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200 | A man breaks into a home at night . Instead of stealing something , he leaves something behind .
| I ’ ve spent the last 2 hours crouching by the window. My knees started to buckle about an hour ago and I ’ m afraid I won ’ t be able to stand. That ’ s okay. I ’ m going to crawl soon. I don ’ t remember when the lights turned off, but that ’ s okay. Not a problem.
I reach out instinctively to pull a flower out o... |
201 | `` What are we going to do.. ? '' `` I do n't know , but we 'll think of something . ''
| It was a little passed two in the morning. A 14 year old boy named Johnny was just finishing logging off of his computer and decided it was time to head to bed. As he made his way to his bed he head a noise come from down stairs. It sounded as though someone had just opened the front door. It did n't frighten the boy, ... |
202 | Make me feel terrified of an entity without even describing what it is or looks like
| Why am I scared? Why do I feel like this?
This is wrong. That's all it is, a wrongness. It should n't bother me. It wo n't bother me. I wo n't let it. It's just a stupid little feeling, I'll just shake it off. Just like a bit of dust. No problem.
Why is this still bothering me?
This feels... instinctual. Li... |
203 | Write a story that gives me chills , but is n't a horror story
| `` Okay honey, it's about time''
The room was doused in red, a harsh bloody veneer, blurred by the tears in my eyes. They'd given me an enema, shoving a tube up my ass and flooding it with soapy water. I'd held on as long as I could, while the nurse tried not to watch. The thought continually running through my hea... |
204 | [ wp ] You are a guard tasked to watch a gate that has never been opened . No one knows what 's behind it . Write about one of your days on duty .
| I watch the door that never opens.
It ’ s cold and steel but poorly fitted, poorly shaped, steel butting up against air as much as wall. There is light coming through, and cold drafts. Shadows pass behind with some regularity, blotting the light from the floor. From the wall. From the ceiling. I keep note in my min... |
205 | You are a happy , loving pet . Your Master gives you a comfortable , easy life . If only all those people he brought over would stop begging to go home or to be let out of the basement .
| I am lying on my side on the stairs, with my tail hanging loosely over the edge of the step, when the front door opens. I raise my head as my caretaker pushes his new guest into my home. The guest ’ s arms are held behind his body in a peculiar fashion. And instead of eyes, the guest has a white band that circles his e... |
206 | An alien world inhabited by a hivemind is facing a horrifying apocalypse caused by a spreading plague that turns people into individual agents uninterested in being part of the collective. | The Xal were purple humanoid creatures with the faces of spiders. They were a hivemind. Their houses all looked the same: basic boxes with doors and windows. In the town of Klana, a father, Fott, lived with his daughter, Feo. She walked into the living room one day to see him painting, complete with a canvas and easel.... |
207 | You just found out that your favourite restaurant , that you went to last night , serves human meat instead of pork and other meats
| I had never felt this itch before…
It had been almost a week since I stood in front of the sign and I still can ’ t believe it. It was closed. My favorite place. Closed. I loved going there every day for lunch. It was just across the street from the office building I worked at, and just the thought of it kept me go... |
208 | Johnathan is a young , successful man with a happy family and bright future ahead of him . He leaves home one day laughing hysterically , refusing to tell his wife and kids about his destination . Completely sane and sober , he drives deep into the city . He opens a sewer grate and crawls inside ...
| The fall was more than John anticipated, but yet, his harrowing laughter persisted, even after shattering both of his legs on the plummet. His sanity quickly began to erode.
His maniacal laugh continued as John crawled forward on his stomach, dragging his bent and bloodied legs – inch by inch -- though the dank, mu... |
209 | [ 600 words Max ] Your worried mother pays an unexpected visit to your apartment to check up on you . Plot twist : There is an ostrich standing behind your shower curtain .
| We had just kicked Rico over the railing and into the prickley pear that bordered our apartment patio when I heard the doorbell ring. We ’ d gotten him liquored up all afternoon and taped the whole thing for youtube points. We hid on the patio—me with my ostrich suit on and Stubbs, a real life Ostrich, man, long damn n... |
210 | 3.000 AD. A horrifying Lovecraftian monster the size of a solar system has been located a few galaxies away. We are alone in the universe, and the only report of the expeditions there is from a team inside its skin. They calculate the humans will take 200.000 years to reach the monster's core. | Sketter didn’t like the place. It had too many long hallways, too many empty rooms, or rooms filled with unidentifiable junk. Bits of machined metal in odd shapes, ruined chairs with wheels on their feet, long shiny walls covered with writing that rubbed off on his fingers. There were plenty of dead screens, too, spide... |
211 | Monster Under the Bed
| I pulled my blanky over my head and hugged Mr. Lighty. He didn ’ t make any more light, and mommy wouldn ’ t fix him. She said that I needed to be a big boy, and that I shouldn ’ t need Mr. Lighty to be brave. And I am brave, because I saved Cindy from a spider once, and everyone told me I was brave. But I didn ’ t fee... |
212 | A ghost follows his zombie body around after he dies watching himself attack and eat people .
| Back when I was a disgusting little breather - bleghhh: - ( - I never believed in any crazy shit like zombies, and I sure as dick didn ’ t believe in ghosts. But like forks on your wedding day...
