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1,600 | Sam and Dean , incarcerated , start to realize that they are history 's worst serial killers , and that their supernatural enemies were normal people .
| “ Sammy? Sammy! ”
“ Dean, I ’ m right here man. ” I take my brother ’ s flailing arm by the wrist and grip his hand. “ Sam, where are we? What the hell is going on? ” Dean roared.
“ You ’ re ok, Dean. We ’ re ok. ” We most certainly were not ok. Dean and I were incarcerated in a facility for the criminally ... |
1,601 | The sun on your face for the first time in years ...
| The sunlight beamed down from a skylight, touching my skin and sending warm vibrations through my spine. It has been about two years, give or take a month, that I have been locked in Joseph Long's basement. Why he abducted me, I was never sure, but being outside of that treacherous room gave my mind a burst of inspirat... |
1,602 | You have the power to do anything as long as it prevents you from getting embarassed
| My sister was screaming and clutching her hair like some asylum madman from a 1950s pulp magazine, blood and bits of flesh clinging to her face, eyes fixed forward unseeing. The kitchen table looked like, and would soon enough become, a crime scene. Bone, brain, the works. Jesus.
It was my new boyfriend Gabe ’ s fi... |
1,603 | When a person dies , a mental/telepathic sending goes out to the person they loved the most . Today you receive a sending from a person you have never seen before .
| *This is my first time using reddit and my first attempted at writing a story. Feedback would be great!
-- -- --
`` Hello?''
I lye completely still and pretend to sleep. I am defiantly not sleeping, but I have no idea who that to me is. For a moment I regret watching so much Netflix. So much Criminal Minds and ... |
1,604 | You have 200 words to describe a terrible crime, then 200 words to completely justify it | Taped Record Interview
Sydney Keeler/Detective Nick Lassiter/Detective Glen Morrison
8.21.98
START OF RECORD
NL: This is Detective Nick Lassiter of the Chicago Police Department with Detective Morrison. This is a recorded interview discussing the alleged crimes of Mister Sydney Keeler. The date is-
SK: Crime? My o... |
1,605 | Write a horror story from the perspective of three year old .
| Sometimes I ca n't sleep at night because Mommy keeps me up with her dancing. She always tells me not to open my door after she tucks me in, but her friends are really loud. One night I opened the door to ask Mommy if I could get up to get something to drink. She did n't see me come out of my room. I peeked around the ... |
1,606 | A mother on a boat with her child . There 's something in the water . 350 words .
| Deasil gazed at the glassy ripples reflecting the soft shine of the moon as her boat matched the rhythm of the waves. She could hear the splashes from her child swimming in the center of the lake. She knew it was only a matter of time before the Lord of the Lake arrived.
“ Lilly, darling, don ’ t wander so far away... |
1,607 | The monsters inside your child 's head have stepped into reality , and they are very , very real .
| It started out like any other day. Kids went to school, got on that big yellow bus and rode away. That was the first time i noticed it a flash a mere glimpse of something out of the corner of my eye. I wrote it off it off as just my imagination after a long night, your mind seems to play tricks with fourteen hours of s... |
1,608 | The inner monologue of an idiot turning into a genius within minutes .
| Hungry. Food. Hungry. Food. Hungry. Food.
Food good. Food good. Food good.
Man in white. Give colorful food. Small. Make drink. Water.
Man in white. Make move. Room. Make lie down. Turn lights off.
My eyes. No sleep. Stay open. Can ’ t sleep. I can ’ t sleep.
Head hurts. My head hurts. Stomach stran... |
1,609 | When someone is murdered , their name appears on the skin of the killer . You wake up with a name on your arm and no knowledge of how it got there .
| I woke up this morning with a name on my forearm. I have no idea how it couldve gotten there. There's no way I did that. Especially not her. There's just no way.
You... You seem lost. In that case you must not know about the chip.
You see at birth we get a chip implanted in our bodies that prints the crimes we comm... |
1,610 | Necromancers double as world leading CSI 's . Describe an average day for one of them .
| `` The cold is biting me. Biting. Sharp teeth. Teeth, claw, knife? Mommy why is it cold? I forgot. I left the oven on.''
`` Does he have to go on like that?'' Morgan asked.
`` Lucky he's talking at all,'' Lillian said. `` What was it, two days in the Delta? Fish nibbling him, water on the brain. He's all mush i... |
1,611 | Choose a form or genre you think you do well . Write something in that genre that is also a manual on how to write that genre well ( poem on how to write poems , or a sci-fi story on how to write good sci-fi )
| You see, you start with someone, alone at their home, sort of like me. I am currently sitting at my desk with a bottle of whiskey and a typewriter in front of me. Lit only by the light of one of my candles.
