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1,300 | Everyone knows children are scared of the dark . But what they do n't know is that 's because children can see demons until the age of 13 .
| They say hearing is the last sense to leave you when as you fall asleep. The random sounds you hear as you drift off into unconsciousness, the creaking of pipes, the rustling of wall paper and other sounds blamed on the house settling are considered a normal part of life. However it seems like the house settling and ot... |
1,301 | Sometimes , the best option is to do nothing .
| I stood at the controls, frozen. The radio crackled again. Frantic voices came from the other end. What was said was important, I knew this, though I could n't find the will to listen. Time should slow down in moments like this. It does in movies, and everyone says it happens. There is n't enough time.
“ You're run... |
1,302 | You occasionally like to pass the time in school by drumming/tapping on your desk . This time , however , the desk clicks open after you tap off a rhythm .
| Rip-tap-tap…rip-taptap.
Juan ’ s pencil met the desk with tiny metallic clicks, as his eraser had long been chewed away.
Rip-tap-tap…-tap-tap.
They rhythm changed slightly. Somewhere, a wheezy voice was explaining something about foil. Juan wasn ’ t sure what foil had to do with math. Ahead of him, blonde h... |
1,303 | You have a collection of garden gnomes that you constantly find broken . Why does this happen ?
| Arthur woke with a start; he sat there, motionless on his bed, staring at the flat white walls he had painted the day before; Arthur was always painting walls, moving furniture, arranging his home to best suit himself, the trouble with this was that Arthur never seemed to be happy with his work. One problem that had be... |
1,304 | Heaven has fallen, Hell is empty, and crimson is dripping from the skies. You're one of the few who survived. | Every day I wake up in the sewers of my town surrounded by neighbors, friends and loved ones. I take a deep breath and smell hundreds of years of built up sewer sludge. The sounds of war and death penetrate the manhole cover, topped with a heavy smell of scarlet iron dripping through the gaps. Every time I close my eye... |
1,305 | Write an action-packed thriller , but write it so that the reader sees it through the perspective of an animal ( of your choice ) who just happens to be watching the event unfold .
| I loved our new house. Sandra and I moved here last weekend and I loved it straight away. I was pretty chilled, a couple of the guys back in our old neighbourhood said that it was going to be stressful and I wouldn ’ t want to speak to Sandra for weeks… but I settled in right away. Something was off with Sandra however... |
1,306 | [ ff ] short horror story inspired by your most recent nightmare .
| Standing on the bridge I take a deep breath. How did it come to this? What did I do wrong to bring us to this stage? I struggle with the thoughts that have been dragging me down for weeks now. Staring into the cold icy water below I feel as though my body disappears, I drift so far into my mind I almost forget where I ... |
1,307 | If you are reading this, you've been in a coma for 20 years. We are trying a new technique. We don't know where this message will end up in your dream, but we hope we are getting through. Please wake up. | There is no way for me to know if this is true or not. I hope it isn’t, because the life I’ve made for myself over the last twenty years is pretty nice. I’ve got a wife, a house, and a decent job. I even have two cats that are only jerks part of the time.
I suppose there is some good news. I’m still here, or possibly ... |
1,308 | Nearly every face registered on our Missing Persons list in the last decade have been reported found ; in the last 24 hours .
| It's been three years since my sister went missing. Today we got a call that we might have a body to identify, we headed into the police station and they told us something that we are n't allowed to tell anyone.
A little while ago there was news about a giant trash clump in the ocean that was so large it was the si... |
1,309 | Witches and Warlocks alike have told tales of the strange man in the woods. He’s rumoured to wield a great power, and yet seemingly use no magic at all, instead creating mysterious devices and potions through his own mysterious means. They call him the human, and right now he’s your only hope. | Everyone was gathering around the table, which had been decorated with the accoutrements of a dinner party. It had been a long time since anyone had feasted like this in the forest. The table was dressed with white cloth and silverware, and there were candles embedded in each place setting.
"Where’d you get these?" I ... |
1,310 | After centuries of searching - Humanity has finally found other intelligent life. Its not only friendly, but scientifically advanced, and eager to share both technology and culture. There's just one problem - the species consists of giant, 500 pound arachnids. | T’t’x looked lovingly at her sister, Kj’t. Although they were both old, age had been kinder to T’t’x. Her carapace still shined in the late afternoon light. Her sister, on the other hand, had started to go matte and of her eyes, only 3 worked half well. Of course, this was to be expected. T't's had led a life full of a... |
1,311 | "Baby, I know you're scared, but just remember. No matter what stories your older brother tells you about what's under your bed, there's no such thing as Humans" | “There are! He said he and his friends have seen them!” she said with conviction in her voice.
“Really? And where did he say he saw them?”
