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1,900 | Your six year old has invited a homeless person over for dinner .
| As a parent sometimes life throws you curve-balls, and honestly being mother to such a special little girl, I should n't really be that surprised. She always used to bring things home, it started with trinkets and pretty rocks from the beach, typical behaviour really, natural even. Slowly seashells turned into stray-ca... |
1,901 | Write a short story where the first and last sentence is `` It 's not your fault '' .
| “ It's not your fault. There was nothing you could do. Can you tell us what happened? ” Jack had been playing a game with his sister and was hiding in the dirty laundry basket when the back door burst open in front of him. He had been too scared to move or scream as the three men with black ski masks ran past him, shou... |
1,902 | You accidently discharge your firearm into the television . Much to your surprise , instead of shattering the glass , it passes right through and hits one of the characters on screen .
| Looking back, it always seemed to me that people asked the wrong questions. The lawyers, the scientists, the police, the media, and the cable company always wanted to know how I shot someone through a television. When they should have been asking: why did I have a shotgun on my lap one Tuesday afternoon?
I do not... |
1,903 | : You roll out of bed on an average day and look in the mirror , you are a watermelon . How did this happen ?
| It was a Tuesday, that much I remember. I had felt a change in myself coming on for weeks, maybe even months. I did not know exactly what that change would be, but I assumed maybe a new apartment or a new girlfriend. Instead, I woke up that Tuesday morning as a watermelon.
At first, I was scared. I didn ’ t know ho... |
1,904 | you go to the shop for cigarettes , and return to find your wife has remarried , and your son and daughter have aged ten years .
| The door opened with a creak that was familiar, but I could not recognize the woman standing on the other side. “ Um, So Sorry… I must have the wrong apartment ”, I offered, and stepped back to look at the door number. At the same time that I saw the brass 12 that indicated that this was indeed my house, the woman fell... |
1,905 | Make me afraid of the dark
| Perhaps it is n't the dark you should be afraid of, but of what lurks within. Have you ever walked into a darkened room and feel one thousand eyes upon yourself? When you click on the light you expect to see something and yet nothing is there - or so you tell yourself. Still, you ca n't get rid of that nagging feeling ... |
1,906 | `` Looks like we 're going to have to eat our way out . ''
| Tumbling, scratching, sniffing. All dark. Too hungry. Brothers and sisters crawling around, over me.
Feed us. Feed me.
The darkness lifts, the stench of them is all around. My sister is taken, her piercing scream filling my all. But now she shall eat.
Feed me.
The stench again arrives, with blinding lig... |
1,907 | You make a time capsule for yourself and set it to be opened in 10 years. You write "please write back" as a joke. When you get home, there's something waiting on your dining table ... | Around the table sat Dale, Shangie, Arthur and J. Fresh from their trek into the woods, the boys really weren’t looking their best. From Arthur’s mud-spattered left cheek to the rosie twinge that always rose in J’s face when he got excited, you could tell this little crew had been adventuring. The electricity around th... |
1,908 | Write a story that begins and ends with the same sentence in a way that it takes on a whole new meaning the second time .
| “ Who ’ s the monster now? ”
I giggled at the man ’ s antics. “ And what are you supposed to be then? ”
The man pouted. “ You mean you can ’ t tell?, ” he whined. “ I ’ m one of the ghosts from that old haunted house. ”
At his comment, I evaluated his costume once more. His clothing was a mockery of what a pr... |
1,909 | You have a soundtrack that plays music appropriate to whatever situation you are currently in . You can consistently hear the music which is why you 're terrified when you awake to the sound of screeching violins at 4am .
| I wake with a jolt and for a second wonder why I am awake. The curtains are still quite dark and I ca n't see any light coming from the crack under my door. I glance over at my illuminated clock and see 4:00 AM, what?! I am the type of girl who sleeps in until 1. 4:30 in the morning is as far away from 1 as it gets. Th... |
1,910 | "The power of Christ compels you!" The vampire just laughed. "I'm an athiest." | Oliver smirked. Kine were so typical, thinking that just shouting the name of their deity loud enough and waving religious objects would save them. Somehow the fact that they were in an church must’ve slipped the little imbecile’s mind, as if somehow saying the name of the deity would have an affect when “God’s” suppos... |
1,911 | Tunnel Vision ( 150 words precisely )
| Sarah had read about Shadow People but never seen them for herself. From what she recalled, they came in pairs and were little more than illusions brought on by tired minds. And though she had imagined them as indistinct blobs or smudges of grey, when she first saw the shape in the corner of her left eye she was surpri... |
1,912 | Your wife's murderer is the police sketch artist. | My wife had been murdered before my eyes.
