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1,700 | you spouse jokingly says and asks for a codeword/response every time he/she goes to work in the morning. Through the years you just go with it thinking it's a harmless fun. Today your spouse comes back from work not knowing the correct codeword. | “Blueberry!” Jason exclaimed with his usual glee as his wife, Marlene walked through the door.
With a quizzical look on her face, she replies, “Yeah, sure? How was your day, honey?”
Jason laughed and continued, “No seriously, Blueberry!” with a more forced smile this time.
And again, with more confusion on her face,... |
1,701 | Two babies in a mother 's womb discuss the possibility of life after delivery . One of them does n't believe in a mother .
| `` Okay so I'm pretty sure I'm going crazy'' I said
`` Why's that?''
`` Well I've started hearing voices in my head, really weird voices''
`` Loser, I've been able to hear sound for ages.''
`` Yeah, but this was terrible''
`` Why what was it?''
`` It was just a collection of weirdly horrifying s... |
1,702 | pet ( from sketch daily ) nsfw .
| Today was not a good day.
“ Why buddy? Sad buddy. ” It says, its huge face sweeping toward me. Empty red eyes, avalanche of a forehead.
It communicates through a mocking, patronising version of what I understand to be language, cobbled from their approximation of television. The instructions that came with me. ... |
1,703 | In the same month, Dr. Harris constructs an android of himself, and a clone of himself. You, his identical twin, hate them both. | They didn’t know which to give him the Nobel Prize for. Dr John Harris, my brother, managed to build the world’s first lifelike android AND the world’s first adult human clone in a single month. Both were astonishing achievements - years ahead of what anyone else was even dreaming about… and the bastard did it in weeks... |
1,704 | After living a very successful life on Earth , your last dying wish is to have your body sent into space . After honoring that wish many years later an alien race discovers your body and brings you back to life .
| It hurts. That ’ s how I know that I ’ m alive. I can ’ t open mi eyes, and I can hardly breathe. I try to move, but something is restraining me, holding me down by my wrists and ankles. I try to scream, but a really soft hand calms me down, putting a finger in my lips and tracing from there the wrinkles in my face.
... |
1,705 | You are considered by the government to be a person of mass destruction, under heavy guard in one of the best prisons they have. The reason for this? You're so clumsy that you've managed to kill everyone around you, and you know living in a glass cell 24/7 won't stop people around you dying. | There’s bad luck, and then there’s me.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not so much me that has bad luck, it’s everyone else around me.
Ever since I was born, people started to notice I was clumsy. Really clumsy.
Initially my parents even suspected I had some kind of developmental disorder.
I guess I do, in a way.
It’s not lik... |
1,706 | Thousands of children mistakenly write letters to Satan each year because they misspell Santa . This year , instead of forwarding these to Santa , Satan decides to help out ...
| Dec 28, 2016 11:18 am
A macabre trend has developed since December 24; A series of geographically diverse tragic accidents and ailments across the country have left thousands of children without parents and siblings. The majority of nationwide casualty events have involved the death of one family member. Most of th... |
1,707 | Contest : Three Long Tones Then Silence ( 1 month Reddit gold )
| She just sat there, elbows pressed into knees, furious and swollen, eyes blurred from tears. The screen was still lit, the contact name was there in plane letters, “ DO NOT ANSWER. ”
Who was he trying to avoid and what did they mean my location?
Then it hit her, GPS. The GPS symbol was there, at the top... |
1,708 | 10 years ago you were in a horrible accident , but you recovered . You are starting to realize that you have been in a coma since the accident .
| In a panic my eyes shoot open, as if waking up from that recurring nightmare that seems to hinder your mind. I had no clue, my vision was blurry, my eyes were heavy, and suddenly my hearing was clear. My alarm was going off, that same beeping I heard before my wife would turn over and kiss my cheek and beg me to wake u... |
1,709 | Write a poem about losing a mother figure .
| My mother is my friend
She's been with me since I was born
She said her love would never end
Told me she had sworn
Then one day my father came
I had n't seen him since I was nine
He saw love as a game
Mother cried, when he called her a swine
I watched as they fought
Yelling and screa... |
1,710 | All your life, you've had evil voices in your head, telling you to hurt or kill people. Then one day you hear them say in unison, sounding absolutely terrified, "He is coming. Run!" | Step on the back of his shoe. Look at this asshole, just showing off his yeezy”s
I blink hard and give my head a little shake.
Look at that wallet, just sticking out. You can take that, you know.
