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1,400 | Time suddenly halts as you , family in tow , begin to swerve off the edge of a bridge .
| They say time slows down to a craw when your demise is imminent. Something about the brain taking stock of everything it has ever seen and heard, just trying to dredge up a fact or two that might save you.
Slow is one thing. Slow is hearing your heart pump in your ears and watching the windshield buckle. Slow is me... |
1,401 | Your biggest secret : You are 2 penguins in disguise
| The room felt tense. Everyone present, the extended family and some members of stuff, eyed each other with suspicion. But I knew there was no reason to worry. No one was to be arrested tonight — the case was unsolvable, and the detective has practically admitted this before. He was good, but no one was good enough to s... |
1,402 | The purest , cleanest water in the world has been deemed poisonous to humans .
| Rohan did n't understand. The lake was n't this dangerous before. He saw the animals in the forest come to it, drink from it, even bath in it. He and his boyfriend, Kasun, had swim in it a few times. They were lucky to find such place to live, away from the city. They felt in touch with nature, the isolation and privac... |
1,403 | You hear snoring coming from your bedroom . You live alone .
| At first, I thought it was my uncle. He usually crashed at my place when he was too drunk to drive home. But it was Thursday. He usually drank during the weekends.
It could have been my dog. For a little pup, he sure can snore. But he was downstairs with me.
I finally decided to investigate. I picked up my old ... |
1,404 | A man , a plan , a canal :
| There ’ s nothing left of this place. I ’ ve searched and searched and after thirteen years I know that there ’ s only a dry lake at the end of this tunnel, this tunnel with its glass ceiling and its shades of orange and blue that have been smeared by the last meteor. My palm finds its way to the ivy-covered wall. The ... |
1,405 | You missed your train on purpose
| I missed my train on purpose. I ’ m not really sure what I ’ m trying to accomplish. I come to the train station every single day at the same time. Keeping to myself but at the same time hoping to god someone will say something to me. It ’ s a lot less scary that way. I had planned my day so that I always leave my clas... |
1,406 | It turns out your husband of 40 years has been Santa Claus for at least the last decade .
| Christmas Eve 11:30 P.M.
I wake up.
He's still not back.
Every year he goes out drinking, or so he says.
He never comes back before 5 A.M. Sometimes even later.
Something about forgetting the disappointments of childhood Christmases.
The first few years we would fight.
I could n't sleep when... |
1,407 | A world where water from rain ( and only from rain ) is lethal for humans , burning through human flesh like lava
| They say children used to splash around in the puddles. I can see
why. Those little pools of light sit on the ground and reflect the heavens,
taunting us behind our windows. I've always wanted to put my foot into one. To destroy its face. I watch them now, my nose bent against the glass of the window. I can see the... |
1,408 | Since birth , you have had dreams predicting the future . Today , you realize that you time-travel in your sleep .
| Alan woke up and ran to his desk. He started doing the exercise a few weeks ago, and not because he wanted to lose weight. Alan had very interesting dreams.
It all started when Alan first jumped out of his bed one early grey spring morning. The dream was terrifying to say the least, and Alan had to get up and go to... |
1,409 | You are a monster under a child 's bed and you 're hatching a plan to get the parents to stop scaring you away .
| It's kind of cliche, but you ever think about how, before you were born, it's just nothingness? Not like being asleep. Pure oblivion. Well, that happens to me every night. Just lurking around under the kid's bed, spooking him out – it's like food to us monsters, you know. We do it to survive. Ca n't directly interfere ... |
1,410 | You hit it off with someone at the bar , and eventually you head to their place . However , when they turn on the lights , you see various candid pictures of you on the walls . The door closes behind you .
| `` We've been waiting with you,'' she told me as she starred off into a picture of me on the wall, hiking. It looked familiar, until I realized I was n't facing the camera in this photo. Why did she have my picture? We had just met at the bar an hour ago. I looked around, photos just like this, photos of me, covered ev... |
1,411 | Your SO of 3 years tells you that he/she is Satan
| Her constant scribbling gives me confidence that things are more fucked up than I had imagined.
`` Doc, could you please say something... anything?'' I leaned forward to show my full concern.
We've been visiting this counselor for about 2 years now, but nothing seems any better. I spill my guts but my wife only... |
1,412 | There is no prompt . Just write a story you 've always been thinking about or one you 've been thinking about sharing . Anything goes .
| I did this for the literary magazine in my school. I hope you guys enjoy!
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“ Hey, Jake! Long time no see, man! ”
I turned to look for the unfamiliar voice. As soon as I started to turn I was pulled into the pizza
parlor I had every intention of walking past.
“ Hey…. M... |
1,413 | I answered the phone , but noone was there . Again .
| Stacy held her breath; she had the phone in a trembling hand. She slowly lifted it to her ear. “ Hello, ” she said, trying not to let her voice crack. There was no one there, again. “ Hello? ” Stacy asked again. She slammed the phone back into its cradle; it was as if the phone had become electrified and hurt to hold. ... |
1,414 | You 've always seen glimpses of shadows in your peripheral vision . One day , you 're able to get a good look .
| There is no sound. There was never any sound. It started when I stopped wearing glasses.I never noticed them before, because of the stems.
