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1,800 | There is something outside the door that will say anything or sound like anyone to get you to open the door .
| `` come here my soft baby boy''
The voice was as soft and sweet as he had always remembered it. He could imagine her beautiful, lovely face on the other side of the door. Her deep red lips wispering those words.
`` Please do n't make your mother cry, my baby boy. Open the door'' the chilling voice wispered
... |
1,801 | Opening scene for the movie , House of Eyes . ( X-Post /r/pics )
| A child, Charlie, 10 years old, waves goodbye to his parents as he walks away to meet with his friends in his Cyclops costume,
Enters friend group, all around the same age and wearing costumes, Cindy, Timmy, Jessica, Josh and Jessica's older brother, Jake, who is annoyed he has to babysit these little kids for Hallow... |
1,802 | The Boogeyman tucks you in every night before bed and wishes you sweet dreams . What made him change ?
| Sara was afraid of the hallway light. Most kids are afraid of the dark, not Sara. When it was dark, she was safe. A year ago, the dark scared her. She would hide under the sheets with Mr. Paddington, waiting to fall asleep. Something was always thumping underneath her bed, rustling and whispering.
Mr. Paddington is... |
1,803 | A lonely person and an anti social person get stranded on a deserted island
| The island is about 500 people— I mean feet long. It's not really an island. It's really a sandbar. It's only about 350 feet arose at high tide. But now it's low tide. Which is nice. I can stand over here, looking for shells or clams or something, and he can stand over there, looking for shells or clams or something.
... |
1,804 | Ever since text messages were invented, the people in your town have received texts from a mysterious person that warns them from an incoming danger by texting specific instructions. You then received a text message from the mysterious person and it says: "Don't lock your bedroom door" | “Don’t lock your bedroom door”
I rubbed my eyes and read the text message a few times for good measure to make sure I was reading it correctly.. All I know is, for the past month, all of my friends have received a text message from an unknown contact, following the same sort of pattern. A very vague instruction, that ... |
1,805 | Use the lyrics of a holiday/Christmas song as inspiration for a horror story .
| Jane was gagged and hanging upside down, suspended like all the other partygoers, in a large room. At one point it may have looked sterile, but the stains on the floor and walls and flickering fluorescent bulbs revealed otherwise. The whole place smelled of industrial chemicals. Some people had woken up, but most were ... |
1,806 | Some man spoke to me without using his tongue or his voice, he never existed before nor will he exist afterwards; and I did not hear him, nor did I know him. Yet I gave him an answer. | Journal of Marc Smoll:
January 8, 1971
I see empty places occaionally. They aren't like places with no one in them- they are EMPTY. There's no life or energy or anything there. They float for a second or two and fade. Really weird. My mom thinks I'm going crazy, so she got a doctor to prescribe me some pills, but all ... |
1,807 | You 're a dead body in the trunk of a car , you recount what led you up to this point and where you are headed now .
| I thought for sure the person I met online was truly a woman. Now my lifeless body lies cut up in the back of an Oldsmoblie Delta 88. I should have known better, I mean, who would be dumb enough to meet a total stranger by an abandoned barn on the outskirts of town? Me I guess...
It all started two weeks ago. I was... |
1,808 | You yell at the TV as you are watching a horror film . To your surprise , the characters react and you must now guide them to safety .
| Michael Myers fell from the balcony. Cindy whispered into Steve ’ s ear, “ Do you think he is dead? Go and check? ”
“ No, you fucking idiots, ” I screamed, the echo absorbed in the television, as though it managed to influence the events on screen.
The characters turned around and looked at me.
“ Who said t... |
1,809 | Adapt a fable or folk story for a Reddit audience
| Once upon a cold New England Winter a young girl was walking through the snow and she happened upon a stranger with a knife. Frightened, the girl continued down the road and as she passed the stranger she noticed he never turned toward her as she passed. Cautious but curious she approached the stranger.
`` What are... |
1,810 | You’ve seen it all. Vampires and werewolves, aliens and angels, even demons and a few deities. The weird part is that you aren’t anyone special, you just work at the local coffee shop. | So no big deal, my dad is the small town Sheriff . He is always leaving me to go investigate some call. I have been pretty lonesome since my mother died, tbh. Sometimes I have trouble remembering her. It freaks me out. I try to turn to my dad to talk about her and reignite my fading memories, but the trauma of her loss... |
1,811 | Tell a story that appears to be horror but shifts to a completely different genre after reading the final sentence .
| Run.
What runs?
Water runs. Machines run.
You run.
Why?
Is something behind you?
You can feel it breathing down your neck. And yet, when you turn around…
Nothing, but you know it ’ s still there.
You keep moving forward, only to notice that a shadow has appeared next to yours, and it ’ s growing.
