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1,200 | 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
| Dr. Nathaniel flinched as I reached out and snapped his colleague ’ s left arm.
“ I ’ m going to ask again. ” I made sure I was heard over the agonized screams. “ What experiments were you trying to do on me when you woke me from cryosleep? ”
He gulped audibly as he glanced around at his fallen friends either m... |
1,201 | Your daughter wakes you and says she has a bad dream , you invite her into your bed and ask her what the dream was about . She recounts her dream as you slowly realise to your terror that you used to have the same dream ... it 's back
| I could feel the lump in my throat, the tightening of my stomach, and my mouth getting dryer by the second.
My daughter Cindy is 4, and she just had a terrifying dream. One that I used to have when I was a child like her.
As she recounted every excruciating detail, my heart jolted at the pure similarities. Coul... |
1,202 | What does it mean to be human .
| A note:
I saw my hands pick up a needle, raise it up. I saw my arms drink it in, its bloody mouth drooling. I felt my nerves disappearing. My body was filled with tiny little bleeding mouths, drunk and sleeping. A thin sheet of needles beneath me, I say.
On my walk to work today I saw a possum, legs crushed by ... |
1,203 | You wake up in the morning and see a post-it on a table : “See you tonight :)”. You live alone. | When she saw the note… her heart stopped. Who had been in her house? She had no idea. She lived alone. The TV played in the background.
“Fever going around New York City that causes people to forget their actions.”
But how could she pay attention to the news when she was in this situation? Someone was coming to see h... |
1,204 | Write anything you like , with each line having a specific number of words . ( Rules follow )
| Here's mine, for the record:
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The explosions were the scariest thing about the events of that year; or they were to the parents at least.
The children – including a lot of the teens – were more concerned with how exciting it was than the danger.
One of those parents, with one of those teens, was hav... |
1,205 | You are a Soul Jumper . In order for you to stay alive , you have to be killed by another human being , because every time someone kills you , your consciousness jumps and hijacks your murderer 's body . Dying at your own hands or through natural causes such as disease and old age is not an option .
| Preface: This is less of a story and more of an idea for a story.
The first time I jumped was when my brother pushed me out of the tub. I was… four, I believe. Bath time became rowdy ( like it always did ), and my brother became violent ( like he always did ). From what I can remember, my death was quick and relati... |
1,206 | A heroin addict can see the future while she 's under the influence . Friends and family continually take advantage of her gift even though it 's rapidly killing her .
| `` You ’ re killing me, you know.'' she said with her raspy voice to her brother and her mom.
`` Shut up and help us out. You ’ ll be fine. It ’ s not like you ’ ll die or anything'' her brother replied.
She was rapidly losing health, physically and mentally deteriorating. Her teeth were starting to fall out, a... |
1,207 | Many people disappear into the abyss , what is it about that deep pit is so welcoming ?
| When The Pit first appeared in the aftermath of the Los Angeles devastation, nobody was quite sure what do with it. The darkness was a challenge to humanity's inquisitiveness, and eventually its first explorers appeared, the bravest of us. We did n't realize its danger until it was far too late.
The TV cameras roll... |
1,208 | You overhear a muffled phrase through a wall , `` Do n't worry , this is a soundproof room ''
| I hated this shabby apartment; I occupied it solely on the basis that it was cheap and within walking distance to my equally shabby job. My life was dull, and I was content with that.
So it struck me quite odd when she moved in next door. This venomous woman with long black hair and striking opaque painted fingerna... |
1,209 | Your unknown ancestors were demon hunters who developed a defense to possession. If anything tries, they become bound to you but unable to affect you at all, body or soul; and this has happened several times without your knowledge. All they can do is watch, wait...and make commentary. | The voices have been with me almost my whole life. I remember a time when I was young, when it was only me in my head, but now there’s four of us.
Every time I get a new voice, it goes through the same thing stages.
Glee.
Confusion.
Anger.
Bargaining.
Pouting.
Acceptance.
My oldest voice has a name that cannot ... |
1,210 | horror story written by dr seuss | It is said on one evening on Burbixby Lane.
That the town once played host to the criminally insane.
One was Alex with gidgets and gadgets of a sort
That he’d bleed out your blood til you’d narry a quart.
Then Abraham Schnitzel von Killington Jones
Who’d carve out your organs and gnaw on your bones.
Don’t forget ... |
1,211 | [ wp ] The monster under the bed , he 's there to protect you from the real ones .
| Ever since I was young I remember a monster under my bed. I remember seeing it's hand, if you can call the sharp talons of nails attached to what look like burned incense hands. Sometimes I still see it. I am now 20 and at university. Studying to be a psychologist.
Ironic is n't it?
On this night I see more tha... |
1,212 | You set up a camera to see if you sleepwalk after noticing items.being moved . When you watch the tape , you wake up , get out of bed , stare at the camera and snap your own neck . An identical copy of you then walks in , removes the body , slips into bed and goes to sleep until you wake up .
| I'm staring at the screen.
I can hear myself whimpering, desperate to let out a scream. But I ca n't do that. I ca n't let this be real.
The video shows me sleeping. At least, that's what it shows now.
