ]
| `` Breadcrumbs''
The dream came each and every night, but he never recognised it at first. That might have been the worst part – the slow realisation that he had been here before, that he would be here again. The tightness in his chest as he recognised with growing dread the familiar beats playing themselves out, s... |
1,166 | You wake up to see a photo of you sleeping as the background of your phone ... you live alone ...
| I woke up to see my phone with a picture of me sleeping on it. I live in a 1 bed room studio. I live alone, but I do sometimes have visitors. A couple of ghosts stop in from time to time and one of them had taken this picture and I was pretty sure I knew which one.
`` Henrietta did you take this picture'' I asked t... |
1,167 | A crash test dummy develops sentience .
| “ Paul, are you there? ” I whisper to my brother.
“ Mike-I ’ m here. Where are you? ” The back of the truck is pitch black. Dozens of arms, legs, and torsos surround me as I reach towards Paul crawling pass the limp corpses of my kin.
“ Don ’ t move Paul. Keep speaking. I ’ m coming over. ” I climb up through the t... |
1,168 | Describe your descent into Hell
| I always thought red was such a pretty colour. Even as it gushes out of me, I ca n't help but admire the shade. Blood pooling around my body I become aware of the smell, it's like meat at the store. At least in a store it's refrigerated, my body heat intensifies the hot iron smell. It's cold, It's dark, I want to sleep... |
1,169 | You buy a special camera at the pawn shop. Every photo you take, it shows a snapshot of 10 years ago. You take a picture of your dog and it shows him 10 years ago when he was a puppy. Everything is all fun and games, until you decide to take a picture of your bedroom one night. | I pointed the camera through my open door. It was 3:13am, I'd spent all day taking photos.
Click
The mechanical cogs spun up whirring and fizzing. Out popped a Polaroid sized photo of my room - 10 years in the past.
I brought it into the light, but it was all black. I gave it a little shake, blew on it a little, not... |
1,170 | There 's been a leak . Drip , drip , drip . Every day for a while .
| It started the other day. I looked for a source, could n't find it. checked the plumbing, nothing wrong. Checked everything, checked it again.
Still nothing.
The dripping is intermittent. The sound itself is annoying, but tolerable. I can put on headphones, play music, whatever. The silent waiting period betwee... |
1,171 | You enter the basement of a creepy abandoned house and find a note that says `` You will not leave . This room shall be your tomb . '' You turn around and the door is now closed and locked .
| I found this house while out hunting deer up in the Canadian wilderness. It was clearly old and abandoned, except for the stairs that seamed to be almost brand new.
It appeared to have been build almost 50 years ago, two stories, wrap around deck, high vaulted roof. Paint was faded but that could be expected. Trees... |
1,172 | You're doing some weekly cleaning around the house, whilst cleaning you stumble upon a book. It's about a prisoner who has been imprisoned since birth, as you read on you realise it's your pet's | I walk over to Viv’s bowl. Our eyes meet. For the first time in all the years I’ve had her I notice that her eyes aren’t black, but a pale, beautiful pink.
I hesitate and look at the tiny book I found stashed behind her food; It’s incredibly small, the size of a Lego.
At first I thought that it was one of my nephew’s t... |
1,173 | Make a joke literal .
| The BBC News At Ten programme acted as a confirmation for what many either knew or suspected. Deaths in kitchens and fields across the world had, according to eye witness accounts and sparse video footage, already been attributed to a single cause.
A camera focused on a newsreader looking solemn as they read a piec... |
1,174 | The story of a man who knows the day of his death , but not the year .
| Some might call it self-sabotage, but they'd be wrong. It would only be sabotage if I had any control over the matter.
One year later, it started with amphetamines, days before the anniversary in 1996. I figured if I were going out anyway, I might at least enjoy myself. Two syringes and 72 hours later I woke to the... |
1,175 | You're trapped in a room with all of your ex's. | What. How did I get here. My brain was rushing with ideas and theories which explained my situation. I remembered I was sleeping and heard the sound of a window breaking. Thump thump my heart was beating I was scared why would there be someone in my house. Didn’t I pay my taxes? Yes I did last week, phew. I took a deep... |
1,176 | A person is holding the world hostage . They could annihilate humanity with the push of a button . `` Be Kind . '' is their only demand .
| A message came over the intercom: “ Witness our kindness. ”
Panic ensued. Screams erupted from every corner of the shopping center. A single impulse coursed through every mind: Get out of that building! Security guards were just as terrified as anyone else. The escalators immediately became the most dangerous place... |
1,177 | You and your wife are in the process of moving into your new home.While you ’ re unpacking boxes , she ’ s out buying groceries.You start to wonder why none of your wifes belongings are there so you try to call her but you can ’ t seem to find her in your contacts let alone any previous texts from her .
| It was an exciting day. My wife and I finally found the house of our dreams. All our boxes and belongings had been packed up, stuffed into the U-Haul, and I drove it the ten miles to our new home. My wife was following behind me, making a detour to the grocery store.