I thought I would humor her for a bit, and maybe she would come to the realization of what her brother told her is nonsense. I would have to talk to him too. He shouldn't scare he... |
1,312 | A man was a pencil in his past life , and every night he 's had dreams ( and nightmares ) about it .
| The dreams started when I was 13. The first time, I just laughed it off, told all my friends about this weird dream I had where I was a freaking pencil, just another strange dream right? Well, unfortunately for me, it wasn ’ t. Now, at age 23, all of my dreams, every night, just consist of me as a “ Happy Birthday! ” p... |
1,313 | It's not that humans are ignorant about all the supernatural goings-on, it's just that they're supposed to keep up the pretense they don't notice. But now it's impossible to ignore what's happening to you. | I never understood why my mother didn’t see them. Standing in the kitchen as she washed dishes, telling my dad about her day. She’d describe prices at the supermarket, phone calls with her sister, funny stories about my baby sister. Dad would sit at the table, eating the plate that she had so lovingly kept warm for him... |
1,314 | You finally give in to your urges and become a serial killer , but it turns out your first victim has been cursed with immortality .
| - Ok, we need do do something about this here… it took me quite some time to come to this point, after years of suffering and name-calling..im not letting it go. So..die! ( stabs him one more time. )
- Well what am I supposed to do? Not my fault, really… I was born like this. Some 1569 years ago. I still remember t... |
1,315 | 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. | Looking back, it always seemed to me that people asked the wrong questions. The lawyers, the scientists, the police, the media, and the cable company always wanted to know how I shot someone through a television. When they should have been asking: why did I have a shotgun on my lap one Tuesday afternoon?
I do not know... |
1,316 | Describe the final moments of enemies in a typical `` dungeon '' in a video game before the adventurer's/s ' arrival
| On a day like no other day, a Monday, in fact. Blurp, a gold-colored giant slime, slides throughout JollyHollow cavern.
`` Hey, Bleu!'' Blurp enthusiastically yells to the blue-colored slime sunbathing at the end of the cavern.
`` Oh hey, Blurp! How's the wife?''''
`` Boba ’ s great, man! We welcomed a news... |
1,317 | Can you write a story that chills me to the bone in less than 150 words ?
| The landlord arrived at 6pm. “ Show me where you ’ ve been hearing those pesky critters. ” Lisa took him down into the basement and pointed to the wall behind the washing machine. Before she had a chance to say anything, everything turned black.
When Lisa awoke, she was in her living room. She reached up to touch h... |
1,318 | Write a paragraph of a choose your own adventure story , ending with a choice . The next commenter will decide which plot to follow , and continue the story .
| Bobo the clown was found dead. His mangled body was still clothed in the colorful fabrics from our performance the night before. Carla was the one who found him, stuffed haphazardly behind some hay bales near the camel paddock. The poor girl didn ’ t know what to do and ran straight to me. I was the ringleader in more ... |
1,319 | Yes , your cat IS trying to kill you .
| I awake with a cat on my face. My cat, Greg. He clings tightly, wrapping his unnaturally long and rapidly lengthening tail around my neck with incredicle strength. I ca n't pry him off. He strangles me until I pass out.
When I come to, Greg is lying next to me, dead.
I go into the bathroom. I have a furry littl... |
1,320 | You are a criminal who has performed a horrible crime. You were put to death by lethal injection. Turns out this injection simply knocked you out so you could be taken to a gov't agency where death row criminals carry out dangerous tasks in exchange for being spared. | I remember the day I killed my wife. I had caught her cheating countless times, and that day I walked in on her and my brother going at it in our bedroom. I killed them both in a fit of rage with the shotgun I kept in my wife and I’s bedroom for protection from intruders.
When I finally stopped shooting and came to my... |
1,321 | as an amputee you experience phantom arm syndrome. Then one day you realize you can use it to punch ghosts. | Ow! Don’t hit me! an echoey voice of a woman said.
What made that sound? I looked around in my bedroom and saw nothing. The only source of light was my electronic alarm clock at the side of my bed. There was a flash of lightning. I could see a silhouette of a woman leaning over my bed. Was it my paranoia? Or was it re... |
1,322 | Oxygen has become very low. | I was walking down a path in a forest where no sunlight could reach the ground out of gigantic trees. A voice was calling out my name. Dave! Dave! Right here!
The fear grew stronger and my hearth beating faster.
Dave! Dave! Come on!
It was some sort of voice I’ve never heard before. Soft and pure. Though my hearth f... |
1,323 | You and your partner have burglarized many homes without being caught . On another seemingly routine burglary , you find a young child who has been obviously neglected , locked in a room .
| 20 minutes into the job on an unseasonably warm late October night, I found myself in front of the last unopened door in the house. My partner was making one of the last runs back to the van with our version of Halloween treats. I'm not sure why we working so efficiently since I had n't seen any activity in the house a... |
1,324 | Sunday Free Write : Sunday Squee Write Edition
| This is the beginning of a short piece I've been working on and I'd love any feedback.