Three minutes ago it showed me dragging a body out of my bedroom.
Four minutes ago it showed me walking into... |
1,213 | Mystery, thriller, or horror, I don't care, as long as the story ends with, "We've been trying to reach you about your extended warranty." | “Three shots in the back” my partner said. We both gazed at the corpse tied to the chair with a piece of tape on his mouth. My partner looked shocked, terrified even. He was just a fraud inspector, but we were low on agents so here we are. I, on the other hand was not fazed. I had seen this same situation maybe hundred... |
1,214 | And then , one day , the door was open .
| My great-grandmother always kept one door in her room shut. It was n't just closed, it was locked, painted and nailed shut. Every time we asked about it we were shooed away by our parents, never really given an answer. As long as she lived in that house, that door would ever be opened and she made it very clear that wh... |
1,215 | You are a vampire. Working at a blood bank. | Temptation temptation temptation around every corner. Everywhere we go there is temptation.
I was a vegan once, you know. No meat. No eggs. No cheese. Now look at me.
The worst part about my current uhm condition is that I somehow held onto my morality. I can’t even take this consensually given blood from this stupid... |
1,216 | The monster under the bed and the monster in the closet meet for the first time
| The room was quiet. Little James had been gone for hours. He was sleeping at his friend ’ s house, and the room was empty. Or so it seemed...
Suddenly a noise filled the dark air. “ AHHHH CHOOO! ”
A high-pitched, grating voice replied. “ Bless you ”.
“ Thank y… wait a minute. James is gone. Who said that! I... |
1,217 | write a bedtime story that ensures no one is going to get any sleep .
| Did you ever take some time to think,
Why do children fear the dark?
What could be there, in shadow ’ s veil,
Could it really be so frightening?
What could make brave youth tremble and hide,
And used to make you shake with fear?
Does it have, claws long and keen, and dripping with malice,
Cold, pitted... |
1,218 | You've been paying your dead lovers phone bill for six months just to call and hear their voice mail. After six months, you make your last call, ready to move on, and they pick up. | He had arrived just in time to witness her last ragged breath. The movies made suicide by asphyxiation seem much kinder than it truly was - a bag over your head or maybe a little car exhaust, then you just fall asleep and leave a beautiful corpse. Her final croaking gasp or “death rattle” (as those who knew such things... |
1,219 | You get trapped in a library for 50 years , when you finally leave it , only one week has passed in the outside world .
| Title: We were only meant to exist on the inside world.
I only came in to get a book on wiring schematics and diagrams of pre-amps, the library was closing and they locked me in... I bashed on the doors all night, to no use - wait till morning.
That's what I remember, that was 50 years ago it ’ s all really fuz... |
1,220 | A stray cats prospective of the apocalypse. | Walking the streets of Washington where i saw possibly millions of bones with a few drops of blood from those large green things that smell awful and would sometimes give me a bit of food and they would look up at the sky where there is a bigger green thing up in the sky and the beautiful birds that used be up there, i... |
1,221 | `` Wait a minute , '' he thought , `` these pants are n't even mine . ''
| “ Fashion police, stop! ”
Everything was nothing and everything. Everything fondled nothing with its long wiry fingers, and the blackness of nothing gave its greatest effort to stifle a reaction. Colors swirled and filled his mind. Nothing was all there was so nothing was everything.
“ Fashion police, stop! ” A... |
1,222 | "You did it! It works!" They cheered. Meanwhile, you're terrified, you fudged the numbers. It shouldn't have worked. | A bacteriophage is a virus that infects bacteria and bacteria only. They are killing nanobots created from organic material and have the potential to replicate indefinitely until no more of their hosts are available. But what makes these viruses truly fascinating is that they are not carpet bombers. They’re hunter-seek... |
1,223 | Write the tale of a person trapped in a realm of grotesque nightmare of gore and the eldritch , but only hint at what it is they truly fear .
| I wrap my cloak more tightly around me, a crimson stream weaving its way down my side from the throbbing wound, thick and sticky. In the hazy gloom, it glows a deep ruby red, reflecting the amber flames that flicker along the sides of the tunnels. My breathing comes out in heavy rasps, echoing eerily against the cold g... |
1,224 | Your subject is a 12 year old girl who needs to consume the blood of humans ( enough blood to kill the victim ) once every 24 hours to survive . Make my sympathize with her .
| “ It ’ s the first ever case of sanguisitis. ” The doctor was telling her parents. “ I have absolutely no explanation as to why she developed it this late in life, but there it is. If she does not consume approximately three liters of whole blood in a day. Her stomach lining will suffer irreparable damage and leak acid... |
1,225 | Write a story in 5 minutes immediately after you read the prompt in the text field of this post .
| I'd asked the landlord to seal up the grates under our porch for months. Cats had taken to eating their kills underneath it and the smell was sometimes unbearable.
