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2,000 | 1 UP
| I think my girlfriend was disappointed with me. No woman ever dreams of ending up with a man who works in deconstruction. I remember when we first met, how excited she would always be when I told her of my dreams of becoming a famous sports player. One of those macho guys out on the grand black field trying to shove th... |
2,001 | 13 years ago , you were part of a government-funded project researching inter-dimensional travel until it was discontinued . This morning , you woke up normally , only you have an extra child , your home adress is different and the project is still going strong .
| “ Wake up dave, you ’ re gon na be late for work. ” Coming out of deep sleep my eyes spring open but I can ’ t move. My eyes are fixed on a ray of light shining through the window and a silhouette passes by. I feel a kiss on the cheek as my wife heads out the door to work. Am I dreaming? Something feels a little off. B... |
2,002 | `` Mommy , does a cat have nine lives ? ''
| `` Mommy! Mommy!''
I looked down to see my little angel tugging at my apron excitedly.
`` Mommy, does a cat have nine lives?'' he asked, eyes glistening with curiousity. He must have heard this from the TV again, but heck, who was I to ruin this adorable kid's dreams.
`` Yes, most definitely kiddo! All cats... |
2,003 | Mermaids exist , but they are just the larval stage of something we never saw coming until it was too late ...
| Mermaids used to be a joke, something we found in kid's shows, and coloring books. Remember? People looked forward to seeing mermaids, wanted to find them. Of course, nobody thought they were real then.
Well, long story short, we found out they were, in fact, real. As could be expected, there were mixed reactions t... |
2,004 | You squeeze the hand of your loved one who is in a casket . They squeeze back .
| There is a Donald Duck key-chain in Matthew ’ s hand, sounding, as it rolls between his fingers, like a strange, cheap church-bell.
“ Finally time to hand in the V-card, ” says Tim. “ Philip says he ’ ll even scatter his parent ’ s bed with roses for us. Says she ’ ll think it ’ s romantic like. What ’ s waiting fo... |
2,005 | Write a horror story for children .
| My grandmother told me that if you did n't finish your food, you're inviting the Jinn to eat the leftovers. I scoffed because she's old and that's what old people say to scare you into eating those awful vegetables.
We would go to visit her every Ramadan and she would make her signature'Kanji': savoury porridge wit... |
2,006 | Something in the Fog ...
| We have been driving all night. Jenny's eyes were drooping, all three kids were asleep, and the minivan was starting to rock me into dangerous complacency. I decided it was time for a rest. After I pulled over, both of us were asleep in seconds...
... Only to wake up to my kids' screams. My eyes are still full of sl... |
2,007 | After a long day you come home and flick on the lights. Someone who looks to be a stereotypical vampire is fiddling with your remotes. Before you can speak, they simply say: "Did you know you have a piece of rug that says 'Come right on in' in front of your door?" | He smiles, and his teeth are crusted with red. The man lounges on your couch, feet on the pillow cushions as he tosses your remote on the floor.
"I like humans. I really do. You make this existence bearable. Worthwhile, perhaps. But I never understood why any of your kind would want to welcome someone into your home."... |
2,008 | Write a bad story. | It was 12pm on a Saturday when I realized the pigeons were missing from their usual place in the street. A hot dog vendor cried in pain nearby. “Strange,” I thought. “Hot dog vendors don’t normally sound like that at this time of day.” I decided to investigate. As I exited my apartment, I heard more and more fluttering... |
2,009 | You are walking down a dark hallway in your home , getting ready for bed . The only speck of light is coming from the porch light through the peephole in your front door . Suddenly , the light slides to dark .
| I did n't notice at first. I did n't hear the creaking of the front porch or the little patter of footsteps around the house. I did n't see the hand prints in the dust on the windows to my bedroom. I thought the scampering in the attic was raccoons again. It's cold outside and so long as they do n't come in the house I... |
2,010 | `` You find them in street after street and lane upon lane , thousands by thousands , hungry , filthy , ignorant , butted and cunning ... ''
| A thin, weak sun filtered down through the sooty, insidious smog of Cheap-side as I picked my way over the slumped and broken bodies. Coughs, sobs and despair seem to cling to the narrow sides of the alley as solid as the coal-dust that sits on walls and lungs alike. Desperate, skeletal hands reach out and grab at my h... |
2,011 | You are the Jolly Reaper. You reap the souls of people who have died hilarious deaths and try to convince the departed that their passing wasn't so grim. | A fine day alone at my desk, a cup of unstirred tea clumping in my mouth. My hands whimsied across the keyboard of my old, barely working and hardly passable computer, the outside air was almost scorching. Then again, I work in hell. What do you expect?
With another chunky sip, almost gagging at how awful the taste of... |
2,012 | A stereotypical Hollywood horror movie- Where the characters make smart decisions. | The two friends walked toward the dilapidated mansion.
“So, why did you buy this place, Mark?” One of them asked the other.
“People said it was haunted or possessed by a demon or something,” Mark replied. “I got a good price on it; figured I’d flip it for a quick buck.”
