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2,200 | While researching the change of hair color with age, you discover that hair isn't natural. It's parasitic and the reason we die. | It had been ten months since humans discovered the first sign of biological life on Mars.
“Mary, do you have the results from the biological samples yet?” asked Peter.
“Sorry Peter, still nothing” replied Mary.
Mary had once thought she found a match between the Mars sample and a parasite on Earth, but the culture h... |
2,201 | You 've been exploring this mysterious land for years , when finally you discover ...
| Twenty two years. That's how long I have been stuck here. Well I would n't really call it stuck, more like trapped. Not trapped by any human but by the earth. Maybe this will make sense if I start from the beginning.
About twenty two years ago I got a letter in the mail that said my great uncle Joe had passed away.... |
2,202 | It 's been 23 years since they buried me alive , hoping that would be enough to kill me .
| It's been 23 years since they buried me alive, hoping that would be enough to kill me. So did I. I thought to myself, maybe I can actually die. Actually, I've been hoping that for the past several millennia. But nope, I've been picked up by a goddamn bloodhound. Life is a vengeful mother fucker.
Oh, hello. I did n'... |
2,203 | The mind of a condemned man moments before execution ( 150 words/less )
| Guilty as charged
But damn it, it ai n't right.
There's someone else controlling me,
Death in the air,
Strapped in the electric chair,
This ca n't be happening to me.
Who made you God to say
`` I'll take your life from you!''
Flash before my eyes,
Now it's time to die.
Burning in my brain,
I can f... |
2,204 | Ever since you were a child, you have always seen Grim Reaper, regardless if they were doing ordinary things or taking souls. Because of this ability, the two of you have become very close friends. | I’ve known Death a long time... since before my parents divorced. I first saw Death when she took the soul of my pet fish... and promptly sent it swimming to the sky. Turns out fish souls swim. Who knew? It was an awkward moment for both of us. I remember having a talk with her about it to see how this was possible. Ne... |
2,205 | In the middle of Times Square appeared a button. Despite the sign that says "Don't press", people keep pressing it and are consequently turned inside out. To keep the streets clean New York hires you to find a solution. | “I have solved your problem!” the artist proclaimed, gesturing at the plastic-walled pavilion that now surrounded the infamous button in the middle of the Times Square pedestrian zone. Inside the pavilion, there was a brief muffled scream and a pattering sound, as if several hundred pounds of semi-liquid organic matter... |
2,206 | After killing a man , the blood is on your hands . It wo n't come off , no matter how much you wash and the police sirens are nearing ...
| I hear them comming I'm not scared I know what I've done was n't the first time being so cunning I knew they could n't find his body but what of the blood there's so much. They knock loudly with a certain strength like men of the law would. I'm covered but the blood is fresh I slam my head into the floor breaking my ow... |
2,207 | You've discovered the ability to stop time but every attempt you make to restart it fails. | Push the button. Click. Click.
The hand ticks toward 12. One rotation around. Cmon, this is the time.
5 seconds now. Each tick reverberates through my ear. One of the few sounds left to hear that aren’t my own.
Last second. 60. Times up. Nothing.
Damn. This shoulda been the time.. Can’t take much more of this.
How... |
2,208 | People can buy and sell souls on a stock market . Your soul just became the highest valued soul and you do n't know why .
| It was all so curious. Assigning value to a soul was so common practice. It wasn ’ t even a subject one had to study. You just knew. I mean, of course you could take courses surrounding the history of exchanging souls and their rise to becoming the currency that drives our society, but when it came to establishing the ... |
2,209 | The god of nightmares has fallen in love with you and tries to confess through terrifying dreams .
| The sound rumbles again.