Suddenly, the rustle I'd been hearing from below became too loud to be made by any domestic animal. The railing snapped as I tried to vault over it. As ... |
1,226 | Just another day at the soul recycling center ... until something goes wrong .
| Souls are nothing special. Everyone has one. The longer you have one, the more of “ you ” it picks up and holds on to. You ever experience that deja vu feeling? Or when you feel like you ’ ve been here before? I ’ ll get to that. Anywho, Recycling souls was fairly easy work. It paid pretty well, and as far as interdime... |
1,227 | Describe a break up between a man and a woman in which one speaks only in metaphors and the other speaks only in similes .
| `` You snake. You fucking reptile.''
`` It ’ s not like I ’ m a murderer or a rapist. No need to talk like you were raised on a farm.''
`` You slimy, cold-blooded toad. Pond scum.''
`` I had to pay them back. Don ’ t you watch TV? These guys are described like sharks for a reason. They ’ ll pick me—us—to th... |
1,228 | You have found a bottle of hand sanitizer that will never run out no matter what. | I can’t believe my luck! I thought something was strange about this bottle, and I’m pretty sure my husband is tired of hearing about it. But you aren’t, are you? You understand me!
Everything is clean now. Everything can be clean.
I can use it for the guests. We won’t have to worry about their germs going past the fr... |
1,229 | A totalitarian government I.D's and installs tracking chips in it's citizens to better control them. Your chip malfunctions, and you become somewhat of an urban legend in your efforts to bring them down undetected and untraceable. They call you citizen #404. | The chipping started when I was a very small child. At first it was advertised as a convenience: you never had to worry about losing your keys or your wallet, or worry about identity theft. You could open doors, travel without your passport, have revolving credit so that you didn’t even have to worry about bank account... |
1,230 | Describe the thoughts of a potato while it watches it 's fellow potatoes turn into French fries , knowing it will be the next .
| `` Why the hell are we all in this big bowl?''
I blinked my tiny eyes and looked around to see my friends and family all lying together in a metal container. Five minutes ago I was asleep in my sack, what the hell happened? I nudged my friend Tate and he awoke with a start.
`` Guhg-Whuzhapnin?''
`` Tate, wh... |
1,231 | With a heavy , broken heart you leave the city for a new start in a small fishing town in Rhode Island . The town , though quaint and beautiful houses a great evil that will alter human life as we know it .
| The first thing I noticed was the smiles. Everybody walked around smiling, but it was never sincere. Exaggerated, almost painfully so. I brushed this feeling off, though. They were all nice, good spirited folk who just wanted to greet their new neighbor after all. At first, coming from a tough breakup, I rather enjoyed... |
1,232 | You decide to boil an ostrich egg for dinner. Except that it wasn't an ostrich egg, it didn't boil, and now you're stuck with an infant dragon in your house. | Anna moves slowly as she sets the large blueish green egg into the pot of boiling water. Setting a timer for half an hour because of the eggs size, several smaller eggs are already boiled. Tuning her back to the boiling ostrich egg she de shells the smaller ones and cuts them in two. Scooping out the you to scrape into... |
1,233 | Someone is granted a wish to return to a simpler time , but discovers that `` simpler '' does not mean `` easier '' .
| The child was very quiet. Emily, shivering under her blanket, knew that she should probably check on her young daughter. But she dare not leave her bed. The fever still burned through her body, and a terrible hacking cough tore at her throat. If she tried to stand now, she would certainly fall over.
Why was James t... |
1,234 | Every year since they got together, on their anniversary day he would wake up at 3:00 to make her breakfast. Do you think a little medically induced coma Is gonna stop him? | Sheila's mother Roshni is deep asleep when she hears the sound of utensils and water running from the kitchen.
She wakes up in fright.
She wakes her husband up.
Shekhar wakes up with a big yawn.
SHEKHAR:
What happened?
ROSHNI:
I think someone's in the kitchen.
SHEKHAR:
Who?
ROSHNI:
How am I supposed to know?... |
1,235 | Write a story about your day but exaggerate everything .
| I awoke from my drugged slumber woozy, the pounding and clanking around me reverberating in my chest. As I carefully traversed down the side from my sleeping arrangements, I made sure to maneuver away from my hands anything that would maim or hinder me. As I landed on solid ground, I heard from outside my door the wail... |
1,236 | `` This is practice : they have to live '' - from /r/sketchdaily
| `` Mary?'' I cried out her name as I walked across the farm. She was supposed to be watching Sam, and I could n't find either of them. She was a quiet teenager, usually spending her time alone in the house reading a book or watching TV. It was n't like her to just take off.
I heard some noise coming from the barn a... |
1,237 | `` She said she loved him . '' Insert the word `` only '' anywhere in this sentence . It must be the final sentence of your story .
| Dr. Chan and his staff were really nice to her today, as well. She wondered why.
Visiting them has become a routine these days. She rather liked them more than the faceless crowd that she brushed shoulders against in her commute.