*****
The alligator began to move, sliding easily in the water. My stomach clenched and the bitter taste of fear sat on my tongue. I started to call out but my voice caught. The cicadas screamed relentlessly.
`` C- Courtn... |
1,325 | Steve just came home from work only to discover that there is currently a thief in his house . He hears noises coming from the bathroom . He slowly sneaks to the door , opens it and sees the thief ... well , taking a dump . Make it funny .
| Steve pushed open the broken door. It swung ajar with a long creak. He cringed because he was trying to be as quiet as possible. He crept into the house, sure to avoid all of the creaky floor boards because he wanted to catch the person that had broken in. As he began to walk towards the kitchen Steve heard a low groan... |
1,326 | A spell is invented that lets you swap physical characteristics with anyone willing to trade. Want a bigger nose? Find someone who wants a smaller one. Want to be taller? Talk to someone who wants to be shorter. Hair length, eye shape, skin tone, size, figure--everything's for the trading. | All I wanted was her breasts.
Hailey Everett was beautiful in her photos, and I erupted with jealousy every time I saw her. She had never traded any parts, and being an untraded beauty was coveted by everyone. Even though I was content with my body post-trade, I wished that I could have achieved her beauty without tra... |
1,327 | Theme Thursday - Ravenous | When I lift my hand, I see right through it:
peeling paint on the bedroom wall,
gray clouds outside the window.
My consciousness
has been whittled to a thin edge,
my memories turned stale.
Was I ever actually alive?
The whine of the door downstairs
and your voice in the foyer
brush the lining in my belly.
... |
1,328 | Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words , 2nd sentence has 19 , 3rd has 18 etc . Story ends with a single word .
| The little girl curled up in bed, shaking, her plush pink duvet pulled up so only her eyes peeked over. She had seen a movement over by the closet, where she ’ d seen the scary crocodile a few hours before. Just imagining the sticky noises he had made when he ’ d crawled up to the ceiling made her whimper. He had hung ... |
1,329 | True Love is finding that person who is singing a song that no one else can hear . Everyone hears it when their love sings in their head , and the closer you are , the louder it gets . Except your True Love ca n't sing . So you just hear them randomly screeching .
| I first heard the wailing about a month after my thirteenth birthday. At first, I was sure I was hallucinating, or suffering from sleep paralysis. I only heard it at night, faintly, like a tug at my consciousness. But then in the locker room, a bunch of the guys started talking about the mental singing, and I knew that... |
1,330 | Image of the apartment door next to my friend 's place .
| They think that this place is cursed, that you're just gon na suffer the same fait everyone else who lived here did.
They're not completely wrong.
My name is Abigail, but they call me Abi. Well, used to, before all of this crazy shit happened.
I'm still a bit sad about what happened, but I know one day I'm ... |
1,331 | Murder is legal as long as the murder weapon is a pineapple
| The body was a bloody mess, reeking of pineapple and death, but the coroner put on a light mask and performed his job professionally. The three cops who arrived at the scene and called it in said something about this murder didn ’ t seem right, including the 23 pineapples found on scene. As the coroner searched the bod... |
1,332 | Write a story ( any genre ) that begins with `` The end ... '' and ends with `` ... the beginning . ''
| The end had come, of this I was certain. My stomach felt like it was being ripped in two, torn to piece by this alien force. The parasite burned fire on its way through my body. I screamed again as another wave of agony overcame every nerve, every fiber of myself.
My fingers dug into the sides of the hospital bed t... |
1,333 | You've bought wine and flowers, purchased a cake, and ordered lots of food. Everybody wants to know the occasion, but you won't tell them your insect girlfriend cocooned six months ago and will emerge some time today. | Deliveryman: I have an order for Harold.
Receptionist: Oh Harold, the flowers are here too.
Harold: Ah thanks. What do I owe you?
They conduct business and the receptionist looks at Harold’s desk. A fluffy red velvet cake is sitting towards to side of his desk. The receptionist’s stomach begins to purr as the delive... |
1,334 | You are a leader of a human colony that long lost contact with Earth, when at one day they show up and greet you as the first Alien race they met. You realize that years of genetic alterations and environmental effects made your people quite different from "standard" humans... | It’s unknown exactly how the ancestors got here and how long our society has lived on the new planet, but we are eternally grateful to them. Earth, so the storytellers say, was a place of large and terrible things that could kill us. Here, nothing can harm us. On Earth we would die young, but here we live long and happ... |
1,335 | Today , you went into the room your parents told you to never go in .
| There was no lock on the door. It was the same as every other door in the house, wood painted white, round brass handle. The only thing that kept Alice out was the message, repeated so often it had eroded its shape onto her brain, “ Never go in that room. ” There was no reason given, no threat made, just that simple in... |
1,336 | Down on your luck , a family member offers you a job . You soon discover the work is less innocent than you had imagined .
| I originally posted this on fictionpad in answer to a picture prompt, but figured it would fit in here too. I tweaked it a little to fit better
A walk in the woods helps me relax and release tension. The fact that I'm dragging a Body behind me should be irrelevant.