But they were always there. Flitting, dropping in and out. Just on the edge. I always thought it was like floaters. Like something everyone had.
But when I mentioned it to m... |
1,415 | You woke up with a terrible cough . It was quite painful.. You took a deep breath.. and coughed up a couple of teeth . The worst part seems to be that none of yours are missing .
| Coughing up teeth is an alarming way to be jolted awake. I had been lying in my bed, not quite sleeping, not quite alert-simply swimming in my own disjointed thoughts. An urge to cough reverberated in my body, that swelling feeling you get right before you let it out in a jarring noise. The moment I let out the cough, ... |
1,416 | You have just died and leave your body as a ghost . As you try to adjust to this predicament , you realise your body starts to move . Then it gets up and starts walking and talking .
| I ’ d always assumed people have souls. They die, and the soul leaves and goes to heaven. It ’ s what I had learned growing up in Sunday school. And even if it didn ’ t quite match up with science, it was such a nice story, wasn ’ t it? So when I fell over one day, collapsing on the floor, and then saw myself as if flo... |
1,417 | A man wakes in a dark room . After fumbling around , he manages to turn on a light . He is not alone .
| My son, Francis, was n't a fan of night lights. The first night he came to live with us, we took him to pick one out that he liked. The next morning, we found it on the floor unplugged, with Francis claiming it was too bright to sleep. A little surprised, but understanding we plugged it back in, to repeat the process t... |
1,418 | Last night the monsters returned
| The monsters returned last night. Daddy always says not to be afraid of them, and I ’ m not.
I hate them.
I wish that I could fight them, but Daddy says that only Mommy can and that I might get hurt. Every time I hear them, I remember the one time that he told me not to touch the top of the stove, so I stay in ... |
1,419 | `` Mommy ? '' A cry wakes you in the middle of the night . `` Its still here . ''
| “ MOMMY! ”
I awaken with a jolt. I take a second to register what is happening.
“ MOMMY! ”
I hit the light nest to bed then run to the door of my room. Standing there is my little girl. I love her so much. She ’ s holding her teddy and looks so scared.
“ Its still here. ” She says looking over her shoul... |
1,420 | Describe what happens to you on the weirdest day ever in five sentences starting with the mildly unusual and ending with the unthinkably bizarre .
| I went downstairs to get my usual cup of tea but when I reached for my mug it slipped right through my hands and shattered on the floor. Deciding I'd clean it up later, I went my start my car but when I reached for my keys the front door burst open and a cold wind swept through the house. Running to get my jacket, I re... |
1,421 | You find a watch that can control time . It 's now been two months since you found it , and the battery dies .
| I woke up with a determination to end this nightmare. Had it been more than a month since it happened or was it still the same day? I had no way of tracking how much time had actually passed. So, I move over to my makeshift calendar—a section of the wall that I set aside for tallying the number of times I ’ ve woken up... |
1,422 | You are a mind reader with a significant drawback ; the clearer you read a thought , the harder it becomes to distinguish it from your own thoughts .
| The haze. The blur. The Madness.
Kill. Be killed. Murder. Pain. Rage.
No. He knew who he was. He was the good guy. He helped people. His name was Jacob Carley. He was the good guy.
`` Doctor Carley,'' the nurse paused looking at him. Jacob did n't remember her name, she looked confused, or frightened. `` Sh... |
1,423 | "I'm glad the process fixed your eyesight and you may go back to your everyday life. But always remember: 'Secrecy is your only protection. Don't get noticed'. " That was 5 years ago | My finger hovers over the mouse as I look at this screen. I look at it. See the gentle Moiré streaks that run across it; see the way the dim coloured light pools in the grains of my desk. It is nice being able to see. But at what cost?
It took me 25 minutes to type the email out, a process which 5 years ago would have... |
1,424 | 100 Words - It 's In The Blood
| At the age of thirteen I came to understand that the monster
living beneath my bed was actually inside the mattress. Years of
loose dry skin had mixed with the sweat from intermittent night
horrors and periodic involuntary bed wetting. Now that puberty had
begun to transform me, so too was the monster within ch... |
1,425 | In your time as a hero you fought many enemies and made many friends. As you are fighting your strongest opponent yet you are on the brink of defeat, when unexpected backup arrives. You thought your friends came to your aid, but are surprised to find your past enemies fighting by your side. | “Mom? Mom! Come over! She- she collapsed!” A hurrying of feet come running over. “Alayna? Alayna!” A cold hand caresses my face. “Call emergency! Stephie, thank you so much for taking so good care of your sister…” A soft whimper comes out of my mouth. “Alayna! Can you hear me?”