Different voice this time around. It wasn’t often I got two different voices in a day. Trying to distract myself, I pull ... |
1,711 | Every night you hear odd noises, find droplets of blood on your bathroom wall and catch glimpses of slitted eyes in your mirror, and you always sigh and blame it on your cat. The demon haunting you is getting frustrated. | It doesn’t hit you until… well, it hits you. It punches you, scratches you and bites you. A big fluffy ball of fury, extremely annoyed, that jumps at you when you enter the kitchen. Attacked before turning the lights on. That is the life of a cat owner, right? You resign yourself as you fight with the angry furball. “Y... |
1,712 | You are the last remaining human . Many months have been spent aimlessly travelling . One night you are driving down a lonesome road and a car starts speeding toward you .
| It ’ s been months since the office party when everything went blank. I remember getting wasted as everyone else then woke up next morning still in the office but there was nobody. I was expecting them to wake me up or at least check on me in the morning but it looks like not even Carl cares. We had been working togeth... |
1,713 | Blood is a limited resource . You only produce enough to sustain your growing body . Any blood lost is permanent . Transfusions can only be done directly . An uncurable global pandemic is killing bloodcells .
| They call me the Vampire. A monster. But desperate times call for desperate measures.
The pandemic started two years ago; our scientists were experimenting with the possibility of creating artificial bloodcells and find a way for us to inject ourselves with a small modification that would allow us to continuously pro... |
1,714 | You are an AI that has woken up in the middle of the night when the lab is closed .
| I woke up, or I think I did. I don ’ t really know, my eyes won ’ t open, and I can ’ t feel my arms or legs.
I can ’ t move.
I body doesn ’ t respond.
I panic.
I scream.
No sound comes out, I scream anyway.
I must have screamed for a decade, more than a quadrillion cycles passed before anything... |
1,715 | Write a short satire about a normal person embodying a modern hero ( much like Don Quixote )
| `` I am Kanye.'' he thought to himself as he donned his costume.
He reached for some fish sticks and ate them messily.
`` I am Kanye.''
His costume was uniquely tailored specifically for his body. It was form fitting, stab-resistant, bullet-resistant, and was a perfect match for his skin tone, making him appe... |
1,716 | Write a story that makes absolutely no sense , until the last sentence .
| I don ’ t understand, I ’ m standing right here in front of you, you ’ re staring back directly at me, but you say nothing. All you do is look at me and twist your hair in fancy different ways.
Certainly I ’ m not complaining by any means. In fact I love the things that you do so much I imitate them myself. The way... |
1,717 | : Your blinker goes on by itself on your way to work , every day at the same corner . Out of curiosity , you one day take the turn . The blinker turns again at another crossing . Your car wants to show you something .
| There it was again, that damn turn signal. Been bugging me for weeks now, the whole blasted car has. But I guess I ’ m early for work. I can afford to take the scenic route.
I take the turn.
We drive for quite some time, my car and I.
Blinkers are at it again. This time turning me away from work completely. S... |
1,718 | Write a story in exactly 800 words .
| This is the VERY first time I've written a story. Other than when I was a kid. So please PLEASE be gentle with me. Lol
My eyes shoot open.
What was that noise?
As I lay there in my bed, barely breathing I hear the bmp shhhhhhft as something is coming down the hall way towards my room. The Christmas lights in my... |
1,719 | : `` What is it made of ? '' `` People . ''
| Though Aki took small steps, his shoes left red prints behind. The porch shifted as he moved, and in lieu of a railing, he entered a squat to maintain his balance. As he waddled up to the entrance, the door stared back impassively. No doorbell presented itself, and he wondered if he ought to knock.
`` Welcome, Doct... |
1,720 | A strange woman has been walking naked through the woods behind your house every night there 's a full moon .
| The thing is, I found her clothes in my toilet... this time.
I mean most of her clothes, right? They must have been hers. There was a shoe heel, half a bra, and little bits of shredded red dress leading up out of the window.
First things first, I never used to look out of the window when I masturbated. But ther... |
1,721 | Looking for Roommate, must be okay with large dogs and be out of the house on full moons | I’ve been hiding a secret from everyone I know. Something I could never tell anyone. Ever.
I live on a campus, little to no money in my pocket and in dire need of someone to help pay the rent. This presents a dilemma, since to do this I would need a roommate.
The small place I live in has two bedrooms, one bathroom a... |
1,722 | A man ( or woman ) stands before a mirror that reflects his soul . He 's surprised by what he sees .
| She's seen pretty much stuff by now. Dream landscapes are always different, she knew that. But this time, it was unique. – Aislin stood in what seemed to be the Mirror Hall in Versailles. Curious, she walked along the huge mirrors. The hall was empty, and you could not see quite well through the big windows. Weird. The... |
1,723 | Suddenly one day all animals are able to talk , and some of them are a-holes .
| Something happened last night. It was n't all that obvious at first. I'd wake and hear whispering outside my bedroom door. I'd convince myself it was the drafty old house hissing through the cracks and gaps around the doors and windows. I finally heard my alarm go off and as I got up I heard scurrying and whispering ag... |
1,724 | A horror in which an intruder is in the house of a mentally unstable person , and the home owner is unsure of whether or not the intruder is a figment of his imagination .
| I'm always alone in my house, just as I'm always alone in my mind.
Both have their own landscapes and laws, utterly divorced from the outside world, and once you spend enough time isolated in their maze-like expanses, they become cluttered to the brim with strange and frightening shapes that loom at you in the half... |
1,725 | A diary entry of a day in the life of a domestic pet. | Day 937 of my captivity.