The funny thing about this whole mess is that nothing about it seems weird AT ALL! It doesn ’ t feel wrong – not even sl... |
213 | The National Ghost Committee send a lone ghost to haunt an old man . The ghost comes back frightened and quits his job .
| The committee, with their confused faces, asks me to explain my failure. I think for a second, frighten to even relive those horrid moments. `` well sir,'' I say nervously, `` At first nothing seem unusually about this assignment, just a lonely old man, should n't be to difficult to frighten him. When I entered the old... |
214 | You live in a Dystopian society owned by the Walt Disney Company . Describe a regular day in the life of a person .
| “ Attention guests! Attention guests! The Plutos have been released. Please return to your rooms, ” the unperturbed, feminine voice contrasted violently to the piercing sirens. I ’ m already at home—not much place to go anymore. The commotion piques my interest; so, I walk to my front window and look through a gap in t... |
215 | You wake one morning and find your reflection in the mirror is gone . A few seconds later it rushes in mouthing the words `` Sorry ! Sorry I 'm late . Let 's get started . You ready ? ''
| My first reaction was to drop like a bag of bricks. I slid backwards on the ground, trying to stay away from the mirror. If I couldn ’ t see it, it couldn ’ t see me. What the hell was going on?
I was too scared to check the mirror. Wasn ’ t there some myth about mirrors stealing souls? Or was that photos? I presse... |
216 | Your new house is haunted, but since you don't believe in ghosts you keep denying it. The ghosts grow increasingly frustrated, but nothing they do can get you to budge. | It had been an odd sort of welcome when a knife flung itself at me as I crossed the threshold. It had landed bare millimeters from my head, buried all the way to the hilt. The sheer fright of the moment had been enough to stop my heartbeat in its tracks. I hadn’t even thought to inhale another breath.
My house was wha... |
217 | The never ending snow storm
| The thing I hated the most about tonight wasn ’ t the heavy snowfall or the fact that I was stranded in the middle of nowhere.
It was the wind. The god-awful wind.
It didn ’ t just brush across your skin; it slashed and whipped itself into an icy flurry of harshness that slowly wore you down. It was brutal and ... |
218 | Write a story that seems like a horror story until the last line .
| Ethan hid behind the couch, his small fingers gripping the knife firmly. He shut his mouth so she could n't hear his rapid breathing. Who was she, this terrifying old woman that held him captive? She had taken him, called him Niall. She insisted he had to come with her, that she would n't take no for an answer. Ethan b... |
219 | You 've been diagnosed with a terminal illness and given 5 years to live . Suspended animation has perfected , and you 've elected to be frozen and revived for a few weeks every decade until a cure is discovered . Read us a few entries from your personal journal , please .
| April 26, 2016: I just kissed my wife, Sabrina, and little Timmy, my kid, goodbye. I did n't want to go through with this procedure, but my wife forced me. Hopefully I get to see her again.
December 25, 2026: It's been over a decade since I was frozen. The doctors woke me up right before Christmas as a gift to my f... |
220 | You are dog . It is your mission to faithfully guard your poor , stupid , two-legged pack-mates from the horrors of the mailman , the dog next door , and men with hats . Describe your vigil .
| My first time posting on here - but I really loved this prompt so much. Here it goes!: )
I swore to myself that I have a sole purpose in this house: Protection. And to try my best not to pee on the rug again. But mainly protection. I love my two-legged human pack-mates very much. But they are too stupid and defence... |
221 | “What could you, a feeble human, do to me?” “Half.” “…What?” “I’m only half human.” | Warning: This contains utter nightmare fuel. Enjoy!
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The giant orc roared at Sarah with laughter. She was, after all, just small human with no visible weapons. I tried to wriggle out of the rope I was tied upon, but to no avail. The 6-foot-tall orc had raided our tent during the middle of the ... |
222 | "The rule is simple. Make it to the other side apparently unharmed." "... 'apparently'?" "Apparently." | It's a rushed ending, and I didn't edit mistakes, but hopefully you like it.
The game show host smiles. “Yeah,” he says as he flashes his pearly too whites. They looked fake, like actual pearls. I knew this gameshow had a reputation for skirting the law, but now things were different. After their creator w... |
223 | You wake up in a maze with only one thought on your mind : Turn around and you die .
| I walked. Perspiration dripped down the sides of my face as I turned corner after corner. The night was humid. The fact that I have no natural sense of direction is not helping me get in the least. What used to be a mild nuisance easily solved by a GPS system and smartphones might just be the end of me. I had woken up,... |
224 | A team of scientists travels back in time to observe dinosaurs in their natural time period and ecosystem. None of their plans accounted for the monsters that left no trace in the fossil record. | Dinosaurs, beasts beyond our own imagination. Creatures so strange yet so familiar. Everyone knows a T-Rex, people love Triceratopses.
One day we had finally succeeded on something thought to be only achievable in books and movies, we had achieved time travel.