I had no idea what was going on until it was happening, and at that point my only saving grace had been my loyal companion, Scotty. Her screams will haunt my memory, my hands not moving quick enough to the familiar place of the land line to dial the police. I had heard the int... |
1,913 | Combine These Two-Sentence Horror Stories into a Complete Horror Story
| “ My ex-girlfriend wont stop calling me in the middle of the night. She died two years ago ” the TV in the centre of the room shows a young man visibly shaken talking to a police officer, his phone then goes off showing the number of his ex-girlfriend. **Crack** Its 3 am and I can hear my garage door opening. live alon... |
1,914 | You are the devil. You've been summoned into a ordinary living room, a panicking woman barely mumbled out: "late for work...Take care of him." before she busted out of the door. Now, you see a baby in the cart, reaching his arm towards you, you don't know why but you started panicking as well. | “Who summons thee—”
Before I could even get these words out of my mouth, a human woman who looked far overworked, wearing some server uniform, snatching a purse off the floor with a relieved and panicked look on her face. “Deal with it!” The door slammed behind her; her steps were not light as she ran down the apartme... |
1,915 | It 's 65 million years in the future . Humanity was wiped out by a meteor impact . A new species evolved and they have successfully cloned a human . You are that human .
| They come to the bars with my tray. The lights are bright now. They click and whistle. My face hurts when I try to make their sounds, but I'm cold. I ask for a blanket. The biggest one turns and leaves and comes back. It pushes a blanket through the bars. I take it and put in on the pile in the corner. My legs are sore... |
1,916 | There exist people with the ability to bend the elements to their will . They are called elemental benders . You are a bender , pick one element from the Periodic Table of Elements you can control and describe why everyone underestimates your element and why it 's really superior .
| “ Are you serious? ” Sharon sneers, a disgusted look on her face. Livia stands across from her, a distant look on her face. “ What a stupid element to control. What are you going to do with that? ”
Livia simply looks at her, no emotion on her face.
“ Hey! Say something! ” Sharon steps closer as Mandy and Noelle... |
1,917 | You have a near-death experience that reveals you have a Guardian Angel protecting you... And you have the hots for her. You continue putting your life in danger in order to spend more time with her. | “I’m telling you, Susan, he wasn’t the same after the operation.”
“What do you mean?”
“He died, you know. When he was under. And when he came back... he just wasn’t Tim anymore.”
“How so?”
“We started fighting all the time, and we never used to fight. He kept saying I didn’t care about him like she did. When I aske... |
1,918 | A war story about someone winning the war of their own mind .
| “ Martha - please! - you don ’ t understand. I need the kitchen knife now!..We ’ re at an absolutely critical moment here, ” I ’ d scrambled across the whole dinner table to beg. I thought the armistice was agreed to hold for the entire night, at least until Martha was asleep, but no, those bastards..I should have know... |
1,919 | For 10 years , the FBI has been tracking a killer who chooses one victim every three months , in accordance to the four seasons of the year .
| We call him The Axis.
You do n't understand. This man... No! Not `` man''. Calling him a man is a fucking compliment.
We do n't know who he is,
Where he's from,
Or even if it's any one person.
Regardless, ever since 2004, we've learned to be extremely attentive during the equinoxes and solstices. Wh... |
1,920 | The zombie apocalypse is here . A prepper breathes a confident sigh of relief knowing that all his planning up to this point will ensure his survival . Here they come and its just like the movies ... except they can fly .
| My son Jack saved us.
When the dead starting walking my boss invited us to come and live with his family at his mountain estate. He said it would be a perfect place for our family and, besides, I could keep my old job as groundskeeper and my wife could do the cooking and cleaning and… well, I ’ m sure he had other ... |
1,921 | Write a post-nonapocalyptic story - the story of what happens after everyone thinks the world is going to end but then it does n't .
| “ Mom—Are you ok? ”
“ Yeah honey, we are all fine here. Thank God! My hands won ’ t stop shaking. Your father is a bit of a mess, and the dogs are still barking. But yes, we are ok. How are things in New York, everyone survived? Did you call your brother? You ’ re perfectly ok, not hurt? Right? I was so worried abo... |
1,922 | "You made a deal, revenge for a favour. You've gotten your revenge, and now they need you to deal with someone." | ~Fighting Demons~
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A beautiful woman is standing in front of an apartment, looking around and fidgeting with her purse strap.
“Look, I…just don’t know if—" The woman freezes as she feels a pair of invisible hands grab her shoulders.
“Deals a deal,” a voice echoes, “You got your oh-so-sweet venge... |
1,923 | A man somehow gets high off sadness , but starts to build a tolerance to sad scenarios .
| I remember the first time the sight of another person's tears excited me. I was 8 years old, and my father was leaving my mother for another woman. I watched through a crack in the living room door as he berated her, telling her it was her own fault. She'd failed to lose the baby weight, she was no longer attractive, s... |
1,924 | Terrify Me ; be it with monster stories , psychological horrors , or even just a very basic fear- just make sure I do n't sleep tonight .
| As a kid, you were worried about the monsters under your bed. All those weird shadows that were really created by the light hitting you at odd angles that you turned into these terror inducing monsters that kept you awake all night.