“I get that it’s cheap, but still, why would y... |
2,013 | By the ability to imperceptibly suck tiny amounts of life force off of anyone you touch you 've been living for almost 200 years now . Today you got caught for the first time - by someone you surprisingly could n't leech off of when you touched them .
| Some would call me a vampire, others, a leech. But my name is actually Greg and I work as a tech support for a large computer firm. Nothing gives me pleasure like asking people if they have plugged in their power cord or pressed the start button. Mm… I can basically taste their frustration and feel their hairs turn gra... |
2,014 | Every word a person speaks ages them dramatically . You work at a suicide hotline .
| Bethany Franco sat in front of me in second grade. She had one of those expressive faces—mobile eyebrows, dramatic eyes. She mouthed words at her friends in class, communicating more with gestures and expressions than the shaping of her lips. She was a loud person, so I was not surprised when, one history class in Apri... |
2,015 | Write a terribly sad story , but change it to be beautiful with the last sentence .
| This is a true story.
I was running for my life, barely able to even control my emotions. I ran over every posible obstacle with the hopes of losing this hungry Panther which at the time seemed evil. It jumped, it growled, and at times I even felt it's steps in the ground I was running on. Just moments ago I had se... |
2,016 | Tell my story
| Omigod, it ’ s that horrific recurring dream
The one that always ends, in my silent scream
Wake up
It starts in water oh so blue; so peaceful and so clear
I have to duck my head, to miss the chandelier
Wake Up
Please stop swimming; don ’ t go in that room
The serenity goes away in there and it turns i... |
2,017 | - Your captor is affable , empathetic , and cheerfully candid about what they enjoy doing to their victims .
| “ Ah, you ’ re awake. I hope you ’ re not hurting too badly, I wouldn ’ t want you to feel uncomfortable. ”
The light blinded James ’ green eyes as he slowly regained consciousness. The splitting migraines that James suffered weekly seemed almost tame compared to the pain that was surging through his brain at that ... |
2,018 | There 's a law when you divorce , the children from the undone marriage get killed
| Alone.
It's all I can think about as I try to drown out my parents' screams with a pillow. The screaming had not stopped for over one year. I know what is coming, it had happened to my friends and I am prepared. The screaming ceases for a moment. A thick silence fills my ears.
Have they stopped... It's just not... |
2,019 | The city gets new street lamps , but these lamps are `` smart '' . If a crime ( like a robbery ) or car crash happens under , or in the vicinity of one , the light will turn red as an indicator to the police . One night , every street lamp in the city turns red .
| 5 years ago Sydney city council voted to install a new series of lights in and around the Central Business District. The lights proved so effective that Council ’ s throughout greater Metropolitan Sydney installed them until the Australia ’ s largest city was uniformly lit by this latest and impressively remarkable tec... |
2,020 | You are going about your average life when suddenly you appear in the center of a summoning circle, surrounded by cultists. | Another uneventful Monday morning, nothing to do. I had been contemplating going on a run all day but, my legs would not agree. Deciding to make myself something to eat, I went into the kitchen; it was a mess. Not a clean dish in the sink or drawer, so I grabbed a dish close to the top of the sink, ran some water on it... |
2,021 | You 're dying of cancer so you agree to an experimental treatment . The first of its kind . When you wake up after the operation all the surgeons are dead .
| I woke up in the dead silence of the operating room, with only a few beep from the monitor above me. I could find no one, and as I looked around, all the surgeons and nurses were lying on the floor. I called out, but no one responded. I tried to get up, only to be pushed back by the agonizing pain from my abdomen. Righ... |
2,022 | Write a story based on this horrifying fictional Emergency Alert Message
| I sat there mindlessly watching TV as I always did since I had nothing else to do. No hobbies, a dead end job, and a family that is far away do n't make for an interesting life. I do have a girlfriend though and she is the only reason my life is the tiniest bit interesting. Then it happened. The message came on the TV ... |
2,023 | A recently deceased person ( now ghost ) is afraid of the other ( seasoned ) ghosts .
| There was a pulsing electronic noise in the room. Water streamed down the walls like a flooding underground cavern. But the room never filled up. Killmo sat in the corner hiding.
You might think ghosts have tails and float, but they do not. Killmo sat with his feet crisscrossed and his hands covering his ears. The ... |
2,024 | Your landlord is a vampire, so he offers you a deal. You can pay your rent in money... or in blood. | “Blood?” I asked
“Blood.” He replied.