We decided to start where dreams started, with the dinosa... |
225 | Write from the POV of a person with an obsessive personality , bordering on sociopathic
| It ’ s getting brighter. The sun must be above the houses across the alley by now, because my room is brighter. It ’ s brighter now, and the sun is most likely above the houses across the alley.
Get up. I ’ m awake and must get up. Up up up. I have hardly slept for days now, but its brighter out now, and I must get... |
226 | A teenage runaway moves into an abandoned house to escape from her abusive stepfather . You are the ghost that haunts this house .
| “ The living, what do they have to cry about? ” I scoff to myself as I observe this intruder weeping in the foyer of my eternal prison. She is sitting on the steps leading up to the second floor hall. Her hair is disheveled and hanging down in her face and her make up running. She lets out soft moans between sniffling ... |
227 | You are a ghost , not inclined to haunt people , but to make sure their utilities are in order .
| Samantha, after putting her six-year-old son to bed, returned to the bedroom where Dave was already under the covers.
`` It happened again today,'' she said, peeking out into the hallway once more and closing the door behind her. `` Several times.''
`` I know,'' Dave replied, `` I had a few incidents myself.'' ... |
228 | One day , a monster crawls up from beneath your bed , and asks `` Can i sleep up here ? Its scary down there . `` .
| When I was only seven, my father left. My mother used to tell me he went to save children in a third world country. After I turned fifteen, she figured I was old enough and finally admitted that he left her after an argument, went to the bar, and died on his way home. It was a sad story. But it was n't the truth.
I... |
229 | The monster under the bed and the monster in the closet both try to scare you one night .
| A smoking black claw waved back and forth, in a constant sensuous pattern. Embers traced veins on the inhuman limb, and in the darkness under the bed a single red orb blinked open. The eye rolled over in gloom and opened again, scanning the floor of the cluttered room. An instant before the darkness spread from under t... |
230 | Skeletons are becoming sentient and bursting forth from their meatbag hosts . You feel your skeleton waking up , and try to stop it from happening ; or , failing that , to reason with it .
| Official news was tagging it as some new, vicious serial killer, but the circumstances were far too bizarre for the paranoiac masses of the internet to accept such a blase explanation.
“ Werewolves, man, it was always going to be werewolves. ”
“ You ’ re crazy, werewolves would be eating the meat and chewing on... |
231 | Write a terrifying horror story with a chase scene. | (Ah my specialty)
A red light shined from the screen of my flat iPhone onto my face. It’s small glaze teasing my lack of useful light around me as the screen faded to black.
The lights from my car had long gone out, the heat of the dead battery sitting besides me as the cold of the wind and wet forest grass hit me.
... |
232 | The phrase “You Are what you eat” was designed for you. Apparently, you, somehow, have gained the abilities and properties of anything you eat. For example: If you eat a spider you’ll grow 4 arachnid limbs and stick to surfaces. | I am what I eat. I found this out in the most awful way you could imagine, at soccer practice in middle school. My mom had packed me a baggie of blueberries, the big sweet kind you can only get local. I was halfway through the bag and at the flip of a switch I felt myself begin to swell and contort, my bones and organs... |
233 | You are on a ship going out to sea . During the voyage your ship is destroyed and you swim to the nearest land . When you find civilisation , you find it 's a remanant of [ insert historical empire ] which has survived until the present day just as it was then . What happens to you ?
| Hungry, but mostly tired of the bobbing. Up and down and up again on a ravenous body I can not drink. The storm hit. Dan, our captain, had a wife and a six-year-old. The life-preserver I now clutch with rigorous, stubborn fingers was the only one. Cowardice. Dan lays in his bed still, clutching the bedposts in order to... |
234 | You inherited a mansion from your grandfather. The mansion was in pristine condition and well kept. All rooms dust free and clean. Then you reach a darkened room, where you find someone in there. A vampire. "So you are my new apprentice?" The vampire asked. | "I just want to sell it. Give me a price," I demanded.
Gramps' attorney sighed, clearly fed up. "I'm not a broker, sir. Godfried Wolfgang didn’t leave a will. You’re the sole heir." He started walking away but turned back. "I can help you put it up for auction... but I’ll want a commission, alright?"
"Of course," I s... |
235 | You wake up on a hospital bed in a futuristic world . The first thing you hear is `` It 's Alive . ''
| The cold. The cold feel of solid metal, resting on my skin seemingly everywhere beneath the equator of my body. I was encompassed in solid steel. A similarly metallic feeling permeated my body somehow. My tongue tasted metal.
My teeth felt weird.
I could not see - were my eyes open? - could I open my eyes if I so c... |
236 | After being cryogenically frozen you awaken in a large spaceship with what remains of humanity. They only woke you up to experiment on you, but after hundreds of generations in a low gravity environment, they are hilariously weak compared to you | I wake up to their chattering. "Ahin, alamin ecco." The language has changed, mutated beyond recognition. But they have taught me the basics, and little by little I adjusted, learned. I can understand some of their words now, basic phrases.