Yeah, my monster is real, and it's under my bed right now.
It follows me everyw... |
1,925 | Write a story that will make me understand what true solitude is .
| My biggest fear was once noticing someone in the mirror behind me when I knew I was alone. My fear has become my desire, as I long for even one set of eyes staring back at me whenever I pass by the countless mirrors in my apartment. With a fear like mine, one would question the numerous mirrors lining every wall, every... |
1,926 | You are a zombie . But you have yet to realise it ...
| “ Guys! Wait for me! ” I would call out to the group of survivors struggling to escape in their fear. I watched in dismay as they panicked, fell and eventually the herd would be on them tearing them apart. Why wouldn ’ t anyone let me join their group? Time and time again I had to watch this play out. I felt a little o... |
1,927 | A several thousand year old civilization was built around a mysterious book with an infinite number of pages. No matter how outrageous, the information was always true. The only rule was that once a page was turned, it was impossible to turn back. One day, a new page said "Caution do not turn!" | I was participating in an archeological dig of an untouched ancient city on a small island in the Pacific Ocean. I went into what I assumed was the temple, although it was strange. There was a symbol above the entrance of a book, but the archeology suggested it was a temple. After a little bit of searching, I found a b... |
1,928 | The acceptance of necromancy leads to various breakthroughs in other schools of magic, especially healing. | I hear the light scrape of chalk on the hardwood floor as it circles me. The snick of a lighter and muffled chanting means the ritual has almost begun. I smell smoke, incense, and perfume as my sister grips my hand tighter. The muffled voices fade.
"It would be best for you to wait outside." I recognize the Doctor’s v... |
1,929 | Write a story chronologically backwards , beginning with the twist at the end of the story and working back to the beginning .
| “ Do I know you? ” she asked.
In a single moment he felt his world fall apart. She didn ’ t remember him. She tucked a stray hair behind her ear waiting for his reply. He felt sick and defeated. He had sacrificed everything and now he had been left nothing. Her cool blues eyes stared at him.
“ No, you don ’... |
1,930 | It's an open secret in your small town that a pod of man eating mermaids lives just offshore. No one says anything, because they only eat tourists. So when the new group of college kids go missing, no one thinks twice about it. Then one of them comes back. | It was never meant to affect us locals, but I suppose being related to a local just wasn’t enough. Had I known I would have kept him as far away from this cursed town as possible. God knows why the hell I haven’t left yet, but the problem our tourists have here tend to happen to locals when they leave this place.
You ... |
1,931 | You were raised in a very safe house; rounded corners, anti-slip shower mats, the works. Your skin is completely unmarked. You cut yourself for the first time ever, you bleed silver. | Xena stared, unblinking, fixated by the silver fluid leaking from her palm. “What is this?” She whispered. She had seen injuries before. The first time she had seen a doctor removed his glasses, red oozed from his eyes. The only time she had ever touched someone, red gushed from the hand-print mark. “This- this isn’t r... |
1,932 | Not all heroes wear capes, some wear hoodies. | Not All Hero’s Wear Capes, Some Wear Hoodies
God, I was sick of seeing that headline at every 7/11 I went to run during and after my runs. I guess it’s a better headline to be hounded by then “Local woman watches as child flattened by a Volvo”. But I still hate being called hero...maybe I should back up...
I was walk... |
1,933 | You 're in your mum 's car when something terrifying happens..
| It was a normal sunday, a drive to the store to buy some milk. My mom and me were in the car with her driving and me sitting in the passenger seat using my phone. I look up from my screen and see that were getting close to the store. At this point was when i felt a rumble of sorts a disturbance in the force if you woul... |
1,934 | Your owner is a very bad man, but you are a very good dog. | I hear screaming downstairs. I'm not allowed downstairs. The screams make me anxious, but I know they'll pass. So I lay my head down on the cold linoleum of the kitchen floor and wait. There's been a lot of screaming downstairs this week, my master has been very busy. A lot of people go down there, but only master come... |
1,935 | You hear background music which changes according to the situation you're in. This time when arriving home, instead of the relaxing and joyous music, it is completely silent. | Arthur heard a faint somber tune while working at his desk, notes plucked on wistful strings, the sound was faint but distinct. He got up and searched for its origin, stopping just outside Eugene’s cubicle where it was almost unbearably loud, “Hey, Eugene?”, the tune quickly scrambled, and a few harmonious notes played... |
1,936 | You sit by your mother 's side as she takes her last few breaths . You reminisce about the good times you two had , until you begin to realize , there were no happy moments .
| The beep of the heart monitor grows faster, more erratic and I feel her squeeze my hand so tight that I ’ ve lost feeling in my middle finger. I wonder, if this is death, what ’ s the point of living to such an end? Why not just end it yourself?
