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1,500 | Going to the vet , from the dog 's point of view .
| My human has given me a snack and now he is rubbing my ears. He has been doing it for a long time. He is awesome. This is the best day ever! I have napped all day by the fire and he has been giving me lots of belly rubs. He is doing it softly but that ’ s OK as my belly hurts anyways. He normally takes me to the park t... |
1,501 | The alien invasion has come... sort of. Instead of death rays and grand speeches, they are executing precision operations to collect seemingly the most random items from around the world. | ...I first encountered them last Tuesday. That was when the first wave came. I was showering at the time when suddenly I heard a strange noise. I think the best way to describe it would be other-worldly. I could tell it was coming from outside the door. And then suddenly the door fell down. I don’t think that they had ... |
1,502 | You are a high schooler who is trying to save up some money. After extensive search online, you accepted a babysitting job. Now you spend weekends looking after a baby girl who levitates, crawls on the ceiling, and has two rows of teeth. You get along pretty well. | I was halfway through freshman year when I started my ‘professional’ babysitting service. I had no qualifications but a first-aid kit and a lot of still-alive younger cousins who didn’t hate me, and apparently that was enough. For this couple, at least.They called after seeing one of my flyers, which advertised my abil... |
1,503 | [ NSFW ] Describe in detail someone 's perspective as they die from your greatest fear of death .
| Katie opened the trash chute and heaved a heavy plastic bag down into the dark abyss. She picked up another one and moved to toss it into the garbage slot as well. However, her arm tangled in the bag and she lost balance tumbling down the metal shaft before landing at the bottom of a trash compactor with a loud crack o... |
1,504 | A young man with extreme cases of social anxiety and OCD lives in a colorful and happy world that does n't seem to notice his mental disorders .
| Charlie waited in bed for the disco lights that happened every night before he went to bed. They always happened at 9:15pm. Yellow lights: On, off, on, off, on, off, on, off, on, off. Pause for 2 seconds. Then repeated three times over, with red, green and blue lights. It was like the man next door was having a party e... |
1,505 | Hitler finds out that zombies have taken over Russia and surrounding countries . Write from the prospective of Anne Frank after Hitler decides to free the Jews from camps .
| It has been months, I ca n't remember the last time I saw margot or my parents.
I was finally scheduled for my death, along with dozens of other clueless girls believing this was a routine shower.
We went into the room and alarms should have gone off earlier but there was no shower heads.
Dear lord I knew wha... |
1,506 | A different dream, a different door. But you always wake JUST before opening it... with only the slap of your hand against a solid wall as you search for that door to tell you that you were dreaming. Today you finally went through the door... but you are wide awake. | Source: I periodically have dreams like this, with a door I expect to go through for whatever reason located somewhere in the vicinity of my bed. (Even better, its location seems tied to my bed, or more likely to me, as the door changed walls when I moved my bed. Always hovering just a bit above the frame, too high I t... |
1,507 | Write the story you 've always wanted to write , but never found the prompt to do so .
| SOULMATES
splash
The regular sized all-star shoe separated the puddle as it stomped into it. Nathan had almost slipped as he hurried down the path. His heart was like a machine-gun, constantly pumping oxygen throughout his adrenalized body. A tiny animal was following him on its four paws.
He turned a sharp rig... |
1,508 | Your baby starts crying everytime you leave their room . Finally , you pick up your child and leave the room together . As soon as you step out , you hear crying coming from the room .
| I'm a deep sleeper, and when I say deep sleeper, I mean it. I do n't wake up to much, but when I do, it's something powerful like a strong thunderclap. When you live next to a busy highway and train tracks, you learn to fall asleep with the white noise and come to enjoy it. At least I did.
That all changed when Jul... |
1,509 | Write a story that starts as a TIFU post and then turns into a nosleep post
| Obligatory this did n't actually happen today. My FU happened last week. I was out for a run around my neighborhood and it was SO icy out. Probably should have turned back, but I'm training for a half and need to get the milage in. Anyway, I was about two miles into my run and decided to cut through the cemetery instea... |
1,510 | You are a Mad Scientist who has lost someone close and dear to you . Describe your thoughts and emotions as you go through the Five Stages of Grief - Rage , Remorse , Resolve , Research , and Resurrection .
| I ’ m not at fault for trying to bring her back to life.
Take one look at this pitiful old man and you ’ ll see exactly what I mean; in my sixties, without a wife or children, I ’ m hardly the picture of a fulfilled life. My only legacy is my research.
My little border collie, fittingly named Collie – not t... |
1,511 | You are standing at the base of a large waterfall . Something comes tumbling over the edge and plummets into the lake below . You wade in to investigate . What you find changes your life forever .
| I don ’ t know why the top of the waterfall drew my attention. To be honest, I ’ m not really sure how I came to be at the base of the waterfall. As I stood there looking up, I noticed something caught on a rock right at the edge. From the distance, I couldn ’ t tell exactly what it was. The waterfall was at least 500 ... |
1,512 | The zombie outbreak starts , but the first ( and only ) zombie is an overweight man that ca n't catch anyone .
| I am Doctor Leo Vincent, and I have moved mankind on to the next great evolutionary step. Leo- A fitting name, I ’ d think, considering my intellect and contributions to the world could even rival Da Vinci ’ s.