They. The shock is always fresh as I open my eyes. Their long limbs, thin bone... |
237 | Write a seemingly innocent story that could have been written for children . Then tell a different perspective on the same story that casts it in a totally different light .
| Today I read the children's story book, `` Love You Forever'' by Sheila McGraw, to my son. The back cover explains it as a “ story of how a little boy goes through different stages of childhood and becomes a man... ( and ) about the enduring nature of parents ’ love and how it crosses generations. ”
I have to admit t... |
238 | You tell your wife how glad you are to be a human and not a robot . She looks at you confusingly says , `` What are you talking about ? We 're all robots . Humans have been dead for years . ''
| I toss my head back and laugh. “ You ’ re crazy! ” I say to my spouse. I punch them softly in the arm and pull the blankets back up around my shoulders laying down. Forcing my eyes closed, I can ’ t help but dwell on what they said. I ’ m a human. Of course I am! After a turbulent train of thought, I manage to fall asl... |
239 | POV of a dog during a home invasion .
| Cookie good. I like cookie. Taste like peanut butter, and bacon, and something Meow eats.
Nice Dad gave it to me when we come home from bad place. It smells bad. Lots of meows, and singers, and snake smelling things, and Friends sick there. Some go into bad smelling room and come out. Some never come out.
But g... |
240 | We have a cure for zombies , but there is a dilemma . All the zombies that were hacked , shot , and maimed will have to deal with there wounds as living , feeling humans .
| Screams.
Echoing down the hospital corridors, howling through the vents and the doors, reverberating endlessly throughout the walls.
I joined nursing school just three years ago. My peers and I were young, eager, and capable when we began. These days, our faces resemble those monsters themselves.
Just after... |
241 | Everyone has a guardian angel , but yours is killed by a demon . Fortunately it takes pity on you , and becomes the first guardian demon .
| I could smell the man ’ s body odor as he made his way closer to me, cutting off the open end of the alley. It was getting dark now. I couldn ’ t even see his face. But I could smell his sour breath, and I could hear the metallic ping as he flicked out his knife.
“ Pretty little lady like you ought to smile more, ”... |
242 | You're a video game NPC going in for your first therapy session. | “I remember it, doc. I remember it all.”
The sound of pen scratching on paper doesn’t help my mood, but I’m not getting out of this until the therapist says I’m clear. I never have before.
“Tell me about these memories,”
Images of fire and blood pulse through my head - destruction wrought by the one destined to save... |
243 | A child goes to summer camp , leaving the monster under his bed with no fear to feed on . Starving , it breaks the rules and feeds on adults .
| To the Ministry of Monsters,
I do not know if anybody is reading these letters, as I have still not received a response, but I can assure you that this is the last one I will send without a reply. I did something atrocious last night, something that goes against all of my schooling and the way my highly ethical par... |
244 | Pick your prize
| Everything was exactly as it was in those ceaseless nightmares. The ones that made suffering of sleep until I ’ d awaken with a violent shudder to misty skin. Everything was exactly as it appeared in those nightmares except it was I standing at the scrap metal podium, handcuffs binding wrists and a red ball-gag making ... |
245 | There 's a ghost in your home , but instead of trying to kill you or scare the hell out of you , it just likes to do the tiny little things that piss you off the most .
| What ’ s the worst part of my situation? Well it ’ s hard to pick, honestly. It feels like everything ’ s the worst.
Mostly, it ’ s the fact that nobody believes me. In the movies, your friends and family might not believe you at first, but once you bring them home and a couple of them die horribly, the rest are in... |
246 | A world where everyone gets the zombie virus once in a while . Like the cold , it 's not a big deal .
| The first time Z hit it was a bloody mess. People shot their neighbors and chopped their co-workers to pieces with machetes. There was wholesale butchering in the streets as people fought to protect their families and neighborhoods from the zombie apocalypse.
Once it was discovered that the illness only last 48-72 ... |
247 | An angry spirit keeps possessing the people around you to try to talk to you. It used to scare you, but at this point it's just annoying. | “Your body will rot in the oceans deep where no one will hear your screams!”
“Yeah it’s hard to scream when I’m already dead.”
You roll your eyes and bring your attention back to your phone. The streets are quiet during the afternoon, what with everyone still at work. You smile to yourself. Calling in sick was a good... |
248 | It 's Christmas Eve . Everything is calm and quiet . You here a noise coming from chimney . You go to see Santa Claus . However , what you find is n't Santa . It is something much more terrifying .
| The cookies were placed on a plate, and I was pouring a glass of milk. Everything is almost ready for Santa! I put the tray on the side table near the fireplace, placed a blanket on the recliner. I am sure Santa will love everything I have done to make him feel welcome. I turn off all the lights except for those on the... |
249 | Everyone is assigned a guardian angel at birth who helps them out through life . However , due to clerical error , a demon was assigned to you .
| “ No, it ’ s not Mike ’ s department so he can ’ t help us ” … “ No, no, it was a clerical error ” … “ Now don ’ t go blaming her, Beezubub shouldn ’ t have been in the system in the first place ” … “ Well, I don ’ t know the meaning of mistakes but there ’ s got to be a reason right? ” … “ Well no, that ’ s the thing,... |
250 | You leave for work, leaving your hamster alone. When you return, the hamster is out of the cage, and there are two dead robbers on the floor | Those robbers didn't just die, they were.. how will I describe it? Devoured? Their internals was missing, but no blood. The heck was this?! Instead of being disgusted or scared in the first place, I was curious. I WAS REALLY CURIOUS. What mortal or unexplainable being have done this?