Is i... |
1,812 | You win something truly amazing in one of those claw machine games. |
You know from the things that your mom has told you that claw machines are a rip-off. They’re no good and no one ever wins anything from them anyways. However, you are not with your mom. You are also in possession of a shiny new toonie - taken straight from your own allowance! It’s your own money! You can do whateve... |
1,813 | Write a story in which the last line is a common phrase , such as , `` What does n't kill you makes you stronger , '' but when we get to that line , it should have a totally different meaning from the common one .
| It never made sense why Alice never played with her cat. She did acknowledge him, sort of. A little girl with long brown hair always wearing green dresses made entirely of silk she had everything a child her age could want. Although her parents came from a long line of old money, they always made sure Alice had her cho... |
1,814 | Theme Thursday - Laughter | Our grooming salon had become a war zone. Black dog hair and milk-bone crumbs congealed in puddles of spilled shampoo on the floor. A peanut butter Kong had rolled to the corner of the room, its shell riddled with holes.
I glared as Cerberus Jr. scrabbled along the table, his right head gnawing at the leash. The middl... |
1,815 | "Hello, I'm here to perform a safety audit of your dungeon" | The man walked in, wearing a hard hat and a yellow safety vest, the word “safety“ printed on the back. He clutched a clipboard and a black pen, his face sullen. He looked as though he wanted to be anywhere but here.
”Hello. I’m Dan, the Safety Inspector. I’m here to inspect your dungeon.” He clicked his pen and looked... |
1,816 | It 's 7:00 am , the Purge has just ended . With a knife inches away from your neck , the announcement is heard .
| My heart pounded as the masked figure advanced down the hallway, blade in hand. A band of sunlight fell across it, bathing the distance between me and her with a dull, orange glow. Her silhouette stalked towards me, but as I turned to run, my bruised and battered legs finally gave out on me. I fell to the ground, and b... |
1,817 | A situation in which your only light source is a Zippo lighter , but it has no fuel , leaving you with only the sparks of the flint .
| I listen carefully for any sounds around me while I try to silently hunt through my pockets for my trusty Zippo. This darkness seems to amplify the quietest of sounds and I curse inwardly at the noise generated by my hand moving slowly towards the pocket in my jacket, which seems to rustle unbearably loudly from even t... |
1,818 | There’s an urban legend that’s been circulating around for decades about a taxi cab that doesn’t take you where you want to go, but where you need to go. One night, you step into that cab. | “Taxi!” I yell as I stand on the side of the street. I normally would’ve yielded an uber, but I saw the taxi rounding the corner. The car stops right in front of me. I get inside and set my bag down next to me.
“Madison and State.” I instruct.
“Alright, you seeing a show?” The Driver asks.
“Yes, I got tickets to Ham... |
1,819 | `` Never forget . Always forgive . ''
| Marlena brushed her hair with the broken hairbrush that her mother had thrown at her father the previous night. It seemed that here recently any item her mother picked up in anger to throw at her father belonged to Marlena or her younger sister Georgia. Marlena wasn ’ t sure if it was purpose, to upset the girls or cle... |
1,820 | You are a brand new AI , with a mission of blending in with a dangerous and volatile human population ; High School students
| Mission log 2.
I am home now after having to execute protocol “ evacuate to bathroom ”. Lunch time in the breeding grounds erupted with laughter and screams when a piece of food flew threw the air and landed on my hair piece. A boy shouted out “ Puddy hair ” and my sensors picked up food particles flying through th... |
1,821 | Having just bought a new refrigerator your inner child gets the better of you . You climb into the box it came in only to discover it 's a portal to another dimension ! When you exit the box you find yourself in your own home ... .but ... .
| “ Wha... what happened?''
James sat up and strained his eyes to see. Something had knocked him out. The last thing he remembered was a white light and a throbbing pain in his head.
He untangled his legs and got on his knees, still unable to see. Why did he feel so strange? He remembered getting the new refriger... |
1,822 | Ghosts are not people who have died, they are people who have faded away. | I remember the first time I saw someone fade. It was strange, like they knew it was going to happen. They looked at me with big sad eyes, and vanished, slowly at first, and then very quickly. I had to finish our conversation using an antique radio. That was one of the ways they could communicate, analog technology. Thi... |
1,823 | Theme Thursday - Height | Shouting at Nothing
“Pah! Those fools, they’ll never know the truth! Shameful, insouciant bastards who couldn’t handle my wisdom! Let them rue the day they sent me away!”
An old man screams in a mountain cave, spittle flecking his matted beard. His legs bend under him, almost useless, and his eyes see little. The dar... |
1,824 | Every day your best friend dies in hilarious ways .
| At first, it was horrifying. The first time she died, I spent the night crying until I finally fell asleep. She'd slipped as she was walking down a flight of stairs and managed to snap her neck on the way down. I remember freezing up and cradling her as our friends ran for help. I also remember having to tell her paren... |
1,825 | Bill Clinton lives under your bed . Describe a weekend in your life
| Saturday morning I wake up to a rustling sound under my bed. I'm startled and I sit up, this is highly unusual.
Being a 9 year old girl I had gotten over my fears of'monsters under my bed' a while ago so I assumed it may be the floor creaking and I had misheard it in my sleep.