The new house was small and modest. It didn ’ t ... |
1,178 | Write about a world that has suffered due to super powers
| I remember the day it happened. No one could have predicted it. No one imagined that the world would look like this.
It was a normal morning. I took the usual coffee from the usual machine. One for myself, a few others for my colleagues. After I gave everyone their fuel, and sat down behind my desk, one of my colle... |
1,179 | Fun Trope Friday: Santa’s Cookies & Apocalyptic! | The Second Collapse
Here we be, us wretched remnants of humanity, crawling in the corpses of skyscrapers. We’ve naught much else but the clothes on our backs; nay, we haven’t much at all. Spending our days tearing food from hiding places, or cracking each other’s bones over a half-rotten tortilla. What a miserable lif... |
1,180 | When did you realise you were dead ?
| Am I dead?
I must be. I ’ m watching people I ’ ve never met gather around me, poking and prodding and writing things down on a clipboard. One man reaches over and shines a light in my eyes—though I expect myself to automatically flinch back from the brightness, nothing happens. He takes a note and puts pressure on... |
1,181 | You can transfer your consciousness into a small object by touch , including animals and another human . Your body , on the other hand , just stands there and stares until you return to it . You zapped back to your body this time , and found yourself in cuffs next to a crime scene .
| [ First attempt. No edit. ]
The Practice of Giving and Taking
In these last minutes before I escape there ’ s time to make confessions. There ’ s time to confess to all the terrible deeds committed in these thirty years of living. There ’ s time to confess to all the omissions and their consequences. There ’ ... |
1,182 | You guard a door, at the front of the hidden bunker. You know everyone, every face, every name. But the person outside right now is unfamiliar, even if they do know the password. | I don’t know what’s behind the door 42.
There’s always a soft whirring and the occasional metallic clang like something heavy dropped on the floor (followed by loud curses of Florian, the foul-mouthed foreman). Once in a while, I hear a loud ‘pop!’ like all the air is sucked out of the bunker in a split second.
But n... |
1,183 | Write the best hook you can think of ; make me want to read more . Max 2 sentences .
| Sorry, I have a few...
Crawling on my hands and knees, I held my right hand against my gut as the blood poured out. I don ’ t know what the figure in the mirror was but I knew when the mirror exploded it escaped and was now walking behind me.
When the plane went down, I thought I was lucky to still be alive. Bu... |
1,184 | A malevolent spirit invaded the mind of a child and attempts to manipulate the child into becoming evil. The spirit is absolutely terrified at how little empathy the child already possesses. | I have been inside the minds of serial killers, terrorists, dictators and even worse people. I thought nothing could surprise me anymore.
Until I stumbled upon her.
You see, I love bloodshed as much as any other demon out there. You ask me if I enjoy killing people and I will truthfully say yes. I’ve turned countless... |
1,185 | You look down at the star in the palm of your hand, not quite sure how you got it. | Even when I close my fist around the star, the light seeps through my fingers. It pierces through my hand, illuminating my veins and bones in a bright red glow. I’ve never seen anything so bright for something the size of a grain of salt. I turn it over in my palm and uncurl my fingers, forced to squint at it’s beautif... |
1,186 | Sam and Dean Winchester investigate Freddy Fazbear 's Pizza .
| Well, this tale of horror, heroism and a sexy demon king begins like any other day. Moose was on his laptop, trying to fill his lack of a life with monsters to kill when he comes across a tabloid news story about some kiddy pizza place. You know, the one with horrifying puppets singing and dancing. Honestly, that alone... |
1,187 | You notice that your friends around you have turned into inanimate objects . Thinking it 's a prank , you grab a apple where one of your friends was and take a large bite . You soon spit it out , as it starts screaming and bleeding once you sunk your teeth in .
| “ Huh. ”
The response seems wildly understated, but it ’ s the one you go with. For a while it ’ s your only reaction as you stare blankly at the once screaming, bleeding apple on the ground - now silent. Your disbelief suddenly hardens, snapping closed the needling suspicion that today was now a real shit show.