This is where any good horror plot starts, some people call it cliche but, this, this is golden. We're all a ... |
1,612 | You’ve always had good sight in the dark, you’ve been called a freak for it. When you die and see the light in the tunnel, you are the first person to notice a door to your side instead. | The walls of the tunnel were cold, slick stones. They stretched in front of me for what seemed a thousand miles toward a pinprick of light far in the distance. The floor of the tunnel was the same unforgiving stone. My feet were bare and ached on the hard stone as I made my way on the long journey towards this strange ... |
1,613 | You've just killed somebody. With their last words, they look up at you and whisper, "Finally, I'm free!" The next morning, you wake up as them. | Another day, another dollar.
Well, not exactly. More like, another day, another credit card, box of mints, debit card, $59 dollars in cash, driver's license, insurance card, copy of “pretty woman”, and a pair of very dull scissors.
That what was in the purse of the man I just stabbed. I was hoping for more, but if yo... |
1,614 | Write a story about life in a city where it 's always daytime . End the story with the sentence `` And the darkness consumed me , just as it always does . ''
| The back of my eyes burn. I ’ ve been awake for three days and the revelers around me continue to eat and drink. Strong winds beat against walrus skin tarps. Those gruesome fleshy walls surround us, saving the fair goers from sand and grit picked up by the wind. Yet, partials of dust rise and fall with the movement of ... |
1,615 | Describe an object within five feet of you in as much detail as possible .
| You're an odd one. Normally you'd be yellow but your skin is smooth and green. On the round head are two black hollows, making up your eyes, blankly staring back at me. Beneath is the glowing orange triangle of your mouth in the center of which is a hole that you whistle to.
I think back when I first got you. I was... |
1,616 | You fell down a hole while rockclimbing and broke your legs. After a day of not being able to escape and no one hearing your calls you accept you're going to die. 7 days later you're still alive, beginning to question if you're immortal, and still trapped in a hole. | I try to grasp for another pebble. When I started a day ago, i could just grab them from where I lay, but now there’s a me-sized circle devoid of pebbles. I strain and I barely grab a tiny rock between two of my fingers. I throw it down the length of the crevice. It bounces off the walls.
Clack clack clack.
I look at... |
1,617 | All of your colleagues make fun of you because you're a real psychic working on a scam psychic hotline. They don't realize that your ability to read the minds of anyone on the other end of a phone line makes you one of the most powerful psychics in existence. | Dan swirled in his fancy gaming chair and propped his legs up his mahogany table as he came to a rest just in the right position.
“Yes, yes.” He said patiently into a bluetooth headset, “Grams loves you and she forgot to tell you that she had got some cookies stashed away behind the boxes of cereals on the upper ri... |
1,618 | What is in the letter a nightmare 's written ?
| Dear Sleeper,
I ’ m scared. I don ’ t know what ’ s going on. It ’ s so dark in here, and there are shadows everywhere, shadows that move in the corner of my eyes, but are so perfectly still when I stare straight at them.
There are footsteps that stalk me where ever I go, and the faster I run, the closer they s... |
1,619 | A serial killer has found his next victim and begins his normal routine of peeking through windows and popping up in mirrors , looking for that rush he gets off on . Unfortunately , his newest victim is a horror movie fan and has constructed his life around the prevention of such jump scares .
| I'm standing front of the house. Halloween night as usual. I try to make myself a urban legend. Who really believes in a murder on Halloween night? With tons of rumors about this type of stuff nobody believes it, perfect.
My victim is a millionaire businessman. With such a big house this should be easy. I look thro... |
1,620 | [ wp ] Write a comic exchange where two people slice each other with sly and bitchy insults while pretending to be nice .
| `` Oh hi doctor Marsh, you ’ re looking like you had a fun evening.''
`` Thank you nurse Robinson, I can see you ’ re fresh as a rose, as usual. Is your husband “ out of town ” again?''
`` Indeed he is. Got ta work for that check. You of all people know how expensive women can get.''
`` Oh don ’ t get me st... |
1,621 | You are bleeding. This is a problem, as you are a robot. | The last thing I heard was a crack—an ear-splitting, gut-wrenching crack.
As I woke, I found myself staring at the ceiling. It was fuzzy at first, from the suddenness. A strange mix of emotions swirled inside me. Some I could identify like hurt, betrayal, sadness, but the others I wasn't sure of. They held a different... |
1,622 | You stumble across your own corpse .
| I saw myself in the kitchen. With her back turned, she chopped celery without hearing me enter the house. I timed each footfall, treading hardwood with each hit made to the butchers' block.
It took a few minutes before I could work myself out of the shadows. I stood there trying to control heavy breaths. I was nerv... |
1,623 | Write something that makes me more afraid of the light than the dark .
| When I was little my mother would read me a story before bed on most nights. One night after going to sleep I was woken by a commotion and the smell of acrid smoke coming from down the hall. I ran down the hall to my mother's room to see if she was ok and banged on her door for what seemed like minutes, but she did not... |
1,624 | They say your life flashes before your eyes just before you die ...
| “ They say your life flashes before your eyes just before you die… ”
“ Frankly, there are a number of issues with this statement, and none that are, on the whole, particularly helpful to its understanding. However, for the sake of argument, let ’ s narrow it down to two. Yes, that seems like a sensible number to wo... |
1,625 | Make up some historical or little-known fact and convince me that it 's true
| It's in our schools; it's in our pools; and, horrifyingly, it's in our homes. The deadly chemical known as Dihydrogen Monoxide is being discovered all around the world. Nursing homes are giving it to the elderly. Schools to kids. Parents to their newborn. And it kills. In small doses the chemical is safe to ingest, but... |
1,626 | The witch is buying first-borns to rescue them from shitty parents who sell their children .
| A stiff pain awoke me from bed. My body was thrown against the corner of my room.
`` YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING BOY''
`` I will feed you to the dogs!''
Bewildered and dazed I realized finally my father was home drunk again. He readied his fist for another blow. I clinched my face and shut my eyes so hard waiting ... |
1,627 | You run into a stranger at the store who claims they are great friends with you , after questioning them he/she shows you pictures of you guys hanging out many times . You are certain you have no memory of any of these occasions , but notice every picture was taken during nighttime ...
| `` Are n't you tired Tom? What do you hope to accomplish with this? ``, I hear a calm and oh so reasonable whisper in my head.
IT is not wrong either, I have n't slept for three days. I ca n't keep this up forever. The truth though is that I am too afraid to go to bed, because if I lose focus even for a minute - IT w... |
1,628 | you are out with a friend when suddenly you blink and everything around you looks ruined and everyone looks like statues. A frail old man looks at you and weeps while he says “After 84 years, I finally was able to wake someone up” | Mark came back from the bar with our drinks – two ciders, the usual. We met every Friday for dinner to catch up on the week we’d had. Mark had recently started a new job and hearing him discuss it with such enthusiasm and drive made me rethink my current situation. I’d been working in the same place for almost 10 years... |
1,629 | You are a scavenger in the post-apocalypse . One day while looking for scrap , you find a room with a button labeled , `` REBOOT '' .
| It looked like a bomb had gone off, but we did n't care. This was the find of our life. All steel and concrete, heaps of twisted girders and bent panels, debris scattered a half-mile around. It took three days to map, and when we returned, dragging sledges laden with fat twists of copper wire and long lengths of pipe, ... |
1,630 | You hold a great and possibly terrible secret from the world . You are debating the repercussions of telling the world , and if there is a benefit to telling the world , or keeping it to yourself . ( The secret is whatever you desire it to be . )
| I was almost to my breaking point. Everybody talks and I knew that just as well as anyone else. There ’ s only so much pain the human body can manage before it convince your brain that whatever you ’ re hiding simply isn ’ t worth it. Another lash of the whip and now I was crying out like a dog. At first, the torture w... |
1,631 | The reason babies cry so much is we never actually die, we are reborn over and over again living the same lives. They remember everything including their deaths. It's only as they grow the memories fade, except every once in a while as deja vu. | “Oh Jesus Christ, you little shit!” Ms. Sollabaker swung her arm above the child, as if to hit it, “Fifteen minutes into this world and you can’t even stand it. Well, I can’t stand you either! The same as I couldn’t stand your mother!” The woman swatted the air and turned away to tend to the stove.
It just lay there. ... |
1,632 | You found out you have the ability to stop time , but you do n't know how to resume it . Stuck in the paused time , one day you noticed a book on the table was moved .
| Mo stared at the book. He turned to the rest of his small apartment, eyes roving over the minuscule living room, the crammed bookshelves, the strictly utilitarian kitchen, the darkened hall to his even darker bedroom, the closed door of the bathroom, and then back to the table—upon which sat the book. 42 seconds passed... |
1,633 | You 're pretty tolerant but lately roommate has been leaving half-eaten meals lying around . This would n't be a problem if your roommate stopped bringing people home and eating them .
| `` Dammit, Jeff... stop leaving body parts in the kitchen sink until they start to decay! Take the parts you want and bury the rest. It's that simple!''
Mark was a serial killer and had originally thought that living with Jeff, who was a cannibal, would workout perfectly since he would eat Mark's victims leaving mi... |
1,634 | `` You know the rules children . All windows must remain closed . ''
| The trouble is that children don ’ t reliably follow rules. The kids at the Glenridge School for Lost Boys were no different. Found by the kid catchers wandering the streets or perhaps trying to make a couple of dollars panhandling, they were children with nowhere to go and nobody to care whether they were home for din... |
1,635 | You live in a village in the dessert . One day it is raided by terrorists and all village members are killed , except for you . You lost most of your memories and now wander through the dessert , thinking you are the last of your species .
| You don ’ t know pain until you ’ ve held your loved ones in your arms, their custard crème insides staining your hands. Our humble village of pastries, obliterated in one fell swoop. By some miracle I have survived, but it is a curse rather than a blessing.