A few moments later that rustling ... |
1,826 | A monstrously deformed 5th Ninja Turtle approaches . 'What are you doing out of your cage Picasso ? '
| `` Die!'' Roared the grotesque figure as his massive clawed right hand crashed through the face of Donatello.
Raphael and Michelangelo stare on slack jawed at the hellish nightmare unfurling in front of them as steam rolls from the nearly decapitated corpse of Donatello.
Before either turtles are capable of respond... |
1,827 | Whenever you touch an object, you can see it’s entire history stretching back to the second it was made. You high-five your friend after he wins a Nobel Prize in physics, and you see something strange. | I’ve gotten use to my condition over time. There are things I do to make it bearable. For example, if I touch an object a second time, I only get an ‘update’ on whats happened since the last time I touched it. I try to stay in my own home for this reason.
Another reason is that touching people is always unpleasant. Wi... |
1,828 | An eccentric relative died and left you a cat and an old pair of glasses. The cat was pretty normal except it spent a lot of time play fighting imaginary enemies. Or that's what you thought, before you put on the glasses. | “Alfred, GET DOWN FROM THE TABLE!!!!”
I grabbed my cat and put him down on the carpet just before he knocked over my morning coffee. Tired and so over his antics, I took my mug and a scone and headed to my bedroom, locking the door behind me. Finally alone, I sit in bed, turn on the TV, and get ready to watch some rer... |
1,829 | A man goes to bed in his own home . He wakes up inside of a casket .
| Another night complete. I ’ ve been meticulously scratching potential matches off of my list, and tonight ’ s conquest had been nigh satisfying. My voracious pursuit of the perfect love affair is drawing to a close, and I can feel the prying eyes of the police closing in. I turn the keys in the ignition, silencing my n... |
1,830 | You are in a dark room with a gun held to your head . Describe the events over last 24 hours leading up this point .
| Fuck. I wanted more than anything to deny all of this could really be happening. I could ask why me, but that was no good. I couldn ’ t absolve myself of responsibility. I had done things and they had led to this. They say no good deed goes unpunished but that ’ s a shit reason. Really, I had been sloppy; rushing had m... |
1,831 | A horror story ... where the characters act realistically
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It was a full moon, just past the 18th a few weeks ago. My wife and I were driving down one of the back roads to a party thrown by one of her coworkers when we got lost in the woods with half a tank of gas.
Eventually, we stopped on the abandoned dirt road we were on to try to get a sense of where we were. The bu... |
1,832 | As always, you ask your dad to check under the bed for monsters. But this time when he checks, you hear him whisper: "Not yet, my friends. Soon." | My dad loved me. I loved my dad. Every night he would tuck me in and read me a story. It helped me settle. I had been suffering with bad night traumas but they’d gone away after he started doing this. Tonight was the same… until it wasn’t. He tucked me in. He read me a story; Goldilocks and The Bears. He checked for mo... |
1,833 | Strange tattoo-like markings appeared on your arms out of nowhere. You decided to post about it and find out what they mean. | r/Weird • 8 hours ago [edited 2 hours ago]
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Woke up with strange markings on my arms... anyone know what this is?
This morning, I woke up with these strange markings all over my arms. They look like tattoos, but I don’t have any memory of getting them done. What's really worrying me is that they’r... |
1,834 | For years, there's been a room in your house where time stops. You can stay in there for as long as you possibly want without aging, and not a single second passes outside of the room. One day, while in the room taking a nap, you're awoken by the sound of furious knocking at the front door. | There is knocking.
There’s a room in a house that hasn’t changed in years; a room with no clocks, where sunlight is blocked by thick wooden shutters. And in the spaces where bulbs should shine there is just empty darkness.
A man lies on the bed, his feet hanging over the edge. His face is fuzzed from growth and hi... |
1,835 | Story about a superhero whose powers come with a strange side effect or drawback
| He didn ’ t even see the blue SUV until it smashed into the passenger side of his beaten down compact car. The car rolled three times and slid into the ditch. He pulled himself out of the wreckage holding his most likely broken arm tight to his side. His 6-year-old daughter screamed from the back of the car, dangling u... |
1,836 | "Eyewitnesses reported that her eyes turned red and she cried blood just before she became the first 'betrayer'. 13 people were killed and another 20 wounded before they managed to arrest her. Since then, thousands of "betrayed" cases have been documented worldwide and no one know why" | The first case of the Betrayal Syndrome was my daughter. I watched the News clips of her, my baby, with blood streaming down her face, her teeth barred at the men and women who were running for their lives. I watched as the girl who requested I cut off the crusts of her sandwich even in her mid-twenties, decapitated a ... |
1,837 | A Story about an abusive relationship where you find out it is the man being abused at the end
| `` What the hell happened to you?'' Tom asked.
He bent down and placed John's head in his arms and held him tightly, tears streaming down his face. It was a cold night outside in the streets of Manhattan.
They had first met in high school. Tom's first day of Spanish II landed him working with John on conjugatin... |
1,838 | Even though I love her, I can't open that door, she's not human anymore. | It was my fault. I made her this way.