They anticipated this. They took the man away and locked him up in a room where he couldn ’ t do anything... |
1,513 | Someone tries to genetically engineer mosquitos so that they 'll become infertile , and go extinct . They get it wrong .
| It was sundown and I was stuck between a rock and hard place. I had just cut the shit out of my hand trying to get some damn chocolate from the vending machine! Not even a second thought, when I tried to carefully to get it from all the broken glass. Bleeding is the last I need right now. It just makes them more anxiou... |
1,514 | You wake up at 3 am . to an emergency alert on your phone that just says `` RUN '' .
| She groaned and rolled over, fumbling over the carpet for her phone. She'd been slowly pulled from her first night's sleep in too long by the muffled buzzing of her phone. Squinting, she rubbed the sleep from her eyes into the mess of yesterday's makeup and stared at the screen.
5 messages received
The first on... |
1,515 | *ALERT* Dimensions 4, 13, 90, and 52½ require extreme maintenance. Until it is done the residents of each dimension will be housed with their Dimension 1 counterparts, thank you for your cooperation. | July 15, 2028. Things were supposed to be normal today, no issues, no work, no events, just a saturday. I was in bed, watching youtube on my TV across the room.
Then shit hit the fan.
My vision suddenly stopped working, and instead of my room, I saw a large blue stripe over some static, a white message on it saying “... |
1,516 | The human race as imperialistic beings conquering your planet
| My family and I do not like to travel; perhaps we never have. The air is warm here, and the ground is soft. It is bright during the day, and as I am tall I can see all the way to the water that pools around the horizon. At night I know every constellation like a relative, and the cool rain soothes me.
We thought at... |
1,517 | One day you wake up to find you can longer see or feel people , yet you can still hear them .
| I woke up hearing my roommate get ready for his morning classes. Why did you have to choose the classes that start at 6? I look over to his desk as his lamp turns on. But he wasn ’ t there. The light just turned on. I can still hear him rummaging around the room getting ready, but I couldn ’ t find him. Then the light ... |
1,518 | Whenever someone ca n't sleep , it 's actually because there 's an enemy nearby , they just do n't realise as there 's no prompt like in a video game .
| I decided to go to bed as I looked at the clock, blinking at 11:43 AM. I lay in bed, patiently waiting for my eyes to drift into the darkness.. but I could n't sleep. I decided to wait longer.
The clock beeped at 12:00 AM, and I am still unable to sleep. So I decided to turn on the lights and read a book until I be... |
1,519 | When people outgrow and leave behind their imaginary friends, they become jaded spirits twisted by their sense of betrayal and abandonment, invisibly wreaking havoc in the living world. Only the eccentric people who never outgrew their not-so 'imaginary friends' can contend with these spirits. | The spirit was a little girl. She had hair so thick she looked shrouded in smoke.
Normally I work with Chided Spirits. They are the tenants of childhood fantasy, abandoned by time and the people who loved them.
This child was weeping. Her eyes were closed, and I could make out her stitched mouth, which ripped open, f... |
1,520 | "I have done things wrong for so long, I have no idea what is right anymore." | She hated hospitals, office buildings, schools - places with people that wanted her name, wanted information about her, wanted…details.
A machine that did - well she wasn’t quite sure what it did - murmured faint digital secrets somewhere off to her left. The room smelled a little like rotting pears, “Formaldehyde” ... |
1,521 | Your close friend has a deep obsession with the occult. After hanging out with them one day, you notice one of their spellbooks fell into your bag. As a joke, you try out one of the spells and end up summoning a demon. To your surprise, they beg you not to send them back to your friend. | I slunk down into my bed, heaving an exhausted sigh as I slipped my feet out of my shoes. I unzipped my school bag, mentally preparing for homework when I noticed something peculiar. A black book was lying on top of my school books. I gingerly grasped it and pulled it out to reveal that it was a friends spellbook. I ch... |
1,522 | A husband and wife unexpectedly meet in the same spot, both trying to bury a body | "And the traffic on the main road here is awful. I mean, just the worst—"
"And Mr. Steimer needs me to stay, uh, at least another hour. Or two, um, I don't know, two hours—"
"—you know, there must have been an accident. So I'll be—ah—a little later than usual—"
"—but I'll be home as soon as he lets me off this silly... |
1,523 | Your protagonist has gone into a coma and wakes up in a world just like their real life , but with small subtle differences . Your character attempts to find their way out .
| I've been on this street before. I've stood at the intersection of Maple Street and Downing hundreds of times, at least in my childhood. But Maple Street is not how I remember it, not exactly at least. The road is blacktopped, which is nice, and the houses are different in a way I can not describe. I think it's the ton... |
1,524 | Everyone is given the symbol of an animal, imaginary or not, on a place on their body, at the age of 16. The rulers of this world are Dragons, and other noble, power creatures. Monstrous creatures are shunned. You, have the Kraken. | All his life, little Timmy had been treated poorly by others. He was bullied, he was shunned, he was made fun of; everything considered terrible for a little kid to experience, Timmy had to taste first-hand. And that day was no exception.