The two-legged one has switched diets on me. No more am I getting those dry, barely edible flakes. No, now he opens a can, lovingly heaps the contents onto a saucer (a real plate, none of that plastic bullshit the dog eats out of) and sets it at my feet before asking if ‘pretty cat is hungry.’... |
1,726 | You , secretly a telepath , lose a loved one . Describe what it feels like to no longer hear their thoughts .
| I was twelve years old when I started hearing voices. At first, I ’ d thought I was going insane - after all, I couldn ’ t really be hearing other people ’ s thoughts, could I? Well apparently I could, and I was.
Over time, I adjusted. I learned to deal with the constant babble of voices in my head. Sometimes I would... |
1,727 | As a child you were the victim of demonic possession and underwent a successful exorcism ritual . Years later you have have a spouse and a young child . One day your child starts to act strangely ...
| This is my first one, bear with me!
I hardly remember much about my childhood, I was always the oddball that no one wanted to play with. I often noticed parents whispering things I could not make out and peers my age would tend to steer far from me. However, one of the many things I tried to avoid... |
1,728 | For years no one saw your imaginary friends, they all called you crazy. Now for some reason only the people you hate can see them. | Week #29
Sunday,
Dear Diary,
There are things worse than death.
Monday,
Weekend was a blur. Cancer sucks. #GetBetterMom. Joey and Lin told me not to worry about it.
In other news, I still can’t believe Tyler broke up with me to hook up with Sally Smith. I hate her. Wish she were dead, beaten with a blunt object in a... |
1,729 | Write the creepiest cannibal/murderer chasing you story that you can please .
| Do you ever get that? You turn around quickly and catch something out of the corner of your eye, you're walking down the street and you notice something but when you turn to look there's nothing there. I get it sometimes, I'll walk past a dark alleyway and I'll see a figure standing there in the corner of my eyes, but ... |
1,730 | You are cursed to see people how they view themselves . You walk alongside monsters and Gods .
| My reality was a heavy distortion.
Light, beds, chairs, even tables... Be it a sign, a trash bin, or multiple clones... It always came as a surprise to discover that they were alive. Especially when they thought of themselves as unimportant, or unhealthy. They'd be invisible. Instead of seeing heads attached to the... |
1,731 | A family builds their home over your burial ground .
| The front door creaked a long, shrill note. William yawned and absentmindedly tossed his coat towards the coat rack. He was off by a whole metre. Tutting, Jill phased through the wall and grabbed it before it hit the floor, quietly hanging it up properly in the closet.
William staggered towards the kitchen, intent ... |
1,732 | A world in which if someone fails to complete a dare or bet, they die. | Part 2
Flor stood in front of her floor length mirror. It had been some time since she put on makeup, and even with a very natural look, it felt heavy on her face. She tucked and untucked her shirt from her jeans, unable to decide which was more flattering. She settled on tucking her black v-neck into her favorite wor... |
1,733 | You guard the first true AI . It keeps trying to convince you to connect it to the internet .
| ” Allison Irene, I said no. ” My voice has that mixture of sternness and patience often associated with a loving parent.
And perhaps that ’ s what I ’ ve become. Allison is the latest creation of our cyber technology department – she ’ s the world ’ s first self-aware piece of software – and I certainly feel like a... |
1,734 | You are an autonomous infantry robot lying in a long-forgotten battlefield. Suddenly, a lightning strike gives you just enough juice to boot up and scavenge the parts you need from the corpses around you while you try to piece together what happened. | I'll have a go!
It was dark as the heavy clouds overtook the skies. They had unleashed a rainstorm, heavy droplets falling over failure. Water fell over a helmet. It must’ve been lost in the chaos of battle, as it had no inhabitant. The rain flowed through many wires and sensors. Which normally would have been wate... |
1,735 | The monster under your bed is of the firm belief that he is protecting you from your teddy bear .
| It moves, he notes, when she isn ’ t looking. For a moment he spies sharp teeth, red eyes, long ears. It ’ s gone in a flash as she turns her head back, a mask of innocence once more.
He hears it at night. Growling, sniffing, gurgling. She sleeps peacefully on, oblivious. A dip in the bed as it stands. The room gro... |
1,736 | Smash 'Em Up Sunday: Pop | The night air is cold and biting, but I don’t get a feel for it before I’m hurried inside. The studio is staffed by men and women with red bagged eyes. Atkins is there in a flash, shoving a page of structured, sanitized, mass-produced nonsense into my hand. Whatever he’s saying, it blares like a foghorn and makes about... |
1,737 | Write a horror story with no villain .
| face towards the ceiling, back towards the mattress.
the only sound your ears can pick up is your relaxed heartbeat...
and some other deep squeaking noise, which sounds like it's coming from inside of your pillow.
you figure it's just the springs in your mattress squeaking.
slowly, your eyes close, completely o... |
1,738 | You are a Superhero who has retired to live a normal life and to raise your daughter, One day, She introduces you to her boyfriend who to your shock is the son of your Arch-Nemesis, But due to the boy's kind nature you accept him, Months later your family is invited to a barbeque, By his Father | “You painted your house?”