My mind scurries through the foggy sluggishness of my synapses trying to make sense of it. An animal in my room? I can ’ t pinpoint the direction then my senses kick me with the understanding that something is on my face. Something warm and solid cups my entire face and I am paralysed with fe... |
2,210 | you accidentally run over a lonely old lady . She considers pressing charges , but agrees not to as long as you spend two hours a week playing board games with her . It soon becomes apparent that she has n't had an ordinary life ...
| `` Oh god,'' Brad moaned, feet slipping in the puddles on the road as he clung to the side of his car. There was a bruise forming on his forehead and the last three beers he'd had were sloshing around in his belly, threatening to come up. His rear lights still lit the woman, crumpled up in the street, skid marks pointi... |
2,211 | You work as an anonymous hitman. Your next job is to eliminate yourself. | As always before entering my home, I checked the door. No tampering, nothing unusual. But even so, I put my hand inside my coat, to ready my gun before I opened it. You can never be too careful in this business. Others would call it paranoid, but I’ve seen plenty of my coworkers taken out by a disgruntled companion of ... |
2,212 | Before he died , you eccentric , inventor uncle built a robot and programmed it to be your `` friend '' . Unbeknownst to you , your uncle was also a supervillain , and his idea of `` friendship '' is n't really compatible with your non-villainous lifestyle .
| It ’ s too bad, I thought as I was walking home from the funeral home.
My uncle had passed. But Tom was always a little bit strange. My mother ’ s brother, we hadn ’ t spoken in years. Still, it was sad to see him go. He had no other family, had never married or had any children that we were aware of.
I walk ba... |
2,213 | you realise you misheard your daughter. There’s a mobster under her bed. | Charles was beginning to wonder why there was a lingering smell on cigar smoke on Laura’s sweater as he placed it from the hamper and into the washer. “Christine have you been smoking cigars in the car ?” he shouted from the laundry room at his wife. She could barely make out what he said over the sound of the vacuum. ... |
2,214 | Write a happy story that turns into a horror-story with the last sentence .
| Man, it's good to be back! It's been over a month since I last laid eyes on my home. I walked inside, but I knew no one was there. My wife was out shopping with our toddler, Adam. I walked into my bedroom to get changed, and noticed that the blankets had changed color... Again. Last time it was purple, but this time it... |
2,215 | Post apocalyptic earth where creatures akin to Godzilla and the like toppled modern society and brought about a primeval dark age where titans roam the land and skies leaving human life to struggle to survive in the shadows of monsters .
| “ We created them ”
It ’ s whispered in the nooks, and the dark places we now call home. People don ’ t like to remember the time before, the time when sunlight on your skin did n't mean you where in danger, when blue was n't just a color on the wall. When the glimpse of a scale, or a roar of challenge was found on... |
2,216 | Someone knocks on your door, as you open it, you see the person you have most wanted to speak to, but haven't been able to because they are dead. They have 24 hours to spend with you and help give you closure about their death. | The candle sits lit with nobody to attend to it, candle wax half past empty. A person with no identity hears a knock at their door, blank and unwilling eyes never turning to see the named person knocking at the door.
“I just want to talk,” The eyes do not follow the named person. The cold, dead hands weave no memory a... |
2,217 | You 've made good friends with someone you met someone online . One day you notice that your computer is n't connected to the Internet , but your friend is still responding to you .
| “ Thanks for wiring me $ 500 the other day, I ’ ll pay you back, I promise. ” My longtime online friend, Jerry, says. He has n't paid me back since I've known him. But he says he ’ s an African Prince, so I ’ m sure he won ’ t do me wrong.
“ Did you get the new COD game yet? ” I said.
“ Yeah, even though I hear... |
2,218 | The dead have come back to life across the world , but they 're not here to eat us . They 're all fleeing from something terrible in the afterlife .
| The fear of a zombie apocalypse always loomed over the horizon after the turn of the 21st century, pop-culture influences lead millions to violent and ruthlessly attempt to destroy the bodies of the recently reincarnated when they first started coming back to life. No-one knew any better, those where dark days, violent... |
2,219 | You live in a world where , when the sun sets , all sorts of animals become increasingly aggressive towards humans .
| Paul was aimlessly flipping through the TV channels. `` Why do we pay for 500 channels? There is never anything on!''
His wife looked at him over the book she was reading. `` I've told you about 100 times to call and cancel it.''
Suddenly from downstairs there was a series of thuds followed by a strange gurglin... |
2,220 | Choose either : The last human being in the world stood alone in a room ; there was a knock on the door . -OR- The last human being in the world stood alone in a room ; there was a lock on the door .
| I've been watching them through a hatch in my underground lair. A little hobbit hole completely obscured by overgrown weeds. I've watched them stand up and walk around. I can see them on their hind legs through my binoculars. That halting, unnatural gait.