Everywhere, loud sounds. Beeps, footstep... |
1,426 | "The rule is simple. Make it to the other side apparently unharmed." "... 'apparently'?" "Apparently." | White Wall
White walls bled into a hazy blur as the hospital hall stretched endlessly. Gabe strolled, his left side feeling heavy, uncertain. A nurse bustled past without acknowledging him. That was strange, he noted to himself, but maybe not entirely unusual in a hospital this busy.
"The rule is simple," an orderly ... |
1,427 | on the 21st birthday if every human , a scar appears on the body showing the location of impact of your future death . Everybody has one . It 's your 21st , and you did n't get a scar ...
| I dreamed last night, the first time in many years. I was surrounded by family, close and distant, all gathered to celebrate my 21st birthday.
“ I wonder where my darling will get his scar! ” my mother beamed in excitement.
“ He ’ s got Cooper blood running through his veins, and Coopers always get marked on th... |
1,428 | Please tell me about one of your fonder memories .
| Our adopted son was was a big fan of leaping up and down the half staircase into the basement, and his room when he first arrived. He was also a big fan of screaming at us when he did. Usually after some battle to get him to finish his vegetables, or homework or some other standard mundane task.
One night, about ha... |
1,429 | You wake up in a library the shelves seem to go on forever and all the books seem to have your name written on them. Above the door way an engraving is cut deep into the stone wall “Beware the Silence”. | I started down the narrow path of bookshelves. All the books blank inside other than the title And the tile is my own name. 1000 of books surrounding me nothing but having my name as the title. This is gotta be one of my book worm dreams but the chill in my back and the hot breath I’m feeling in my face seem to tell an... |
1,430 | Throughout your day , you are getting randomly attacked by a crazed , yet adorable , bunny rabbit . Unfortunately , nobody believes you , since the bunny either hides or plays cute and innocent whenever anyone else is watching .
| “ I swear it snarled at me and jumped to bite my jugular, It don ’ t mess around. It ’ s going straight for the kill. ”
“ Ha ha... okay you had you ’ re fun, now it ’ s time to stop that. Old Jimmy wouldn ’ t hurt a fly, would you Jim? Would you? ” He fussed with our pet rabbit while grabbing him by his evil but od... |
1,431 | `` I ca n't breathe , it 's dark , my body is numb ''
| I can ’ t breathe. It ’ s dark. My body is numb.
I opened my eyes to pitch blackness. I blinked a few times, craning my head around the tight enclosure in which I had awoken. Nothing but darkness, no noticeable source of light anywhere.
How long had I been sleeping? My head was pounding from a fierce headache; ... |
1,432 | You suspect your date is actually just a couple of kids stacked one on top of the other while wearing a trenchcoat. | First post, I hope you guys like it! Any critiques would be much appreciated!
"ACHOO!"
A muffled sneeze came from the opposite side of the table where my date was sitting. It sounded like it came from below her- something was weird.
"Oh, uhm, bless you. That was… that was you right?" I asked
"Oh, yes!" she blurted.... |
1,433 | `` I could have sworn there was a door there yesterday ... ''
| “ I first time I noticed? I first noticed when I started coming late into work. I would wake up in the morning and none of my things, keys, wallet, cell phone, would be in the place that I remembered placing them. My routine was regular, the way that I placed things around the house: I would put my keys and my wallet o... |
1,434 | A ghost and a zombie meet . They 're from the same person .
| Chrissa glanced at her watch and sighed. It was time to go to the facility. Every 2 days, she headed to a large, stark building in the middle of the city to take care of business. In fact, everyone in the city was obligated to go there at their allotted time and there was even a designated train that went to the facili... |
1,435 | Run . Wherever you are , write yourself getting the hell out of there - escaping as far as possible , by any means necessary .
| With unparalleled speed, I ran into the adjacent room and threw the door shut behind me. The thumping grew louder, fiercer, like a sledgehammer against concrete. I heaved the dressing table in front of the door, the heels screeching against the hardwood floor. The thumping outside came to an abrupt stop; the sudden sur... |
1,436 | You encounter the epitome of evil during your morning jog .
| The killer waited in the shadows under the trees.
Early morning joggers thudded past in their super impact resistant, mega expensive trainers, puffing fog breath into the crisp air.
None of them noticed the lurking menace so close to the path.
The joggers had their ears clogged with music, or digital books ... |
1,437 | A human baby is abducted and is replaced with a changeling. On the changeling's sixteenth birthday the Fae show up again begging the human parents 'Please can we swap back.' | I was already annoyed at being pulled away from my son opening his presents, but I couldn’t let the other guests see these people. Unlike my son, their appearance made them stick out like a sore thumb. I took one last look at my sweet boy surrounded by his family and closed the door to the garage. I turned to face my u... |
1,438 | In the future , people have `` copies '' of their brain made regularly , so if they die their mind can be put into a new body and they can continue living forever
| Have you ever made a photocopy of a photocopy? Or a copy of a drawing? Each iteration a little... Less than the original.