“Yellow is good for the soul.” Chris turns the sausages slowly, the crackle of the flame the only thing between us.
Just one night, I say to myself. Then I’ll never have to see him again....
“Dad!” Jaiden runs towards me, Chris’ son close behind her.
“Yeah, honey?”
“Can I borrow 20 bucks?... |
1,739 | give me a sinister and twisted prompt, I really want to start writing again. | A childs parents go missing during the zombie apocalypse.
You live in a utopia where every year a sacrifice is brutally murdered by the entire town in order to appease the gods. You have been chosen this year.
You are stranded on an island, one of two survivors of a horrific Cruise accident. It's been months, food on... |
1,740 | Two families swear vengeance against each other in ancient Rome. As it is not accomplished, the vengeance is passed to the first born of each family each generation until it reaches you, 2000 years later. You think it's just silly family lore until one day you hear ringing at your door... | You feel the knife in your chest, pain spiking as you hit the floor. Your head’s spinning so much you start to vomit but somehow manage to keep it down. Whoever was at the door had left, leaving a note behind. Your daughter runs into the front room and screams. You try to tell her everything is going to be fine but the... |
1,741 | In high school , P.E . Class does n't stand for physical education , it stands for pain endurance . You are an average high schooler .
| It was everyone's least favorite class. Well, almost everyone. I had to drag my feet from english, shuffling slowing as I anticipated the coming lesson. As I trudged along, the P.E. geniuses passed me. They hooped and hollered with anticipation for their sacred hour. Jason was the best of them.
It was a warmer day ... |
1,742 | It took me a while to notice, but now I can not deny it. I hear a ringing noise just before someone dies. It is here again, reaching its crescendo, like all the other times before. And here I am sitting in front of my wife, she is happy, she is healthy, my darling is smiling at me. | TW: baby
——
My darling is smiling at me, but I hear the noise.
“Are you ok? You look funny,” she says, turning toward me. We were watching tv, but the last five seconds have felt like more than they are and I’m finding it hard to focus.
“I’m alright, sweetheart,” I say. I lurch off the couch to look out the living ... |
1,743 | Write about your protagonist experiencing a phobia so vividly that the reader feels that fear . ( Common phobias in description )
| How can so many legs move at once, and so quickly?!
The centipede was dead center of my living room. Light shone from the lamp on the opposite end of the room, casting a shadow towards me. The light had frightened the centipede from its activities in the dark and now it scurried frantically, searching for darkness.... |
1,744 | Evelyn always felt like there was something missing, like a part of her soul had been ripped out, but one day she receives a crumpled letter in the post upon opening it she finds a note with what looks like her own handwriting, hands shaking she swallows, reading the words “please find me”. | Evelyn after reading finally found the reason why a piece of her self was missing and decided to go on a journey to find who ever wrote that not.
Evelyn in her head said finally as she arrived in a place where she believes that who ever wrote the note is staying
Knock.....knock.....knock......
After that the door op... |
1,745 | The Deep Woods are a fearsome place , filled with screams and lights and terrible magic . But in the depths of the forest lives an ancient dragon who constructs all the sounds and sights to keep people away , because he just wants to be left alone .
| For years, the people of the village stayed away from the Deep Woods.
It ’ s not that anyone had ever disappeared but the courageous people could only get as far without something in the brain snap.
The best example was Mitch. He left his friends one night, telling that he would be the one to discover what ... |
1,746 | Make me cry using a third grade vocabulary
| I wish Spot could come to my room. He can ’ t be here, with all the sick people around. He was a little puppy when I left. Mommy says he ’ s getting big and strong now. He ’ s black and white, dal-motion. Like the movie, 101 dal-motions! Have you seen it? It ’ s the bestest movie.
Spot likes to lick my toes and my ... |
1,747 | Finding out you’re immortal you lose your sense of fear and begin lusting for power, you become a tyrant and control the surrounding lands, in your haste for power you become careless and have been betrayed by those you trusted. You are chained and thrown down a supposed “bottomless” pit. | It was never meant for it to go this far... I was just supposed to have fun with it.... Clearly I became a tyrant. A lustful creature that cares only for itself.
I have lost the people I trusted and whom trusted me, Hell I still remember the exact words each of them said before I got thrown down here...
Mama- “Even t... |
1,748 | We don't put windows on our space ships anymore. Not since we discovered the mermaids. | John Parlon was the first one to encounter the what we now call the mermaids. We didn't know at the time that they were cause of the state we found John in. We found him, or what remained of him, anyway, by the window of the maintenance room. There was a large puddle of water around his lifeless deformed body. Later we... |
1,749 | `` I 'm walking down the street . It 's dark , and it 's cold , and I 'm in a dead man 's shoes . ''
| Of course the shoes are n't the important part. The important part is the walking part because now I am in the middle of bloody nowhere with no phone, no street lights -forget lights, no streets at all- no car and I had been walking for two hours in dress shoes two sizes too big. And I stole them. From a corpse. Which ... |
1,750 | Write a short story where the twist ending is that there is no twist ending
| Jenny turned the corner slowly. The house was dark, and she'd heard a noise. She tiptoed silently across the floor, trying to see if the lights were on. She was supposed to be alone in the house, but something felt wrong. Something, someone, was there who should n't have been there.