“Like, you gotta suck it outta my neck? I dunno man… seems a bit, weird.” I seriously considered my landlord’s proposition. I mean, who wouldn’t? Free rent is free rent. All I had to do to get it was let my weird vampire landlord drink some of my blood. “Can you drink it out of a... |
2,025 | They call it the Shadow of Death . The closer you are to dying , the more often the spectre of the Grim Reaper appears to you .
| The shadow of death is on me now
The shadow of death is near
His luminescent teeth are wide
In grin from ear to ear
I've seen him once, I've seen him twice
A thousand times before
Though usually from farther out
Tonight he's at my door
The shadow of death is on me now
The shadow of death is close
... |
2,026 | You were born with hollow bones, a condition so rare that they named it after you. Because your bones were hollow, they were also weak. You seemed to be doomed to a crippled life. That is until you began to notice a change in your body as you grew older. Feathers. | I was born 14 years ago, on a snowy night in the January of 1946. My mother was a beauty, I have her picture on my bedside table. I can picture her pregnant, glowing with excitement as her belly grew. At the hospital her hopes were dashed. I broke multiple bones on my way into the world. Tests showed that they were bri... |
2,027 | Bullies lock you in the school bathroom , and wo n't let you out until you say `` Bloody Mary '' three times to the mirror . She appears after the third time , and offers to get some payback .
| `` Say it! Say it! Say it!'' they chanted.
same ritual every wednesday. They took me in to the toilet room and held me infront of the mirror.
Little did they now that I already befriended marry. She was kind and always offered to help, but since she did n't scare me anymore and I became indifferent to the bullyin... |
2,028 | A 15 sentence story about finding love in the darkest of places .
| The pain blinded me, muscles screaming, flesh tearing, hot blood running over my cold skin.
I struggled to breathe, to catch my breath, to brace myself against the onslaught ripping me apart.
For a moment, it stopped and there was silence.
And then it came again, relentless in the frigid night air.
I sc... |
2,029 | Every time you see your reflection, it comes to life and tries to kill you. To survive, you have taken every precaution you can think of: putting bars on mirrors, wearing blindfolds, etc. Despite all your precautions, you remain terrified: your reflections are getting smarter. | The blindfold wasn’t working as well as it used to. Sure the perk was a longer life, away from the one in the mirror, but my anxiety was getting worse with every passing day. What if it suddenly blew off, what if it broke, what if what if what if! The worst part was the whispers. Even if I couldn’t see them, and they c... |
2,030 | you 're lost- After walking for three days with nothing in sight , you come across this house . ( xpost from r/evilbuildings )
| The deck was crumbling, the roof needed retiling and almost all the windows were smashed but this was it. This was the house. It looks different but it smells the same, it smells of him. I stood outside, glaring up at the house, my sweaty palm gripping the butt of the knife.
My father had a way of filling up a hous... |
2,031 | A warrior prays to the god of war before a battle but by accident it's answered by the god of healing. The warrior is now blessed with the sword of resurrection, punches of healing, kicks of cure for the common cold etc. | The trench is death, it’s thick mud up to his knees, dead rats floating, the ground trembling as shells divot the earth. Martin’s seventeen and his breath is whiskey. He tries to force his thoughts to his mother, to birthdays, to being anywhere other than here. But his mind is an ever-shuffling deck of tarot cards, a m... |
2,032 | Your teachers are literal demons in human shapes , but they teach for the same reason every teacher does . They love children .
| Why do we do it? I wonder that everyday, every hour, every minute, every second. A feeling of abject sadness fills me. A feeling of claustrophobia grips my nerves and I tremble sometimes without warning. I wish I could tell the others, I wish I could warn them.
Mr. Beelzebub stares at me, telling me I look wonder... |
2,033 | The object to your left is now your weapon for the zombie apocalypse .
| Dean had been coughing all day, the constant hacking was starting to make me gag. I glanced over at him from the corner of my eye. God, he was gross. More than the usual amount of energy drinks and Dr. Pepper cans littered his desk, and even though it was barely noon, the trash bin we shared was overflowing with reekin... |
2,034 | You are in the middle of burying a body when someone you know walks by . Talk your way out of it .
| The night was half expired when my most laborious task lay yet before me. With my mission completed I had to dispose of the evidence, and what better place to do that than a cemetery?
My muscles burned as I disturbed the soil with a shovel, though the adrenaline would see me through.
I had no knowledge of the prope... |
2,035 | Less than 300 words with a plot twist that we think we can see coming but goes somewhere completely different .
| Today was the first day I was ever nervous about Buddy coming over. It was not the first time, just the first time I was nervous. I don ’ t know why, I just was. I mean, I love it when Buddy comes over, he ’ s my best buddy and he ’ s my only buddy. I really like it when we play in the park near my house, because it ’ ... |
2,036 | North Korea 's dictatorship has toppled and you are required to house and look after a North Korean person .
| To live in fear of death is human. But to live as Jae-Hwon did, or “ Jae ” as he liked me to call him, is to live in the imminence of death, another thing entirely.
I took him in during the early days of killing, when it was seemingly random, barely a blip on the nightly news. At first it was only a tabloid story, ... |
2,037 | “Everybody told me not to take anything from the grave site, but in my defense, everything worked out okay in the end.” | Look, I am a simple man, someone says 'haunted artefact', I hear 'free roommate'.
A guy gets lonely, okay? Is that so surprising? Is that a CRIME?