She stopped by a store to get a new kitchen knife, figuring that she ought to get ... |
1,238 | You wake up one Monday morning and you have 14 notifications in regards to global news. You go to the kitchen and turn on the TV and find out everyone’s kill count is now visible above their head. Your mom comes down asking what going on. You turn to her. She has a two floating above her... | I rubbed at my sleep-swollen eyes with my clumsy fingers, yawning away my dream from last night. My pounding headache only made getting up more difficult. I glanced at the clock. “Only 5:24? What woke me up?” As if in reply, my phone’s dark screen lit up and the loud ding of the notification confirmed my suspicion. Thr... |
1,239 | Write a first-person account of somebody turning into a zombie .
| I was an EMT once. I can remember because it says'EMT' in bright letters on my jacket- The few letters I can remember. I see shapes on signs as I walk amongst the others and the smell of smoke and carrion in the air, and the few moments I'm not going insane with hunger I get brief reprives to think about the little det... |
1,240 | you are the main character in a horror movie but you survive by just using common sense | Well, it’s peaceful. Less people, less government, but peaceful nonetheless. Great cabin honestly. Amazing overlook, cheap to rent, and it even comes with no WiFi, so I can 100% clear my head.
It’s nice. Just me, Mother Nature, the group of traumatized kids, and a dead guy.
Funny thing that, actually.
Late fifth nig... |
1,241 | To discourage murder , when you kill someone , you experience their life flashing before your eyes with them
| The pain begins.
The world is bright and colourful. The light burns my eyes. I know this is going to be long and painful, I just hope I can stay sane through it. The light dims and I can see a hospital room. It ’ s the first day of the next 20 years of my life.
Our life, not really my life. I am but a passenger... |
1,242 | As part of a tourist expedition , you go to a mental institute on an island . You discover family members you thought had passed away..
| ‘ My family was always pretty crazy. I know that ’ s not the politically correct term, but it ’ s true none the less. Most everyone in my family was certified and held in a mental institute for at least part of their life. Needless to say, Christmas and Thanksgiving were always a little awkward.
I was the lucky one... |
1,243 | ( WP ) You light a haunted mansion on fire . What happens next
| I only had one matchstick and a few scraps of paper for kindling. No, that ’ s not entirely true -- I had a mission. There was a fire inside me already, my friends; all I had to do was let it out.
The estate was a sprawling, creeping thing with dozens of doors that never went where you wanted. I had been there for ... |
1,244 | You must try this new game! Just put on the headset and scan your brain, it will bring your literal self into the game and you can see how long he lasts in the game scenarios. | The Game Within
I’d scoffed at the idea at first. A game that could replicate your consciousness? Ridiculous. But the persistent chatter from my tech-obsessed friends had worn me down. "It's the future, man!" they’d insist. "You have to try it."
So, here I was, strapped into a sleek, futuristic headset. The room arou... |
1,245 | You accidently discharge your firearm into the television . Much to your surprise , instead of shattering the glass , it passes right through and hits one of the characters on screen .
| I raised the stolen.44 Magnum to the unsuspecting man on the couch. His hairy legs were propped up on the mess of a coffee table, a similarly hirsute hand carelessly shoved cheese balls into his mouth. The Price is Right boomed from the television set. It was time for this abusive son-of-a-bitch to die.
My scrawny ... |
1,246 | "I'll have to call in sick today boss, I'm not feeling myself... " you said over the phone as you examine your reptilian features. "No can do, we need to finish this project asap. Besides, you're not the only one facing this problem," your boss replied. | "I'll have to call in sick today boss, I'm not feeling myself... " I said over the phone as I examined my reptilian features.
"No can do, we’re slammed, we need you here asap. Besides, you're not the only one facing this problem," my boss replied.
That caused me to pause “what do you mean?” I asked. Looking at myself... |
1,247 | You have 200 words to describe a terrible crime , then 200 words to completely justify it
| The deep and vivid red on the bathroom floor caught James ’ attention as he made his way through the hallway. He did find it strange that the door to the kitchen was wide open – his wife was always obsessive about keeping that shut – and as he surveyed the hideous spilled blood steeping into the cotton toilet pedestal,... |
1,248 | You come home to find your bed covered in blood. | When I walk through the door, everything seems normal. The kitchen is messy – but no more than usual. The living room is covered in cheap throw pillows and dog hair. April's bedroom door is ajar; I peek through and see my roommate passed out on top of her unmade bed, snoring. I roll my eyes and open the door to my own ... |
1,249 | We all have demons - see, there’s mine now. We all have them except Shane, and no one knows what he did to scare his away. | We all had demons - see, there’s mine now. Ivaldi was my demon. If I wasn't such a big headed teen, I wouldn't brag about how I am pretty sure Ivaldi is one of the rarest and worst demons, but I am big headed so those are the facts.
Lucy, my friend, was hosted by one called Violae.
Harry had to deal with Galahad.
Am... |
1,250 | You 've been working as a housekeeper for many years . Finding a little bit of blood on the sheets is not unusual , but one day , one of the beds are soaked in blood . You suddenly hear an unrecognizable noise from the bathroom and that 's when you notice the bloody footprints on the floor ...
| `` S..s..s.sir? Orr... mam..?'' The housekeeper asked cautiously as she stepped near the bathroom door. She could see the bloody footprints leading into the bathroom but the prints were almost unrecognizable. They were too big to be a woman's but she had never seen a footprint like these before so she could n't be sure... |
1,251 | You 're in a perpetual dream state . A coma . You suddenly realize this , and that the only way to your freedom is unlocking a mystery that lies deep within your consciousness . [ WP ]
| Great posts everyone!! Here was my weird take on it. For those of you who've seen Twin Peaks, I tried to imagine a dream like state where anything and everything could just happen. Where the visions are fragmented, and no immediately apparent reason exists until definitive clues begin to emerge.