Mom couldn ’ t end it herself, she was too frail at this point, had be... |
1,937 | You attempt to summon the devil . There is a flash of light and you find your mother in law standing in the room .
| My mother in law grinned at me, showing off every one of her spiny, venomous teeth, `` So you finally managed to summon me. I bet you think that you are sooo clever. But you should know this changes nothing!''
She started laughing her horrible demonic laugh, sounding like a thousands nails scratching on a million c... |
1,938 | The zombie apocalypse happens . It was about as traumatic as Y2K .
| When the zombie outbreak broke out on the news, people panicked and stocked up and fortified and partied. However, the virus isn ’ t even that dangerous, it only acts up once the person is dead. Not only that but what kind of animal attacks armed humans. I mean seriously? Lions and bears stay away from humans, so how t... |
1,939 | "Why are you giving my newborn baby a dagger?!" "Well they're a choosen one, which means that I'm destined to be killed by them; but honestly I've been waiting centuries for them to be born and I just want to get it over with." | "And this next gift is from our dear friend, Helen", Briana said, holding the wrapped box in her hands, "Ooh, it's heavy!"
Helen smiled serenely. All those centuries living and the end was finally here. Her future killer, coddled in Briana's husband's arms, only a few tantalizing feet away from her.
But Briana didn't... |
1,940 | Its dawn . The sun shines innocently , illuminating the room will a soft glow . You yawn , stretch and walk towards the curtains . You open them wide with gusto expecting a great day..and stand back horrified by what you see..
| I yawn. I ’ m still a little tired, but the sun is in my room already, so I ’ m not expecting any more sleep.
The days usually have me defeated. Here I am, 28 years old, and doing nothing with my life. There ’ s nothing I ’ m good at, nothing that ’ s worth anything anyway. Except maybe cleaning. Though that ’ s hard... |
1,941 | Today is the birth of your first child . How do you feel Commander Shepard ?
| The doctors told me repeatedly it would not end well. The birth itself was not so rough with all the drugs that had been pumped into me. Plus, I had been through much worse.
When he was born the doctors looked down in horror and silently handed him to me. His arms and legs were deformed and he twisted them in a way... |
1,942 | A woman , after killing herself at the age of nineteen , sees what she could have become after her death . [ WP ]
| Everything went dark and quiet at once, like the moment in the theatre before the film starts. Nothingness is a strange feeling; it's impossible to describe. It's like trying to imagine holding an atom between your fingers, feeling the consequence of its touch. But even less than that. There's no sensory impulse. There... |
1,943 | A day in the life of a civilian in an underground city. | “They say people used to be up there.”
“Where?”
“Up there,” Clara said, pointing up towards the surface.
“You’re insane. No one would survive a minute up there.”
“No. I mean before. They said it wasn’t hot before.”
“You don’t know that. No one does. No one alive now was there. They could have made it up, you know?... |
1,944 | Writing Workshop # 14 : Fight Scenes
| My first indication it happened again was a shoe to my kidney. I rolled away, to feel another from that side. Grabbing this foot, I twisted and shoved, flopping my attacker on her backside. I yelled, `` You have no idea what you just got yourselves into!''
In the resulting moment of their surprise, I assessed: 1 boy ... |
1,945 | The first diary entry of a person who has been accidentally forgotten and left on Earth when everyone else has ascended to a higher plane .
| Dear diary,
I think it just happened. Again. I woke up and the door was open. Lennie was gone. Everybody ’ s gone. How could this happen? I made a wrong, but I ’ m a good girl now. Dr. Spencer said I ’ m a good girl now.
Maybe I ’ m just imagining things again. I hope I ’ m just imagining things again. I ’ m go... |
1,946 | How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak
| Mom always said I was wasting time with horror movies.
When the dead stopped staying dead, I thought she saw my value. One thing I learned – evacuations are like a moving feast. The crowds and chaos would be a magnet for the undead. So as the neighbors evacuated, we scavenged.
Pantries, many left surprisingly f... |
1,947 | Your emotional support pet is a werewolf. | “I cant believe this happened” I had just been mugged and cried my way up to my apartment. That’s when I noticed Miles laying on my bed. Did I forget to mention that I have a “pet” werewolf? Yeah, long story.
“Why are you crying” Miles looked to me. He sat up and stared at me.
“I got mugged on my way up” I sighed, it... |
1,948 | `` No matter what you hear , no matter how badly you want to , do NOT open your eyes . ''
| `` Do n't open your eyes.''
I was pulled out of a dream. Still groggy, I obeyed. `` Why?'' I asked.
There was a wet cough and a soft groan. `` No matter what you hear, do not open your eyes.'' The voice was my wife's, but she sounded small and scared.
`` What's wrong sweetheart? Why do n't you want me to op... |
1,949 | Death usually separates people . But in this case , Death got them together .
| This story kinda turned out a lot more strange-sounding than I wish it did, but what ever.