I can't help it if the thought of a terrifying ghost creature roaming my house at night sounds enticing, don't judge me! We all have our quirks!
So when my friends told m... |
2,038 | You have the ability to enter the worlds of any book you please . The only catch is that you have to die in the book world in order to escape back to reality . You have just entered a popular children 's book by accident and need to find a way to get out .
| A told B and B told Me, “ I ’ ll meet you at the top of the coconut tree ”
“ Whee, ” said D to E, F, G,
“ Oh dear god ” Said poor old Me.
Chicka Chikca Boom Boom will there be enough room?
Here comes H up the coconut tree.
And I and J and “ I can ’ t stand K. ”
-All on their way up the coconut t... |
2,039 | The hyper intelligent android you’ve been working on insists it isn’t a robot. No mater how many times you reprogram its code, it always says “I’m alive”. You always saw this as a frustrating burden until you disassemble the robot for repairs to discover bones and flesh inside. | My first and only time in a jail cell was unlike how I had ever pictured them in my head. It was odorless, slightly comfortable, and a shade of white that was cleaned to a fault. I was the sole blemish of the jail cell, my thoughts and appearance a disaster. I suppose that’s the difference between regular inmates and m... |
2,040 | Where did you got you cat? is it a Stray? Well no. I was in this cult and we tried to summon an unspeakable evil from beyond our dimension but instead I got Mr. Snuggles. Sometimes he is a bit odd. | “D’aw! He’s so cute!”
Indeed, he was. I would, of course, better set the scene; however, there isn’t – in the panoply of language, typeface or formatting – any proper means of conveying the particular facial expressions and tonalities of a girl smitten with a kittycat. Better not even to try.
“Where did you get him, ... |
2,041 | You're walking on the street one day when suddenly a painful, radio like static in your ear starts crackling. You hear a voice screaming "WAKE UP, WAKE UP NOW" and another screaming "BLOCK IT! SHUT IT DOWN IMMEDIATLY!" before everything returns to normal. | It was like one of the migraines I used to get all the time when I was a kid- sudden, sharp, piercing. It bounces around in your brain before rippling down your spine, tensing up you body and doubling you over on the spot.
Then, your eyes fill up with a strange light- like somehow the blinding glowing masses in there ... |
2,042 | The monsters inside your child 's head have stepped into reality , and they are very , very real .
| He ’ d been wrapped up in a world all his own ever since he ’ d arrived in this one. We ’ d been concerned, thought he might have a developmental disorder; he kept missing the “ mile markers ”: didn ’ t speak when he should have, didn ’ t toddle at the appropriate time, didn ’ t “ engage ” the way he ought. We took him... |
2,043 | Sunday Free Write : Iceman Edition
| ( Please be advised this story contains death, abuse, and suicidal themes. )
Amy was 36 years old.
Sometimes I think about how much it must have taken a woman like Amy to end herself the way she did. It makes me sound just like everyone else at the reception, but she seemed to be such a happy person, even tho... |
2,044 | Cats live for fifteen to twenty years, mice for only three. Jerry III is dying and must explain to his son the multigenerational rivalry between the Jerrys and the local house cat and why the tradition must go on. | “Dad, why do you keep on going out there? you know he is going to hurt you.” Asked my son. I knew this conversation had been coming for a while. “Sit down, its time I tell you the truth”
“It all started 24 changes ago. Your grandfather and grandmother managed to get into the city after a really long Cold change. Your ... |
2,045 | Tell me all the reasons you love your dog that makes me despise your dog and love you .
| `` Hey can you watch Sam this weekend?''
My best friend James was standing on my porch with a bag of dog food and his huge dog Sam tugging furiously on the leash in his hand. His car was still running in the driveway. It was loaded down with four of my best friends and their bags. They were going on vacation and I ... |
2,046 | ... and that 's how I got these scars .
| It was an early and eery morning in the home. I woke up just a few minutes before the phone call. It was as if i expected something to go wrong. A sense of feeling that pulled on my skin from the inside. An emotion that pricked me and woke me up. When it did, I still was n't ready for it.
In a phone conversation,... |
2,047 | You accidentally drop a family heirloom and find something unexpected inside it. | It’s a key to the door, four generations of our family have wondered what could be behind the locked door in my great grandparents home, the door no locksmith in the world could pick the door that dynamite probably wouldn’t stand a chance against, and I found it but why did my great grandmother hide it in a clay dog sh... |
2,048 | All is well in the world. The sun is shining, your flesh decaying well, your children even got their first worms yesterday! Then your neighbor starts turning into a human. Before you know it, the Living Apocalypse is upon us! | At first, nothing was out of place. We were all eating our brains as if it were any other day. But after a few minutes, something felt out of place. My neighbors skin started clearing up. He started looking, well, dead? Thats what I would call it. The holes in his skin started shrinking at a rate so fast it was god lik... |
2,049 | The Angel of Death does n't know they 're the Angel of Death
| It's quick and simple but here I go...
She walks, and walks some more. She ’ s always walking. Though she ’ s not quite sure where to, nor what for, instead she just keeps walking.