I awoke in on the s... |
1,252 | `` Let madness fill you , and hear the voices from the other world . ''
| Many people, experts or not, have said that humans are capable of seeing things when they are close to their
arrival to or departure from this plane of existence. It is not uncommon for kids to be heard talking about imaginary friends
or about previous lives. My mother once told me that I spoke of Venezia when I wa... |
1,253 | Write a seemingly normal story , except for the last sentence , which makes the entire story creepy
| I was an avid dog lover. Jesse was my loyal dog and the cutest husky around the block. My girlfriend loved her also, so when I proposed to her, whether having the dog in the house or outside was n't even a question. 1 year goes by and my wife has beared me a healthy young girl, Monica. After we left the hospital and we... |
1,254 | You voluntarily become the first human to successfully undergo criogenic sleep. You wake up thousands of years into the future, after the fall of civilization, to discover a tribe has kept your cryopod and rever you as a dormant deity. | Whoooooaaaa what the fuck is this? Where the fuck am I? What the fuck am I? The last thing I remember is being.... well shit, I can’t come up with anything.
Looking around, I take stock of my surroundings. Browned grasslands as far as the eye can see. I’m in a device I recognize but can’t place the word. I and my devi... |
1,255 | You have developed and ability to see how people will die when you look at them . Your entire life you avoided pictures of yourself , but today you forgot , and , brushing your teeth in the morning , looked in the mirror ...
| I'm not like you, I see differently. When I look at someone, I see into their future but I only get to see the worst part. Particularly their deaths, I see them in gruesome detail. I've seen car crashes, murders, stabbings and once, I even saw someone who would later die in a plane crash.
I was n't always cursed th... |
1,256 | In the present life , you are what you eat . But when you die , it turns out you have to battle what you 've eaten throughout your life to gain access to the afterlife . You remember , with a sinking feeling , that adventurous trip you took in Australia .
| Fuck. Why ’ d I have to be so stupid?
Well, it was too late now. Death was staring me in the face and there was nothing I could do about it. Seriously, he ’ s like one of those British guards, you know, with those woolly hats? My buddies bet me I couldn ’ t make one of ‘ em laugh this one time and I totally lost. G... |
1,257 | when you were a kid, you had an imaginary friend, Lewis; That was 20 or so years ago. Yesterday your child came into your room in the middle of the night, and said "Lewis wants to know why you don't play with him anymore" | I was cooking dinner while my son, Toby was playing in the open dining room with his new train set. As dinner was almost ready, I walk towards the dining table to move his toys and set the table. I noticed Toby was staring at me, giving me that look children give when they want to ask a question but are scared of our r... |
1,258 | It is literally always right behind you , but sometimes , if you turn your head really fast , you think you get a glimpse of it in the corner of your eye .
| I feel it behind me. It ’ s like an odd little weight that never seems to go away - a constant sensation on the back of my neck that I just ca n't rid myself of. Even now, in the bright light of a summer morning, it's lurking back there. Following me. Watching me. Silent.
A woman and her daughter approach, coming f... |
1,259 | "No, no. Trust me; it works. Humans love to take care of pregnant and baby things. I've even seen them adopt things they eat!" "What about things that eat them?" "Oh, humans like those best of all! So just go up and act weak, they'll take care of the rest." | "I still don't get it," Krixis muttered, her tentacles curling nervously. "Why would they help us? They’re the apex predators of this planet!"
Vorith clicked his mandibles together in what passed for amusement among their species. "You'd think that, wouldn’t you? But humans are different. They have a bizarre urge to p... |
1,260 | You are a kid 's imaginary friend . They 're growing up . You 're fading away .
| First attempt at something like this:
Hey, do you remember the trees at the end of the field? We used to play a game there. I do n't remember them so well anymore, but I remember the big old chestnut tree with the giant roots. You used to hide from me there, breathing shallow, hoping I couldn ’ t find you. You alwa... |
1,261 | Take something that seems innocent or harmless , and make it scary .
| Blood gaped the walls and ceiling. On the ground laid the disembowled bodies of 3 children who gasped their last breath with tears in their eyes. When the police came to the scene they were forced to hold back their impulse to vomit as they gazed upon the random entrails scatter along the floor. They notice that a trai... |
1,262 | The aliens have arrived however they are not here for war. Instead after reading our broadcast of the United States Constitution they want to join as the 51 state and have brought a small planetoid into orbit to serve as the 51 state. | Your mute roommate with sensitive ears who wrote they were leaving to surprise visit parents for a week for Christmas falls and breaks their spine in their room. You turn down the heat to 45 degrees F (7 C) to save on heating and leave the house, forgetting to turn off your alarm clock that doesn't turn off until you t... |
1,263 | 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 .
| We lived side by side spending our days joined at the hips so much so people thought we were brothers. My skin was covered in them by the time I was 12 while he hadn ’ t got a single mark yet, I was slightly envious of his clear skin that impressed people for a boy his age. When I asked him how he did it, he simply shr... |
1,264 | Monsters exist . They did n't used to , but now they do . Under the bed , in the closet , in the woods , and places you 'd least expect .
| As I put my squid-looking son to sleep, he looks at me with his 3 eyes.