The first version of me was a genius, at least for the time. She was the original, and she was a neurosurgeon. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and somehow came up with this infernal procedure. Her name... |
1,439 | One day everyone notices the words `` Human Update 1.1 progress 1 % '' in the corner of their eye .
| I woke up to the screams of the baby next door and, as per usual, tried to bury myself back under my covers, pulling the TV remote out from beneath me, and shied away from sounds and sunlight cutting into my sleep. The next thing was loud knocking at my door though, proper hammering and the screaming now even louder. I... |
1,440 | In this world , if you sustain a life-ending incident , you do n't die . Instead , there is a day , once a year , where everybody who should have died , dies . It is known across the world as Death Day .
| “ Hello, I ’ d like to report my own murder. ” Drying blood coated the front and back of my shirt and dark smears graced the payphone ’ s numbers. I gave the address quickly and described my killer, a man in covering dark clothes with a duffel bag. I explained that I had to move before he found me again and finished hi... |
1,441 | Your family has pranked you in such an elaborate way that they 've made it seem like you 're in a time loop . What they 're actually unaware of is that they 're in an actually time loop themselves .
| 1st Time
My parents acted the same each day, but my little sister had informed me they were just pretending to be in a time loop. I guess I should play along. Seems like a fun little joke they ’ re playing on me. Maybe I can start pranking them back!
5th Time
I finally tell my parents to stop pretending I ’... |
1,442 | A son kills his mother . Make me feel bad for both characters
| I leaned in, expecting the usual biting remark and even closing my eyes to the sick anticipation rushing in my veins. When only a muffled gurgle met my ears, I opened my eyes in realization, letting out a dramatic `` Oops'' that could rival my favorite childhood villain ’ s comically devious personality.
*'' Manner... |
1,443 | You awake in a strange place . You have no idea how you got there , or why . Upon further examination , you find that the walls are those of a stomach .
| I feel like a million pieces.
I was at a bar with a man. He offered me drinks. No one ever offered me drinks. And then everything went dark. And now I feel like a million pieces.
Consciousness burned into me with liquids and smells. The case around me was organic, like wet leather. I only felt my teeth, radiati... |
1,444 | You have one of the fastest reaction in the world. Your body reacts to something before your mind even realizes it. One day, your hands start doing the motion as if you were catching something. But you couldn't catch it. You do this for many years. After 10 years, you finally succeed. | I dodged but saw nothing. Again I dodged; this time confused. It was normal for me to instinctively try to catch things that weren’t there. But what was I seeing that I felt the need to dodge? Then it hit.
Pain boiled the palm of my hand, pouring it’s fiery sensation into my forearm. Before I knew it my other hand was... |
1,445 | You live in a world where everybody is blind and gets futuristic contacts installed when they are born to let them see the world . But one day your contact breaks and you realize , you can see . But the world you see is much different than what your contacts showed you .
| If your eyes stopped seeing for milliseconds, would you mistake it for a blink?
Daydreams they called it. It had happened to me twice in the 19 years since birth. The first time, I was walking to the theatre, hoping to catch the next Fast and Furious installment. Suddenly, there was utter darkness. The next thing I... |
1,446 | Contrary to what most people think, death gods like you actually get to talk to the souls they take: some need assurances, some need comfort, some just need a good banter. Today, you're tasked to take an 8-year old terminally-ill kid. | “Hey bud, how’s your head feel? Better?”
He whips around in the hospital bed. He touches his arms. He touches his head. A smile starts to form. Fear pushes it back.
“Is the pain finally gone?”
He nods slow and deliberate. He turns quick towards the woman sleeping near the bed.
“Mom!” He yells. She doesn’t stir.
“M... |
1,447 | An inmate on death row is told that, in order to be more humane, they will be given a lethal injection on a random night while asleep. The inmate's grip on reality slips as they keep a journal of their last days, that final night never seeming to come. | [New Entry]
We all die someday. For most it’s a mystery. It’s something we push to the back of our minds, we try not to think about it, but we all know it’s coming. We don’t know how, or when, or even why, but we know it’s coming.
Well, that’s where I’m different. I know how, lethal injection, and I know why, I was fo... |
1,448 | Two strangers keep running into each other throughout the years . It is not a love story .
| I sat, pants around my ankles, reading the vandalism that covered the walls of the stall. As expected, I heard the sound of the washroom doors open and I saw a man ’ s sneakers travel pass my stall into the one beside me.
“ Hey Rob. ” I can hear him loosen his belt.
“ Hey Tim. ” With a sigh, he sits on the toil... |
1,449 | Write the saddest love story .
| I never expected to fall in love with someone through their diary.
`` Excuse me?'' His mother asked me—she looked a lot older than I expected. `` But who might you be?'' I found his house using the address he himself wrote.