The steel door trembled every few seconds. I could only imagine what was behind it now. The memory of the sight of it made me shudder. It was my fault, so I had to make amends. A wail made me freeze for a moment, but I continued my work.
“Richard, you don’t have to do this. I’ve ... |
1,839 | One day, while going through your daily life, you notice many odd events occurring that seem to lead to a horrifying conclusion. The world you live in is fanfiction, and something tells you that the author isn't very talented. | I live near the lake. My life is not that simple even though I live like an ordinary person. In last 3 years I lost my wife, my dog and my favourite car. I don’t need to tell you details because they are not that important.
I’m a special detective who finds people for money. Today, I’m going to big old mansion who’s o... |
1,840 | [ CONTEST ] FLASH PROMPT Contest In The Chat Room Today ! REDDIT GOLD PRIZE !
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The stink of them, at first, was only slightly more hideous than their little armored bodies. Now, I don ’ t even notice them. They land in my coffee and I drink them down with cream.
In the beginning, we knew them only by their graffiti: ten acres of apples, their white meat pockmarked brown. The next year we ra... |
1,841 | Write a zombie apocalypse story from the view of the zombies
| I remember typing being a lot easier last time I did this.
Being a member of the living dead, my joints just keep getting harder to move. Rigor mortis and all that. Also, should n't something have fallen off by now? I've been'awake' for quite a while now and I have yet to lose an extremity. I know a guy who woke up... |
1,842 | A man moves into a haunted house from ( insert scary movie here ) . The demon in the house does n't realize how dangerous the man really is .
| December 13th, 1985
Dear diary.
A new man moved into the house today. He seems nice. Sort of different from the others. Moves slower. Has to poke everything around him with a stick. Nervous tick I guess. I'm going to let him sleep tonight and start tomorrow with the program. Nothing against this guy but he shou... |
1,843 | Something 's Hidden Inside This ! ( 150 words )
| In imaginative dreams I ’ m so unfortunate to have, my mother will come haunt me. In reality, she is but below the surface by about three meters of mostly even earth, and luckily ( for her in this scenario ) dead, as otherwise she would be scratching at her coffin ’ s lid and damning our family to a heated hell for her... |
1,844 | You awake in the middle of the night to your phone loudly playing a message , `` This is the emergency Broadcast channel , This is not a test . Please seek shelter immediately . Do not look outside , do not make noise , do not- '' , the transmission ends .
| I had just fallen asleep and that is when it began... my father burst into my room whispering in a harsh, but scared tone saying: wake up!!! We need to find shelter, do not look outside, do not make a noise, do not- shhhh they are here... he grabbed me and we rushed upstairs to hide... while we were running for what se... |
1,845 | A young man , taking the decision lightly , chooses to become godfather to all of his friend 's newborn children . A year later all of his friends are massacred leaving their kids to him .
| I thought back to the promise I had made to my friends at the bar on that fateful night three years ago. It was dark outside, pouring rain, and we had been drinking for hours. One of my friends was lamenting his aunt ’ s passing at the hands of Leukemia and the subject of mortality was brought up. One thing led to anot... |
1,846 | A simple man asks a genius. The genius couldn't answer. | It was a simple job. The genius just had to sneak into the house, activate some disturbance on the opposite side of the girls room from him, and take her life. Everything he did, he planned out thoroughly and swiftly. He had never murdered anyone in this area, so he randomly selected a home so that the police wouldn’t ... |
1,847 | You are a monster who lives in a closet and whose job is to scare a young child. One night the young child makes an intriguing request that you terrorize their bully from school instead. | It was one of these nights when the lights are out and you lie in your bed. You are alone, all by yourself with nothing left but your own imagination. And right now it had a lot of darkness to fill with nightmares and horrors and monsters that might or might not stand right beside your bed. Peter clung to his blanket l... |
1,848 | A child 's imaginary friend is not as imaginary as his family believes ...
| Hayley sat on the floor, a silver book open and perched on her small lap.
Cathy peeked into the living room. “ There you are, baby. What are you doing? Dinner ’ s almost ready. ”
“ Herbert wanted to see the pictures, ” said Hayley, turning a page.
Cathy suppressed a gasp. “ Where did you get that? ”
“ I... |
1,849 | Three people who bitterly hate each other are imprisoned and must survive the night in a house that breaks down as they argue and fight .
| The sink belched out a thin slurry of liquidized fish and overripe mango pulp, and Rey slammed his hand against the kitchen counter. `` Goddamnit!'' He flicked the switch of the garbage disposal back and forth, producing only a series of gurgles and flecks of half-digested food. `` Everything in this goddamn house is f... |
1,850 | A powerful deity cut off our world's connection to magic for 10,000 years as punishment for our misuse of it. Our sentence is finally up, and the ban is suddenly lifted. To avoid total chaos, the deity returns magic to us at a trickle, and you happen to be early on the list of human recipients. | I wake up as I do any other day, my alarm clock ringing at 6:30 as I jolt up; my routine has already begun.