Along her many walks she meets many people, at their bed side, on the street, she meets them and they walk with her.
Some of th... |
2,050 | A couple finds out that their child 's imaginary friend is not so imaginary .
| `` Mom, did you see Mr Jackjack?''
You feel little hands on your neck. Reluctant to open your eyes, you place a reassuring hand on your little Johnny's hands. Lacking the heart to tell him you threw his doll out this afternoon while he was at school, you reply,
`` I'm sure he's in your room somewhere, Johnny. W... |
2,051 | You are a video game NPC but unlike other NPCs you remember things after the game reloads | The words spew forth from my mouth. I have no choice but to watch myself utter the same phrase for the thousandth time, “howdy partner. You best put a hat on or else get sunstroke.” I don’t know why I say it, but every time someone walks up to me my mouth takes on a life of its own.
Yesterday, I guy in outlandish armo... |
2,052 | You recently began to realise that your dreams consistently include another person , you are starting to realise that this other person is real , and you share the same dream world .
| “ BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP ” - started the alarm clock at 6 am. It was time for me to wake up but I didn ’ t want to. I had such a wonderful dream. I was the president and I was meeting with several world leaders from other countries. I was famous and respected, such a good feeling. The only thing which was strange thi... |
2,053 | You have lived for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Everyone you’ve ever loved has died. You’ve grown to accept this, but you simply cannot accept when someone is killed… | Everyone dies one way or another.
I‘ve seen it all: from the ordinary carcrash to the particularly unlucky swim, People die all the time in lots of different ways.
It used to bother me. in the beginning.
Anytime someone I liked, loved, hated or simply knew died, it used to feel like a wound had opened up above my he... |
2,054 | You have the ability to see through walls. Describe the world you see around you... | Do you know Mr.Superman?
When I was just six years old, I got my first superhero comic book. Mom didn’t look too happy though. She thinks that girls shouldn’t read “violent” comic books. I don’t know what that means but I still enjoyed reading about him. Actually, I loved it so much that I even got my own poster!
He... |
2,055 | I know why I 'm in Hell . I know what I 've done . What I do n't know is why my dog is there , waiting for me when I arrive .
| Suicide by police works. That was my second to last thought. Turns out you don ’ t stop thinking when you die, though, so who am I to talk about a last thought? I ’ ve always had a bit of a temper, and when you find ‘ Bill ’ from billing in bed with your wife, and with a gun in your pocket to boot, you don ’ t always m... |
2,056 | You are a plastic surgeon about to perform cosmetic surgery on your patient who looks exactly like the ski masked criminal you saw earlier on the news .
| I'd been given the papers, all the documents; everything seemed in order. I'd never met the client myself—my assistant typically does all of that work. I simply hear what they want from my assistant, and from what they, the client, has written on the paper.
What? TV is n't going to watch itself.
Speaking of whi... |
2,057 | Your wife wakes you in the middle of the night telling you to go check on your daughter . When you get to her room there is a strange man standing in the darkened room . It then dawns on you that your wife and daughter died in an accident 3 months ago .
| I can feel the her blood dripping from my hands as she slowly looks up at me with that smile that smile of hers that could always cheer me up. She raises her hand and starts shaking me on the shoulder, then I wake up to my relief seeing her shake me awake quietly telling me to go check on Clare's room. “ Baby relax she... |
2,058 | `` It 's killing me that I wo n't get to hear your laughter anymore . ''
| **OK, this got a bit kinky, I hope this is allowed**
`` It's killing me that I wo n't get to hear your laughter anymore'' sighed Everything, as she walked around the room. That wasn ’ t her name of course, that ’ s just what Nothing called her. What he HAD to call her.
“ I ’ ve enjoyed our time here ”, she said... |
2,059 | A child is kidnapped . Outraged , the monsters that live under their bed and in their closet vow to find them .
| Where I'm from there is a story. It's the story of a father who died rescuing children from a maniac. He died a hero and many say his spirit lingers on watching over the children of our town.
Of course, that's just a story but still, we wonder sometimes.
We wonder about the man a few years ago who kidnapped a y... |
2,060 | A fisherman finds out that the river they are on is the River Styx .
| *Apologies for straying from the prompt ( I will remove if requested by a mod ), but when I saw the River Styx, I had to dig out this old piece [ I wrote long ago ] ( http: //kevinhaw.com/dream2.php ) *
Day 1 – The first day of our tour and I can ’ t wait to go exploring! We ’ re staying in a little villa near th... |
2,061 | Dr. Seuss writes a horror story .
| The room is dark, so very cold
Who would do this to a seven year old?
My hands are bound, my feet wrapped tight
Screams of terror fill the night
This table of wood, to which I am bound
It's hard yet soft, blood soaked I've found
I'm not the first, I doubt the last
To die here alone, the dyes been cast
... |
2,062 | "I could be wrong", he said, "but I'm fairly certain this squirrel is the Devil." | The more they stared at the tiny creature, the more Peter convinced himself.