Perhaps I should clarify, I am not dragging th... |
1,337 | Tell us the tragic tale of the world 's very last monster .
| He used to eat the dust under my bed. I remember cowering under my blankets in fear on hot, humid nights, hearing growling and tearing noises from underneath my bed and thinking my stuffed animals were done for. I'd always wake up and find the floor under my bed sparkling clean.
My mom listened to my stories and to... |
1,338 | Write a horror story from the perspective of three year old .
| Mom and dad are fighting again. They sent me outside to play but I can still hear them yelling at each other. I do n't know why they're yelling but it must be bad because hearing them fight makes me feel bad too.
I wander around the yard, thinking about the chicken that had died a day or two ago. It was just a litt... |
1,339 | Due to a genetic mutation, hair follicles have now been linked to pain receptors and getting a haircut is absolute agony. As a barber, describe how your life is changed and what your new role in society is. | “Noo! No please!”
Jesus, I could hear his screams. Even through the thick steel door that separated me from the room behind,I could tell this one was going to be easy. As I heard scuffling in the chamber, I quickly unravelled my tools to check everything was present.
The gleam of my stainless steel scissors was the f... |
1,340 | You tossed your rent bill across the room in frustration and it went under your bed . A minute later , a grotesque claw pushes the bill back out with a wad of cash .
| Fucking landlord!! Rent just went up again!!
I mean, fair enough, there's been some complaints; some late night noise; some smells; the occasional bump or thump.
But how bad could I be? My neighbours are:
- on the left, a meth cook
- on the right, a violent pimp.
What I do actually CLEANS UP the neighbo... |
1,341 | Humans left Earth long ago, and Dolphins have just achieved underwater technology comparable to the 20th Century. They build water suits allowing them to travel overland. They are just discovering the remnants of ‘the land walkers’. You, a young dolphin, discover a mysterious island. Manhattan. | "Ready to launch the land mission?" I took a deep breath, looked up and fixated the incoming light. The stiff suit made my movements clumsy, but for now this was the only way to explore the land of the “land walkers”.
“Ready”, I confirmed and started swimming upwards.
I broke through the water surface, as I had done ... |
1,342 | 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 moaning or sobb... |
1,343 | The Sun has disappeared , and Earth became a giant ice cube .
| The alarm blared into my sleep. I shuffled over to it and switched it off. As I rubbed my eyes I reached over and flipped on the small lamp on my desk, the only source of light in my room. It had been 2 years since we left the surface. We knew the beginning would be rough, but then we expected it to get better. It did ... |
1,344 | Sometimes , the best option is to do nothing .
| Oh Mommy, please make it stop.
Every time they stab me they leave another screaming hole in my skin. No one thinks I feel the pain, but that's because no one else hears those screams. It's when the doctors do what they do with their needles and knives that the screams come out, finding exits from my body unblocked ... |
1,345 | Your initial Amazon review for a product is 1 star. In the weeks following, you're compelled to periodically update your review, adding stars one-by-one, until you've given the product a perfect rating. | “The Secret To Happiness” by Unknown Seller
Why me?
User: Londoner42
★ [1 Star] 0 reviewers found this helpful.
I must have thought this would be a self-help book or something, I’m a sucker for all that bullshit. I think I bought it when I got pissed last night cos my boyfriend dumped me. I’m giving one star for deli... |
1,346 | Reincarnation is real , but there are only 7 and a half billion souls - the year is 2020 , and the population just topped that .
| Extracts from Doctor Smoots Diary
Doctor Smoots Diary, March 1 2020
All the newly borns in the hospital and their mothers are fine without complications. There was only one birth today, which was a very strange case. The baby appeared to be healthy in all the checkups and the birth was uncomplicated, taking about... |
1,347 | Your shadow and your reflection get into an argument. | I walk into the bathroom and flick on the lights. The luminous glow of the bulbs above the large mirror casts a shadow behind me onto the wall of the bathroom.
“Ah, well look who’s come back.” The reflection of me says, leaning into the mirror. “I thought you would have learned your lesson by now, but you just keep re... |
1,348 | You have the ability to see ghosts and other supernatural beings, but have to pretend otherwise so that you won't get their attention. You had been successful, but after your spouse died in an accident, you struggle to ignore their attempts to interact with you. | “Sometimes I feel like she’s still here,” Raul said, “just out of earshot.”