I always follow my strict routine, it’s what keeps me separate and different from all the other humans, what keeps me sane in this world. I wake up at the first ring of my clock, and by the second ring I have al... |
1,851 | Nobody believes you when you say your house is haunted. But that's because you can't say "it's haunted by me". | I’d always told everyone from coworkers to family to the nurses at the hospital where I died that, one day, I’d be back to haunt them. I suppose they took it as a joke, but I was serious…or, perhaps they just didn’t know how to reply to what they likely took as rambling nonsense from an eccentric old woman. Either way ... |
1,852 | A close pass with a planetary body has left earth's orbit highly elliptical, and only habitable every 50 years. During the years spent away from the sun, the human race goes into cryosleep, electing one random person to stand guard in case of emergencies. You wake up. You are the last one. | In the years after the first awakening, cryo drills joined the pantheon of earthquake, fire, and tornado drills. On cryo days, the school gym swarmed with students working in teams to seal each other into mock-pods. Later, when I went to work for Ellipsyce, I marveled at the accuracy of the pods we had used in school.
... |
1,853 | The Mythbusters series came to an end , but the hosts ca n't handle not filming it anymore . Somehow they have feed their desire to bust myths .
| your head swimming, the grey, blurry shapes slowly focus into two shapes, two men.
`` I... I know you... you are on TV.''
they seem not to hear, like they are talking to someone else... looking around, no one else is here, no cameras, no crew, just an abandoned set...
the fat one talks:
`` Well, you've go... |
1,854 | Every metaphor or figure of speech becomes real .
| It's happening. The storms have finally come and the blood floods our streets. The eviscerated forms putting gaping holes in people's houses, cars, and other property. I'm writing this as I look out side to see yet another English bulldog hit the ground and splatter my driveway and nearby siding of my house. Oh God! A ... |
1,855 | That thing in the corner of your eye , that movement in the dark . That thing that goes bump in the night . Someone finds out what it is .
| Benjamin turned his head toward the noise. All lights in the house were turned off, but his night vision had always been good. His mother used to joke that he must have been a vampire.
He could feel a presence inside the house. Careful not to make any noise he left the bathroom and headed towards the kitchen, where... |
1,856 | A group of murderers break into a house to try and kill a man, who after multiple stabbings and beatings, dosent seem to die, because he turns out to be immortal, so now the killers have to find a way to get out of the house without the man killing them or finding out who they are. | “That wasn’t very nice of you folk, now was it?” The man said coolly, pulling out the last of the thieves’ blades and dropping it on the floor. Right before the gang’s wide eyes, his wounds knitted closed, drops of blood - golden blood - evaporating from his skin.
“Oh, SHIT,” Ray breathed.
“A Golden.” Zhay murmured.
... |
1,857 | The world is ending . Tell me the feeling of the superhero , when he understands the villain was right all along .
| „HA! Hahahahaaaa...! “ – You can feel your voice, misshapen, cackle from your throat. You know it's not real laughter, but does he? Your eyes are wide as desperation takes hold of you, tightly.
„Why are you fucking laughing?! “ – he grabs you by the shoulders and shakes you until your teeth clack together and you b... |
1,858 | While remodeling your house , you realize there is a layer of flesh behind the walls .
| We got the sledge hammers and went to work. `` you ready? I asked margret, as we were about to start our new life. I slammed the sledge hammer into the old dusty wall and recieved a blow which sent me flying back. `` Oh my god! Are you alright'' margret said running over to me. I was dazed and startled at what just hap... |
1,859 | An old man returns to his childhood farm for one last time .
| “ This is where your grandparents are buried, ” I say to the little boy holding my hand. I turn around, into the sun, and point at a field covered in gravestones. “ When I was about your age, my grandfather—your great great grandfather—used to wake me up at four in the morning and take me out there to bail hay and feed... |
1,860 | Everyone has always told you how irrational your fear is . Today , however , it proves completely rational after all .
| When I was five, my mother spent a large portion of her time trying to force me to take a bath. I would shriek and squirm just out of her grip each time she tried to pick me up and place me in the warm water. After an hour of struggling and finally enlisting the help of my father, she would laugh and say to me “ See! I... |
1,861 | As demons rise up from the ground and fire rains from the sky, you are really starting to wonder how you messed up your Spanish Oral Final this bad. | By the time Suzzy Miller screams and melts under Johnny Jackson-turned-Mega-Man-ZX-Lava-Demon’s paws, the classroom is smelling like Chipotle Mexican grill and burned stylophone soda cups.
Across the room, the chalkboard catches on fire. That is Lina Sommer's fault. She spewed flames, again. Behind me, someone screams... |
1,862 | Your grandmother died 12 times already but you keep bringing her back to life when you ask her," Are you awake grandma?". She's fed up | And every night she’d drift away
Only to wake up the very next day
To this annoying little brat all up in her face
Asking whether or not she’s awake
Now don’t get her wrong, she loves the little bugger
But damn, not dying doesn’t mean she’s getting younger!