The legends were true. How I used to laugh at them, thinking... |
2,221 | Everyone has turned into a violent and sadistic killer . except you .
| I am the only human left. As I write this, I can feel the other things drawing closer. When they reach me, I will fight, and likely die. As I do, everything the human race knew before will be extinguished. Every sadness, every minute personal struggle, wiped away by the tide of empty, soulless creatures that now walk t... |
2,222 | Write a story about the worst nightmare you ever had .
| It was a nightmare that replayed in my brain several times, as a child. It always started with a sunny park. A long sidewalk extended before me as colorful fall trees canopied overhead. Green, perfectly trimmed grass. A drinking fountain. A streetlamp born in the early 1900s. And between these two, a bench.
Tied to t... |
2,223 | Nanites injected into every child at birth strictly enforce , `` An eye for an eye . '' If you break someone 's nose the nanites band together to break yours . Stab someone and a mirroring gash opens up . Kill someone ? You 're dead too . You just realized that your nanites are malfunctioning .
| I've always been special. My mother always told me so.
Other mothers tell their children the same, but those women are liars. Those mothers aren ’ t Rosemary Lisbet Fenner. They did not birth a perfect being. They did not raise an immortal entity.
Their words are dust, as are their progeny.
How awfully love... |
2,224 | In a world where violence does not exist and there are no words that are associated with it . Write the first murder from the perspective of the victim .
| As I waited for my bus, a heavy man leaned against the lamppost. I half expected it to bend. His eyes connected with mine and he greeted me with a smile and a nod of the head.
Just like yesterday.
And the day before that.
And every day since I ’ ve been working at the office.
In eight seconds, an elderly la... |
2,225 | Every night you go to sleep you keep having the same dream of kids playing at a familiar park with the same people watching over them . A week later you find that the same 5 kids in your dream have been abducted and killed from that same park but no one knows who it was ...
| I move the sheets away from my body, my feet kick out and touch the floorboards.
“ That fucking dream again. ” I think to myself.
I walk over to the fridge and swing the door open. I stare deeply at nothing, my wrists and knuckles ache, I try and spread my hands but they feel all bruised and battered. I open th... |
2,226 | You live in a Dystopian world where eye color determines your social class . 20 years later a baby is born with red eyes .
| My wife died in child birth alone on our farm. She never even got to hold our baby. I was so upset I did n't even notice the babies eyes till The next morning. Red, what did this mean surely this must have happened before but I've never heard of or seen it. No this was different my baby was a freak of nature. Best case... |
2,227 | "Is that... us?" | The news vids will have you believe that hyperspace travel is perfectly safe, that it’s effectively as certain as 2+2=4. That’s not true. Hyperspace travel has its quirks and oddities. They usually present in small issues, like exiting hyperspace a few meters away from the intended exit coordinates or sometimes hypersp... |
2,228 | `` Mom ... Mom ! '' There was not reply .
| `` Mom... Mom!'' There was no reply coming from the other side of the door. I tried to get into the room but the door was locked. Every couple seconds I heard was sounded like a person gasping for air. I had come home early from work because I had a bad feeling this morning. Mom had n't been looking so great the past f... |
2,229 | Use these four lines of dialogue in your story , in order . The rest is up to you .
| `` So you're saying that Alex and Veronica did n't show up to their rehearsal dinner yesterday. That has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Why would they do that? It is their wedding! They've been going on about it forever.''
`` I know, but they did... Do n't look at me like that, it's not my fault!''
... |
2,230 | “Mom! The gnomes are in the garden again!” | (WP) Gnomes in the Garden
I was helping my mother weed in the garden, and the chill of the rain still hung in the air, my skin prickling with goosebumps. My gloves were black with rich, damp soil, and I wrapped my fingers around the bottom of a weed, trying to pull it out by the roots.
But, before I could, I felt a s... |
2,231 | A team of Allied paratroopers retreat into a forest and at night , their numbers begin to mysteriously dwindle .
|
French fry: Sergeant, I can ’ t find Conners.
Sergeant: We know. No one can find “ Cupcake. ”
Reginald: Conners is Cupcake?! I thought I was “ Cupcake. ”
French fry: No, you ’ re Reginald.