`` A stranger for all intents and purposes.'' The weight of the book felt like fingers e... |
1,450 | Character obtains a functional pocket watch but it does not keep track of time .
| Grandmother ’ s Watch ( First draft )
In June, Emily ’ s grandmother passed away and her mother tearfully jetted off to France to attend the funeral. Emily didn ’ t go. The ceremony was half way across the world, and besides, Emily didn ’ t even know her grandmother at all. They had spoken on the phone once or twic... |
1,451 | A little girl is terrified of the monster under her bed , but she 's glad that it 's there : It protects her from the monster in the closet .
| The little girl lay still under her blanket. The monster under her bed could get her at any moment. She imagined giant arms reaching up around her mattress and grabbing her. She shivered and pulled the covers higher.
Nothing happened, though. She let the blanket drop a little, and looked around for what may have be... |
1,452 | Describe your bedtime routine. | Bedtime rolls around. First, I put my sleep clothes on. In the summer, it means either a short nighty or a T-shirt and panties. In the winter, I’ll wear either a longer nighty or pyjamas. Next, I go and turn off lights, TV, and anything else that you don’t want running overnight. Afterwards, I put the overnight alarm o... |
1,453 | `` Sometimes I trick myself into thinking I see the dawn , but it ’ s just the fires burning . ''
| Dear Anne,
It ’ s around 8 p.m. Hard to tell. I ’ m sitting in this dank cell, my stone bed offering absolutely no comfort. Not that I deserve any after what I ’ ve done.
It ’ s difficult to not think about you, despite having accepted that we ’ ll never see each other again. I ’ ve written you every single day... |
1,454 | You suddenly realize your true purpose in life ... and it 's a duty you do n't want .
| As long as I can remember, I ’ ve been digging holes. And I don ’ t just mean here at Brightwood, in the shade of the solemn oaks; my fascination with earthly excavation started young. At the tender age of two, I was already scraping craters out of our front lawn – something my father found amusing, despite my mother ’... |
1,455 | People are born with trees, which are linked to the life of the person: if either one dies, so does the other. You are in a squad of lumberjacks assigned to keep the world's population in check, but in your group's assignment you see your own name on one of the trees. | Criminals. Murderers. War veterans. Outcasts. This was the average mill you’d expect from every group of Lumberjacks. People serving time until they could reintegrate into society. People who felt no remorse whatsoever in taking another’s life. Of course for them they had taken the life of human’s before, so what diffe... |
1,456 | A demon is sent to steal a human 's soul and bring it back to Hell . Make me feel a strong emotion , whether good or bad .
| “ Do you think that I ’ m bound by your time? ”
The demon sat upon an old oak stump, clawed feet digging grooves into the rotten wood. It still came up only to eye-level.
I glanced away from the window to peer at the sulfurous pits where a living thing might have had eyes.
“ I can wait for a million years. ... |
1,457 | Grieving father seeks revenge on the masked killer who brutally murdered his beloved teenage daughter
| I pulled into the cracked and dirty driveway. Rain continued to beat furiously at my car. I carefully double-checked the scrawled and torn pieces of paper resting on the passenger seat. Photos, maps, records. There was no doubt that this was where the bastard lived. As I shuffled the papers back onto the seat, a photo ... |
1,458 | Write a horror story in Dr Seuss 's writing style .
| Not incredibly horror, but it's my first time writing since high school:
We fear the man in apartment 23
Rumours are spread he ’ s a killer set free,
He wanders the halls on cold lonely nights
His neighbours think it ’ s to give them all frights,
But I alone know his true motive
The one true... |
1,459 | "Hey, nice to meet you. I'm a demon." | “Okay…” I said, not really sure what to say to that. It was christmas, and we were having a family reunion. My mum was introducing me to Ember, a distant cousin who I had never met before. We were the only teenage kids in the family, and neither of us had any sibilings, so mum thought it was a good idea to try to force... |
1,460 | The year is 2166 , and you are a scientist who is enployed by the police for various jobs . A psychopath who has commited a recent and horrendous murder has been captured , and the police want you to use your technology to venture into the psychopath 's mind and discover why he did it .
| “ I didn ’ t want this! ” the man screamed as the knife went in and out of the old man ’ s body. “ I didn ’ t ask for this! ”
Joachim Phelan manipulated the scanner, earpiece in, visor on, watching and listening with cool detachment, the horrific murder taking place. He jotted down a note. Subject ’ s mental state ... |
1,461 | Your 11 year old nephew just ate 2 of your LSD gummy bears 45 minutes ago and you have to make sure he makes it through sane
| I heard a stiff sound coming from the kitchen, I went to check; I saw my nephew laying on the floor, smiling and saying `` Granma is riding a rainbow''. I noticed one of my gummy bears in his hands - half eaten- I, then, knew he was going mad. I held him and threw him in my car because I'll get scolded for life if his ... |
1,462 | A Dystopian society where women have taken over and stored enough sperm to last them a million years . Scientists even figured out how to genetically engineer to make sure you always give birth to females . After giving birth privately in your home you notice something different on your child .
| I laid back onto the bed, exhausted. After eight hours of labor, it was finally over. My own child! My own baby girl! After all the waiting, all the anticipation, I would have a daughter all my own. I closed my eyes, listening to the nurse move around the room, and the soft cry of my precious joy.