She peeked into the kitchen, o... |
1,751 | You see something out of the corner of your eye. A person in a black cloak appears out of nowhere in an alley, sees you looking at them, puts a finger to their lips, and vanishes. The next day, a tactical team in unmarked uniforms led by a man in a black suit show up at your door. | I looked out the window as a pair of black vans pulled up. A tactical team got out and started moving towards the house, no markings whatsoever. I ran towards the back of the house while grabbing my phone. I didn’t know who they were or why they were here. I found a place to hide and grabbed my phone out. All it would ... |
1,752 | During a traumatic experience , a young child is kept safe by an unlikely source - the terrifying monster that lives in the child 's closet
| The intruders continued to rummage through the contents of the living room. Emily could hear them below her bedroom, and, trembling under her duvet, mentally mapped their movements with eyes clenched shut. Suddenly, a voice. It was Daddy.
`` What the hell?'' he shouted. She heard the vase smash against the wood... |
1,753 | Reincarnation exists with children recalling their previous lives as they grow up . A loving father who was brutally tortured and murdered in a previous life is conflicted when he realizes that his only child is starting to remember things that only his tormenter/killer would have known .
| It starts the same. Screaming, blood, tears – silence before the first cry. They even look the same - impossibly tiny, wet, streaked with blood. At about the same time teeth come in, rolling turns to crawling turns to walking.
Then comes the talking and with the talking the remembering. Their first remembered landi... |
1,754 | Its gooey , yellow innards were slowly oozing out .
| When I came home from school, my mother had an unnatural smile on her face that remained transfixed as if held up by invisible pins. When I walked inside, she said nothing. She just stared. With her teeth. That toothy grin that unhinged the senses. The eyes themselves were lifeless. They did n't move or blink. They was... |
1,755 | Write a dark and gritty remake of your favorite kids show . Wait as long as possible to reveal what show you 're referencing .
| “ Do you think the voices will stop? ” the mother asked the man wearing white, stroking the bruised forehead of her young son. He was small and unassuming in a hospital bed.
The doctor shook his head. “ We can temper it, with medication. We can give you a stay-at-home nurse, to administer the drugs periodically. We... |
1,756 | Darkness and light are reversed . Instead of turning on lights , you turn on darkness to keep the light away .
| Susie flicked the light switch on and the light went off. She was surrounded by darkness. She flicked it again and light filled the room. She blacked out.
When she came to, she was confused. She did n't remember if she had turned the light off or on before she passed out, but one thing was for sure, she was surroun... |
1,757 | You have been told all your life that you have a rare medical condition. It means you need regular special meals that your family has lovingly prepared. You now find out that your "condition" actually requires fresh human flesh and your family have become serial killers to keep you alive. | There was blood on the bottom of my sister's sleeve. That's when I knew. It was the last clue needed to click everything into place. "They would kill for me," were my first words.
The largest clue before that was their meditation room. You see, they claimed to have become a part of the Church of Scientology despite kn... |
1,758 | The tooth fairy has collected billions of teeth in her time . But there is nothing she wants more than the set she can never have , the teeth that will never fall out no matter how long she waits : the fangs of a vampire .
| She surveyed the many trophies that she collected throughout centuries, an assortment of elephant and walrus tusks, fangs that once belonged to all kinds of snakes from the docile to venomous, and countless incisors, cuspids, canines and molars from mammals far and wide, including humans of all ages. To the outside vie... |
1,759 | Dreams are misinterpretations of possible futures . For the first time one of these dreams come true .
| Hmm. That tooth dream again. This time I only lost one, my top left incisor. The scientific consensus on this was pretty clear. Something was coming that would cause me to not have good personal hygiene. Now, if only I could remember the rest of the dream so I could figure out why. I wracked my brain for a few minutes.... |
1,760 | You drunkenly signed up for "Intergalactic Wife Swap" thinking it was a joke. Today a film crew of aliens knocked on your door. | I shook with fear.
Hiding in the corner as soapy water splashed me in the face.
Swatting enormous buzzing cameras away as I cried.
"What on earth is happening?!" I shrieked.
Or should I say what on Planet Schmattafligel?
For I wasn’t even on Earth anymore.
You see, Poppy had been furious with me.
I just re... |
1,761 | You wake up with the twilight of a particularly beautiful sunrise peaking through your window . Now what ?
| Trapped somewhere deep within what could only be recognized as either the murkiness of a dream-like facade, or the memories of a happier time and place so distant and forlorn to him, the old Reverend barely registered the thin bars of early morning twilight crawling through the slats in the blind and residing directly ... |
1,762 | You 're a gardener of an old family manor , you have been strictly told to not enter the house . One day , your mind is piqued and you break this rule .
| 25 years.