I heard them often, playing music late into the night. My bedroom shared a wall with their music studio/ office, but I don ’ t think they realized. I had never seen my neighbors, only heard of their comings and goings, and ... |
1,950 | The only rule she ever had for him was `` do n't touch my mango orange juice . ''
|
As I walked through the door, it hit me.
A smell so foul it almost knocked me off my feet. The room was dark, and I had to feel my way to the table lamp. Fiddling with the switch for probably too long, I finally heard the click. As the bulb illuminated the small area, I began to notice small inconsistencies wit... |
1,951 | "You are outnumbered!" "And you are all outmatched." | Seven Maggots Diary
August 20:
Soon after awakening I stood, exhausted yet on complete alert over the body of yet another one diseased. It had happened so many times, it was hardly a surprise. The shell’s skin-cover was pale, having lost any semblance of color. I moved to touch the corpse, it being very clearly cold ... |
1,952 | Theme Thursday - Effigy | The house went up like a $500,000 matchstick. You’d expect a better show for the entrance fee. But John still lounged by the pool with a sweating glass of scotch in his hand to watch his old self burn.
If his ex-wife was here, he might've joked, At least you finally have your heated pool, babe.
John sipped at his wat... |
1,953 | You 're on vacation in a small , quiet coastal city . Last week bodies started washing up on the shore . No one knows where they come from .
| This hotel was too expensive.
I tilted my Tilley hat over my eyes, ready to begin another afternoon of sleep. I was sitting slightly askew in one of the wonderful canvas chairs strewn across the beach. I couldn ’ t help but wonder if they would mind if I brought it home.
The waves rolled in as the sun continued... |
1,954 | An essay written by a little kid in school with a disturbing twist .
| Anne Briggs's Summer Holiday
Week 1
I had my 6th birthday and invited all my friends from school, but only Sarah Thomson and Billy Moore came. So we just played on the dance mat and ate the cake my Mum made me. It was in the shape of a rabbit with a chocolate button nose and a marshmallow cake. It was delic... |
1,955 | You hear a polite knock on the door . The closet door .
| Everyday I lie awake thinking of a time long past; hoping my sins are not discovered. My sanity is slowly leaving me. I started to hear noises during the night; creaks, footsteps, and then a knock. There was no greater fear than to hear the knocking each night. For every day that passed it would get louder, ever so sli... |
1,956 | Coin that when given makes a person do anything the giver asks . ( rules in comments )
| A coin, that when given to someone, causes them to do whatever you tell them to do to the best of their abilities. I didn ’ t believe it until it happened to me, but the coin worked. And, alas, I found out that you can not use it on those who have already given it someone else.
Years passed as I held onto this magi... |
1,957 | After years adrift in space your ship is beginning to fall apart. The repair droids did their best, but due to a lack of parts they begun to harvest the crew for materials. | This mission was always a risky one, one we knew we might not get through … but we didn’t imagine what would be to come
Our course took us through an area of dark space , devoid of stars for thousands of light years , we thought it would be empty but we were wrong , our ship was attacked by some race of aliens that ev... |
1,958 | An unusual shadow draws your attention to a road in your neighborhood , that you 've never noticed before .
| ( my first try )
The shadow was n't there yesterday morning.
Or the morning before that.
I could see it from my kitchen window as I got my children ready for school. I could still see it as I walked home from their bus stop without them.
It did n't matter which angle the sun was at, it was always there.... |
1,959 | You 're a scientist working on a social experiment called , `` M. modification '' , where one normal child is put into a school of mentally incapable children to see if the kid will try and fit in .
| Me and my wife, Emily, were ecstatic when Dr. Stein asked us for our consent to include little Johnny in an experiment. We were struggling financially for a while back then and the participation reward was going to keep us afloat for a while longer. Everything was fine for the first few weeks. Johnny seemed happy, and ... |
1,960 | 'You realize I have to kill you now . ' 'Yes ... it 's okay . I 'm ready . '
| He was young. 18 probably. Average height average hair average looks; there was nothing remarkable about him in the least. He stood in front of me, unsure of what to do with his hands.
“ Relax. ” Normally I try and interact as little as possible with my clients. Stay on script, that ’ s my philosophy. The less impr... |
1,961 | Give me a case file about a mysterious death and I'll write a murder mystery out of it (Please only serious stuff, nothing like "Minnie mouse was found dead in the house" etc.) | On May 20, just a few days into the honeymoon, Ronald left Christina and Jack at the cottage and went sunbathing by the Severn River. When he returned at 6:30PM he was greeted by a horrifying scene – his cottage was ablaze. Ronald raced into the burning cottage and frantically searched for Jack and Christina, calling t... |
1,962 | Sunday Free Write : Leave A Story , Leave A Comment - Bucky Ball Edition !
| Grandpa Jamie had waited until he was on his deathbed to reveal his life ’ s greatest secret to me. He laid on the sterile hospital bed with his big head propped up with three pillows. I could tell he was in pain. For some reason he only wanted me in the room with him. I didn ’ t understand why he decided to tell me hi... |
1,963 | Your fingers move a lot in your sleep and one day your S/O puts a typewriter under your hands ...
| Hey guys, this is my first attempt at a WP. Thought I'd have a go! It's not the longest as I wrote this during my break at work! Hope you enjoy: )
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The next morning, Thomas woke up in the chair, afraid to look at the names he had damned in his sleep this time. He turned the typewriter away so he could not se... |
1,964 | Demons come up from the depths of the earth , but theyre almost exactly like humans except for a few minor differences
| It's almost impossible to tell the difference between us and them.