`` Daddy, can you check under the bed to see if there's any humans''
`` Okay son...'' I say with a warm smile.
I drop down to my stomach and place my head under his bed.
`` No humans here, son''
`` Check the closet'' my son says... |
1,265 | You 're practicing CPR on a fake dummy and you do a bit too well . The dummy starts gasping for air .
| I lie motionless, unable to see, unable to breath. I feel my mouth open, but my chest is still. Blank blackness fills the corners of my... of my... of my focus... of my thoughts. I can not move. I know that I can not move, therefore I ’ ve moved before. Where would I go? Where have I gone?
I ’ m making pictures in ... |
1,266 | A mother knows her child is evil , but no one believes her
| Ana knows. She knows that her child is not heaven sent, at all. Carrying him for 9 months, she knew that she was n't bearing a sweet bundle of joy. She tried getting rid of it. People thought she was losing it. Whatever she tries, it just would n't die. The will to live is too strong for this little one. She knows this... |
1,267 | The year is 2034 , and having a robot around the house for chores is now commonplace . You 've recently moved into an apartment , and somebody left their robot their . But something is off about it ...
| Max and Megan notice the cleaning bot standing in the corner as they move the first boxes into their new, one-bedroom New York apartment. It ’ s an older model, an off-white, roughly humanoid device labeled CleanBot 5.0. As the couple moves in the last of their boxes, Max approaches the bot.
“ We should ’ ve had hi... |
1,268 | You've been using your new Self-Driving car for several years now without an issue. This morning, however, it refused to move, displaying the error message, "You may not fast travel when enemies are nearby." | I said my goodbyes to my sister in a hurry and went outside. She yelled after me, I didn’t quite hear what she said. It didn’t matter, anyway, that annoying bastard. Even if my mood is completely squandered, there’s always something waiting for me. Yes, yes, yes! It’s my phenomenal, super-awesome self-driving car!
I g... |
1,269 | Those that are sent to Hell are given the opportunity to attempt `` hopping the fence '' into Heaven . Write a day in the life of an officer of Heaven 's Border Patrol .
| Border Patrol: this was easily the worst part of the job; granted, being an angel did n't have a lot of downsides. Many angels had claimed to have seen murderers, rapists, and other human scum come to the border, and they bragged about how they made them return. I'd personally never seen anyone from hell, but I've been... |
1,270 | Nine out of ten life rafts were rescued within the first 24 hours. | The newscaster sounded so optimistic.
”Nine out of ten life rafts were rescued within the first 24 hours“.
On paper, I suppose that did make it a successful rescue mission. I was honestly surprised that we even managed to get out the ten life rafts; the storm-churned sea was not a very willing host, and nine out of t... |
1,271 | You wake up early to a TV signal stating `` Do not go outside , do not look out of the windows , and lock all of you doors . Thank you for your cooperation . ''
| I thought I was going crazy when the sky immediately went dark, along with a single warning statement came on the television, before the electricity to my apartment went out. That single warning sent chills down my spine, one that was meant to protect, but instead produced a wave of panic over me. I immediately got to ... |
1,272 | 20 years ago , a mysterious illness caused everyone to go deaf , and life has been altered to accommodate it since . You just found the cure , and decide to use it on yourself . As your hearing returns , you instantly regret making that decision .
| I can ’ t explain the difference. So much more information to process, so shattered a focus. My attention diverts from place to place and it puts a strain on me mentally. The day brings migraines and sweat and pressure everywhere on my body, the heat feels twice as hot on my skin.
But the night.
The night bring... |
1,273 | The point of view of a character transitioning from reality to a dream ( falling asleep )
| Kelly ’ s bindings cut into her skin as she wriggled her arms attempting to loosen them even slightly. Her head throbbed where Robert had knocked her out the night before. I guess what they say is true, the quiet and shy ones are the ones you have to look out for. The bastard knew how to tie a knot too.
“ Dammit Ke... |
1,274 | The death penalty for murder no longer exists , instead technology has been developed that overwrites the mind of the killer with that of their victim .
| ” Mr. Larsen? Can you hear me? Mr. Larsen? ” The voice sounded and distant.