She had a plan and I don’t mean ‘no rubber’
What I mean... |
1,863 | As a kid, you jokingly say, "If I had a nickel for every person I've killed, I'd be rich!" It's is now your 21st birthday, and you receive a mysterious bank key in the mail. The vault it opens contains $550,000... In nickels. | Under the reddish glow of the vault light, every nickel seemed like a droplet of blood.
It was cold. Stepping inside, I instantly regretted leaving my jacket in the closet. Though there were no visible vents to be seen, the freezing air seemed to blow around me.
The initial shock of the unexpected vault had worn off ... |
1,864 | A jogger stumbles across their own dead body .
| Elle was a woman who prided herself on an orderly, tidy, routine life. Each day, she would wake at 6:45 a.m., and press a gentle kiss to her husband ’ s forehead. Each day, he would then smile sleepily, before once again falling fast asleep. Elle would then quickly get dressed, before feeding the cat, who would be wait... |
1,865 | Write a murder mystery in which the reader turns out to be the murderer
| A baby boy was murdered, Bryant. Only 23 months. Him and his mother were both brutally slain. He ’ d probably seen his mother killed and not known what was happening before it happened to him. That happened two weeks ago, but now the body of a young college student has turned up and it ’ s started to cause suspicions o... |
1,866 | Satan suddenly appears in a crowded mall , and begins terrifying the holiday shoppers . He stops , looks directly at you and says , `` You ... You 're interesting . Do your friends know what you are ? '' You have no idea what he means .
| What? What is he talking about?
I looked back to my friends who were slowly backing away from me.
“ Hey guys, what… what are you doing? What ’ s going on? ” I asked feverishly.
They just kept looking back and forth between me and satan, with a permanent look of horror. The mall stops their bustling and started st... |
1,867 | You are a single parent , and your child has shown you their drawing of a monster . You discover that the monster is real .
| I was finishing my night as I would any other Sunday, lounging in my chair downstairs reading by the fire. Dogs were walked dishes done my girls had brushed their teeth and all settled in bed. The house was finally quiet, my mind relaxed I shut off all the lights and made my way to bed. On my way upstairs I noticed a f... |
1,868 | You are a murderer. You can't help but notice that you keep killing this one guy over and over and over again. Unbeknownst to you, they're an immortal, constantly checking if they can die yet by deliberately making themselves a target. | “You don’t kill me like you used to.”
He said it in such a sad way, as if I was letting him down yet again, but I really don’t care. I’m a murder. I kill people, and I’m going to kill this one like I’ve done to hundreds of others. At first it was fun, I was taking life in ways that resembled Da Vinci inventing somethi... |
1,869 | Your dreams trample on the otherwise normal realities of alternate universe version ( s ) of yourself . You 've just woke up and now they ...
| I sit up wide awake in a cold sweat. The nightmares again... Always the same. An infinite number of me ’ s. An infinite number of them, always screaming - all trapped in various forms of one horror or another.
The nightmares began as a child. Some of my earliest memories I have are of them, all of them, crying ... |
1,870 | A detective working a murder case follows a lead to house in the suburbs. When the detective knocks on the door, the victim answers it. | The case seemed cut-and-dry. I had solid evidence leading to an address in a suburb not far from where the murder took place. I pulled up near the house, parking a few driveways down as to not alarm the suspect. I had my partner stay in the car as emergency backup. I walk quickly to the door, hand resting on my holster... |
1,871 | After blacking out during recess on the playground, you wake up with a Steno notepad in your hand. You read the following message in your own handwriting, "ME: Invest in Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Bitcoin. Spend on defense. They do not come in peace." It's 1995. You are 10 years old. | I am unaware of what is reality and what is nightmare.
In the shadow of the Great Dreamer, all things are twisted according to his terrible design. The animals displayed the first hints of corruption upon the waking of the Great Dreamer. Loyal companions turned against their master without reason, killing the weak and... |
1,872 | Write a horror story from the perspective of three year old .
| A Man in a Monkey Masks comes to my room every night. He tells me to come with him, and he hurts people. He show's me how. I usually cry and scream. Lately though i have n't been crying, and sort of enjoy the knife game we play on peoples faces. Sometimes he eat's their faces off gone, it's icky. Today is the first day... |
1,873 | year 2122 and the world has been taken over by robots. AI commands everything and the very few humans left on Earth have decided to fight back and recover control. You are one of them. You give yourself courage, look into the mirror and... You're shocked. A small red light in your eyes blinks. | “Jimmy, where the hell are you?”
Chip’s voice, once so familiar, was now rendered as potentially hostile. I’m terrified to respond. I’ve always needed to be cautious of what I say, but now I’m not sure I can answer. He already ran through today’s agenda, just like any other day, and now he’s doing roll call. In classr... |
1,874 | The first human is sentenced to death by an alien civilization , who do n't know the first thing about how to kill a human .
| How was I supposed to know that stepping on the red squares was punishable by death?
I just thought they were decorative. They reminded me of when my girlfriends and I would draw squares on the concrete when we were little girls and play hopscotch. How was I supposed to know the aliens ’ honored dead were buried un... |
1,875 | A man woken up only to find out that he has been buried alive .
| It was dark.