Little Timmy was playing alone in the sandbox. Nobody wanted to play with him. Bu... |
1,525 | and that’s how I lost my eye | “So I understand that you are searching for Amalie, am I correct?” Olaf asked.
Sara and Klaus nodded. She was the missing lead they had been searching for weeks to find and hopefully the one that would help them draw out the Stalker.
“Tell me, what do you know about the Stalker?” Olaf said. His question took Klaus by... |
1,526 | People possessed by demons are sent to a special prison instead of being exorcised . It 's your first day as a prison guard there .
| There was no turning back now. This cage under the streets, it was not a tad like other prisons out there. Those had clean corridors and this had not. Those had convicts as inmates and this had the said supernatural. Those had wrongdoers kneeling before a jury before they arrived; and these people, these people vanishe... |
1,527 | "You're the same as I am, kid brother. Whatever's in me is in you too. Maybe I'm just a little more honest about what I am, or maybe you're just better at hiding it. All I know is- you're gonna help me do this, and you're gonna do it now." Frank pressed the gun into Rick's hand. It felt right. | "You're the same as I am, kid brother. Whatever's in me is in you too. Maybe I'm just a little more honest about what I am, or maybe you're just better at hiding it. All I know is- you're gonna help me do this, and you're gonna do it now." Frank pressed the gun into Rick's hand. It felt right.
Rick lifted the gun. It ... |
1,528 | A horror story ... where the characters act realistically
| `` I have several actually. Let's see, a guy in a hockey mask keeps banging on my sliding door... Yeah, he's still here, but I already locked the door and closed the blinds... I can still hear the doll toy thing screaming downstairs... yeah, no, all he ever shouts is' Wan na play?'... no, I already tied him down to an ... |
1,529 | Write a story in 5 minutes immediately after you read the prompt in the text field of this post .
| I was looking out the window at the butterflies again. Painted wooden ones that grandpa made. The noise came from the front of the house, and it was loud. Something was in the street. My wife and I both came out of our offices at the same moment and looked at each other before we crossed the loft to look outside.
T... |
1,530 | You swerve to avoid a squirrel . Unknown to you , the squirrel pledges a life debt to you . In your darkest hour , the squirrel arrives .
| I had only one thought in my darkest moment. `` Why did he do this?'' The iron in the blood hit my olfactory senses like a freight train. It was like I was licking aluminium foil. I felt the heat leaving the blood that was running down my face and eventually it felt cold. Reality began to come back and it made me panic... |
1,531 | Mosquitoes are eradicated . Their ecological niche is rapidly filled by something far worse ...
| The introduction of sterile-producing male mosquitoes was initially cited as a breakthrough in science; finally the world would be rid of mosquito-born illnesses that devastate human and animal populations. Malaria and West Nile would no longer claim lives and heart worms no longer had a vector to travel within. I reme... |
1,532 | You thought they were just a gag. But they're not "beer goggles", they're "bear goggles" and it's pretty amazing how many people in your town are actually just bears in disguise. | "You look ridiculous," Alfonso said.
Ironic, since he was a big talking bear named Alfonso. I tapped my Bear Goggles, smirked, and replied, "I'm making a fashion statement."
Alfonso huffed. I nodded quickly at him and grabbed my groceries.
"You have a nice day now," Alfonso said.
I caught a glimpse of my reflection... |
1,533 | Humans have entered the realm of galactic politics. Good News: We’re cute to almost every species. Bad News: We’re extremely cute to almost every species. | A sea of curious eyes surrounded my metal cage. Colossal, limpy bodies of green flesh brushed on the metal bars as I sat on the frigid surface. I could hear many sounds coming out of their droopy mouths; I struggled to keep dry from the clumps of goo sporadically flying out of them. My cage trembled and erratically jer... |
1,534 | Humans are unique among all space faring creatures, they can interbreed successfully with any sentient lifeform. You run the station daycare. | The little girls arm was completely missing, blood dripping onto the floor as her eyes stared wide in shock.
“Toby bit me!”
Sighing from exhaustion I unwrapped the first aid kit bandage that had the regrowth serum infused with it. The toddlers color started to flush back into her cheeks as she came out of shock. Her ... |
1,535 | After weeks of trying to fall asleep with your eyes open , you succeed -- and the result makes you regret your choice forever .
| I was staring through the darkness at the lamp next to my bed. I had managed, after weeks of trying, to fall asleep with my eyes open. I don ’ t know why I wanted to do it so bad but I did. I shouldn ’ t have tried. It was a mistake.
My eyes had adjusted to the darkness hours ago and nothing happened until about mi... |
1,536 | After a drinking binge , you wake up as a crocodile . Your wife is pissed . You have to be at work in fifteen minutes .
| I opened my eyes, suddenly realizing that I didn ’ t remember anything after entering the new bar across the street from the aquarium the night before. Steve, Paul, and I walked through the rustic green door, and sat down at the bar, tired after a particularly frustrating day at our construction job. I remembered think... |
1,537 | You're a shape-shifter who runs a buisness called "Two Places at once." You role as a business is to simply mimic someone, and attend an event that can't or don't want to attend. However you can't mimic their personality or memories. What is your most interesting job so far? | Look, the fact is that when most people learn that I can and will perfectly physically impersonate them for an hourly fee, their minds jump right to What can I get away with? so if yours did too, I won’t judge you.