Raul found himself in a sizeable room with two windows, a table, a single chair and an aquamarine-colored sofa, which he was currently laying across on his back, his feet dangling over the edge. He sighed, sure this grief counselling could be ... |
1,349 | An aging Sherlock Holmes comes to grips with Alzheimer 's
| “ Do you remember, my dear Watson? ” He ca n't see Holmes, but knows his face by heart – angular, aquiline, though his hair has grown as fine as baby ’ s down, his skin the color and texture of papyrus. The Suffolk coast seemed like the best place for Holmes five or six years ago – clean air from the East and two more ... |
1,350 | "Is no one going to mention the giant floating hand that taps on our buildings?" "Look, when the hand taps, you work faster, we dont want to anger the Hand." | “Well I like The Hand,” I say, standing up for a moment to stretch my legs. This morning came and went quickly, and the rest of the office was starting to awake from its groggy focus to loosen their creaky backs and fill quietly grumbling stomachs.
My friend tips his head down and massages his neck nervously. “I don’t... |
1,351 | [ wp ] Horror prompt
| The house is empty. I'm laying across the loveseat in the corner listening to a podcast coming from my computer. My arm is strewn across my face to keep the well lit room from disturbing me. Unfortunately I'm too comfortable to consider this something that warrants my moving to turn it off. Also, I'm afraid of the dark... |
1,352 | You’re an immortal man that has been alive since the beginning of mankind. You’ve been gathering knowledge throughout history.You’ve been doing this because at the very beginning, when you first woke up, a letter was carved on you’re flesh. “Be ready. 2020” | She laughed, heartily. Threw back her head. Her hand landed on my shoulder and slowly slipped down, over pec, abs and briefly lingered on my belt before it swung back down to her side.
Jesus, it wasn’t even that funny a joke...I thought to myself.
“You’re funny” she said, her eyes intently fixed themselves on mine, c... |
1,353 | What 's the craziest dream you 've ever had ?
| I'm the type of person that usually has 2 or 3 vivid dreams a night. It's a lot of fun when it's a good dream but a curse when it's not. My most memorable one yet was my inception dream ( and this was before the movie came out as well ). It's going to be a bit long sorry, I know dreams are usually a topic that bore peo... |
1,354 | Zombies retain their conciousness . The reason they eat human brains is that it is the most delicious thing on earth . You are the first Vegan Zombie .
| They're at it again. Everywhere I go, everywhere I look, the streets are full to the brim with bodies – the lifeless husks on the ground, overflowing with their “ juicy innards ”, and the mindless hordes writhing like maggots, gorging themselves on the meal. I ’ m so sick of it.
They look at me like I ’ m the crazy... |
1,355 | You never leave the house without your keychain and its seven keys. Six are for everyday use - house, car, work locker, etc. But you've long forgotten the purpose of the seventh key; you keep it just in case. Today, you're forced to remember what it's for. | Everyday I have my keys with me I’m sure you do too. I had 7 keys. One for my house, my car, my company car, my work locker, my office and my garage. Your probably wondering what the last 7th key is for and to be honest I forgot. It’s a completely different shape and colour from the other keys I have. The other six key... |
1,356 | A security officer is charged with guarding a door but he 's never been allowed to enter . After years of service , he has never seen anyone use the door . Describe what he finds after not being able to hold off his curiosity any longer .
| He finds an empty room and another door. The door locks behind him. He opens the 2nd door and finds another small empty room with a door. He continues opening door after door after door. He gives up and starts crying and does n't understand where he is. He cries in prayer and as he's on the floor screaming, he finds a ... |
1,357 | People are forced into new relationships every 5 years ( regardless of whether the previous one was good or bad ) .
| This stupid government `` system'' is fucking crazy. My first girlfriend was at least bearable, but the one that came after her was out of her mind. She followed me to work and, assumed I did n't notice the same fucking car driving behind me every single day. It was one of those old, yellow cars that my grandma used to... |
1,358 | Take one of your older stories and rewrite it .
| Through circumstances of my birth, the seventh child of a seventh child. I occasionally saw what others did n't, glimpses into what lay beneath and slightly to the side.
Miss Margo was a time-worn woman who looked as if she was born old and only aged further from there. It was her sudden appearance in our lives tha... |
1,359 | Out of necessity , you have become the thing you fear most . Tonight , you are the monster under the bed .
| The young child stared petrified at the wall as the monster under the bed came for him. He can ’ t remember the last night he had slept in peace. He used to cry for help, but it never came so now he just endures. He just watches in terror as the lights go off and the monster comes for him. It haunts him both day and ni... |
1,360 | You've just been gifted a hot, new thermal camera. You pull into your parents' driveway for the holidays and decide to test it out. No doubt, you see your beautiful family, but wait... There's someone else hiding in the house. | I sat frozen in my car. My hands trembled as they held up the thermal camera. "What is that?" I whispered. Through the camera lens, I could see my family sitting in the den: five red-and-orange distinctive human shapes. But beneath them, through the ground, I saw a sixth shape. At first glance, it looked like a human i... |
1,361 | Everyday human activities as observed by confused dogs. | Hello everyone! It’s Oscar here. I am 5 years old. I was brought into my current home from an orphanage a few weeks ago.