Reginald: Why don ’ t I get one? Everyone else has one. I swear last week I was “ Cupcake ”
French ... |
2,232 | A world class contract killer finds an envelope at his dead drop . Inside are $ 23.42 in small change and a letter hand-written by a 9-year-old girl .
| Sir,
I want to kill somebody but this is all the money I have. I hope it's enough. Three years ago a bad man came to my house in the middle of the night. He hurt my mother. He hurt my older sister. He killed my father.
I told Becky I want to kill that man. Becky is my friend but she says I'm too young to kill a... |
2,233 | You wake up from cryo-sleep on an abandoned space ship with no memory . You look out the window to see the universe is complete darkness . All except for one tiny red dot in the distance .
| **Red in the Darkness**
It's getting closer.
Is it getting closer? It must just be my imagination. I ca n't feel the ship's engines. Everything's dead, and silent. We're not moving.
I blink. It's closer.
My skin ’ s clammy underneath the skintight jumpsuit. It has a label on it: Sunscape Industries. I r... |
2,234 | You hear a knock at the door . Upon answering , you see a stranger . He looks at you and says , `` There 's no time to explain , just come with me . ''
| A knock. I know who it is. Most people would have used the doorbell.
A man, a stranger but not, stands outside saying, `` There's no time to explain, just come with me.''
“ Again? ”
“ We ’ re really in a hurry, grab your purse and come on. ”
“ No, I mean we ’ re doing this again? ”
Now it ’ s the st... |
2,235 | Write a psychopathic murder scene .
| Writhing. She's writhing. That wiry woman. Wrong place, wrong time. But she fit the description. Oh so perfectly. Tied to that dentist chair, a single light beam falling on her pale face. I take off her blindfold and gag. She begins to scream. It reverberates throughout the large silo. It sits empty, waiting for harves... |
2,236 | Write a metaphorical piece on someone 's struggle with a mental illness/disability .
| Clarence held a heavy shell, and he was heaving it through obstructions of giant mud-rocks and light bulb raindrops from yesterday ’ s hailing rainstorm. The sun was suspended and balanced as he moved from the grass to the cement, slowly, as natural as it is, however slower than the others. The clouds were nearly gone,... |
2,237 | You 're being hunted by a creature that 's been killing off your reflections from mirrors one by one .
| They say the mirror is a gateway to the another dimension. I do n't know who `` they'' are, but if they know what they talk about, I am pretty fucked.
Pardon my language, it's been a while since I've tried writing. Or felt sane, honestly. This abomination keeps following me, making me fear every step, making me wat... |
2,238 | Re-write your favorite Disney movie plot as a dark thriller, do not tell which movie it is right away. | The hallway was affixed with antique candle-holders that were solid gold. And the light shines from them is orange and yellow and wavers in the darkness. The red walls had gold-lined patterns etched into them, repeating shapes of diamonds, flowers. The floor was black marble. A tall strong woman presses her back agains... |
2,239 | Dinosaurs start to show up all over the planet in millions . Humanity struggles to remain at the top of the food chain .
| `` Can we go to the park today?''
“ No. ”
`` Why not? ”
I wanted to snap and tell him, “ Because you ’ ll get eaten. ” But a 4 year old does n't need to worry about that all the time. Instead I said, “ You know why. There are dinosaurs and it ’ s not safe. Yet. Don ’ t worry though, grown ups are going to f... |
2,240 | A story that ends with a song lyric
| His blood covers my hands and the knife clatters to the floor, shaking me from the trance like state I had gone into. He ’ s long dead, unable to hurt me anymore. The tears come unbidden and pour like a river over my blood-splattered cheeks. It ’ s an ugly cry, rivers of tears that just don ’ t stop and snot making bub... |
2,241 | you live alone, there is a tangerine on the counter and you don't know where it came from. | With a jolt, I awoke from yet another haunting dream my memory was fleeting but the nausea stays. Half-awake I stumble to the kitchen in search of something that will help me forget faster, and then I saw it. There was an orange beacon among the masses of long forgotten crumpled brown paper takeout bags and teetering t... |
2,242 | ( Halloween theme ) You discover that your neighbor is turning people into monsters that live/swim in blood and eat humans . You found out via a youtube video she just sent to you .
| Sitting at my computer on a Saturday evening, I decided to browse Reddit while I sip a nice cup of tea. After a few minutes, I got a notification that I have received a new email. It was from my neighbor, Shelly. She was a kind woman in her mid-30s who was particularly friendly with the neighborhood children. Lately, s... |
2,243 | Someone realizes that they are not meant to be with the person that they love .
| I looked at her, lying so peacefully in bed. We ’ d known each other since we were six years old, been in love since our teens. There is no one on Earth that I love more than her. She was all I ever wanted, is all I could ever want.