“ Oh no, ” the nu... |
1,463 | Write the scariest story you can in under 250 words .
| As consciousness floods back to you, you observe yourself inside a concrete room. No walls, no carpeting, no furniture or windows. Just a single door. After fighting with the door, you realize it ’ s locked. A miniscule gap is between the door ’ s frame and the floor, but it is not enough space for you to see anything.... |
1,464 | Describe in the most detailed fashion possible you can the experience of being stoned to someone who has never been stoned before .
| They tie you up with your hands behind your back and your legs fastened together it's the most horrifying thing imaginable. They start screaming at you and calling you an infidel. They start with smaller rocks and do n't throw them very hard, it's just preparation for the horror that's about to come. They then start to... |
1,465 | A dog starts every morning by peeing on and then barking at a bush "until it gets bored". Now, the owner is annoyed because their new dog has learned the behaviour. Unbeknownst to the owner, the dogs are performing a VERY important ritual that cannot ever be skipped... | "This has got to stop," said Max.
Ronald, Max's six-year-old Golden Retriever, performed a frantic tap dance, his nails clicking against the linoleum floor. Donald, the 18-month-old puppy, mimicked Ronald's steps, accenting them with eardrum-splitting yips.
"Two Goldens. How could I," Max fumed.
The dogs' soft eyes ... |
1,466 | Old man lives in a haunted house , and lives obliviously to the paranormal activity .
| I ’ ve lived in this house for the past 150 years. It ’ s always been my home, ever since I met my untimely demise at the hands of my wife ’ s rather overzealous lover. A traumatic death means that you get to hang around on this mortal coil for the foreseeable future. And I have made the most of this. Of all the polter... |
1,467 | Your blind friend asks you to describe his new girlfriend to him . The problem is , she 's an Elder God .
| Chuck had always been a sucker for bad girls. I still remember in High School when he dated Cindy Halloway just because she would skip out on class to ride her motorcycle in great, roaring loops around the parking lot. In college it had been Gretchen Lidel, a dark eyed girl who was all supple curves and barely restrain... |
1,468 | You go to turn on the ceiling fan, but suddenly the room starts spinning instead. | The Night Call
Crawling into a bed past midnight had never felt so comforting. Days of stress peeled off with my clothes, and were laid to rest as I kicked them from the mattress. I gripped the blanket like a shield, lifting it over me while turning away from that which I was escaping.
The air began to break and sett... |
1,469 | You woke up in the middle of the night to sleep paralysis. You wait for it to pass, when you notice something. A sleep paralysis demon. Hiding. Afraid. | The humanoid figure looming at the end of my bed appeared as a shadowy outline against the luminescent glow cast by the television on the wall. Faceless and dark, it was looking at me again. It bore no expression on its black featureless face, yet I knew it was watching me. Watching and draining me, like it has every o... |
1,470 | You 're sent in to shut down a lab of questionable experiments that went dark . The zombie uprising has begun . Writers , make me fear the zombie .
| It happened in the same way we've seen on TV and in movies. Sparse, seemingly random, but gruesome attacks leaving victims dead, mutilated, and partially cannibalized. The main difference between the TV tropes we've all seen and what was actually happening, was the lack of mindless, decaying monsters shuffling around i... |
1,471 | `` It 's always a good day when no one dies . ''
| I have two left in the guest bedroom, bound and bloodied but still breathing. I have to be careful with these last two, I don ’ t want a repeat of what happened a few days ago.
The four in the basement...
I had fun with them, of course. I had fun with them but the fun stops when they can no longer plead or cry ... |
1,472 | Area 51 is n't an alien test site , it blocks the entrance into the underworld . A government worker slowly loses his mind while he tries to keep the secret from his family .
| They said it was going to be challenging. They said it was going to test my sanity. Hell, they said it would probably rip my family apart. They were right on all counts.
Oh, no, not that part. My family does n't even consider it lying, really. They're used to `` Daddy's Special Job'', and only Jenny, my five year o... |
1,473 | Around the world , the following message was heard : `` We would like to announce that Hell is finally empty . ''
| “ We would like to announce that Hell is finally empty. ”
A large man sits up, smoke rising from his body. He shakes his head and laughs, saying in Russian “ Eto khorosho, chtoby vernut'sya, tovarishchi. ”
“ We would like to announce that Hell is finally empty. ”
Another man walks down a street, shaking his hea... |
1,474 | Tell me about a dream you had
| Here's one of my dreams. ( another below, or above, IDK )
This dream is a Lucid Dream ( I was conscious and could control it )
It was a dark night in a bustling city. All was quiet, except a faint screeching noise. I was in my PJ ’ s, a light blue color with red paint brushes on them ( I was only like 7 at the ... |
1,475 | Deep in your house unbeknownst to anyone there is a button . If you push it , a random person somewhere in the world will die . If you do n't , by the end of the day you will .
| Thomas sighed... Another day another death. It has always been the same. He reached towards the button and pushed it once more.