I was just lying on my back and staring at the sky when I heard footsteps coming toward me. I jumped up with excitement and started yelping loudly. I saw a little human boy of fewer than 10 years of... |
1,362 | Write a New Apocalypse
| # cutforbieber
A joke that started in the infamous 4chan website. Though meant as a joke to criticize the intense fandom of the Bieber fanbase, some teenagers took the joke seriously, posting pictures of their slashed wrists. But none of them took it as far as Ashley Miller, a fourteen year old girl.
One would ... |
1,363 | What You Think Is Happening Is n't Happening
| The dark can be maddening. Our minds turn against us. It plays tricks with sounds and shadows. Michael tried to remember this as he slowly crept across the dark basement towards the breaker box. He heard it again. A creak like someone was shifting their weight. The shadows danced in his head, plotting against him. He w... |
1,364 | The Four Undramatic Plot Structures - choose one ! ( details in comments )
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At that point the Masked Things In The Dark had taken him, his soul wrenched from where it should be, and taken to a place where it should not. The Things In The Darkness had tortured him for what seemed like a dozen eternites., they had entered his mind, and torn him apart from the inside with his deepest fears and ... |
1,365 | hit me right in the feels
| It was bright.
He woke up on his queen-sized bed and rubbed his disheveled hair. Still reeling from the cold, he stood up and went to the living room. Doing his usual calisthenics, he noticed his daughter's toys were strewn about and decided to surprise her.
He felt his head pulse erratically as he approached h... |
1,366 | You are trying to explain hiccups to your alien crew mate, but they are just becoming more convinced that you're dying. | “PleasehicI’m okay.” Peter tried to grab a bulwark. A reptilian mass pulled him easily through the corridors in zero gravity, maneuvering gracefully with it’s six limbs from one hand hold to the next.
The alien’s surprisingly humanoid voice went out over the radio, “Captain, we have Peter. Strange convulsions have con... |
1,367 | : Children are named by the traits they are fated to have - Brave , Serene , Deeply Caring , Unmoved - and of course your lovely daughter , Bites People .
| `` Dad, why do n't other kids like me?'' my daughter asked as I tucked her in bed. `` Because you bite people, dear'', I said as I brushed a lock of hair behind her ear. Her jaws instinctively clenched at my hand but they were no match to my reflexes. `` I'm sorry, daddy.'' `` It's not your fault.'' `` Who's fault is i... |
1,368 | Going through 65 years of your families photos , you start to notice the same unknown candidly in the background of every single location .
| I thought all of our photos were lost in the fire. In fact, I hoped they had been.
We stood on the Henderson ’ s perfectly manicured front lawn, watching across the street as the flames came out of the windows in tendrils, attempting to climb the walls. I half-laughed, half-snorted. All I could think about was all ... |
1,369 | you wake up and hear your mom downstairs "honey, breakfast!". as you reach for your door, a piece of paper slips in under with the words "DONT GO DOWN". | "DON'T GO DOWN."
I furrowed my brows at the note. My mother wouldn't write such a note when she doesn't need to. If she needed anything, she could just call out to me as I'm within earshot. If she really needed to, she could also text.
My little brother might do something like this as a prank, but he's away at colleg... |
1,370 | You suffer from night terrors . Describe , in detail , why this cute , fluffy , innocent bunny that appears before you is really terrifying .
| In my nightmare they appear, tiny bunnies everywhere. Their cute and innocent demeanor should make me think that I am in a dream, that I should be happy, yet I am terrified. Unknown to most, who have a romanticized view of the world and bunnies, they are savage little monsters. They eat their own kind when they can get... |
1,371 | Some Republicans decide they might as well cut out the middle-man, and semi-jokingly nominate Jesus Christ as their next Presidental candidate. He shows up in person to campaign for it. | “Hey, silly-willies! What’s happening?” said Jesus as he stepped up to the podium at the “Christ 2020” campaign rally. He was still wearing his little black mankini, and had just gotten back from burying fossils for the atheists to find. Desert sand coated his tanned, well-toned physique. “I heard y’all wanted a little... |
1,372 | You talk for hours to your sleeping partner, finding comfort just by hearing their breaths. | The afterlife is not as grand as people think it is. There is no Valhalla, no garden of the gods, no cities built on top of clouds, no angels flying about in white praising the lord. You don't meet your loved ones like in the movies.
Life after death is exactly how you feared it would be. You are conscious in the coff... |
1,373 | Every object in the world makes the noise of its name. Trees whisper 'leavesleavesleaves', fridges hum 'fridgefridgefridge.' Mostly, people learn to drown out the background chatter of the everyday. You're sitting on the couch, alone in your apartment when you hear a faint clicking, 'gungungun' | I woke up to grab a glass of water when I heard it. Over the faint hum of the fridge,glass,water pitcher and other things,I heard a gungungun. “What?” I mumbled to myself,still half asleep. I heard a small “Goddamn it.” from in the living room. I spun around,the glass of water splashing over me. I was suddenly more awa... |
1,374 | You 've just woken up , but you can not open your eyes or move . You smell smoke .
| My awareness bobs to the surface of my mind like a cork in a lake. I do n't know what the cork was doing in the lake and I did n't know what I was doing here. I feel movement and a door creaking open. I scream wordlessly and try to make noise but my arms are bound to my sides and my lips are sewn shut. I feel intense h... |
1,375 | You have the ability to imbue inanimate objects with sentient life , it happens at random and you can not take away life you have given . You just accidently touched this .
| “ Ah fuck. ” I quickly began to wipe my fingers on my pant legs. “ What the hell is that thing? ” I asked, looking over at Janice. The woman was sweet as can be, but she always made the weirdest stuff.