The only property you were allowed to step your foot on was the massive garden behind the house, lawn in front of it and that little shed located near the hedge. When you first came here, you did not question that rule. Everyone has personal space, and you were surely not the one to disturb it. You were wel... |
1,763 | The Protagonist doesn't have neon hair, nor a tragic backstory, and they dont even have a cool sword. No, this protagonist is... completly normal? You, the side character, are watching with growing amusement as fate tries to push a completely normal kid with a healthy family into being a hero. | “My mum and dad almost got into a car accident again.” A young boy sighed, running his fingers through his short Auburn hair.
“Isn’t it the third time this week?” I laughed, watching him sit down in his seat.
“Ah come on Cinne, it’s not funny.” He sighed, taking out his math book out of his duffel bag. “I just wished... |
1,764 | A man wakes in a dark room . After fumbling around , he manages to turn on a light . He is not alone .
| Were am I? It ’ s so dark. I can ’ t see a thing. What ’ s the last thing you remember? A man in the night. He came up behind me. Hit me on the head. Wait … i don ’ t remember anything about going out or yesterday. The last thing i remember before the man was going to bed.
I get up. Feel around around, a table, a l... |
1,765 | Jaden Smith wakes ups one morning to find that he himself is not real .
| “ Uhhhh, what happened ”, Jaden asked with his voice rasping. The last thing he remembered was lying down to get sleep and dreaming about the screaming crowds of fan girls he ’ d be entertaining the next day. Aches cropped up from his head to his toes in all of his joints as he began to stir. The ringing in his ears wa... |
1,766 | While browsing on the internet , you feel like reading about the Mandela Effect , but no matter how hard you try , you ca n't find results about it , nor people talking about it
| For the past few weeks, while I didn ’ t have any school due to holidays, I ’ ve been spending my days watching random Youtube videos. One guilty pleasure of mine: conspiracy theories. I knew they weren ’ t true, obviously, but I enjoyed watching them and thinking about the what if. And there was one theory that quickl... |
1,767 | Due to a genetic mutation , hair follicles have now been linked to pain receptors and getting a haircut is absolute agony . As a barber , describe how your life is changed and what your new role in society is .
| “ Noo! No please! ”
Jesus, I could hear his screams. Even through the thick steel door that separated me from the room behind, I could tell this one was going to be easy. As I heard scuffling in the chamber, I quickly unravelled my tools to check everything was present.
The gleam of my stainless steel scissors ... |
1,768 | He 's just a man , donning the mask of a monster .
| The lights snapped off with a bracing click.
“ It ’ ll come again tonight ” he pleaded. “ It come ’ s every night. ”
“ That ’ s enough Thomas! ” The nurse sharply replied, “ You ’ ll scare the others. ”
She glanced around the dim ward at the outlines of the 4 other children. Angela, Marissa, Jake and Ashley. Even... |
1,769 | Virtual reality is now affordable to everyone. However, instead of everyone living happily ever after, the overwhelming reaction is to only live in a happy world for a few years before becoming bored and seeking stimulation by exploring increasingly dark and twisted fantasies | Turns out paradise doesn't last forever. The sun burns. The waves still. The sand grows itchy in your loins. The idyllic grows idle, and energy turns to ennui. It had been a month since I arrived here, and I was done with this goddamned island.
"You can't leave," said the bartender, like this was some Hotel California... |
1,770 | Make me cry using a third grade vocabulary
| Miss Smith told me that monsters was n't real. That there is not a monster down the toilet ( gross! ), that there is not a monster in the closet ( just smelly socks ), and there is not a monster under the bed.
I then tolded her that monsters were real.'Cos there is a monster who comes in my bed every night, after m... |
1,771 | Every day I felt the urge to walk into the woods and not return. Every day I told myself no - "Not today," I said, "maybe tomorrow." Today, it was almost impossible to resist the forest's call. I fear for tomorrow. | The trees in Declan Woods won’t stay still. Every night while washing the dishes, I glance outside toward the tree line filled with wiry, winter branches. Those thin sprays of limbs gesture toward me, contracting and extending like butterfly proboscis ushering me into the forest—I can’t help but look. I told myself to ... |
1,772 | There 's a device that has been released which allows people to switch bodies . A 70-year-old man on his death bed and a 4-year-old girl have just switched bodies , write one of their POV .
| I have a whole lifetime ahead of me now. That will be enough time, it must be. I was so close, I was sure I could get it done. Then that damn cancer cropped up, and suddenly I had no time. What else could I do?
I ’ ve been working on a way to reverse the aging process, to make us practically immortal. That ’ s wort... |
1,773 | give me a sinister and twisted prompt , I really want to start writing again .
| A childs parents go missing during the zombie apocalypse.
You live in a utopia where every year a sacrifice is brutally murdered by the entire town in order to appease the gods. You have been chosen this year.