The terrorists - terrible hands descending from the sky l... |
1,636 | You are a kid 's imaginary friend . They 're growing up . You 're fading away .
| We first met at the park. I doubt you would remember, you were so young. You had climbed up to the top of the tallest tree you could find, but were too scared to climb back down. I climbed up after you, and told you which branches to put your feet and your hands. You worked your way down okay, but when you reached the ... |
1,637 | Your cat is always going out at night and getting into fights with other neighborhood cats and strays . Later you discover that monsters actually appear outside your home every night at midnight and your cat has been protecting you by continually fighting them off .
| A yowl echoed throughout the night, followed by the sound of toppling trash cans. Not uncommon sounds in suburbia.
I glance over at the clock. 11:57pm. Well since I'm up anyway, I may as well get a drink. I swing off the bed, put on my slippers and trudge wearily down the stairs.
Huh. The cat basket is empty. W... |
1,638 | Write a story in 5 minutes immediately after you read the prompt in the text field of this post .
| I heard a distance, yet familiar sound—something I haven ’ t heard since my childhood when I used to live in Camden. I heard screaming too.
The sound of fingers typing came to an abrupt halt in the computer lab. For a brief moment, some people glanced at each other, but ultimately their eyes ended upon the narrow g... |
1,639 | After searching for years, you have finally found the perfect partner. | [WP] After searching for years, you have finally found the perfect partner. She is smart, sweet, funny and you two just click. From the day you two began to live together, she always wakes up at 1 in the night and gives you a kiss in the lips. Then she looks at you and goes back to sleep. First few day you find it swee... |
1,640 | Fetishes are an accepted cultural phenomenon . Every person 's birthday equals as their Fetish Day , when friends gather to fulfill this person 's fetish .
| “ My birthday is finally here! ” I sung to my boyfriend, he was still sleeping next to me. He stirred and opened his eyes.
“ I ’ m not so sure about this Claire, do you really want to do this? I know you ’ re all about your ‘ Fetish Day ’ but don ’ t you think this is taking it a bit far? ” he asked, concern etched... |
1,641 | You 're a ghost attempting to scare a family living in your house , but you can only do mildly weird/unnerving things such as constantly keeping the closet door slightly open
| Doors never seem to close here.
Every time I come back to the house, the doors are always open. Even when I deliberately shut the door before leaving, it was open when I returned. Unlocked and everything.
And sure, that was a little creepy. But it was something you could base your life around. Eventually it bec... |
1,642 | Flourine in the water supply is a conspiracy . It keeps the vampires aways . There is no going back now .
| `` Flourine huh? What is that anyway? Do you really want your kids drinking water laced with flourine? Vote YES on act 72 to get rid of it in the water supply. No flourine, longer life'', the commercial was playing over and over on every channel. The news and all other broadcasting networks have been put to a halt. I m... |
1,643 | Monsters are real ; they 're called Humans . They have hunted all other sentient species to near extinction , and have rewritten history .
| When I was a child, I feared the monsters in the dark. The demons under the bed, the evil spirits in the mirror, the ghosts haunting my attic. When I wandered into the night, teddybear in hand, they were always there… threatening to drag me into their lair.
What I did n't know was that they feared me.
When I wa... |
1,644 | While getting ready for bed, you tell your pets good night and that you love them. As you begin to drift off, you hear a whisper, as if it weren't meant to be heard, saying "I love you too." | "I love you too. Good night and sweet dream!". The childish voice suddenly sounds behind me then I feel the heat right my back. My sleepiness quickly disappears and the weariness covering me eases a lot. Those sentences seem to turn on the emotional button inside me, I can't help crying. I know that voice even though t... |
1,645 | The zombie apocalypse came on us , but much differently than expected : Human beings remain humans , and those infected continue about their lives and try to hide their addiction to human flesh .
| It ’ s a well known fact that zombies can ’ t lie. At first this problem was because zombies were so simple minded. It didn ’ t matter what you asked them, they ’ d answer in their slow rumbling voices, “ Braaiiins. ” And they ’ d be completely sincere.
Of course zombies have become a lot more sophisticated since t... |
1,646 | A person gets an eye transplant. Soon they begin to have flashes of a mysterious killing. | Blood is dripping down her hands again. Light flickers through the blinds for a moment just as her eyes roll back into her head.
I snap awake, once again in my cubicle, phone lifelessly humming into my earpiece. It's been nearly a week since I took the cover off of my new eye. A week that I haven't been able to sleep ... |
1,647 | Your wife calls you in to the bathroom to kill a spider . Write a horror story about it .
| One day I was about to eat my afternoon meal. I was excited; I had spent most of the day preparing my favorite thing to eat. Wraps are especially delicious. As I was about to dig in I heard the most horrifying sound. It was a high-pitched horrifying scream. I decided it must be serious and I rushed towards the sound to... |
1,648 | You 're on a first date with someone you met online . You 've been catfished , the person is not exactly human .
| “ A-are you alright? ” He chuckled, lifting his fork to his mouth.