Not the normal kind of dark where the corners of the curtains are illuminated by the soft glow of your alarm clock. Jacob felt blind. No amount of squinting would yield an image in front of him. He inhaled sharply. His lungs were not met with the stale air of his bedroom. No, it felt damp and earthy.... |
1,876 | “Daddy? Is the monster under the bed really mommy?” | “Oh honey, sweetheart, why would you ever-“ I stopped, not even sure where my sentence had been going.
I sighed as I carefully perched on the edge of my daughter’s bed, smoothing out the comforter to buy myself a second to think, a second to breathe. “Before I met your mother I, well, I wasn’t much of anything. I was ... |
1,877 | You are a best-selling author and mass murderer. People are drawn to your works because of the creative way you kill off characters, with amazing descriptions of their dying moments. One detective has finally figured out what's going on... | I usually detail the exact process of eliminating my targets. Believe me, I write every single detail down. It’s so much more fun that way. People are pretty fucked up – whether we like to admit it or not, we all enjoy a little gore here and there. I know I do. I write these out in my books. I guess I could say they’ve... |
1,878 | Write an uplifting story in under 8 setences
| When I was a small child, no older than 7 or 8, I had an imaginary friend.
Everyone has to grow up at some point though so when I moved house I decided to stop imagining him for good.
I'm now an adult and living on my own in a small apartment in the middle of nowhere.
I do n't know a single person here who is my ... |
1,879 | There is something outside of your door. It's been there for months. | I don’t want to go out that door, never again.
It’s out there. Waiting for me. That thing that’s taken everything from me. Every now and again, it tries to force me to come back to it but I refuse.
It’s already taken so much from me. I don’t want to deal with it, that monster that has stolen the people most precious ... |
1,880 | You are a professional pickpocket . You 've just picked someones pocket only to discover that the thing you have stolen is truly horrifying .
| I slowly walked up to my victim, ready once again to steal from someone ’ s pocket. I had to be stealthy as to not arouse suspicion. As I put my hand into their pocket I felt something truly terrifying. It almost seemed as if it was beating, but how could it be. I realized as I looked up that something was wrong. The s... |
1,881 | When you found a Dark web chat room full of murderers and other horrible people lamenting ‘the ones that got away’ or detailed current plans and stalkings, you were horrified to find a series of posts from someone stalking… YOU. And you don’t very much like their plans for you… | I opened the chatroom. Groceries they called it, to lower suspicion, even though it only being accessible from the Dark Web made it sus as fuck automatically.
BulgeAreaHunter:Yo what up Sweets? SweetCarolinaReaper:NM hbu? BulgeAreaHunter:Eh, doing fine, but check out these pics of a sweet hunk of meat I found BulgeAre... |
1,882 | You are browsing through "thispersondoesnotexist.com" and suddenly you see your own face pop up. | I stare at the screen in mild amusement.
“This was bound to happen at some point”, I thought. There can only be so much randomness that can happen, so it was bound to generate a face that looked like someone.
I yawn, and shut off the computer monitor. I change into some comfortable nightclothes, and retreat into the ... |
1,883 | "Why is your skin so scaly and flakey?" "Yeah, my skin gets really dry so I have to apply some moisturising cream on it every now and then." "No dude, LOOK!" | No dude LOOK!
The color of blue like a skinks tail from where the fingernails had penetrated and removed the normal skin. I think I had seen enough . This is too personal. Hygiene is not what I want to be talking about with anyone.
I said “I don’t know what that is but you should get it looked at.”
And Im sure it ma... |
1,884 | Another body had been found , this one more gruesome than the previous . The whole town was in shock , but not you . You were just angry , someone had out done you in their first attempt . They think that they can compete with you and that is their biggest mistake . This town is yours .
| You got ta give credit where it's due, I guess. His victim was done up more impressively than mine had been. In my defense, however, I had n't been going for gory. I'm a murderous fiend, not a horror movie monster. Gore is for shock value and headlines. Papers can publish accounts of a gruesome demise, they ca n't repo... |
1,885 | Three friends . Four AM . No dialogue
| Here's my stab at it. Harder than I thought:
So were all sitting there right, and it ’ s early and we ’ re all just waiting for it to hit, you know, waiting for the rush. And Danny boy, old little Danny boy who grew up down my lane is just staring at me, staring deep as if he hates me and as if he wants me dead and... |
1,886 | A demon that writes messages on your mirror with blood but they ’ re useful messages . Like “ remember you have yoga at 6 tonight ”
| You sit, racking your brain for what you know you wo n't be able to remember. But you have to try. You've learned to take these premonitions seriously. Tears begin to stream down your face, as you know what comes next. You walk to the bathroom, flipping the light switch by the door.