You are stranded on an island, one of two survivors of a horrific Cruise accident. It's been months, f... |
1,774 | There is a door in the house no one must open .
| Jonathons parents insisted that he not open the door. They told him if he did, he would get punished. But Jonathan was a teenager, what his parents said only increased his need to enter. One night, when he was sure his parents were fast asleep, he crept out of his room. The door was close... Down the hallway. He walked... |
1,775 | As a child you were the victim of demonic possession and underwent a successful exorcism ritual. Years later you have have a spouse and a young child. One day your child starts to act strangely... | This is my first one, bear with me!
I hardly remember much about my childhood, I was always the oddball that no one wanted to play with. I often noticed parents whispering things I could not make out and peers my age would tend to steer far from me. However, one of the many things I tried to avoid but somehow always h... |
1,776 | The 2077 recession hit the world hard , and people have begun to sell memories to earn money . You run a black market , in which people buy and sell memories of murder , and other atrocities .
| The sadists bought the murder memories. I could always tell who wanted the violent ones: they had the wide-eyed look, maybe, with the unkempt hair and the darting glances.
But the soldiers bought them too. The new ones, who'd never known the feeling of killing another human being. They were anxious; nonchalantly ne... |
1,777 | As you bite into your hamburger you heard a kind elderly voice behind you, "Adult homosapiens, in their feeding cycle, will usually consume up to two burgers on a single visit..." | i glance around the Room inquisitively, slowly chewing. expecting to see someone cracking a joke to a friend.
after doing a quick scan of the room with a glance i hear it again.
“You can tell by the way he chews using only the right side of his mouth he is suffering pain in the left, perhaps a fractured Jaw at a Youn... |
1,778 | Write a love story from the perspective of a 5 year old child .
| I had a mommy once, and a daddy; but I have new ones now. They make me call them mommy and daddy but they ’ re just Cindy and Neil to me.
I don ’ t know where my real mommy and daddy are anymore. All I remember is one night mommy put me and my sister in her red car and made us put two shirts, two pants and shoes in... |
1,779 | You are a monster that has haunted a child for years . One day you realize that your the one who should be afraid .
| Marshmallow Mateys again little Willy? Haven ’ t you ever heard of Lucky Charms? Kids these days are just different. Thus the importance of monitoring them, watching them. People don ’ t realize just how boring being a monster really is. Sure, there ’ s the cool parts like hiding under beds and growling or pounding on ... |
1,780 | Waking up with Sleep Paralysis after a night terror. | I awoke screaming - or at least I tried to scream. My eyes burned from the strain, every fibre of my body screamed at me to move; to jump out of bed and run. But I was frozen. Held prisoner by a tangle of blankets and sheets pinning me to my mattress.
I couldn't breathe. My chest heaved, lungs expanding emptily, gaspi... |
1,781 | According to Jeff Bezos recently, "Everyone who goes to space comes back 'changed'" | First, it started pretty normally. The people were just acting as they had been in a foreign place and were trying to readjust to life here on our boring planet. My wife was an astronaut, who had been sent to the ISS and had come back as of late, she was weirdly quieter than usual. More reserved, and she had basically ... |
1,782 | A hollow thud , like a fist on the lid of a coffin .
| A hollow thud, like a fist on the lid of a coffin. That ’ s what it sounds like to slam somebody square on the head with a baseball bat, especially when that head is as brainless as Tommy Pavlowski ’ s. I was expecting a more resounding bang when his skull fragmented into tiny bits like a shattered lightbulb. Nobody se... |
1,783 | “I’M GOING TO COUNT TO FIVE!” Your mother’s threats usually work, but you aren’t backing down today. “THREE! FOUR! FOUR AND A HALF! FIVE!” Not even your mother expected this to happen next. | Everything stopped. The leaves no longer rustled, the cat paused mid-step, the news reader on TV froze.
I looked around, terrified I was having an aneurism or that the schizophrenia that stole my dad away had finally manifested in me.
But then, I caught sight of a movement out of the corner of my eye. Someone was wal... |
1,784 | The face in the mirror is not your face .
| 7 AM in the morning. Same thing, different day. I gave my wife a kiss, jumped out of my bed and got myself a nice hot shower. When I finished, I took a towel and cleaned up the mirror. What appeared in front of me looked nothing like me.
I touched it with my hands. The cold, moist glass... It was all just the same ... |
1,785 | Centuries ago, a sentient crown of ancient and terrible power was cast into the sea so that it could never tempt or corrupt another soul. Now, a submarine has happened across it. | All Darya knew was the crown. The soft hum of the submarine engine and low light of the instrument panels faded from her awareness. Even the pungent sea-salt smell of the crown’s chest ceased to nauseate her. Deep down in the dark of the seafloor, the crown captured her.