“ Oh, yes! ” I exclaimed, dabbing my mouth with my napkin. I must have been staring too hard. John was unbelievably attractive. He looked even better in person than his pictures online! I silently thanked my sister for pushing me to join this dating... |
1,649 | After dying, you awoke to being inside someones mind, you keep trying to escape, but keep getting silenced whenever they eat some medication. | The last thing you remember is darkness. It was a cold, empty void that should’ve been the end. But instead, you woke up—confined, cramped, suffocating—in the depths of someone else’s mind.
At first, it was disorienting. You couldn’t see, couldn’t move, couldn’t speak. Just thoughts, swirling around like whispers in a... |
1,650 | Pack a punch in 150 words .
| Not soon enough... Sirens wailed, and we sped toward the city. Induced labor, but the complications were serious. “ No. Not enough... ” I said. Rural hospital did n't have enough. No surgical theater. I could have fixed it. I should've tried. Twenty minutes on the highway. Why did n't I? She screamed. Bleeding. Not soo... |
1,651 | The shortest horror story reads , `` The last man on Earth sat alone in a room . There was a knock on the door . ''
| The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
His nervous system kicked and through his startled body an electric adrenaline rush reminded him of his humanity. Something just hit the door, which was impossible. A complete absence of human contact has made the man so lonely, so lonely. ... |
1,652 | You’ve been tried, convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for the remainder of your natural life. No one said anything about your *un-natural life* though… | I had never been so happy with my curse as I was that that.
Well, granted, I had never been happy with my curse. Curses aren’t exactly a happy thing, y’know. But when the jury came out, verdict in hand, and the words “guilty on all charges” and “life imprisonment” filled my ears, my face lit up like a Christmas tree.
... |
1,653 | To your surprise , she 's crying .
| I awoke on the floor gasping. My entire body was numb. I lay there doing nothing but catching my breath. The halls of the underwater city were silent save the sound of a faint ping echoing. The faint fluttering of sparkling dust glided before my eyes before settling on the ground and dissipating. No, what have I done? ... |
1,654 | Every year , 2 random people on earth is marked with a sign on their left hand . If neither has died at the end of the year they both perish . They always know where the other person is located with an inaccuracy of a few kilometers .
| Death's hand was nothing more than an internet rumor a decade ago, with forums dedicated to the phenomenon recounting stories of how on every October 31st two people with the same strange marking on their hands would suddenly die and two more somewhere in the world woke up to the same strange logo on their right hand. ... |
1,655 | Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | A deep voice comes from the basement. Each tuesday it's the same. A letter, a number and then silence. It goes on for hours and then I hear someone screaming. My mom went to check it out, that's when we lost her. I heard her scream through the vent.
Dad went away, he said he'd be back for me. I havent seen him in 2 mo... |
1,656 | Come here , little one ...
| Hannah rubbed the towel on her daughter's head. Fighting against her mom, Ashley defiantly pulled the towel down, poking her head out like a gopher.
“ Mom! ” she complained, “ My hair is dry enough! ”
“ All right, all right, ” Hannah smiled down at her daughter.
With her skin still moist from the bath, Ashl... |
1,657 | On a dare you accidentally summon the real Bloody Mary . But she does n't kill you right away .
| `` It wo n't work! ``, she stood there as if I was crazy. We have all seen the horror movies in which it works. `` It does work, Nina, just trust me''. The look in her eyes said enough, she thought I was crazy.
`` Let's practice it one time, alright? ``, it was n't easy to convince her. She was always like this, in... |
1,658 | Everyone has superpowers . But they are activated only by overhearing a wish which the one 's superpower can fulfill . And your SO just wished that ... .
| It was common fact that everyone had superpowers. They were programmed into our DNA and could only be activated when someone wished a wish that our superpower could fulfill.
Young children would make up random wishes with their friends, on hopes of activating their superpower. “ I wish I could see the moon! ” or “ ... |
1,659 | You wake up in a field .
| Something whiskery tickles my cheek, anchoring me to consciousness. Drifting slowly back from my deep, dark slumber, groggy and unaware, I bat at it, slapping myself in the process. I try to pull my sheet over my head to prevent more sleep delay, but find it is n't there - instead my fist pulls a handful of dirt, crumb... |
1,660 | A child goes to her parents and tells them , `` Mommy , Daddy , everynight a ghost comes to my bedroom ; '' to which the parents reply , `` Yes honey , that 's why that room is yours . ''
| `` I want someone to play with'' is what they heard as the Smiths spent their first night in the bedroom of their new home. Both of them saw a small girl covered in blood looking at them plaintively from the end of the bed.
`` Go away'' one of them had the presence of mind to say.
`` I want someone to play with... |
1,661 | Mankind has finally made it to a distant life bearing planet . only to find that it is haunted by the ghosts of a long dead civilization .
| Captain says it ’ s stasis sickness. I don ’ t remember the parts in the manual that said anything about hearing things. Or that it would last beyond the first few hours.