“ Its a turkey bear, ” she said, carefully placing the squash in the oven. “ Isn ’ t it cute? ”
“ Yeah…cute… ”... |
1,376 | you go to the shop for cigarettes, and return to find your wife has remarried, and your son and daughter have aged ten years. | The door opened with a creak that was familiar, but I could not recognize the woman standing on the other side. “Um, So Sorry… I must have the wrong apartment”, I offered, and stepped back to look at the door number. At the same time that I saw the brass 12 that indicated that this was indeed my house, the woman fell t... |
1,377 | you make a deal with the viillain she would not take over the world if you help her with asking someone out on a date | This might seem bad to hear, but i’m not-that-great in anything, really. I have a good job working at a university studying Biology, I have a pet fish and I almost finished paying for my car. I’m not saying my life is bad, I’m saying it’s what you would expect from a 30-something year old man. I don’t keep up much with... |
1,378 | There are two alternate universes . The federal postal service is aware of this and operates in both . One day a package is delivered to the wrong address .
| It is a federal crime to open someone else ’ s mail, but how can you know it ’ s someone else ’ s mail until you open it? The package that I signed for had my address in clear, block letters. It had my name clearly spelled out as the recipient. But it definitely wasn ’ t my mail. Expecting the gaming headphones I had r... |
1,379 | Usually , horrors take place in dark isolated areas in the middle of nowhere . Write a horror story that takes place in the middle of a busy area in broad daylight .
| It was supposed to be an ordinary day. Go to work, go home, eat, sleep. But on you're way to work, at about 7:45 A.M, you noticed something off. You are used to people being weird, after all you live in New York, but it ’ s normally obvious and obnoxious. Today you just know something ’ s weird. You ’ re about a block ... |
1,380 | A grave digger meets a body snatcher . Describe their exchange and conflict .
| We are simple people.
We have one job and we do it well. We dig the graves that need to be dug. We travel to where we need to be and we stay as long as is necessary.
We do our job. And then we move on.
The Elders teach us as we travel. It has to be this way. We can ’ t stay where we ’ re not needed and that doe... |
1,381 | You are the only one that can save us from the moon-spiders
| “ You have to stop them… ” He croaked out, reaching up to me from the ground. I had heard the disturbance in the evening and come out to investigate. I lived in the middle of nowhere, and people didn ’ t really show up at random. His clothes hang in rags, ripped in a thousand small cuts. Welts appeared all over his ski... |
1,382 | Environmental and societal collapse left 99.99% of the world starving, ill, scarred, scared and suffering. A group of horsemen go from overcrowded tenement to overcrowded tenement providing painless killings to all who desire it. You are their leader. | The hardest part was choosing how they died.
There was no need to decide who anymore. Months of riding from place to place—the rain-soaked ruins in the northwest, the cracked-dirt deserts of the east, the swamp-drowned villages down south—had worn the routine into our bones. We rode into what remained of capital citie... |
1,383 | You 're being hunted by a creature that 's been killing off your reflections from mirrors one by one .
| No one quite knows where the beings come from or who they are, but they do haunt me every now and then.Some say they find a way towards you only when you call them.
My first encounter with them was n't frightening but it was albeit some what bizzarre, the night was stormy with an incoming blizzard.i had to work ove... |
1,384 | A guy was walking ( ? ) miles alongside a road , the calm noise of the cars passing by suddenly stopped . He was alone .
| Paul loved his nightly walks. It was as it was any other day. Streetlights lit up the roads he had grown to know like an old friend. Light lit up some of the window as people went on with their business. The calming noise of cars passing by that he enjoyed listening to as if it was music… stopped? Paul looked around. I... |
1,385 | A husband deals with the aftermath of a miscarriage .
| I could hear the thud of her falling to the floor.
“ Babe! Babe are you OK? ”, I shouted.