His eyelids felt heavy and when he finally managed to open his eyes everything was blurry. A shape was moving in front of him but he couldn ’ t make out what it was. Gradually the fog wrapped around his world was lifted but he still couldn ... |
1,275 | You 're a monster hiding under the bed . You 're just about to burst out and frighten your victim when the father bursts into the room and starts mercilessly beating his own child .
| I crept under the bed carefully, so as to not disturb my victim lying peacefully above. My claws scratched indentations into the wooden floor, but still moved quietly enough not to wake the child. All of a sudden the snoring was interrupted by the slamming of a door as the father came into the room. I heard a clamor an... |
1,276 | A sociopath and an AI are sitting in a room. For being two individuals incapable of feeling human emotion or sentiment, they seem to be hitting it off rather well. | “It’s only logical”
Both paused at the conclusion. The sociopath have always been able to predict the inner workings of another, at least when given enough time to spectate their patterns of behavior from interacting with their loved ones to their environment. Yet, the sociopath never could understand why individuals ... |
1,277 | Long ago , someone wished that all dragons would become housecats . Now , the magic of the wish is weakening and they are slowly starting to turn back .
| I always thought my cat was just a normal animal. Just a house pet, nothing special about her. Then, one day, she froze my dog to death. I was shocked, but assumed I was seeing things and went back to bed. Wen I woke, I was astonished to see a serpent glaring back at me where my cat usually slept. Where my dog usually ... |
1,278 | You are sent by the Galactic Cooperative to make contact with a newly discovered species called `` humans '' . Nobody prepared you for how cute and adorable they are .
| I was told they were horrific. Constantly at war with each other, masters at destroying their planet, while still stupid enough to be confined by the speed of light. Our scientists assured me that all the rumors were true. If these “ humans ” were left alive, they would keep breeding and keep finding ways to kill until... |
1,279 | You have inherited your grandmother's home after she has passed away. You move in only to discover that her spirit is still there, and seemingly unaware she has died! She is delighted you have come to visit, and even more delighted you are going to be staying for a while. | My mind felt fuzzy as I got out of my car to my grandma’s house. I wish I had a chance to say goodbye. I didn’t realize when I had gone to class that morning that it would be the last time I spoke to her. I had been living with her this past year, as she lived close to my campus. It had been the best year of my life.
T... |
1,280 | For the first time in many decades, you've forgotten your daily apple. In the distance you can hear them. The doctors are coming for you. | I wake up this morning with a slight tingle of cough, a coarse rough in the back of my throat. The edge of my bedsheet waves lazily in the draft; I must have left the window open all night. No matter, I think to myself, as I throw my leg over the edge of the bed, but startle and groan to the sound of a joint jostling a... |
1,281 | You stand at the edge of the roof , the streets twenty stories below your feet . You do n't jump . Why ?
| You wake up every morning feeling empty. All you want to do is sleep. Your food has no flavor, your favorite movies bring you no joy, your favorite songs bring you to tears. You do n't necessarily want to live or die, just cease existing. How great it would feel to fall asleep tonight and not wake up. That way you won ... |
1,282 | Mankind explored the galaxy. Nothing. Only us. Disheartened, we colonized and thrived. One day, an experiment exposed the truth: our reality is a second out out of phase with the rest of existence, which is populated by aliens. The brief glimpses seen of us? We are their Eldritch Terrors. | Mythical creatures are not real. That is what the Corciphyange tells us when people dare speak of them. Today, I saw the bright white eyes staring back, embroidered with circular patterns of green and black in the center. It stood not on nine limbs but rather two, and had other limb-like appendages jutting from each si... |
1,283 | It is a proven fact that your soulmate cannot harm you in any way shape or form, either by action or inaction. So when an Eldricth spirit invades Earth to feast on humanity's sanity, you find that you are the only one that is immune to her abilities. | No. No. No. No. You swipe the images left. None of the pictures seem to interest you. You’re getting tired of this. You’ve been scrolling for an hour, and none of the many beautiful people you see are your soulmate.
It’s well-known that your soulmate will always end up being someone who you eventually meet up with at ... |
1,284 | You wake up in the middle of the night and step into the hall. Horror music starts playing. You step into your bedroom, it stops. You try again, same thing happens. You debate staying in your room, but you really need to go the bathroom. | I stepped into the hall, suspenseful music blasted my eardrums. I put one foot back into my room. The music stopped. I drew my foot back into the hall. The music resumed. I jumped back into my bedroom and closed the door sighing. Was it really worth it? Did I really need to go the bathroom that badly?
My bladder said ... |
1,285 | `` Mommy ? '' A cry wakes you in the middle of the night . `` Its still here . ''
| “ Mommy? ”
I bolt upright in my bed, sweat soaking my nightgown as I try to catch my breath. I glance over at the clock: 3:15am.
“ It ’ s still here... ”
I wipe some of the wetness off my forehead with my hand as I throw the covers off of me. This nightly routine is so tiring. All I want to do is get a good... |
1,286 | It is the Medieval Age . You are a very faithful wife to your Crusading husband You 're so faithful that you wear a locked chastity belt and you husband has the key . However , one day you receive news that he is slain during the Crusades.But his death is n't the only thing you 're worried about ...
| ‘ It ’ s ok, It ’ s ok ’ I tell myself as I pace back and forth in my bedchamber. From the door to the wall to the door to the wall.
I breathe in deeply.
The cold cuts through me viciously as my lady-in-waiting places her ice cold hand on my shoulder. I spin around angrily.