... |
1,188 | In the year 2020 , humanity was nearly wiped out by an alien invasion . Earth 's survivors were ordered to pay a tithe ( one tenth of the worlds population ) every decade to prevent enslavement . The year is now 2060 , and you are among the chosen ... and you refuse to go quietly .
| The others, or the trospcas as they called themselves, first arrived 40 years ago. It was before my time, my mother tells me it was terrible. They released a genetically engineered virus to destroy the majority of the population. Anyone who didn ’ t have enough rha, what the trospcas described as the genetic potential ... |
1,189 | Everyone has a 2nd soul , that can use magic and take over the 1st soul when times get tough . Most people have wolves , tigers , and other animals as their 2nd soul . You have a demon as yours .
| It talks to me sometimes. I listen, my fear perhaps too tired to provoke me anymore. I listen to this thing speak and I hear its words, its thoughts, its desires. Some magic is at bay. I sound like my little brother, but that ’ s what it is. No use in denying it.
This thing calls itself a monster. It is not natur... |
1,190 | Your sister is a dinosaur.Tell a story about a day in your life .
| My little sister is a dinosaur. Her hair is a ragged blond mop, she cut it herself last Thursday, and she is wearing the same pink tutu and the same Day-Glo lime tights that she has worn for the last three days. She may look like a little girl, but I promise you she is not. She is a dinosaur, a fierce predator of the T... |
1,191 | Organ transplants must be paid for like rent ; if a payment is missed , the organ is repossessed . You are the Repo Man .
| I know, I know the job description says Repo Man, but who says a woman does n't have the virtual balls to be able to pull off the job just as well.
I'd been in the business now for 2 years and most of the time the work did n't bother me. The pay was good enough to kill for, pardon the pun. If a person ’ s organ mea... |
1,192 | Your superpower is simple. You have the ability to go completely unnoticed. | My visit to the grocery store ended in my favorite aisle - chips. Every major grocery store in America has an aisle that is basically a wall of junk food and chips are my favorite. There are so many different flavors and even textures of chips that I find it almost addicting. Mind you, I limit myself to one unit a week... |
1,193 | The year is 2107 , the the world 's first legitimate supervillain is here . Write from his perspective , and make me sympathize with him . More details below .
| The clinics have gone underground now. Desperate, those who believe in the worst choices. Willing to break the golden law I helped grow. A law to keep humanity alive and equal for every life. Without a face, without a name – a king hidden by a million pawns. And the world changed within the shadows.
I pay off a tea... |
1,194 | Create a story from the perspective of a television, having to hear about all the news that’s happening in the world day in and day out | They only ever turn me on when something bad happens.
I mean, sure, occasionally there’s a sitcom or one of those nature documentaries that makes humans feel superior because they’re not a naked mole rat. But mostly, I get brought to life for disasters. Bombings, wars, collapsing economies.
Yesterday, they watched a... |
1,195 | [ wp ] Make a character with as much sympathy as possible . Now , in a realistic and non-over the top manner , make me lose all sympathy for them .
| Her heart was fluttering softly as a whisper of cool air brushed past her. Her groggy eyes opened and a groan escaped her cracked lips. The heat was already fading from her body as she tried without to avail to grasp onto what little warmth her frail body could muster.
The shutters banged above her head and her tor... |
1,196 | The Last Human
| Surrounded by useless parts the mother sheltered her little baby boy. She coughed in her elbow, away from the baby. A series of spasms took control. She sprawled on the ground waiting for the inevitable. Again she coughed. This time blood splattered in her hand. More spasms. The baby had begun to cry. The mother crawle... |
1,197 | It 's the middle of the night . Your iPhone starts ringing . You wake up . You 're getting a Facetime call from someone who died three days earlier .
| A somewhat familiar marimba melody cut a hole in the quiet darkness. I sat up and put on my glasses and tried to find the source of the sounds. Beneath my bed lay a glowing rectangle. It was a smartphone from a popular brand, an iphone. On its screen two alternatives presented themselves. One with a green, half abstrac... |
1,198 | Make me feel as paranoid as possible .
| They ’ d had the plan for a while before they decided to finally put it into action, put the car into gear and drive over to your house, and put the cars into a spot far away enough that you wouldn ’ t notice how many of them there were, and how many weapons they were carrying. It was late by the time you pulled up to ... |
1,199 | ( WP ) I want a plot twist .
| Not posted here before, but I'm bored so why not?
DCI Amanda Hines put down the newspaper on her coffee table with a sigh. The headline; ‘ Carnival Killer strikes again: masked maniac continues his murder spree ’, was positioned above an article detailing the latest, the tenth, murder committed by the clown-masked ... |
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