I turned the knob and in my pushing I could feel her weight as she lay half-blocking the door. I managed to gently, yet forcefully get the door open so I could slip into the bathroom. She had briefly passed out and was slu... |
1,386 | 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 a... |
1,387 | I did n't think there would be so much blood .
| Just so much. I couldn ’ t even imagine that the human body held so much. You learn all of it in school but it just doesn ’ t sink in until you actually see it. Over a whole gallon of it a piece while I attempt to clean it up in what seems like an increasingly useless measure. The wood floor is stained something terrib... |
1,388 | Throughout our lives, instead of getting tattoos, they just appear on our bodies and we must figure out the significance. A young man was born with one. Now he’s 22 and still doesn’t know what it means. | I was kicking my heels against the couch listening to Helter Skelter when Duck, my twenty-two year old brother entered the room and picked up the remote. He quickly changed the channel to 24-Hour Yoga and plopped down beside me. Then he glanced down at his tattoo and sighed deeply. “It’s a mystery,” he said.
I rolled ... |
1,389 | Humans are no longer at the top of the food chain . There is now a new , vicious predator that has decided humans are its prey .
| The hunters stood at the entrance to their cave and waited. Their last two forays into the wildness had yielded no return, and the community was getting restless. Sure they could survive on the shrooms cultivated in the depths, and the foragers always brought back berries, but people would get restless after a few week... |
1,390 | Make me hate your character in 150 words or less .
| Seven pictures later and Lisa Palmer slumped into a sofa. She wiped the sweat from her brow, sighed, and held her bloodied stomach with her right hand the phone in her left hand flickered and died, but it ’ s last act was to send the images to Facebook. Any friend of Lisa ’ s the following morning woke to seven images ... |
1,391 | It has come to light that the Magic School Bus was not as cheery as it seemed . Write from any character 's point of view .
| I do n't understand how Ms. Frizzle ( especially as a public school teacher ) could possibly justify the extreme danger of transporting people's children into harsh and graphic environments. She took us inside of a horror movie, but why? To teach us about insects? Is it really necessary to take us into a setting where ... |
1,392 | Some people fear the dark. Some people don’t. You, however, have become best friends with it. | Bed Monster
Sally played with her choo choo shoe. Playfully giggling alone in her room. Mommy and Daddy were… playing student and teacher in the next room. Apparently, daddy was being a very bad boy and needed to be punished. But this meant Sally could play undisturbed.
Sally’s wrist slipped and her shoe tipped.
... |
1,393 | Killing a man . No names , less than 500 words
| 369 Words
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They tell you that someone dies with a quiet sigh, providing you have the element of surprise, and a sharp knife. What they don ’ t tell you is that you should n't miss. That…well, it leaves an impression in your mind. Seeing a man choke to death on his own blood, we... |
1,394 | The young lady heard a noise and turned to see a tall, black hooded figure armed with a scythe. "Finally, she said with a smile. After all these years". "Not how I'm usually greeted when I take someone on their last trip", said Death. "This time, I'm the one taking you somewhere", answered Life | Black smog began to coil around his feet as the figure staggered back a step,
“I’m not going anywhere - and neither are you.”
He brought his scythe up into a threatening stance, his trembling shoulders betraying his apprehension.
The woman turned, greeting the hooded man with empty white-void eyes. She wore a kind s... |
1,395 | You have a friend that you have known since childhood. When you were 25, he died of unknown causes. In his will, he gives you a mysterious box. On it, it says "Don't open until you are 40 years old". Today is your 40th birthday | Bill and I had know each other from childhood. The earliest memory I actually have is bill and I peeping on the neighbors daughter. He was, for all intents and purposes, the brother I never had.
He passed away the day of my 25th birthday.
I had gone to see him so we could go and party, and I entered his apartment to ... |
1,396 | Death falls in love with you
| « So I run »
It ’ s those damn nipples.
So I walk to work. I ’ m minding my own business, but there they are, waving for help. It ’ s always the same. It happens so fast, it ’ s just a moment in time. They stare at me on the sidewalk as they point in my direction. I ’ m uncomfortable, but they keep glaring. So ... |
1,397 | Your wife 's murderer is the police sketch artist .
| My wife had been murdered before my eyes.
I had no idea what was going on until it was happening, and at that point my only saving grace had been my loyal companion, Scotty. Her screams will haunt my memory, my hands not moving quick enough to the familiar place of the land line to dial the police. I had heard the ... |
1,398 | Write a poem about snakes without using the letter 'S '
| I rattle here, I rattle there.
I rattle nearly anywhere.
On a rock, beneath a tree.
If you hear a rattle, it might be me.
In the meadow, there I lie
And clever people walk on by.
Though I ’ m mellow, do keep away.
I do not want a friend today.
Try to frighten me with might?
Watch, I ’ ll give you quit... |
1,399 | In 2025 , the mission Mars One is a full success . Upon arrival on the red planet , the astronauts notice some kind of cave , containing a single human skeleton – and four words , carved into a wall .
| Dan: `` Please do n't freak out... why would it say that!?''
`` We're on Mars!''
`` 225,300,000km from earth! In a cave! On our own!''
Jake: `` I know. I suppose it is a bit odd is n't it...''
Dan: `` A bit odd?! There is writing! In English! On a cave wall on mars! We are the first people here!''
Jake:... |
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