I’ve been asked to take tests (sure, but you also have to pay my hourly rate if you want me to study), a... |
1,538 | A simple story that feels complicated because everyone's name is Sam. | My best friend Sam and I love going to my aunt Sams house to hang out with my cousin Sam and her friend Sam. Sam had a crush on my friend Sam and so Sam and I would always find excuses to leave Sam alone with Sam. Yesterday though I tried to make an excuse and say aunt Sam needed Sam and I but for whatever reason Sam k... |
1,539 | You 're sitting alone in the dark in front of your computer , laughing at something you saw on the internet . You stop laughing , but the laughing continues .
| WARNING: Violence
Cats. Cats doing things. Cats doing funny things. Those were all that composed my night, and those made me laugh. I laughed at the cats playing the piano. After that I laughed at the cats chasing dots. After that, I laughed more. I laughed, and then I was tired of laughing, so I stopped. Or so I t... |
1,540 | [wp] You were sentenced to 10 life sentences. You thought it was a joke. Many years passed and you died of old age in prison. A few days later, you resurrected on your cell, same age as the day you were convicted. Now you are serving your second sentence. | Part 1?
I laid in bed, listening to the prison sounds around. It been fifty years of metal scraping, CO yelling, and fellow prisoners yelling to one another. Yard time had just ended, but they let me stay here. At 82, I had that right. I tried to go outside once a week. No one bothered me anymore which surprised me si... |
1,541 | When you die in a dream, you die for real. Hundreds die in their sleep around the world, every day. Except you. You should have died, but instead you fell into a coma. Asleep forever. You can now travel into other people's dreams, where you try to save as many lives as you can. | I had woken up just before I fell to the ground but I remained paralyzed in fear making me who I am today. My physical body can't move but in my coma, I can dream leap and enter those who were about to follow in the same fate that I was. I'd worked hard and managed to build a contraption in my own dreams that allowed m... |
1,542 | Dr. Suess was a serial killer , and his victims and methods are reflected in his works .
| `` Please... Dr.Seuss... do n't do this!'' the man begged.
`` Say the line.'' Suess said. `` And call me by the right name.'' The man sobbed, straining against his restraints. He eyed the rancid meal placed before him, before looking back up into the eyes of his tormentor.
`` I... I d-do not like g-green eggs a... |
1,543 | You 're a local healer , a good one , and your people love you . But you do not truly heal wounds , merely transfer them ... The people of the valley below know you under a different name .
| I used to think that my parents got up early every morning, cut back the vines from around the house, slashed the weeds in the garden, and then went back to bed. Then, they would call to me and say, `` Wake up and go pick up the yard trimmings!'' It was the strangest thing.
When I got old enough to really wonder ab... |
1,544 | Describe the unescapable prison , then break out of it .
| Sensory deprivation chambers. When I was a little girl, they were just becoming popular. In science, in people ’ s personal lives, everywhere. Scientists wanted to explore the possibilities: how long could a mentally healthy human stay in there? What side effects would someone experience after an extended stay in a cha... |
1,545 | LG G3™ Smart Screen face recognition keeps your phone 's screen from going to sleep whenever it sees a face . You turn off your lights to go to bed , set your phone in it 's LG Media Charging Dock , cover your face in blankets , but the screen is n't turning off ...
| The glare of the screen was keeping me awake. How long had it been since I'd set my phone in its charging dock and lay down in bed? Twenty minutes? Half an hour? The screen should've turned itself off by now. It should n't be detecting a face, because I was the only one in here, and I was n't facing my phone right now.... |
1,546 | Write a story in 5 minutes immediately after you read the prompt in the text field of this post .
| Some kids show was on when I first heard the gun shots. They were much louder than I would have thought possible. I jumped out of the couch when I heard the first shot and then I froze. My one year old son seemed frozen by the noise as well. My fiance lost it. She gave me a sharp look asked me what the hell it was. I l... |
1,547 | Create a dramatic story from a mundane problem
| They are bleeding. A nervous irritation. Nerves firing up my brain for tear-duct signals and collapsing hands, giving up.
I was conditioned as a kid to be harsh. I saw my father before me bleed and curse and I followed in his footsteps. I never saw my mother, she left early.
The first time, I leaked blood all o... |
1,548 | You live in a world where light helps you retain and regain memory while darkness makes you forget everything . One day . . .
| Jennifer woke up in a dark room, no light. She rubbed her eyes as if that would help her to see. `` Oh god... what in the hell...?'' She threw herself on bed again, too exhausted to move.