We did n't even know they were living with us for the longest time, until they started killing us. It started off slowly, a few people here and there, dying from everyday causes. Car crashes, freak accidents, that sort of thing. It was me who realiz... |
1,965 | The production of meat for human consumption has been fully automated for decades. The largest factory has suddenly stopped producing. You are the technician assigned to troubleshoot, and are the first person to enter the plant in over 20 years. | First I think I should give you a quick rundown of how meat production works, for the uninitiated. There’s loads of chemicals, and these get mixed together. This mixture includes cells from whatever meat you’re making, as well as other chemicals that promote meat growth. This is then put into huge thin trays, about 6 i... |
1,966 | Convince me you are a serial killer without mentioning your kills
| I am a collector, always have been. When I was five mother told me I had to stop collecting the little frogs from the pond. I didn ’ t stop, I just put them in a bucket under my bed. When she found out, she made father fill the pond with dirt. No more frogs.
At seven, I had moved on to lizards. I would find them on... |
1,967 | You 've just been selected for jury duty . As the trial begins , the opening prosecutor details a gruesome murder that you instantly recognize..because you committed it .
| Its 9'o clock sharp. I'm sitting in a courtroom, still trying to act fully awake after a sleepless night. I guess that's what nightmares do - they keep people awake. But then again most people dream of spiders, falling, or someone running after them... Not many know how blood-chilling it is to be the one who is chasing... |
1,968 | You get a text message in the middle of the night . `` Stop laughing ! Your giggling is keeping me awake . '' The only problem ? You 've lived alone for years .
| This happened a while ago when I was living alone. Well I was n't completely alone; I had my Bichon named Bichon. I had just started renting a house at the time. A few weeks after moving in I noticed something seemed... off... about the house. I had n't noticed anything abnormal when I did the walk through. I still ca ... |
1,969 | 75-150 words -- The sound of faint tapping at your window , four floors up .
| Andrew knew how these things went; he had seen all the horror movies. There ’ s a tap or two on your window, and when you go check it out BAM! the killer gets you from behind because he was actually in the closet the entire time. But those were just movies, and Andrew was curious as to what woke him up the day before h... |
1,970 | Humor
| First post, any feedback appreciated.
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Well it took me a solid ten minutes to get into the bathtub. I haven ’ t been able to take one for almost a year. Showers, an adventure themselves, were a lot easier, but I was determined today to take my long-... |
1,971 | Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood . The more bad deeds they commit , the darker their blood becomes . One day , you meet your soulmate . Skip a few years , and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips , falls , and the cut they get drips ink-black blood…
| When she was two, she tugged on the dog's tail, causing it to yelp slightly and growl at her. Her creamy white blood now tainted with thin wisps of black, but still mostly pure. It was nothing, but the blood did n't care.
When she was five, she lied and said it was the baby that had drawn on the walls. Wisps of bla... |
1,972 | You’ve always lived on a small fishing islet with your uncle who doubles as your best friend. He raised you believing you had to keep your head down because he’s a wanted man on the mainland. On his deathbed, he admits he wasn’t the one being hunted. You were. | I was alone. Truly, irrevocably, and deafeningly alone. Uncle was gone and not coming back. But far more isolating than being without Uncle was being alone with my thoughts.
Uncle was a kind man, and I have to believe that shielding me from this for as long as he did was what he thought to be right. But now I had v... |
1,973 | The Zombie Apocalypse lasts less than a week because it turns out a lot of people were waiting for an excuse to use all the guns they've been buying. You are the last zombie. Good luck! | The infection was short but dangerous.
It only really emerged in the southern U.S and some of Central America, but that was the chaos zone, where murder is normal and guns are like drugs. The zombies only infected around 2 to 3 million people before the population curve plummeted. This happened cuz, a week after it ac... |
1,974 | When everyone turns 18 , they receive a pet which is figurative of their personality . You 're the first person to receive a dragon ...
| The daemon you get tells everybody how and what you really are. Until you are 18 years old friends and family think and assume you are sensitive or strong or driven, but they can never actually know. Because your daemon keeps changing form depending on your mood, and when you are growing up and figuring out the world a... |
1,975 | There is something in the woods that terrifies you .
| People used to go on hikes through the woods behind my house. Used to.
They started to stop when people went missing. They'd walk in on one side, but they would never leave. Their bodies are never found. That scares people.