As an embalmer, I looked at the bo... |
251 | People are branded for crimes in the future. "Stolen" marks their hands, "killed" marks their chest, "blackmail" on fingers, and so on. | I am the Master Brander, it is my duty to brand those who have committed a misdemeanour. Criminals think that they can get away with their actions and escape me, but I’ve never missed a single person.
I heard the familiar two sharp raps on my door followed by a single knock, signalling another criminal had been brough... |
252 | A machine has been invented that allows people to delete one memory of their choosing , but the machine can only be used once per person . You go to have your memory altered after a particularly emotional situation , only to find that you have already used the machine .
| Candice slides Sue, eyes remote, onto the ground. Blood drips, it ’ s saturating her sleeve, it ’ s hers. Heart pounds, adrenaline recedes, pain ascends, crackling along nerves and muscle fibers, torn.
As her heated mind cools, details surface. Sue, gored, mouth agape. Sue ’ s hair across her face in a knot, an int... |
253 | Use the most grotesque, abhorrent, and discomforting imagery, tone, and themes words can possible conjure, to tell a story that's the exact opposite; something lighthearted and actually enjoyable | Sizzling, greasy oil oozed from the boy’s pimples, the congealed puss slobbering onto his face. A trail of snot ran down his nose, hanging and swinging as it slid across his chin and lips, covering them in slimy mucus. It bobbed up and down as he moved, impossible for onlookers to ignore yet he seemed to ignore it, eve... |
254 | "Crush in hand in case of emergency" You have no idea what the glowing stone encased within the emergency box does, but given the dire circumstances now's as good a time as any. | Angel didn’t trust the glowing purple crystals as far as she could throw them. And given her weak upper body, that wasn’t particularly far. Despite their pleasant crystalline structure and subtle glow, there was something ominous about them. She found that her mind wandered a little too far when she stared into them. T... |
255 | You are a realtor tasked with selling an obviously haunted house .
| I pinch the bridge of my nose and look down at the listing again. I have been trying to sell the Bluhm house for the last year and a half. It ’ s a beautiful home and listed at an amazing price. In fact, the sellers have pretty much indicated that they will take any offer.
The problem is that the Bluhm house is i... |
256 | You and your partner have burglarized many homes without being caught . On another seemingly routine burglary , you find a young child who has been obviously neglected , locked in a room .
| I crept down the basement stairs, pistol in hand and a small torch in the other —a routine check. I could hear Jerry ’ s footsteps behind me, and the occasional thud. Jerry had started to clear out the ground floor of this isolated bungalow, all standard procedures.
The occupants, a married doctor couple, had taken... |
257 | The sky was a sickly green colour . When I was a kid , someone said that was the colour it goes just before a tornado .
| I had drank too much tonight. I saw my child in the darkness of the hallway, beady eyes like lighting bolts while I noticed my hand was up, ready to strike a woman. Crying. I was in love with her.
Alcoholism is fickle, and flaws you, and like panning for gold you have to shake someone a bit and brush the dirt away ... |
258 | Your child cries out to you as you walk away. | “Go to sleep Joey. Don’t get out of bed again.”
I gently close the door and turn down the dimly lit hallway. I let out an exasperated sigh, running my hands through my hair. Why won’t he just go to sleep? It’s already eleven o’clock at night. I hang my head and wearily place a bare foot directly on top of a small yell... |
259 | Open the fridge , peer inside , find nothing of interest , close the door . You 're not sure why you always do this , but one day , there 's something inside that you were n't expecting .
| I mean, we all do it, that fridge thing:
Open the fridge, peer inside, find nothing of interest, close the door. Go on to do other stuff, repeat. That's how you structure your weekends, basically:
Get up, your head and back hurt like shit.
You go to the fridge, maybe there is something you could eat for breakfast... |
260 | You can erase a memory if you get a tattoo of the memory on your body. A man discovered deep in the woods is found murdered and covered in tattoos. Tell his tale until death through his tattoos. | “A stone, a leaf, an unfound door, write that down,” the Investigator notes to the young detective, “any idea what that means?”
“I think I’ve read it before. Somewhere,” she replies.