I don ’ t sleep anymore. The dreams are too much. It ’ s always the same, strange shapes, strange noises that I can only imagine are language, th... |
1,662 | your best friend Annie ends up being put in a coma after being struck by a smooth criminal | I remember the day, I had just gotten home with an anniversary gift and as soon as I walked through the door, I saw her there, broken and bloody. The police told me later, that whoever came into the apartment, had gotten inside through the window, but I didn’t care about that at the time, I was to busy cradling her, as... |
1,663 | You live in a dystopian world where for ever child you have , you can kill one person of the same gender .
| “ Please be a boy. Please be a boy. Please be a boy. ”
I could hear him chanting under his breath as he knelt down in front of my legs. The pain, the familiar shocks of electricity that coursed through my body as if the sun were being forced through my womb, raked my insides till a fresh scream burst through my lip... |
1,664 | When a person loses something anywhere on the planet it somehow ends up in your garage
| The garage door stopped closing properly around a year ago.
I drove back into town one afternoon to sneak passed the yellow tape bordering my old home to see how big it had gotten. It was just another casual inspection - I tended to visit every few weeks - and sure enough, before I've even turned into the familiar ... |
1,665 | Humanity gets an offer (from whatever deity/higher power you believe in) to become immortal. All people currently alive will become immortal, but there will never be another human being born. At least half of humanity has to accept the offer for it to become reality. | Someone said the balloons were gone when he came back after a few minutes of deliberation. He went to the bathroom, came back, and they were gone. It couldn’t have been more than five minutes, he said. He only wanted to think about it.
The choice occurred two weeks ago. Still, it was all anyone talked about. It had ha... |
1,666 | The face in the mirror is not your face .
| I spent my first four years of life without a father. My mother raised me single-handedly for the four years, and allowed me every single thing I needed. She loved me. Those were the only good years of my life.
He got ahold of me when I was young. He stole me away from my mother ’ s hand in the middle of a crowded ... |
1,667 | You notice your computer history is completely different to your normal one . The websites visited lend way to a terrible and dark secret .
| I drove home slowly, constantly looking over my shoulder, as I had grown accustomed to these past few weeks. My apartment building flew over my left shoulder as I swerved right and made a third loop around my neighborhood, just in case. You could never be too careful.
Once I was sure he wasn ’ t behind me, I parked... |
1,668 | Dr. House allows less than 2 % of his cases on camera , if only people knew the outcome of the rest of his patients ...
| “ FUCK MAN ” I couldn ’ t believe what I was seeing “ FUuuuuck me DR. ”
I ’ m standing next to house. My janitor blues, plastic gloves. Mess in room 7 they said...I should of known...
A lady sits in bed, dead as the proverbial door nail. Blood leaked slowly from her left eye, right above it was a screw driver d... |
1,669 | As punishment for actions in a previous life , you are reincarnated into the thing you hate most .
| The sound of screeching tires made Vincent freeze. The feeling of his entire body breaking made him scream, and then there was nothing. His mind had shattered. He was no longer alive, but he wasn ’ t completely dead either. For now, he was nothing. Floating in the void. After a while his mind rearranged itself and then... |
1,670 | You are a sentient object . One day , someone dies while using/interacting with you . ( Potentially NSFW )
| It's a tough life being a hammer. Every day having your face driven into nails. No one but me seems to hear their screams and those of every other thing in the world. The only difference is I understand the animals that use us.
Today is another day, Ted is going to the construction site. He tosses me and the other ... |
1,671 | You discover you have a door in your basement that just wo n't open no matter what you do . That is until you find a key when you were gardening in your back yard . It 's time to open the door .
| Pops said we were never allowed in the basement. Pops said we had no business down there'cause nothing down there concerned us. It just became part of my brother's and my life. We were used to it being closed as if it was just part of the wall. Was I curious? Sure, I was curious, but I also did n't want no lashings fro... |
1,672 | "Hey I remember you! I'm also pretty sure I killed you..." | (WP) The Rookie Mistake
“Hey! I remember you! I’m also pretty damn sure I killed you.”
Another voice laughed in reply, amused. “You mean, you tried to kill me. And you almost succeeded. But luckily for me, I had an ace up my sleeve…”
It wasn’t every day that a monster I’d tried to kill walked away alive, and I curse... |
1,673 | You were born with a muscle ( or pair of muscles ) that no other person has ever had . This muscle enables you to do something no person has been able to do before .
| THERE GOES MY HERO
When I was a young boy I was told never to tell anyone what I could do. My parents said it was disgusting and shameful. I was ashamed of my ability until the day it saved my best friend Sammy ’ s life and made me a hero. Wait…I ’ m getting ahead of myself. Let me start back from the beginning. ... |
1,674 | You're dying of cancer so you agree to an experimental treatment. The first of its kind. When you wake up after the operation all the surgeons are dead. | I woke up in the dead silence of the operating room, with only a few beep from the monitor above me. I could find no one, and as I looked around, all the surgeons and nurses were lying on the floor. I called out, but no one responded. I tried to get up, only to be pushed back by the agonizing pain from my abdomen. Righ... |
1,675 | Your favorite song .
| I ran through the dense forest, tree branches whipping me in the face. My body sprinted as fast as it could- fresh little beads of sweat ran down my face and the wind whipped my hair back.