So the police go in, armed with their guns and tasers. They want to find out what is hap... |
1,976 | You begin to suspect something strange is going on . But everything 's actually fine .
| There ’ s something about the darkness that brings to mind all your worst fears. I think it must be some sort of instinct leftover from our caveman days when our ancestors would huddle together around a roaring fire for the warmth and pray that it scares off any of the creatures lurking in the darkness that could proba... |
1,977 | You are a leaf and autumn has just begun. | I’m scared, of course, but also darkly thrilled that autumn is here. I think some of the other leaves suspect some sort of change, but they're a few weeks late. Autumn has been here for a while, forever really, waxing and waning and waxing again. This will be my first and last autumn, though. The tree says it's nothing... |
1,978 | You won the hide-and-seek world championship, but the authorities found you were using performance enhancing drugs. Because that was recently deemed illegal, they’re trying to arrest you - but they can’t find you. | That moment was the culmination of a childhood dream, a failed hide-and-seek career, and thousands of hours researching and conducting tests in the lab. I stood at the highest level of the podium. Silver was to my left and bronze to my right. Tens of thousands of fans cheered, and dozens of cameras filmed us, projectin... |
1,979 | Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence .
| A deep voice comes from the basement. Each tuesday it's the same.
A letter, a number and then silence. It goes on for hours and then I hear someone screaming.
My mom went to check it out, that's when we lost her.
I heard her scream through the vent.
Dad went away, he said he'd be back for me.
I havent seen ... |
1,980 | You wake one night from a deep slumber , but your lost between reality and your dream state . How would you figure which is real ? ( all physics , philosophical , problems etc . are possible )
| Someone else is in my bed. Sleeping there next to my Husband. Who did we invite over and why did we let them sleep in our bed with us? I feel uncomfortable... Sleeping in the buff like this with a stranger next to us. What happens when they wake up! I have to get out of bed, I have to get dressed and then figure out wh... |
1,981 | Make me terrified of an inanimate object | To: sales, IT, RnD, HR, customer-relations ATTN: RECALL The “Little Darling” Interactive Doll’s House
Hi everyone,
This is just a heads-up to the staff - we are making the official announcement later on. Unfortunately, the “Little Darling” doll house needs to be recalled.
I know R and D worked hard on this one, so l... |
1,982 | The last thing I expected when I woke up this morning was to find a dead body in my living room | Goddamn. Jarrah thought to himself, and audibly sighed.
I said I was done with this damn job.
He moved over to the body in his living room and plucked the note up from its chest, careful not to get any of the blood on his robes. It was written in a messy hand, suggesting to Jarrah that whomever wrote it was in a rush... |
1,983 | You rest your head against the window and try to get some rest before your stop. A girl gets on and sits in the seat directly opposite yours. She notices you and stares blankly for a while. It surprises you, not because she's attractive, but because you've been dead for the past 1000 years. | I suppose my outfit doesn’t fit with the rest of the bus. A torn up cloak, blank iron mask, and iron boots? That’s draw plenty of attention...well...it would. But, none can see the dead. Or should I say, ONE can see the dead? This girl is just...looking at me...it’s creepy.
In silence, she looks at me with that blank ... |
1,984 | You are the last witch in Salem .
| I take a slow, shaky breath, walking by the burned out corpses. Covering my mouth with my scarf, I tremble, not looking up at the bodies. They had been women and men once. At various recent times, most recently the mother and child from last night.
“ Grace? ” I pause, turning and looking to the man standing there, ... |
1,985 | A Little Girl , Terrified of `` The Naughty List '' , Plots With Her Pet Kitten to Kill Santa Clause
| “ Don ’ t be a bad girl now Susie or Santa will put you on the naughty list and you won ’ t get any presents, ” said Susie ’ s mom.
Susie ’ s face went pale as she sat in the back of her mother ’ s SUV. She didn ’ t care that being mischievous would result in a lack of Christmas presents. Susie was terrified of the... |
1,986 | Write a story about your biggest fear/nightmare . Make me afraid of it , too .
| I am walking alone, on my way home from work. It ’ s dark, or at least, it will be soon.
I can smell the rain coming.
I try to walk a little faster, I try to beat the storm, but to no avail. Drip. Drip. Drip.