“It’s here, here, and here.” The Investigator points to the areas where the tattoo is clearly seen: on the torso below the navel, the l... |
261 | Humans are no longer at the top of the food chain . There is now a new , vicious predator that has decided humans are its prey .
| In the first few attacks, people had just decided that disappearances were just rising in the area. Curfews ensued, children weren ’ t allowed to leave their homes after a certain time; adults started to be more cautious on weekends when they went to socialize. Teenagers stopped using abandoned buildings as locations t... |
262 | Ants , in every hive in on the planet , suddenly come under your complete and precise control . While amusing at first , you come to realize you have the world 's largest and most unconquerable military force at your command .
| The accident took everything away from me. My wife, my kids, my arms and legs. I can ’ t feed myself. I even shit in a bowl. There ’ s nothing left worth living for. Except my dreams, maybe. The nurse looks on watching yet another stupid soap and I scream, locked inside my skull, the sound reverberating in a dark echo ... |
263 | You are a vampire willing to risk being near the crosses, the holy water, and the priests for a chance to taste the most coveted blood on earth -- the consecrated blood of Jesus Christ, served at communion. | They all said I was mad – that I would not succeed. It's just not possible... suicide mission... crazy old man... you'll die trying. But I'm not one to pass up a challenge.
I sit in the pews barely listening to the priest's sermon. A handful of believers sit scattered around me. It's almost as if they know I'm dangero... |
264 | You 've been having bizarre ( strange or terrible ) dreams for a month . You started writing them down and found a pattern . Whatever the dreams were leading to happens today .
| I have a long one too. I like this idea.
Ahhhh! I sit up, screaming! Gasping and reaching frantically at my torso, wiping away the strange marks off. My grasps only disrupt my bed sheets and a panic crazed cat, Tora. She swiftly runs out of the room only to crash into something elsewhere in the apartment. I pause t... |
265 | You have been a police dispatcher for fifty years . Last night , you received the most haunting call you have ever heard .
| `` 911 what's your emergency?'' I answered the call without hesitation. When I had first started as an emergency dispatcher I would sweat and stutter whenever I took a call. I was terrified. 50 years later and the calls had become routine. House fires, car wrecks, home robberies... routine.
`` Please... please do n... |
266 | You 're eight years old and there is a zombie outbreak . You are hiding , locked up in your bedroom on the second floor of your house and outside your window is the entire neighborhood turned , including your family .
| Adam glanced at his sister ’ s crib in the room. Kira was sleeping quietly, half heartedly kicking against the panels. They were getting their own rooms next summer, that ’ s what Dad said, anyway. Outside, the sun was just peeking over the horizon, beaming rays that reflected off the asphalt and lit up the cars sprawl... |
267 | You've gone your entire life without having to open, or close, a door. Cars, buildings, barns, random events happen that just allow you to bypass having to interact with doors. You haven't noticed this until today, when you decide to finally open a door yourself. | Life has a way of opening doors for me.
I've never had to open a door my entire life.
To recall a few incidents, one evening, I was about to open the door to my room, but suddenly, my dog came bursting out of it.
Another time, I tried to open the attic door and it came right off.
And, when I tried to get to the Kit... |
268 | You wake up spooning a mutilated corpse .
| A Touch of Love
Where am I? Last night, oh man, what happened last night? I thought this was the last time I would do this, but I guess I always have new ways of letting myself down. Is that a hand on my chest? Yep. Is that a hand on my crotch from the other side? Yep. Maybe last night wasn ’ t bad after all. I don... |
269 | The monster under the bed and the monster in the closet meet for the first time
| “ Back off, tentacles. The girl ’ s mine. ”
“ I don ’ t see your name tattooed on her back. Oh, and from here, I can actually see her back. What can you do that ’ s so scary, flick a box spring? ”
“ Yeah, just keep talking ink-breath. What can you do, stretch out her shoes? Oh wait, you can ’ t- you have suctio... |
270 | Theme Thursday - Turbulence | ‘Terror at 20,000 Feet’
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“Miss? Are you okay? It’s the final call for UA679.”
“Yes. Thanks.” I rise shakily, legs like jello. “Just a moment.” White-knuckled, I drag the leaden weight of my carry-on behind me. I fumble for my passport and ticket, both crumpled in my pocket and slick with sweat.
The attendant smil... |
271 | A living dog stays true to his zombie master after the apocalypse .
| We hadn ’ t so much as seen one of them for over a month. Dad kept telling me it was because of the rain. They couldn ’ t move so well in the mud.
Sure enough, just as I was starting to get my hopes up that we ’ d never see another one, Dad and I see the most disfigured mess of a person I ’ d ever laid eyes on. Fro... |
272 | Slowly start to realize that you have a roommate .
| Everette, 70 ’ s, a tough old man with a Navy service tattoo wearing an old white t-shirt, sits at his workbench in a cluttered garage. A half drunk bottle of scotch and a three-finger full tumbler sit on the bench beside him. He mumbles, talks to himself.
`` Miss her is why I do it.''
`` Changed so damn much. ... |
273 | Ocular implants in the future allow humans to see more of the spectrum than ever thought possible , or so they say . You 're among the first to get such an implant .
| I scream again.
`` STOP! MAKE IT STOP!'' The last of what little air I had in my lungs escape me, my voice cracking into empty sound. My body writhes, strapped into place by firm gloved hands. My back heaves helplessly against the cold metal, my muscles twitching against the agony searing through my eyes.