I could hear it behind me, chasing me down. If I stopped it would rip me apart. It made no noise other than the horrifying soun... |
1,676 | It 's the zombie apocalypse . How do you die ?
| When the outbreak first occurred, I thought myself to be strangely lucky. Throughout all of my life, I had struggled to make or maintain friendships – when the undead began to rise, I had zero friends, and had been living thousands of miles away from home for several years, having completely disconnected from my family... |
1,677 | '' In my nightmares , I am the monster ... ''
| I stand there with a scalpel in my hand looking down at the remains of the mess on the table. I tried my best to not be disgusted. I want them to live, I try to save them, really, I do. But as I watch my hands cutting and slicing and reattaching, no one can withstand the pain and they die.
Sighing, I walk out of th... |
1,678 | Two women spend the night together alone . The next day , one realizes she 's pregnant .
| Spring rang out inside Ann ’ s bones as she held her palm. The door was dark and wood and waiting impatiently for her to smash it, taunting her heart as it ran somewhere unfamiliar. Her body was made of hesitation. It trained itself to be magnetic, attached to empty rooms and apathetic words on a page, repelled away fr... |
1,679 | The way your body is treated when you die affects what you experience in the afterlife . Some are interred in tombs , others burried in graves , more are cremated .
| I hate it. I wish I was never buried. It's so cramped here I can hardly move. Listen, too many of the major religions were wrong, and that's why so many of us suffer down here. I know it sounds a little weird, but the best thing to do with your body is to have it stored some place in your house. Perhaps a little hollow... |
1,680 | [ Wp ] You are a wall . What stories do you tell ?
| It was like any other morning as you sit and listen to all that is happening around you.
You can feel the hot gas and vibrations from car and buses passing by, with the occasional cool breeze that breaks through the city's pollution.
You can hear all the chatter from people ’ s daily commute throughout the city and... |
1,681 | The body snatchers have replaced your family so they can observe human society. At dinner one of them makes an awkward mistake that should reveal everything. They watch you carefully, but you don't say a thing about it. After living with those jerks for years the aliens have been a joy. | Dear Diary: I shouldn’t be discussing this. They might find out. I’ll do it anyway, because I just need to write this down. I’m going mad. This happened a few weeks back.
I walked in on my family, like usual, for dinner. Mom says “Hey, Gregory, can you tell… uhhh..”
“Tell who mom?”
“Him.” and points at me. The fuck?... |
1,682 | Despite your town being quite creepy, you've always given out Full Size candy bars on Halloween - the local kids love you for it. Most of the children that live nearby are actually monsters / demons in disguise. Tonight, your house was broken into: It did not go well for the burglars. | “We met with the victim 3 days ago, one Jerry Clark, who attempted to break into the suspect’s home late last Tuesday. Ever since the incident he has been a permanent resident of the Mental Health Centre due to his deranged behaviour. When we met with him, he only had this to say:”
The TV cut to Jerry in his cell, cra... |
1,683 | You wake up one morning and find that time is moving faster for you . Ten minutes for you is an hour for the world .
| It ’ s been a weird day. I got drunk last night, at least I think that ’ s the word, and I vaguely remember taking some sort of pill. I bit it, that was dumb, my mouth still tastes bitter and I ’ m thirsty as hell. I fell asleep on the floor again too, and now everything hurts. God my joints are stiff. And my leg itche... |
1,684 | The secret to everlasting life has been discovered . Every 3,500 years someone must die , to maintain the system . You are about to sit down to watch the televised event , when you see the sacrifice is your little brother .
| It ’ s been so long. Oh, Gretchen, dear, how good of you to come. Sit down, somewhere. I can ’ t even remember what it was like, seeing someone… disappear. I tell you people, I think I might actually be thrilled. No, no, I mean it. It ’ s the echo of a thrill, but I still get a reaction out of this. It ’ s one of these... |
1,685 | Two years after the zombie apocalypse, you haven't seen anyone living or undead in months, until you lock gazes with the telltale ice blue eyes of the afflicted at your garden gate. Its nostrils flare as it catches your scent on the wind. However, it doesn't lunge at you... it nods a greeting. | The creature swayed behind the garden gate, the broken bones of its exposed rib cage clicking quietly in the breeze, and all she had to defend herself was a trowel and her basket.
Two years ago, she had said goodbye to her husband and kids and isolated herself in these woods. The location was perfect - miles away from... |
1,686 | You are the only person in the world who does n't dream . One day , you find out why .
| I wake up when one of the doctors beeps in his passcode and the door to the medical wing of my family ’ s mansion buzzes and slides open. I ’ m on a rolling bed, and I get pushed through the door by another doctor behind me. I stare up at the bright ceiling lights that pass over me every few seconds on my trip down the... |
1,687 | - 250 Words ; 2 months Reddit Gold prize
| 4:36 A.M. Another night lost to the muffled screams beneath my backyard. They reach up and buzz in the back of my head and reverberate in my chest. I've been awake now for 143 hours and wo n't take any more. I am beyond fear and anguish. The earth needs to scream and I'll give it its mouth.