Not that she remembers, but waking up in the dark room with no memory happens to her on regular bases. If she has a bad day, she... |
1,549 | During the past month, nearly every morning, you've woken up woozy, pale, and covered in bites. All forms of pest extermination have been tried and always failed. This time before bed you rub yourself with garlic—and are awakened by your new neighbor cursing and spitting blood onto the floor. | I have woken up every morning to bites all over me. They were small and about 1half of a inch apart and hurt like hell. When I try to move i feel drained of energy and cant do anything but eat a cookie and lay down for an hour blaiming my low blood sugar.
I've tried exterminators and they have never seen anything like... |
1,550 | Two demons possess the same house . They are both very passive aggressive towards each other .
| I rolled my eye. Vetoris stalked into the living room with ethereal flames trailing behind him. “ Hey, Aesham, ” he said.
I waved one of my tentacles. “ Hey, Vetoris. Your flames are looking real big today. ”
Vetoris looked behind him and shrugged. “ I guess. I just can ’ t compete with your amazing smell. It r... |
1,551 | An incredibly detailed description of someone jamming a slice of pizza painfully in their own ear , for my dire medical reasons
| The grease was the first thing I felt as I held the pizza slice over my ear. Ever so slowly my ear felt as if it filled with fire, the burning grease filling my canal. After a few drops my ear was filled until everything sounded muffled. “ Why am I doing this? ” I ask myself. “ No… I must keep going. ” Gingerly I bring... |
1,552 | Write a story of lost love , hate , a murder and a suicide in less than 500 words . The first and the last sentence are the same .
| I ’ ve never been one for parties anyway. Even this kind where I ’ m wrist deep in blood, slightly drunk, and crying on a fifty thousand dollar pool table. At least I didn ’ t stain it, pool table felt is usually a bitch to clean, but the red oak and red felt will clean-up nicely. Perhaps I should start thinking of a s... |
1,553 | A person who has necrophobia ( fear of dead things ) is one of the only survivors of a devastating disease that wipes out most of humanity
| It was a huge joke in our circle of friends— “ Sadie hates zombie movies. ” I never read zombie books or watched zombie tv shows, but I especially didn ’ t watch zombie movies. And ghosts? No fucking way, just as bad as zombies. I couldn ’ t stand them; the fear was bone-deep and chilling and completely out of my contr... |
1,554 | Turn your most memorable dream into a story
| I was in kindergarten.
My entire class was there. It was a dungeon. A wet dungeon made of tan clay.
There were numerous clay tables, or more specifically, alters, in this room. To my horror, I saw that my fellow classmates were strapped on their backs to these alters. Only I was free. As I hid, and watched, in walk... |
1,555 | The epic clash between a monster from under the bed and a stuffed animal sworn to protect their sleeping child .
| Young Raine whispers gently into my polyester ear before closing her eyes and going to sleep. `` Night-night, Zetto... Do n't let the bed bugs bite...'' she says before drifting off. Do n't let the bed bugs bite indeed. They come for her every night, predators under her mattress thirsty for her blood. My stout body and... |
1,556 | The commute of a man who can see how people will die .
| Transit rides have always been a tricky business for me.
They usually start as I hand my change over to the bus driver. If the man ’ s eyes are closed and he has a peaceful smile on his face it means I have the go ahead to board. If a twisted mangled corpse occupies his seat I wait for the next bus. When I do find ... |
1,557 | You 're a sim who has been living in some teenager 's hellish world for a few weeks
| It was thirteen days ago it began.
I had just returned from school to see a new addition on our house - unexpected, but not completely out of the ordinary. It did n't have any wallpaper on it, or windows, or doors from outside or inside; I assumed that would come later.
It did n't.
My parents and I noticed ... |
1,558 | "Emotions have weight, which means they can have force, which means we can put them to work" | Things became weird ever since humanity discovered that emotions carried physical weight. Turns out the heaviness one felt from anxiety was real. The loud stomping that occured from frustration and anger? You could split the ground if you were angry enough, that or shatter some bones. The strange part was that not all ... |
1,559 | Write a really great story that ends so anticlimatically that I hate you .
| After weeks of making phone calls we finally found someone that could open the safe. They arrived around 9am and by 7 that evening the doors started to move. The lock had finally freed but the hinges were off balance and the doors would not open more than a inch. The locksmith went to his truck to get his pry-bar. Sudd... |
1,560 | You find the "lizard people rule the world" conspiracy to be absolutely inane. After all, you're one of them and you ain't running shit. | “I swear, Zucc is one of ‘em! I mean, just look at him?! And he has massive control over one of the biggest social media’s to date. All that data at their slimy fingertips. It’s too much!”
Fool. They know nothing. Perfect.
“What have you found?” Mizer calls from behind me. “I’ve infiltrated their forums and discussio... |
1,561 | In the upper-left side of your vision you've always had an "objective." {Get the Mail} - {Get ready for work} - {Buy Mom a birthday gift}. It's convenient at best, usually providing direction and reminders. You wake with a start in the middle of the night, and see the objective {Get to safety}. | Skin is cold. Eyes are dry. {Wake up}. It is 3am but my body is throbbing with energy. {Sit up}. I can see more words, but they are blurry, so I put on my glasses. Good. Sight restored.
{Get to safety}.