'It’s this squirrel’, he declared.
‘You can’t be serious!” Ilana snapped. ‘We are not killing it.’
‘Why?’
‘It. Is. A. Squirrel.’
The siblings double-checked the bone markings a third time. The result was the same. The prophecy read that t... |
2,063 | A regular guy goes through his day, but slowly notices he may be becoming a protagonist... | This was a weird day for me. I woke up this morning thinking I was just an average person. A guy in college, some friends in college, and one clingy childhood friend.
I noticed something weird when all of a sudden my childhood friend was trying to get with me. I acted like I didn’t notice because how the hell do you r... |
2,064 | Make the reader go nope as many times as you can
| `` So, anyway, there I was walking down the street, and I see this huge bug! It was like 3 inches long with wings and it was just jamming all over the place, like someone turned on some disco! I see it shaking it's barbed stinger around, and bobbing it's pincers, and i'm like,'Whoa, Cool!' So I pick it up and show it t... |
2,065 | Keep me guessing , keep me terrified .
|
Overcoming Fear
As a child, death was something that I would often think about. It was a scary thought. Thinking about taking last breath before becoming an unkown pile of dust, was a debilitating idea. I pondered about the kind of pain and emotion I would feel for the last time on this Earth. I was very afraid... |
2,066 | Write a short story where the first and last sentence is `` It 's not your fault '' .
| 'It's not your fault' i told myself as i heard his drunken footsteps stumble upstairs, I knew it was a matter of time before he was at hand of the locked door.
Since my mum had past away he had developed a bad drinking habit to deal with the grieving, but after a fee drinks he was a changed man.
He made it to m... |
2,067 | A superhero ( or super villain ) whose superpower is in stark contrast to his/her own fears
| CRASH!
All around me I keep hearing that sound. I ca n't stand it. The ground trembles beneath my feat; I just want to run away as quickly as I can.
CRASH!!
A louder one this time. I shake at the thundering sound, and tears nearly come to my eyes. My body convulses. Even just thinking about the earth tearin... |
2,068 | `` Who 's got my rusty horseshoe ? ''
| The room was filled with a stale, humid air. Every breath the children drew inching the temperature up, more and more. Louis sat shivering in the corner, his hair matted against his face, the sweat rolling over his skin feeling as thick as glue. Gina only watched her friends in their different positions, all looking pa... |
2,069 | You awake in an empty room with nothing but a note in your hand . `` You have 24 hours . ''
| HOUR 1
Something fucking stinks. I wake up next to a pile of rotting meat. I'm clenching something in my right hand. A note.
`` You have 24 hours.''
HOUR 2
Been staring at this thing for at least an hour. 24 hours? Fuck that. Ai n't nobody making me do nothing.
HOUR 3
Kicking b... |
2,070 | When one door closes , another one opens . Literally .
| I walk through the front door and close it, prepared for the suffering. Ever since we stole that volcano dirt from Hawaii, when one door closes, another one opens. Literally. Every time I close a door, a nearby door opens. My wife too. We have to basically play musical doors until we get one we are okay with keeping op... |
2,071 | From `` Cliche '' to Original # 1 : You have the ability to see ghosts . Write an original piece to the character/object etc . ability .
| The police office has been having an even tougher time solving murders now than they used to. When people need help, they'll usually go to the police office, even if they're dead. But they ca n't communicate with us, instead they sometimes pop up in the breakroom or the main hall and seem to re-enact the events of thei... |
2,072 | Describe a color , without actually saying it . You ca n't use other colors to describe it !
| It ’ s dark in here. I feel like I can ’ t breathe anymore. Fleshy, organic matter lines the walls and ground while some kind of ancient scream beckons me to get going. I take one step forward, the squelch of the surface beneath my feet alerting everything around me to my every move, and freeze. The roar echoes again. ... |
2,073 | As you 've slept , the teddy bear you adore has fought off demons to keep you safe . The night before you decide you 're going to get rid of him , seeing as how you 've outgrown him , you awake to witness his last stand against the forces that intend to forever corrupt your childhood innocence .
| Nightmares, always the nightmares. The shadows are moving. Living. Breathing. Their eyes glower from every corner.
I cuddle my friend and I hide beneath my impenetrable blanket.
I regret the day that I ever turned off the light. Less like a bulb but an ancient flame, once dimmed so doomed to die.
They shamb... |
2,074 | “Hi there mortal. So, I was in a pretty bad mood when I gave you that punishment so I might have overreacted.” “I’ve been here for 2,000 years!” “Bad moods can last a while when you’re a god.” | I can’t tell you how long I’ve been here in the hole. The walls are dark stone of some sort, they hold enough moisture to drink though it tastes of sulfur and old banana peels. At least I think it tastes like banana peels. It’s been years since I’ve eaten anything but frogs and insects that crawl along the cave floor.