He justified it by thinking thousands of people die each day. “ What does one death make a difference? ” Unfortunately, he didn ’ t know who was going to die. It could be someone close or ... |
1,476 | There's a mermaid at the bottom of the well on your property. | I was out for a walk in the back woods one day,
When I heard a sweet voice through the trees far away.
I followed the voice as if under a spell,
And found that it came from an abandoned well.
I peered deep inside and a voice echoed back,
And I saw a fair mermaid trapped down in the black.
She sang up quite swe... |
1,477 | What is it exactly , that goes 'bump ' in the night ?
| My father told me of the beast. It was an abomination. It was a cruel perversion of a man. You can hear its misshapen hooves clomp through the house in search of children who leave their beds at night. My father was n't quite sure what happened to those children. He said there were two before me, a boy and a girl. He w... |
1,478 | Nanny Dragon | I still remember the day I found the child. On the riverbank, abandoned and alone. If I had known where a human town was, I would have brought him there. But since I didn’t, I raised him as if he was one of my children.
Over the years, we moved around. Eventually, it got to the point where it would be better for him t... |
1,479 | You awake in your bed soaked in blood , you quickly feel all over your body but can find no wounds .
| I was moaning annoyed, looking at the time. It was just half past six, way too early to be awake. Quickly I threw the blankets off my body, it was bloody hot in here. My pyjama was sticky, probably because of all the sweat.
Just when I tried to remember what happened last night, a huge headache blocked my brains to t... |
1,480 | Someone finds their own corpse
| Darkness. Pain in the lower back. A faint electric humming. Then, that dark reddish nothingness which you see when you close your eyes.
“ Canmmm you heaar me? Wakeywakey. ”
The eyelids are stuck together. Everything ’ s numb. Something ’ s missing.
“ Can you please move your eyes to the left to indicate tha... |
1,481 | Death comes for you , and ferries souls on to the afterlife in special lanterns , lanterns that are specially crafted for each soul . Describe your lantern .
|
I knew my time had come, I had escaped death far too many times, and this time death had me cornered. I was born with the ability to see things, I could see creatures walking into the ears of those that killed, and I could see paintings move as they too contained souls from being loved. I could hear the walls speak a... |
1,482 | A ghost sets his sights on his newest haunting victim . Little does he know , this particular individual has been haunted regularly since childhood and is tired of it .
| One thousand days after his death, Theo's ghost was released, slithering out of the ground where his body was buried like a thin wisp of smoke rising from the burnt edge of a piece of bread left too long in the toaster. His casket had been mahogany with a white velvet interior. A luxurious and torturous resting place f... |
1,483 | Every dream you have ever had has come true . You have just awoken from the worst nightmare you have ever had .
| A cold sweat settled onto my skin. I sat straight up in a mess of comforters and throw blankets. Oh it was awful. The worst one yet. Sure, I've had the occasional'miss the bus and end up late to class in my pajamas', and of course the classic'oh my god that's a huge spider', but this was terrifying. And with my track r... |
1,484 | The road to hell is paved with good intentions .
| I am 99 percent sure I died earlier today. It ’ s either that, or I am on a really elaborate hidden camera show that tricks unsuspecting people into thinking they have died and gone to hell. Just for the kicks.
I know I am in hell because a giant sign tells me so. “ Hell, 15 miles this way ” it says. I guess I am j... |
1,485 | “You must be wary at sea, for you may find yourself on the wrong end of the Screaming Sirens.” “Who?” “A pirate crew captained by a woman said to be the daughter of a pirate and a siren who fell in love. They say sea creatures follow her command, and her voice is as deadly as her blade…” | Part 1:
They say the sea demands a wary eye, lest you find yourself on the wrong end of the Screaming Sirens. Or so they say, and I hope it's true. This damned salt on my back itches, scratching at my skin like a thousand tiny crabs. I reach to relieve the torment, my hand slips, and I nearly tumble from this pathetic... |
1,486 | `` I 'm telling ya Frank , the more bad things we do the more coal we get ! Why bother mining for it all when we can get Santa to do it for us ! ''
| “ Ho... Ho... No, ” Santa Clause said as he reloaded his shotgun. Frank left a trail of blood on the floor as he desperately scooted toward the door. His leg was shattered and he could no longer stand. His body was riddled with wounds.
“ Please, Mr. Clause ” Frank yelled. “ I ’ m sorry! I ’ m sorry! Just please, do... |
1,487 | 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 .
| Rachel had loved to dance.
It was not long after she took her first steps that move and shake to an awkward song that only she could hear. And it didn ’ t take long for her natural talent to round the rough edges of her movement. She was six years old with one of her mother ’ s red scarves in one hand, her movement... |
1,488 | You keep a trinket somewhere on you at all times , for good luck . Explain what it is and the reason for its significance .
| 'Its... what, exactly?'