"Oh fuck." I sift through carefully catalogued memories of the past 24 hours, and make sure to monitor the stimuli ... |
1,562 | The zombie apocalypse has started, write about how civilization fell to this threat | All the media sources I’ve seen before got the zombie apocalypse wrong. It doesn’t start from the lab infecting one person and spreading. At least, this one doesn’t.
Whoever was behind it was insidious and smart, or they probably played Plague Inc, and learned how to effectively create a virus that can transmit undete... |
1,563 | Mirrors stop reflecting human images .
| The first time I had wiped the steam off of the mirror and seen my reflection, I had jumped into the air and slammed my back into the wall in an attempt to get away from the mirror. It took about two weeks for me not to immediately be frightened and another two for me not to be disturbed by it. Now I just smile at the ... |
1,564 | You discover that your cat actually has nine lives .
| You looked down on her. She was just purring at me like normal, like nothing happened. But how was it possible? How was she even standing before me? You saw it, you heard the crack, you saw the blood, you saw her little innocent face get crushed... How... How did she survive? How did she survive a fucking tree branch f... |
1,565 | You have a near-death experience that reveals you have a Guardian Angel protecting you ... And you have the hots for her . You continue putting your life in danger in order to spend more time with her .
| “ I ’ m telling you, Susan, he wasn ’ t the same after the operation. ”
“ What do you mean? ”
“ He died, you know. When he was under. And when he came back... he just wasn ’ t Tim anymore. ”
“ How so? ”
“ We started fighting all the time, and we never used to fight. He kept saying I didn ’ t care about ... |
1,566 | "What's wrong?" "That tree isn't moving." "Isn't that what trees do? Not move?" "Look at the other trees; their branches are waving in the wind. But this one's completely still." | When Zack and Dennis rode about town on their hand-me-down bicycles, scowls and tuts followed them. It was on a dare that they rode up to the abandoned farm house. The driveway was choked with weeds and shrouded, despite the summer heat, in a damp, ground-hugging fog. A crudely painted sign nailed to a rotting fence po... |
1,567 | You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar 's body . The bigger the lie , the deeper and larger the mark . One day , you meet someone that only has one scar ; it is the biggest one you have ever seen .
| I remember when I got my first scar. For some reason, children aged 12 and under were exempt from the rule, and after I turned 13 I told my mom I hated her and that I wished I was never born. Huge gash, right across the face. There was so much blood.
My mom was devastated. She expected me to get my first few cuts l... |
1,568 | You were abducted by aliens . No one believes you .
| Friday 26th, August 1994:
I have just finished my shift at McDonalds and I head to my car at 12 in the night. I jump in, put my keys in the ignition and drive home. As I pull into the driveway I can see my family must still be up because all the lights are on in the house. I think to myself that there never up this l... |
1,569 | World War III has just ended . You and a group of survivors have become hunters and gatherers in a post-apocalypse world where nature and human-killing robots runs rampant .
| “ Did I ever tell you about the time I took down a Predator drone with nothing but my dentures and a piece of string? ” Old man Johnson asked. His ears stuck out of his white hair. They wiggled when he spoke.
“ Yes, ” I said, “ You told that story every night for the last two years. ”
“ Oh, ” Old man Johnson sa... |
1,570 | At birth every one gets a number assigned to them which determines their threat to humanity . You are number 1,039,474,023 . Your newlyborn son is born . His number is 1 . This number has never been seen before in all of history .
| “ Push!! Push!! ”
The contractions came, quicker and quicker... Finally, the midwife held aloft a child, wailing shrilly into the cool evening night. A boy!
Then, a gasp - there, unmistakeably on his wrist, the number ‘ 1 ’. As I looked closer at my newborn son, I saw that he was misshapen, one half of his face... |
1,571 | In a world where the government controls every aspect of citizens' lives, there is a black market where people can buy glimpses of their memories before the government wiped them. As an underground memory dealer, you must decide how far you are willing to go to help people reclaim their past | “3 dead and 2 alive found in murder cannibal case,” said the voice in the video.
I watched the short news clip about how some guy had taken his neighbors hostage after a house party and killed them off one by one. He planned to kill and eat all five people, but his place was raided before he could get to the last two.... |
1,572 | Insulting a witch wasn’t your best idea.now you got no mouth.at least you don’t need to drink or eat anymore | You’re beautiful Craig. Just smile.
I stared into the mirror. But no matter how hard I tried, I could not ignore the smooth patch of skin where my mouth hole should be. Horribly smooth. Horribly flesh.
As if mocking me, the red and yellow clowns from the walls of the McDonald’s bathroom smiled menacingly. My first ti... |
1,573 | Horrible creatures acting adorable. | At first, I had shit my pants. This eight-foot-tall, bow-legged, zebra-antelope-spider with meter-long HORNS and a skull for a face stood in front of me with its long T. rex claws up like a praying mantis. Except I was the one praying to whatever god could hear me to please be the one that’s actually real and come and ... |
1,574 | Ten years ago, the snow began to fall, and hasn't stopped since. | The air was warm and cozy,like a blanket had come over the world.
It was mid summer,but snow was still gently drifting down from the sky.
I could hear soft whispers as the wind brushed the endless fields.