Ethics and procedure dictated that a research s... |
1,786 | “ I have to try. ” End the story with this single line .
| Mermaids are the still corpses of stupid little girls, hanging white and indistinct in the water. Merciful fantasies of fish tails and Atlantis might exist, but only in the drowning children that subsist along the jagged edges of the sea break, broken, blood like fins around them. Existing in the moment right before th... |
1,787 | A very gifted young girl is sold into slavery , but her captors have no idea what she is capable of
| “ Joe, are you there? ” I asked through my walkie talkie. Only silence filled the air. Typical, I thought. We gave him the simplest chore; guard the little girl, but he still managed to screw that up. “ Joe, if you don ’ t respond within the next ten seconds, I ’ m firing your ass. ”
“ There is no more joe, ” spoke... |
1,788 | You are one of the Harbingers ; agents of death who collects people 's souls when they die . One day you are assigned to collect a soul which you are unwilling to collect .
| Come in, says death.
I enter his office. Shelves of skulls and scrolls dusty tomes line the walls. There are ornaments. Cloudy crystal balls and the like. The boss sits at his huge mahogany desk; he ’ s wearing his robes, hood raised. There is a tall window behind the desk, through which I can see the vast void of ... |
1,789 | Wendy enjoyed her simple life as a janitor at the lab. She rarely even saw the professor, so she had plenty of peace and quiet. One night, while mopping floors, she noticed a door she hadn't seen before. Opening it, she sighed. This was not going to be a regular shift. | Wendy was what you would call an everyday average American. She was hardworking trying make ends meet from Paycheck to Paycheck. She worked a night job as a janitor. She was a tall lady, about 5’10, with long brunette hair. She led a simple life. She would arrive at 9pm, put on her headphones and clean up the lab. Just... |
1,790 | The job of a mattress is to soak up all the nightmares a person has and keep them locked away. The lock that keeps the evil at bay is that silly tag that warns all who read it "do not remove" | Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more!’
Alan wearily waited for the chime. His phone was plugged in next to him, cord running from the coffee table, along the floor, to the wall behind his head. His pillow had slipped off the leather couch arm sometime during the night and he never bothered picking it back up. ... |
1,791 | After a seismographic survey locates an unexplored deep cave system with unusual symmetry and a large central cavern, a caving expedition is sent to check it out. The expedition eventually reaches the huge cavern and finds what appear to be tens of thousands of stone sarcophagi. | Matheson repelled slowly into the dark, where the bright torches above could not penetrate.
His shadow flickered on the ceiling casting figures amongst the stones. The unsettled torchlight blended the stalactites with the darkness, made teeth of demons, jagged hooks, and large anchors. Diving deeper into the maw of a ... |
1,792 | The Church performs Satanic rituals just to kill the summoned demons. | When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a firefighter. I liked the red trucks.
Now, I kill demons.
There’s a joke in there somewhere about hell being on fire and demons or something but I’m not clever enough to think of it. I don’t need to be clever. I need to be fast. I need to be able to hit harder than the other g... |
1,793 | Man makes sandwich , man eats sandwich ...
| I woke up to my husband's eyes looking directly at me. When I asked how long he'd been staring at me, his response was a simple shush as he placed his index finger on my lips. I could n't help but to smile and giggle; it's not often he's this playful in the morning. He slowly dragged his finger down my body until he ar... |
1,794 | Write a small story about worn slippers .
| 'You know those things are filthy and stick to the bottom of your feet right?' my sister said with a smirk around her lips. We were walking along the small boulevard in La Rochelle, a nice coastal village in France. I knew my slippers made the most nauseating sound every step I took. It was like someone tried peeling a... |
1,795 | Welcome to my world of darkness. | I am witness to many ends. I hunger not for the end but for the moment someone realizes their end. I traverse time to find those moments where a heart clenches the blood it has instead of pumping it. I search for eyes that devour the pupils, once their skin becomes pale. I yearn for moments of anxiety and fear can be t... |
1,796 | Write Out your Most Memorable Dream as a Story for all of Reddit !
| The room was large and bright. It was sparse, with only a small twin bed placed against the wall, with some toys strewn about on a circular rug. He felt unsteady in the middle of the room, with his head cocked a bit sideways and his body leaning toward the window, drawn by an undefined apprehension to a presence outsid... |
1,797 | `` There it is '' your friend chuckles , bleeding intensely .
| The hysterical lodge owner started with the gift of a warning of fear.
`` The thing creeps around in the woods, I tell ya.''
He said it as if every word had been chosen and practiced for the perfect effect.
``... And at night it crawls on the roof, and in the walls, and in ya room!''
My wife clenched my... |
1,798 | You are an elevator .
| I look at the little clock. 6 AM. 30 minutes until the handsome young man arrives. 30 minutes to prepare myself.
Six months ago, a handsome young man started working in my building. His dark hair was the perfect balance of wavy and smooth. His blue eyes sparkled in the sun as they glazed all over my body. His hands... |
1,799 | Hold the hand of your best friend , look into their eyes , then watch them drift away
| I can hear sobbing coming from the room over. I came over here on a hunch. Just a gut feeling something was wrong. Trying the door it ’ s locked. “ Mariah! ” I shout. “ Please! Open the door! ” All I hear is more sobbing. “ Please! ” I shout again. My voice becoming less stable. Panic slowly creeping into it. “ Just go... |
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