'A picture of an ostrich. My ostrich, in fact. Bartly Cooper. Keep it in my pocket at all times.'
'Bartly Cooper. The Ostrich.' Carl's face scrunched together in thought, eyebrows knitting together as he raised his gaze to meet Brad.'So... I guess I ….well, why?'
'Its keeps me alive.' B... |
1,489 | You've very rarely seen your neighbour. They only come out when it's raining. They stand getting drenched in the rain with an unopened umbrella in their hand. | “Hey,” I pause fishing for a name, “Mr. Peterson, right?” His head looks towards the pouring sky, eyes closed and still as a stone statue. “Mr. Peterson are you okay?” I stutter before his frail arms raise upwards reaching towards the gray clouds. Slowly, I hear the cry of a small, buzzing voice. The voice’s raspy tone... |
1,490 | You got locked inside a cursed house forever . You ca n't leave or break out anyhow . The house is huge , cozy and has a lot of people inside . Servants , other residents , pets that get randomly replaced without notice , overnight . Write a diary of your first year inside the place .
| January 26
I sat in the foyer today, staring through the faintly blue glass of the window to behold the blizzard outside. The snow laid upon the courtyard like a pure, stainless sheet. If I could break out of this home, I would romp through the snow like an innocent child, making snow angel after snow angel. Dr. Mond... |
1,491 | Every human on their 18th birthday autimatically summons a familiar to join them for life. Familiars can range from a simple magical cat to a legendary dragon. Today is your 18th birthday. | I wanted to stay up until midnight, just in case. Everyone else had chuckled at me and gone to bed. Dad said it usually happened in the morning – sometimes even in the shower, if you had a water animal – but he didn’t say it always did. The alarm clock by my lamp was running out of battery, the green light flickering s... |
1,492 | You break into the bad guys secret lair , where he is crying .
| Keller slid down the corridor with her back to the wall, navigating by the feel of palm against cold brick. Getting in was too easy, the flimsy lock on the back door clicking open with a couple wiggles of the scrapper. Too good to be true. In her experience, it usually wasn ’ t. Her free hand gripped the 45 tight, trem... |
1,493 | Medusa and the Basilisk have a staring contest .
| The gossiping and taunting had gone on long enough. It was time to settle things once and for all. Medusa ’ s reputation had suffered cruelly over the ages; that unfortunate incident involving Perseus made her the butt of many a monster ’ s joke. The lying Greek had never really taken her head – it had been more of a b... |
1,494 | The monster under your bed is protecting you from something much worse .
| There! My eyes wide open with an expression of fear, I lie on my back and listen. It is completely quiet in my room, too quiet. Then, the cracking of the floor beneath me, barely audible. But still, there IT is again, and it's coming for me. Shivering, I quickly pull the blanket over my head and press my eyelids togeth... |
1,495 | You've done it. You've created the perfect pizza. That was the day you learned that "No one outpizzas the hut" wasn't a slogan... it was a warning. | John didn’t mean to piss anyone off with his pizza, he just wanted to make something everyone would love. He’s a good man with a big heart and a great sense of taste—but he didn’t know the truth, didn’t know how evil the pizza industry is.
Blood leaks from his broken nose as he’s dragged down a dark set of steps. He’s... |
1,496 | Breaking into a house at night, ready to do the deed, a serial killer sees something that makes him have second thoughts. | "This isn't my first time breaking in. At 1:32am, I lockpicked the front door and close it behind me. I followed this woman home because she was involved in a hit-and-run. I can't let others kill people for me, you know?
From what I learned, she did go on dates but not on a Saturday night, just Friday, so it was just ... |
1,497 | A child is home alone when their house is broken into . Alone , except for the monster under their bed .
| I miss my daddy.
Mummy says daddy got really sick, and that he's in a different place, but better now.
Our new house is a lot smaller, after daddy went to the better place mommy said our old house was too big and she could n't take care of it, so we moved. Some of the other houses around here look broken. I saw a... |
1,498 | When the virus struck, nobody was ready for it. The zombie plague spread around the world in a matter of days. The zombie apocalypse had been feared by so many for so long, but what nobody had anticipated was how… dumb zombies would be. | *[Scene: A lush, green backyard, surrounded by decorative steel fencing. A four-foot deep pit is dug in the center of the space. Within the pit is a zombie, partially decayed but still mobile.]
[PAUL, offscreen]: “Yoooooo, what’s up survivors, welcome back to Z-Science! Today’s test is… drumroll, please… the mirror te... |
1,499 | As you keep walking deeper into the library, the books are getting... Wierder. You can't seem to find an exit, either. | [CW] Horror.
“Breeding chihuahuas for fun and profit”
“World’s wackiest criminals!”
“The dogs of Equador”
“Tacos: fact or fiction?”
“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”
“The Satanist Bible”
“THE TRUTH IS CLEAR BEHIND THE SCREEN: a study of conspiracy theories”
“Do NoT LooK AwaY FroM ThiS Book”
“This book titl... |
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