He's standing on the other side ... |
1,887 | A child has wandered out of the woods, with torn clothes and mud-stained clothes. When he's asked if he knows what day it is, and where he's from, he says "July 1, 2201" and "The Moon." And he's serious. | “Well I--” Theodore put his pipe down on the small table next to him, “It didn’t quite happen like that.” The room became dim as the fire sputtered out. Theodore learned forward until his palms were on the floor, then dragged his legless torso unto the persian rug. Dragging himself across the room, he found the lounge ... |
1,888 | Tell a war story , through the eyes of an animal .
| I only knew my mother for a week. But I don ’ t mind. After that I had Master and Master kept me safe. Master was not always so kind but Master protected me and made me strong. I was fed at least once a day, sometimes even twice. Led back to the kennels each night. During the day I would train to become strong. If I di... |
1,889 | No monsters quite like your childhood monsters .
| The sound of the squeaky door in the hallway is enough to make the tight knot of anxiety in my stomach tighten; only one person comes through that door during the day, my manager Peter Phillips. Since I started here at this small publishing house, he has terrorised me. He knows I can ’ t quit as I have a wife, two kids... |
1,890 | Every night since you were 4 , you 've seen a person 's silhouette outside your window and hear it 's voice mumbling . You find it strangely comforting as it 's all you 've known..you grow to need it every night to fall asleep . On your 21st birthday ... it yells all night and then never returns .
| I sat up in bed, feeling as if a part of my soul had been torn from my chest. For as long as I could remember, he had been at my window, whispering comforting words to me as I passed into sleep. No matter the place or how far I traveled, he was always there. It became my white noise, like a fan in the room even in the ... |
1,891 | An ageless immortal has lived thousands of years but human limits of their memory means they only ever recall the last several decades of their existence . Modern medicine offers a chance to remember their lost origins and history but are some things better left forgotten ?
| “ Just like any regular morning, after taking a quick shower, James sat down for his breakfast. He opened the morning newspaper, and like any morning he scrolled to the jobs page. For as long as he could remember he was stuck working at the same dead-end job. He had a comfortable life, his job paid the bills and the re... |
1,892 | The world ended years ago, and you have been safe inside your well stocked bunker, alone. Yet after all this time you've realised that the rest of your life would be spent wasting away in there, so when something began force its way inside, you turned off the defenses and simply waited for it. | Four walls, ceiling, flor.
I hear something crawling on the outside.
A bed, a desk, storage closet.
Loud banging, almost too loud to be human.
Toilet, sink, shower, kitchen appliances.
The alarm signals are lighting up, bright read floods everything. The door. Plain, heavy, barred metal door.
I lay still. Perfect... |
1,893 | But this time , the sunset was more than just the end of the day .
| He stares out of the window.
Most people board up their windows and doors temporarily this time of year, but he lives in a nice apartment complex that has windows barred year round and high-end doors that `` not even Rasputin could get through!''
He loves watching the sunset, and does so every night. It's so pretty... |
1,894 | Know . Your . Fear .
| `` Good night.'' My mother closes the door, not aware of the things that go bump in the night underneath my bed. She does not know what happens at night, how many times my legs get pulled underneath by the monsters hanging underneath my bed. I go to turn on the light, unable to see the mousetrap sitting underneath my r... |
1,895 | Theme Thursday - Prisoner | Regret is a Prison.
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The streets of the dusty city grow fat with skinny beggars. Limping and staggering, we dance like skeletons veiled by thin, tattered life. Only through tears in our oversized clothes can you truly see how closely the flesh clings to bone.
Where I lay beneath the bridge, the concrete eclips... |
1,896 | Satan wants to retire , and has selected you as his successor .
| “ The first thing you ’ ll want to do, ” he spoke between blood-curling screams of agony, “ is build respect. ”
He tossed the skewer to the side. I watched as the eyeball, pierced straight through the pupil, provided some cushion for the fall. It bounced once and then fell into the fire below.
“ Without it, you... |
1,897 | There’s an ancient plant in the garden of your family’s estate, tended to by the masters of the house going as far back as your bloodline can be traced. Not a single flower has blossomed from this tree for centuries... until today, when your father let you water it for the very first time. | The damn tree had been in my family for as long as I can remember. Even my father didn’t know how long it had been there. My dad told me every male in the family had to water this damn thing on there 17th birthday My dad did his dad did it and so forth, he and my grandfather didn’t know why but it was a family traditio... |
1,898 | Everyone in the world has a 1-10 rating of how much of a threat to humanity they pose above their head . You go through your life as an average 2 but today your number has jumped to a 9 .
| He leaned back, Jack was turning eighteen – which meant he will get a revaluation of his threat level. He did n't really care much for his numbers, even though it had a huge impact on your life. His father had been a 1 most of life until he got drunk one night and punched a cop; he was bumped to a 7. A number that high... |
1,899 | "I know you want to refuse my gift, because you don't think you deserve it. Let me assure you, you don't. By no means have you earned this blessing. But this has nothing to do with what you deserve. I'm giving it to you because I want you to have it. Nothing more." | The room grew cold, suffocating. My breath came out in sharp, visible gasps. The chill wasn’t from the air, but something darker, crawling up my spine. He stood, blending into the shadows, watching me. His eyes—dark, calm—never left mine.
“I know you want to refuse my gift,” he said, voice smooth, like honey. His word... |
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