I see t... |
274 | When you were little , you could swear there was a monster under your bed–but no one believed you . On the eve of your 30th birthday , you hear noises coming from under your bed once again . The monster is back and has an important message to deliver to you .
| “ For thirty years I have watched you and protected you- from burglars, from nightmares, and from yourself. You see, when you grew up you no longer needed me, and I hid beneath your child ’ s bed when she was born. We are pledged to remain silent and out of sight. Tonight I break my pledge, go to her. ” I stared in dis... |
275 | Through the static and the ambient noise of the baby monitor, you hear your 3-month-old, who should be sleeping - talking, in complex sentences and with profound insight, to themselves or someone in the room, about the family’s interpersonal dynamics. | I awoke covered in sweat. Through the baby monitor I could hear the murmuring but did not realize what it was until I came to. The tones were alien, deep and dark. It sounded as though someone was in pure agony. I walked out into the hall, and could see a red light glowing from underneath my son’s door. It had been 2 y... |
276 | Write your own chapter inside of World War Z .
| I like sleeping in bathrooms, and I am not talking about in that drunk-cold-tile-floor-stop-the-spins-feels-so-good type of way either. Bathrooms have become my favorite room to sleep in. Sober.
I used to stay in the bedrooms. Out of habit I suppose.
That habit only lasted a couple weeks.
I would find an empt... |
277 | You're a weird kind of vampire. You're fine in the sun but not the moon. You're cool with garlic but not onions. And you don't need human blood to survive...you need other vampires' blood. | I awoke in the middle of the night. Confused by the idea of sleep. Unable to recall what happened. Hunger overpowered my senses, and I could smell the sweet fragrance of blood. I rushed outside, excited to feed, to feel strong again. As soon as the moon made contact with my skin I felt a shuddering cooling sensation an... |
278 | Humans who protect vampires during the daytime are known as dark guardians. Some dark guardians do it for the money; others do it for a chance at immortality. Your reasons are entirely more altruistic. | "It's just down here, we should hurry before the sun sets!" Lucy explained. She could feel his grubby little eyes hungrily undressing her as they stepped around the debris of the alley. She made sure to walk fast enough to maintain a safe distance, but stayed just close enough to keep him enticed. Pigtails and a Hello ... |
279 | Write a lost little girl story with a twist .
| The couple pulled over to the side of the road. The little girl was all by herself, lost and alone. The headlights illuminated her torn and bloodstained dress. As soon as the car was stopped they got out and ran over to her.
“ Are you all right? ” they shouted in unison.
No one was around to hear the screams th... |
280 | A frightened 5 yr old asks her parent to check under the bed for monsters . Story must include the phrase `` See , I told you so . ''
| The piercing cry rang darted through the house and filled the couples ’ room. Lucy awoke with a jolt, but her husband remained motionless. She relaxed, hoping she could feign falling back to sleep, but then he said, “ Your turn. ”
She reluctantly got out of bed and shuffled down the hallway. When she opened her dau... |
281 | Scary House
| “ Are you sure that this is the right place? ” She asks, holding the light up as high as she could.
“ Yeah, I ’ m sure this is it. He described it when he called, ” I reply, hiding my nervousness with a harsh tone.
“ Geeze, you don ’ t need to be such a bitch about it, ” She groans, turning to give me a sou... |
282 | A demon possesses a harmless creature , manipulating a person to feed it human beings .
| Another Garo fan here, hope you enjoy.
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I just kept hitting and hitting her. Blow after blow each strike releasing my rage. For her taking custody of our son, for her keeping me under her heel for so many years, for her leaving me penniless after her lawyers took me for everything. I collapsed into a ... |
283 | You 've been a devout , and outstanding Christian your entire life . Today you 're very excited to be meeting the pope ! The encounter was going well , that is until you shook hands , and your hand began to burn with immense pain as though it were on fire .
| I ’ ve waited for this moment so long. When your father is a deacon and your mother is a religious teacher you have two options, you become the most Christian guy in your class and get bullied or you become an atheist and get repudiate by your parents. Since I ’ m going to meet the pope it is clear what I am. I was ver... |
284 | "I like you, but you have to swallow that god complex of yours and remember you're human like the rest of us." | Had to cut this up into two comments. Enjoy!
“I like you, but you have to swallow that god complex of yours and remember you’re human like the rest of us.”
The words singed into my mind as I watched her speak. She didn’t even bother to look up at me; she kept her eyes fixed on the tarp-covered mess in front of her. ... |
285 | `` I do n't know this ceiling . ''
| It is always hard to get up in the morning and I guess we all have our own rituals to make it out of bed. I always stare at the mark in the ceiling and just for a minute or two I am reminded of my father. This is what gives me motivation to get up out of bed. Why it reminds me of my father you ask? Well, he made it the... |
286 | Your Grandma , a shape-shifter , is diagnosed with Alzheimers . She begins to forget her true form ... or was it a disguise all along ?
| Xan smelled it before he saw it.