In the shed is a big spa... |
1,688 | That light at the end of the tunnel turns out to be an oncoming train .
| Hey, you.
Yeah, that ’ s right. The one reading this.
Can I ask you a strange question? No, nothing NSFW or anything. More strange because of the metaphor.
Ever been in a situation, a real bad situation, where you can see the light at the end of the tunnel? It ’ s getting closer and closer to you, and at th... |
1,689 | If you do n't pay your exorcist , you get repossessed
| Having Cinthrustra around was n't all bad. At least this is what I'm telling myself as my exorcist sits across from me, reminding me in no uncertain terms that I'm behind in my payments and I'm about to be repossessed. Sure, it was inconvenient at times. It made dinners with the in-laws a little awkward. There's really... |
1,690 | There 's something living under the hedge in the garden . A child tries to entice it indoors .
| Patricia Mason sits on her sofa with a big mug of herbal tea and watches her Daughter Gloria playing in the garden, running round in circles with her arms outstretched to her sides and making soft aeroplane sounds. Patricia loves watching Gloria play but feels like she can never stop worrying, fearing everything which ... |
1,691 | You retired long ago as 100% successful cat burglar. Your 7 year old granddaughter informs you about the rich bully who stole her favorite stuffed animal. Time to put down the golf clubs and come out of retirement. The only problem is that the bully's dad is the head of a home security company. | Well never imagined this was going to happen. Time to get ready for a quick heist. Of course I was not a well known burglar, if I was I wouldn’t be doing a heist right now, I’d be breaking out of prison. So naturally I did my research because I’d rather not get caught, I was getting on a bit and I had more confidence i... |
1,692 | Everyone in your village has a tattoo on their hand that either says "wait" or "hide" due to a long held tradition, the meaning of which has been lost to the passing generations. But your tattoo is slightly different from the others. It says "Run", and you were born with it. | It seems that every other week, a child dies
"It isn't related to the marks on our hands"
"It isn't related to the child's thirteenth birthday"
This is what the elders tell us, this is what the elders lie
Everyone in our village is born with a mark on the back of their palm that says either "Wait" or "Hide"
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1,693 | End a story under 200 words with `` Two is one and one is none . ''
| We were there that day.
We were there the day that the fog came. Funny, it seems so long ago, even though it was only last year. At first people didn ’ t take note of it. It was n't unusual to see fog that time of year. It was only when people started to feel a burning sensation that anybody noticed. Then it was chao... |
1,694 | You are a ghost chilling out at your own funeral . You were , at least ... until your ex unexpectedly showed up .
| Whispers On The Hill
“ Man I hate this, ” Sam said.
“ It ’ s not so bad. There ’ s no more pain or hunger and you can go wherever you want, ” Frank said.
“ Yeah but look at her, my mother is coming apart over there, ” Sam said.
Sam pointed to an old woman shivering in tears. The creases in her mouth q... |
1,695 | 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 .
| You have n't slept in the past 48 hours. Or so you've thought, you've since lost track. It's been three days since your world fell apart. Your baby has n't stopped crying ever since your wife left.
Your wife had left you 3 days before. You had feared she would lose it, ever since she had tentatively announced her p... |
1,696 | The alien ambassador talks in length about treaties, alliances, and other such terms. But the only thing you can focus on is the Alien's cute snout, perfect for booping. You want to boop it. You need to boop it. | Aliens don’t have noses. It’s a simple fact of a complicated life. A thousand years among the stars and not a single encountered species has had one. Feet, eyes, tongues, genitals — oh, other species have those. Some have them in abundance, but until now, not a nose. Everybody knows Humans have a nose, because it’s wha... |
1,697 | Two people are in a public place , one has had the best news of their life , the other has had the worst news of their life . Unbeknownst to them , they share the exact same news .
|
The Sister | The Brother
: -- -|: -- -
Today is the day | Today is the day
Today they are going to announce the verdict. | Today they are going to announce the verdict.
Antsy and anxious, I ca n't just sit at home. I head to the bar. | I've been on a bender for the past 2 weeks of deliberation.
The case ha... |
1,698 | You just tried to commit suicide . The bullet bounced from your skull .
| I may have the skull of Super Man but that did n't stop my ears from ringing. I twisted my finger inside my right ear, hopefully I wouldn ’ t go deaf.
This discovery puts a lot in perspective for me.
I felt pretty bad when I couldn ’ t kill myself from a drug overdose. That kind of hammered home the idea that I... |
1,699 | Write a Horror scene in the style of the NFL .
| HARVEY: `` Hold on Hal, I think we are about to see the instant replay.''
HAL: `` Did you see the power behind that stab, and then twisting it, boy, that came out of nowhere.''
JOHN: `` I have n't heard screams like that since I showed my wife the new Lamborghini I bought last year. Oh, here we go!''
HARVEY... |
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