I stared at the pure white layers,covering the entire civilization that once stood here.
Whatever was falling w... |
1,575 | You wake up to find out that during the night , someone or something has bricked up all the windows and doors in your apartment .
| I checked the time after I woke up. It was half past 12. This has never happened before. The room felt gloomy and as soon as I opened up my eyes, I saw the windows and the door bricked. For a moment, I thought that I was lucid dreaming but as I checked my finger, ( tapered with a band-aid ), I realised that this was no... |
1,576 | `` Offering to Mother ''
| Smiling at the image in the sky above her, Willow holds herself up by leaning on the fencepost, one of the few still standing. The murder of crows caw loudly as they circle the scene, few daring to come close to the woman covered in blood.
“ Mother, is it to your liking? ” Strength comes back to her, the shake of a... |
1,577 | And so , as the light filtered down through the autumn leaves and danced upon the ground , we set about our task .
| And so, as the light filtered down through the autumn leaves and danced upon the ground, we set about our task. It was easy at first but as the time wore on my muscles began to protest every move, the ground seemed to become harder, and it didn ’ t help that I couldn ’ t stop the tears streaming down my face. I kept lo... |
1,578 | The dry crack of a rifle broke the forest's sunrise silence. | Soon followed by the thud of Terry’s body as it slumped from the tree branches. It hit the ground with a snapping sound. In just seconds the dead that had gathered round descended upon the body. Digging dirty hands and rotting teeth into their fresh meal. Josh watched from above in horror, he couldn’t decide which both... |
1,579 | Take any mundane object and describe how it was the downfall of humanity .
| The man looked as if he have n't eaten in a week. He was shaking — either scared of us, or just cold. His left hand was dead, desiccated, with multiple puncture scars.
A Pencilpocalypse survivor.
`` Come on'' said Jane. `` You do n't have to fear us, and that's not like there is a lot of people left anyway. We ... |
1,580 | The Scarecrow.. It 's unrelenting , 26 hours you have n't stopped running yet every time you turn praying you have time , it is there , bounding toward you through crowds or buildings alike , unseen by anyone but you , ragged and thin with a stare as cold as ice and a snarl of unimaginable intent .
| `` Why was no one helping? Why could no one see him?''
These were what I assumed my final thoughts were. The questions unanswered after 26 hours of running through the city. My legs simply ca n't go any longer as I reached the countryside. The last fibers snapped. The last molecule of sugar was broken. That's when ... |
1,581 | In the future , thanks to an advance in technology , evolution becomes generational , instead of taking millennia . The resulting off-spring view their parents as backward cavemen .
| `` Hello, Mother'', it said, pulsing with light.
`` Err, are you ready for breakfast? ``, Mother said, as her child, evolved into a post energy state, floated down that morning.
`` Where is Father?'' the energy-child said, coalescing above the chair at the table into a vaguely humanoid form.
`` He's helping... |
1,582 | As you stay alone, To check if you snore, you turn on a recording app before you sleep. Next day on playing it, instead of snoring sound, a shrill voice saying, "'heads' it's today , 'tails' it's not" , followed by a clink of coin. "damn, it's a tail", says the voice, followed by silence. | I pushed record on my phone and made sure to plug it in to the charger, ensuring it wouldn’t die overnight while I slept. I’d been waking up suddenly and dramatically as if I’d been gasping for breath and read online that it could be sleep apnea. I figured I’d record the night first to see if I was snoring or not and t... |
1,583 | you wake up to find you are in a time loop reliving your worst day ever | You wake up, relieved that yesterday is finally over. You make breakfast, “that’s odd... I swear I finished that yesterday...” you burn it, just like yesterday. you arrive at work, meeting your best friend Jessica in the same place as yesterday, “you won’t believe what happened yesterday, so first Kyle accidentally spi... |
1,584 | everybody knows the world's greatest detective lives at 221b Baker Street. What they don't know about is the world's greatest baker that lives on 221b detective street. | Baking is simple really, combine some foods into taste. Thats how people see it. But when you try reaching the peek of how tasty something can be… you'll quickly realise that taste is subjective. Sure your cream croissants can be the best in the world because of the perfect balance between crispiness and creaminess, bu... |
1,585 | Every door you touch unlocks by itself . One day , you discover something you wish you did n't .
| It's 2 days before Christmas. I'm impatiently waiting to open them, and then I get an idea;
In the middle of the night, I'll sneak into my parents room and look at all of my presents. Then I'll know what I got before opening them!
So the night came, I set an alarm at 12:30am to start my plan. I woke up excited ... |
1,586 | End a story the same way you started it .
| Hickory, dickory, dock.
The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, the mouse ran down, Hickory, dickory, dock.
“ Again, daddy, again! ” Edith screamed as she rolled back and forth on her small grey bed with her legs kicking in the dead air above us.
“ No time for again, it ’ s time for bed ”, I whisp... |
1,587 | Write something both beautiful and horrifying. | She waited. She dallied. In secret silence she shook and knew that she must move, but her feet weren’t solid, they looked unreal, wispy even. “How can you move without feet?” the young woman puzzled.