... |
2,075 | 5 Minute Horror Prompt Challenge
| I can still hear it behind me, its breath on my neck. I have to run though, i have to get away. We had come to investigate this tunnel that was discovered at a dig site in the jungle. One by one it took us. We ran but could n't get away. The thing never tires and it never stops. I should be dead like all the rest but i... |
2,076 | You wake up in a tub of ice with a two insicions on your back and a note that reads `` Why do n't you have any kidneys ? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ? ''
| Searing cold. The tang of iron. I guess that ’ s my blood.
“ Fuuuuuck, ” I manage to groan. “ Again? ”
I don ’ t need to open my eyes to guess where I am. Warehouse, basement, shed, it ’ s always the same. There ’ ll be crappy, too-bright strip lights, patches of dripping, glistening mould, the stench of rats. ... |
2,077 | There 's a strange light switch in your house that does nothing . Even the previous tenant told you it does nothing and it 's better to just leave it alone . You have , until today when your curiosity got the best of you and you flipped it on . Nothing happened until an hour later ...
| A Woman's voice, deep and throaty but well articulated and sexy comes from nowhere and startles me. `` Good afternoon Georgia, I am glad I could reach you'' I freeze and before I can find the courage to seek The source of the voice I am given instructions,'' Take a seat on the red leather recliner in the lounge Georgia... |
2,078 | You are being hunted .
| I had been traveling for three days before I got the hint of company. The water gave it away; with each step I took with my boot I could faintly here a slow drag of another desperately trying not to give away its position. It was hard enough to travel, let alone remain inconspicuous.
I headed toward a parking garag... |
2,079 | A cultist who is completely insane and was put in a mental institute, slowly begins to regain her sanity. | Oh hi Sarah….the shadow man told her….sitting in a insulated room waiting for the impending doom to consumer her! She thought “My doom is coming soon! The comet is blaring, but my mind is….”
Her thoughts of insane dogma preached to her stopped, the shadow she spoke to disappeared suddenly!
“Where am I?! What happened... |
2,080 | Your protagonist is an average teenager wondering the world of the zombie apocalypse , struggling to find a living orthodontist to finally remove their braces .
| Zombies? Man, that ’ s the least of his worries. He kicked a tin can in frustration. The area had been cleared a few days prior according to the army radio, and even if there were any, he was ready, shotgun protruding clumsily from his worn backpack. How many days? Was it weeks? The whole zombie mess started a few mont... |
2,081 | You live in Hidden Valley . You 're the only one in town who does n't like ranch dressing .
| ‘ I wonder if they ’ ll hate me ’, I think as I pull the next box off of the truck. My wife and my sons just moved into Hidden Valley with me. We aren ’ t familiar with anyone here except the woman who sold us the house. It was cheap and I had found work easily so it had been the perfect idea for a getaway. The only do... |
2,082 | They say when you lose one sense all of your other senses are heightened. You lost every single one of your senses in a bomb explosion. Now something strange is happening | max pov: my body burns. which is weird considering i shouldn’t be able to feel anything. but it does. i burns like someone lit a fire inside my stomach and it spread throughout the rest body. i wonder if i’m screaming right now, if anyone can hear me, if anyone is doing anything because i’m screaming, at least i am in ... |
2,083 | You are an eldritch monstrosity trying to make it big. You're an actor for a very successful horror movie franchise, but you're starting to become tired of always being the monster; you want to be a protagonist. | My bones may be brim with cosmos, my veins may pump with the abyss, my eyes may be distant dead stars and mouth a fathomless aether, but that doesn't mean they're right. It doesn't mean I can't act. I'll show them; I'm more than just a monster.
I exit my dressing room — nothing more than a closet — stride down the dim... |
2,084 | The only way to survive the end of the universe is to leave the universe .
| We decided to stand outside. I never knew why. In honesty it probably wouldn ’ t have made any difference. Perhaps it was just to say goodbye. Goodbye to our sky, our trees, our birds. Or maybe it was because we thought we could see. Not that we knew what we were looking for.
Back then I thought everyone got a Coll... |
2,085 | A hero snaps and turns evil . He/she finds out that it is much more rewarding being a villain .
| Every day! Every day, you pass the same damn store displaying the latest phones. Always passing the same store, on your way to your shitty day job pushing papers and listening to people you do n't care about.
Every day! Every day, you pass the same damn store on your way home from your shitty job. You give a passin... |
2,086 | You wake up one day unexpectedly as a dog and ca n't figure out how to change back . After living for months in your dog form you are convinced that nobody else has ever been through the same change as you . That is until you meet Rosy .
| Nothing is worse than being a human that has been turned into a dog OMG that smells good, what is it? It ’ s a stew my owner is making, smells so good, OMG I ’ m so hungry, when did I last eat? I dunno but I ’ m starving, but hold on, I used to be human and now I ’ m a dog. It ’ s not fun.
I tried so hard to show h... |
2,087 | Dreams are actually projections put into people's mind by a machine that exist in an extra dimensional space. Nightmares are glitches that occur in the machine and your job is to go into people's nightmares to fix the glitches. | A howl. A long , dragged out , incredibly nasty , howl. "Fuckholes" I muttered. "Can't even give me a proper day off , just to pull me into some shit again".