And then I ’ m drenched in rain. I don ’ t mind so much, I ’ ll be home in 5 minutes. It ’ s almost... |
1,987 | Think about your most memorable dream , be it that or a nightmare , and turn it into a story .
| What started as a bright and shiny day began to turn cloudy. I was playing out at the park across the street from my house. I felt the wind first, the leafs ruffled and branches crackled from the trees along the sides. I felt the drops of water splash against my face. Looking up I saw as the clouds passed over the sun.... |
1,988 | A man pushes an empty swing .
| John opened his eyes. Slowly. Last night office party flashed in front of him. I shouldn ’ t drink this much on Thursdays, he thought to himself. He gets up and slowly comes downstairs to the kitchen. It ’ s unusually quiet, where is everybody, he wonders. Looking around, he pours water in a glass and immediately chugs... |
1,989 | Twenty years ago, a man was murdered in your small town. The case went cold. You decide to produce a true crime documentary about the case. The case is of special interest to you because you are the murderer. | Throughout its fifty-five years of operation, the Smith family bed and breakfast was never filled to capacity, until one week in October 1999, when reporters descended like vultures upon the town of Heady Heights. The Smiths left not long after that, part of a mass exodus that reduced Heady Heights’ already meager popu... |
1,990 | Long ago aliens used to rule the earth but humans took control after beating them in their own sacred rituals . Since then the aliens have been forgotten and the ritual became the kids games we know today . Now they have returned and demand a rematch , double or nothing .
| `` Alone, at last'', thought Jerg Thaffsen-Yamakuri. After an impatient twenty minute warmup, he'd come to the brook -- the one that he loved. It was not as picturesque or as powerful as those which followed, but Jerg loved it the same. To him, it marked the edge of town; the beginnings of the wild.
Next Saturday ’... |
1,991 | You 're on a solo hike along a local trail and end up finding a damaged helmet with a GoPro attached to it . Examining it , you find that the SD card is fully intact . You take it home and watch what 's on it
| I looked all around the area but found no trace of a rider. Maybe they were shaken and could n't find their helmet before they left? Maybe they were taken away by an ambulance already? I do n't know. I figured from the footage on the camera I might be able to recognize someone and get it back to whoever owned it. Lucky... |
1,992 | Begin or end your piece with the phrase `` There are no atheists in a foxhole . ''
| “ There are no atheists in foxholes, ” Henry began remembering these words as he was finding courage to pray, to someone. He was hiding under his bed in the two floored apartment that he rented. His good friend Johnny once told him this quote he heard from a drill instructor during basic training. Glass shattered as cl... |
1,993 | It's a bit awkward that you managed to actually summon a demon; almost as awkward as that demon being your ex spouse. | “Shit Carol! I knew you were evil but ACTUALLY being a demon? Damn”
I had thought for a long time about her. When we were married she kinda freaked me out. She was always trying to communicate with her ancestors through the bathroom mirror and when she left I swore I would change all the furniture but, somehow, I coul... |
1,994 | You split a wishbone with someone, and it splits directly in half. This triggers a tie-breaker clause wherein the chicken's last wish is granted. And this chicken's dying wish was quite dark. | BREAKING NEWS
“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. A new breakthrough has been made in the investigation into the mysterious Baby Chicken epidemic. After weeks of people suffering from discharging little baby chicks when using the bathroom- a process that is preceded by hour long pains and nausea- scientists finally h... |
1,995 | The elder gods looks to us the same way we look to cockroachs. What means that they are irrationally scared of us. | Never before in R’lyeh’s slimy, grimy, and unceasing eons, had a pest as disgusting as a human infiltrated it.
But despite the sunken city’s remote location, the humans had come. Even Great Cthulhu, now sitting petrified ph'nglui h' wgah'nagl, knew that it was inevitable. No amount of repellent and deterrents—sunken s... |
1,996 | In the middle of the night , you are woken by a tapping at your window : branches . You turn to go back to sleep , then remember : there is no tree there .
| How did I end up here? No, I ’ m not offended – on the contrary, I ’ m glad you asked. I know you ’ ll probably think I ’ m crazy; but I guess I ’ m buying you a drink so you to listen to me, not act as my psychiatrist. So here goes.
I ’ m a thirty year old woman. It ’ s been a month since I was married – a month... |
1,997 | Death no longer occurs from physical harm . The ONLY way to die is to consciously consent to your own death .
| I was walking to my office after a boring meeting for the umpteenth time this week, when suddenly, It happened.
We heard the screams from the other side of the office, and then we saw them. The ones I saw in my dreams, the thought of those, Things, brought a shudder down my spine.
I had heard stories of the hor... |
1,998 | You're watching a movie in a theater when suddenly the man next to you starts to laugh loudly. You give him a dirty look, and he replies in a confidential tone, "You know, it didn't happen anything like this." | I feel my eyes growing heavy and weak. It's this damned movie. It's like watching the past. It hurts to watch my life.
For some, it's just a movie. For others, it really happened. You can go ahead and tell me not to take it personally. I won't listen, but not out of choice. How can I not take this personally when this... |
1,999 | A child finds an abandoned set of train tracks in the woods and follows it. He somehow ends up where he started. When he arrives home for dinner, his family is older and they claim he's been missing for 10 years. | When the boy arrived back at his house he couldn’t help but stop and stare. It looked… different. The white paint on the fence was chipped. The grass was weedy and unkempt. It wasn’t like his parents at all to behave like this. It was as though a family lived there that had… given up.
But it wasn’t like when he left, ... |
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