‘ Could you not have warmed up your fre... |
1,287 | Two minutes ago, every individual worldwide swapped bodies with another random person. You are now standing in a foreign city, in the midst of a confused and frightful crowd. | They really weren't kidding when they said New York was a large city. I've always wanted to visit the big apple—but not today, not like this. Just two minutes ago I was on highway 101 driving home from work; A blink later, well, I found myself like this, right here.
The first thing I noticed was my new height. Though ... |
1,288 | Your dog recently gave birth to a puppy with three heads. The vet says it was triplets that went wrong, but after a few months, you believe that the puppy is actually Cerberus | I’m sitting on my couch, still staring at this monstrosity of a puppy from across the room. I keep thinking that I can, in fact, find it to be cute, until it turns one of its 3 heads my way and lets out a threatening snarl.
For only being a few months old, the thing sure is menacing. I’ve never had a pet that scared m... |
1,289 | [ CONTEST ! ] Flash Prompt tonight in the chat room !
| Sometimes introducing a light only emphasises the shadows. This simple fact turned my nights into nightmares when I was six years old. Before I would have the occasional bad dream; usually I was lost in the supermarket. But one day I had an especially scary dream, so I had to sleep in my parents' room for the next thre... |
1,290 | The monkeys continue smashing away at their typewriters. One appears to type a letter begging for freedom, but you know it's just random chance. The experiment must continue. | As Dr. Smith walked into the office he smiled as he greeted coworkers and caught up on reports all the while hearing the now familiar tapping of key clicks. Mentally reviewing his checklist he listened for any red flags from overnight shift.
“We had a slight issue with section 3. Two of the primates started to bang th... |
1,291 | "The City is an evil force. The strong come here and become feeble... and now you, too, have fallen." | Bonifant Street
I always hated walking to work, but I had to today. My bus never showed, so walking was the only option. I wouldn't take the subway. The subways worked even less regularly than the busses, their old machinery prone to breakdown. And gangs often waited just before the turnstiles to extract their turf fe... |
1,292 | An assault on a successful musician leaves him hospitalised . He awakes to find that as a result of the attack , he 's now deaf .
| I still remember the sudden light, the sudden shockwave that sent me flying backwards into the drums behind me. I still remember so clearly the ringing in my ears that came afterwards, the head-splitting sound not unlike the horrid screeching of a violin being massacred that had me wishing I was rather dead. I remember... |
1,293 | A terrorist slowly converts a captured reporter by explaining the philosophy of morality to him
| I ’ ve been reporting on the crisis here since it began, but I ’ ve never been immersed like this. We try to understand the complexities of the situation, each side of the story. I mean, fair and balanced reporting, right? Each man, women, and child has an opinion, especially the civilians caught in the cross hairs. Th... |
1,294 | Write the first and last paragraph of a story and make me want to know what happened in between .
| I could vaguely hear voices on the other side of the rocks. Everything was still blurry, but I knew what happened. They didn ’ t move with caution throughout the cave. They drug us around like ragdolls, my feet and shins smacking every rock that protruded from the cave floor. I remembered my family, where were they? I ... |
1,295 | Your little daughter have imaginary friends. One day, she asked if her friends can sleep in her room. You jokingly told her that they can stay as long as they want, as long as they help with the rent. The next morning, you found a hand wearing a Rolex and a roll of cash by the sink. | A hand. Really? They couldn’t have at least left it in a zip lock bag or rolled up in a handkerchief? Well, beggars and all. At least it wasn’t dirty. Rather clean actually. And was it…cauterized? Whoever did it, did a good job. No blood stains, thank goodness. Those would have taken some serious effort to get out of t... |
1,296 | You find a pile of dead bodies that look like you all wearing the same outfit you are wearing today .
| “ Well ain ’ t that some ‘ Jeepers Creepers ’ shit, ” I said. My voice echoed inside the narrowly illuminated furnace I was looking into. The open door let in a beam of the overcast sky to lightly touch the edges of the void inside it.
Luckily for me, I was wearing yellow. Because that ’ s what all the bodies were ... |
1,297 | Write a scary story , where the narrator is constantly making jokes .
| It was a dark and stormy night.
Too cliche, how about:
It was a bright sunny afternoon.
That makes no sense at all. Bugger it, lets just go straight to the gory bits.
He raised the knife above his victim, the light gleaming off the wickedly sharp blade like one of those overdone fake flare effects in a ... |
1,298 | Before every major disaster in recent history , natural or human-caused , mentally ill patients have claimed to see large , winged creatures in the area . Today you wake up and go outside , and see something with gigantic black wings , circling above your house like a vulture .
| It was a normal chilly, spring morning. A thin layer of frost coated the grass outside- no worries, it would warm up in an hour or so. I step outside, still wearing slippers. I know, I know, it ’ s ridiculous. Who still gets paper delivered to them? Well, me. I ’ ve always been a bit weird. Never thought there was anyt... |
1,299 | Write a character who is neither evil nor dangerous , but still terrifying .
| It has been happening more and more recently. Out of the corner of your eye you see something move. You feel chills down your spine, the hair on the back of your neck rises. Every time you are alone it happens. Brushing your teeth you get a sinking feeling. Washing dishes you feel compelled to turn on your TV for compa... |
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