I was in some kind of a long corridor , with classes on my right . Right out of the blue , it looked like a typical Japanese school. Except that it was only the ... |
2,088 | Being a girl in high school is tough . Especially if you are secretly a velociraptor
| `` EWWWW!!! YOU LIKE BOBBY FISCHER!!!'' squealed Tina. Drakeisha reached over the table with her scaly talons and tried to cover her mouth before Tina pulled away with laughter. Tina leaned over to Drakeisha and whispered to her,
`` You know, he still does n't have a date for the dance next week, Drakeisha.''
`... |
2,089 | Mind the darkness, it is blind and hungry. | I have a story
Just for you
No need to worry
The time is due
Now this is important
You need to listen
Every night
Bad children go missing
Their mommies cry
'Cause they have told them
This is no lie
I am very solemn
When the sun goes down
You close your eyes
Remove that frown
Heed my advice
T... |
2,090 | You 've lived on an isolated island your whole life but now you 're about to journey to another land .
| “ There he is, up in that tree! ”
They found me, fair and square. Again.
“ Now Josiah, don ’ t make me get your father to forcefully remove you from that tree, ” my mother said. As persuasive as my mother ’ s sweet sounding words were, she knew just as well as I did that I wouldn ’ t come down.
“ Josiah, yo... |
2,091 | Write the creepiest children 's book .
| There's nothing there and never was, and that's all to say,
There's never anything inside the closet, not yesterday nor today,
When you hear the door start creaking, while you kneel and start to pray,
Remember not to turn, there's nothing frightful crawling your way.
Your dad will come into the room, an... |
2,092 | `` I do n't want to hurt you anymore . ''
| The screams have echoed for so long in these black caverns that they simply belonged. Like the dancing shadows cast by the fires, like the course stone of the walls, like the blood and fluid soaked deep into the packed earth over time untold, the screams belonged. A simple topography.
They always think, at some p... |
2,093 | I know why I 'm in Hell . I know what I 've done . What I do n't know is why my dog is there , waiting for me when I arrive .
| This is my first attempt at WP. Actually, I have n't written since high school, which was a very very long time ago. So here goes:
I was twelve when my mother converted. To Christianity, that is. By the time I was 15, I was going to mass every day. I was told I needed to absolve my sins. You see, I had talked to a ... |
2,094 | You wake up to the long beeping of an emergency alert system. As you looked outside the window, the roads are filled with burning cars and a plane just crashed from the sky. "DO NOT BROWSE THE INTERNET", the warning read on the TV. | Tom stared at the TV for a moment longer.
It showed only emergency color bars and a message in block font below them: "DO NOT BROWSE THE INTERNET". Tom had tried changing the channel, switching inputs, and connecting different devices, but the screen wouldn't change. He didn’t know what was wrong with his TV, but he d... |
2,095 | instincts tell you when you 're experiencing the last encounter with anyone you meet .
| It was becoming a very odd day. It had been happening all day long, that same sensation. I have had it since I was a child, it feels like someone ’ s tearing something away and putting something a little different back in its place. I know how I ’ ve changed after meeting someone for the very last time, I can feel how ... |
2,096 | Fun Trope Friday: For the Money & Mystery! | What the Abyss Takes Back
The room felt like a tomb. Cluttered with takeout boxes and reeking of stale regret, it seemed to close in on itself, the air heavy and oppressive. Only the hum of Alex’s monitors and their cold glow cut through the suffocating gloom. Midnight approached on New Year’s Eve, a time for celebrat... |
2,097 | the psychological effect killing has on a young hitman
| I didn ’ t sleep that night. I felt a rush of his energy diminish at that very instance. It felt like a trance; it ’ s as if my body did all of the work and I was just a witness hiding in the shadows behind my eyes. His facial expression changed from fearful desperation to complete emptiness. Even the light in his eyes... |
2,098 | For centuries your family has passed down an old leather bag that provides the holder with an object that would be helpful in the particular situation the holder is in. You are getting on a bus and instead of giving you a bus ticket or money, it gives you a handgun. | The cold steel under my fingers snaps me back to my senses.
“So? Are you getting on, or not?” The driver looks at me, plain annoyance written on her features. Her forehead glistens with sweat; it’s a warm day, and the bus is crowded. The air-conditioning in front sputters a pathetic defense against the late June weath... |
2,099 | You are just relaxing, it's a beautiful day in Hell. The temperature is a nice 500 degrees, the souls are shrieking, brimstone's are smoking. Life is peaceful. Suddenly, you hear distant sound of a shotgun blast. Heavy metal begins to play. Time to run for cover. | Jamie heard footsteps behind her.
“It’s this time of the month again, isn’t it?”
“Indeed”. The growl was now inches from her ear. She turned and watched him wearily, managing it for only a few seconds having to look away from the liquid fire in his eyes. The one whom others believed to be the devil smiled, exposing h... |
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