He scurried through the entrance to the communal burrow, tasting the air with the tip of his forked tongue. Something was n't right. He couldn ’ t be sure, of course - shifter burrows were always ripe with myriad scents of a thousand different forms – but this one was odd even then.... |
287 | “Denied?! So what if my power is a bit Body Horrorish? I can still be a hero!” | Dave Lance is an enthusiastic hopeful young physicist who were assigned to join the Quark Expedition in Antarctica to observe the movements of Quarks and study how their movements will help our understanding of the universe.
While setting up an equipment in the field, he was distracted by a sudden noise. As he walked ... |
288 | “I swear to god, I am Not a Vampire! I am just autistic!” | “Stop fucking around Carl, vampires aren’t real, you KNOW I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not. Because, you know, autism?”
“No but like even you have to admit it’s a bit suspicious how many boxes you check.”
A deep sigh. “Like what? I don’t even know why I’m indulging this, but…go ahead, what ‘suspicious’ thi... |
289 | In a desperate fight for survival , the main character has no strength left , no weapons , and no hope . In desperation , they bite the zombie . And this , ironically , is the cure .
| Small drops of putrid saliva drip from the canines of this abhorrent creature before me, its incessant moaning propelling an air of rotting flesh and decaying organs past its torn lips as I gag. My fingers struggle to grip the flaking flesh, the torn fibers, and slick bone composing its frail arms as it bears down upon... |
290 | There 's a good reason that savage and terrifying monsters live in bedrooms of small children . The children need protecting .
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The kid was afraid of becoming invisible, so he created an invisible monster under the bed. Was he just imagining things? I don ’ t know. No, surely there had to be a monster under his bed, he just couldn ’ t see me through the darkness. But he knew I was there, just like the other imaginary friends that had passed... |
291 | Most people say the light protects you from monsters . They are so very wrong .
| For as long as any of us can remember, my family has lived in the shadows. We shrink from the light, living in dark corridors and abandoned basements. It is a meager existence, but it is all that we have ever known. Parents tell their children bedtime stories about the monsters in the light; massive, pale monstrosities... |
292 | You 're digging in your backyard when you fall into a deep underground lake . When you surface , there is an old man waiting for you with a torch . He beckons you forward .
| Submerged.
I can ’ t see a thing as I try to surface, kicking and swimming in the direction that seems to be up, although I am completely disoriented in the dark water. My chest convulses in violent spasms. I don ’ t want to die.
I am frantically flailing, my kicks and arm movements becoming more and more chaot... |
293 | Theme Thursday - Summoning | “Hey, Hannah?” I asked. “Whatcha wanna do tonight?”
“I wanna play with the lu-ee-gee board again!” my young niece replied.
“The what?”
“Pete, she means the ‘ouija board’,” her mom, Elle clarified.
Our parents had purchased a ouija board coffee table when we were kids. It was far from the strangest thing in the old ... |
294 | One day, you walk into your bathroom and glance in the mirror, only to realize your reflection isn't there. A moment later, your reflection appears, out of breath, saying, "Sorry I'm late." | The first thing I do every morning I wake up is put on my glasses. I shower with what most people would consider scalding hot water. I like my cereal with warm milk and a small dash of sugar on the top. I live in a small one bedroom apartment right at the heart of the city. I am 29 years old. I have been out of a job f... |
295 | Tell me a gruesome murder in PG language. | Today I finally finished moving into my new apartment. It just doesn't feel like home, though. There’s something wrong with it, somehow. Something about it just doesn’t seem right. I hate that I can’t put my finger on it. Well, I guess there isn’t anything I can do about it at the moment.
Oh, it’s just so exciting! Li... |
296 | As an immortal you make sure to move around every decade or so, to prevent any suspicion about your lack of aging. Recently you’ve noticed a large number of old familiar faces. Maybe you aren’t as unquie as you thought... | I first gained my immortality in Ireland. Way back in the day when folks still spoke Irish. I probably stayed just a bit too long to go unnoticed. Especially as I wasn’t Irish. I was a foreigner with fair skin and jet black hair. I mean sure everyone I hung around with was stereotypical, pail skin, red hair, think acce... |
297 | Your house has a water droplet that has been falling ever so slowly since you moved in . You notice it 's about to hit the ground .
| Today was not going as planned.
Instead of unpacking, I found myself laying on the floor, staring mindlessly towards the far wall of my new bedroom. All the stacked boxes around the room make me feel guilty for being so unproductive. Instead of organizing the new house, I was watching this mysterious drop of water ... |
298 | Free write ! Write whatever ideas for a story you 've had in your brain or just start writing and see where it takes you .
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Her pale skin was starting to turn purple from the tension of the straps. They kept her constantly pressed against the cold, hard table. The man sat there, admiring his work as he waited for the woman to wake up. He watched her chest float up and down with every breath. Becoming impatient, the man stood up and began ... |
299 | "I'm sorry, but nobody has asked to remove a blessing before, we usually deal with curses" They said "people don't tend to want to remove boons" | “Remove it,” Vernon said through his ratty, long beard. “She’s served her time. Time to set her free.”
The theologian gave him an odd look.
“Quite rare, sir, that I get a customer with the goal of freeing an angel, rather than trapping one. Usually, they’ll want to trap an angel so it can serve them in one way or ano... |
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