A buzz of light whispers fell on her ears, coming somewhere from behind. “What is that noise?” she thought, “Where are ... |
1,588 | Write an horror story about a man and an evil goldfish .
| `` Eat her....eat her''... said Bubbles. It had been three months since I could hear is voice. Three months since I stopped dreaming and awoke to the reality of my circumstance. If only I had seen the symbol under the bowl when I bought it. The incantation of the forest people. `` Now pour her blood around the circle a... |
1,589 | Your phone went to 1% battery and you decided not to charge it until it died. It’s been three years and it’s still going. | Ping
A ringtone, accompanying a received message, echoed through the room. Blair glanced over at her phone and sighed.
It's been three years already... Why haven't you died yet?! She thoughts as she tapped the screen to bring out the notification feed. From there she could see the message which had been received just... |
1,590 | Each sentence within a paragraph should be one word longer than the last sentence in that paragraph .
| I really had no idea it would happen that way. But it did and now I realize that it had to. Of course, if I had thought about it before I started maybe… But then again, we all do things that don ’ t make sense in retrospect.
That ’ s why they say hindsight is 20/20. My dad always called it eagle eye hindsight. It d... |
1,591 | After years of struggle, she was back home. She looked at the old manor as the rain started. She walked in. It was empty. She went upstairs and walked into her room only to see a chair and a recorder. | I haven’t been back here in a long time.
I stare up at the house, trying not to think about the innumerable, unspeakable horrors that took place here. The surrounding gloom matches my mood, and rain starts to fall, urging me inside.
I open the door, breathing to steady myself as it closes behind me.
It’s so dark.
N... |
1,592 | You are Greg, a 19 year old man living in Juneau, Alaska. You work stock at the O'Reilly Auto Parts, and you had the ability to lift anything, no matter it's weight. One day, during your shift, the local TV news headlines announce that Kensington mine has collapsed, trapping 9 people inside. | Look I swear I'm a totally normal guy. Sure maybe I have long hair, smoked weed a couple times, possibly have a secret superpower that lets me lift anything of any weight, but other than that I promise I'm just your average Joe!
I didn't want any trouble, honest. Even though I worked at an auto parts warehouse, I neve... |
1,593 | A desert plunged into darkness, you are a lone wanderer, a lantern as your only light. The sands shake, a monster wakes. | I have become one with sand and I depend on it for my survival like I once needed water. It is in my blood, thick but trustworthy, an endless supply. I’ve adapted to my situation. It is me, my lantern and the sand in a sea of blackness. The stars have turned their eyes away from the Earth’s devastation and the sun wand... |
1,594 | You begin to have the sneaking suspicion that Death *likes* you
| There ’ s no way to escape the heat of the New Orleans summer. The air filled my lungs with desperation, and my clothes with dripping, salty sweat. After the hurricane, our electricity was shot and not even the fan, with its mocking, motionless blades, could quell my tortured soul. I took to counting the cracks in the ... |
1,595 | Your daughter wakes you and says she has a bad dream , you invite her into your bed and ask her what the dream was about . She recounts her dream as you slowly realise to your terror that you used to have the same dream ... it 's back
| As my daughter recited the dream like it was part of a shared memory, I could picture the very image of it.
`` There was a long, dark, hallway. The walls looked like sand, but held together somehow. There was a door at the end of the hallway, flanked by two torches that gave off a greenish glow.''
`` I had no c... |
1,596 | "Foul Creature, I cast you from this poor soul!" Screamed the priest, holding the crucifix foreward. "Yes father, I would love to leave! That's why i called you! He. Won't. Let. Me. Out!" This exorcism was most unorthodox indeed. | It was 3am and I woke up screaming. No one could hear it of course, being that I am a demon possessing a human body.
Did you catch that? I'm possessing a human body. I'm not possessing a human soul. Why not? Because this abomination I'm in doesn't have a soul.
Let's back up a bit. It was a routine moment, monitoring ... |
1,597 | The monster under your bed is really a good guy .
| Christina awoke suddenly. She heard the splintering sound of the front door, and grabbed Morris, her teddy bear in pure, abject fear.
Mommy had opened her bedroom door and ran to her bed. `` Christina, put your desk chair against the door and do n't leave until I come back, whatever you do!'' She nodded and started... |
1,598 | You are home alone when a young monster knocks on your door saying “Hey, can I borrow you? I need to bring something cool for show-and-tell.” | I stared at the young boy in wide-eyed shock, my mouth agape and unable to form words. He ran a clawed hand quickly through his scraggly mane of jet-black hair, pushing it back and giving me a glimpse of his eyes – two glassy, obsidian orbs without iris or whites. Evidently nervous, I watched as his mouth stretched int... |
1,599 | A little boy or girl wakes up one morning and discovers a new door has appeared in their home where a blank wall used to be .
| `` DAD!''
I groggily open my eyes. They dart first to the sleeping body next to me, and I see a smirk on her face, teeth gleaming in the darkness. Even if James has n't called my name, I'm sure my wife would have made me leave the comfy bed to deal with him, or some other nonsense.
Nightmares, however, are my t... |
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