I climb out of bed, pour myself some coffee, and get dressed. It would be a normal ... |
2,244 | { WP } : In the year 3000 time travel has finally been made accessible to anyone .
| I awoke, terrified. I could feel that someone else was in the room with me. There was a smell. It smelled worse than rotten fish—almost like something had died twice and then a third time from its own scent. A shadow appeared out of the corner of my eye. I couldn ’ t see it. I didn ’ t want to see it—panic had complete... |
2,245 | Write a seemingly normal story , except for the last sentence , which makes the entire story creepy
| Stephanie and I had been married for 5 years now, and today was our anniversary. She was the love of my life, and she made me have hope and faith in things my previous cynical attitude had dismissed as fiction, but `` true love'' was a concept that I had learned to understand through her. I still remember our first dat... |
2,246 | 10 years ago , scientists discovered that there is something after death . And it 's bad , really really bad .
| I've always been afraid of death, I feel my fear banging at the door of my mind.
These white walls feel sterile, that's probably why everything is like this in hospitals. Keep the illusion that we are okay. I creep through the doorway that my dying father resides.
He looks lifeless. He looks ready.
I do n't... |
2,247 | They consider you a hero , but secretly you 're disgusted with yourself .
| “ Good job, Dean, ” they said, patting him on the back. A dozen or more of the office employees put a hand on his shoulder, looked him eye-to-eye, thanked him, from the heart. You don ’ t know what it ’ s been like, they said. We haven ’ t been able to take a decent shit in the work place in weeks.
Hero, they calle... |
2,248 | You exist only in dreams , not within your own , but in other 's .
| Creak.
Thud.
I snapped awake; there was someone in the house.
I got out of bed, going slowly to try and prevent the mattress from creaking. My gun was in a drawer on the other side of the room, if only I could get to it...
Footsteps began echoing in the hallway outside my bedroom, and I froze. The footsteps... |
2,249 | Adults have declared war on kids .
| “ I don ’ t want to hurt them, Jack, ” I whispered from behind the bed. He was at the door, listening for little footsteps to fall in the hallway.
“ It ’ s them or us, ” Jack whispered. “ You made the oath, now you have to stick with it. ” He emptied a glass of water and stuck it between his ear and the door, the... |
2,250 | As you walk down the streets, you see a strange sight, a woman in proper maid attire holding a "please hire me" board | The woman who stood before me was a maid. Next to her was a plastic basket of cleaning products. Poor woman. I felt so sorry for her. Like, those commercials for animal rescue centers always tug at my heartstrings. I said, “I’ll hire you.” “Thank you”, she said. Strangely, she seemed to have no emotion. “Drive me to yo... |
2,251 | Suddenly all over the normally quiet city the internet goes out , the phones are down , electricity is gone , within one minute you hear gunshots and people screaming
| Jake ’ s eyelids felt heavy and he pushed his book out and held it away from his chest. He hadn ’ t realized that he was so tired, but the day had been demanding and he didn ’ t have the energy to finish even a few pages before he started to drift off. He pushed aside his covers as he reached across his bedside table, ... |
2,252 | In 200 words or less , introduce a sinister protagonist and make me sympathize with him/her/it .
| The night light cut out. Wind howled outside, forcing the walls to groan and shudder. A shadow flickered in the dark. The little girl woke with a start and clutched her stuffed giraffe close to her heart. She hid under the covers, breathing in short gasps, quietly as she could muster. A whisper in the night. The girl q... |
2,253 | How did humanity kill itself ?
| It seemed like the normal day when humanity killed itself. People did the same thing they did every day. They rolled out of bed and ate their breakfast. They made sure that the children were off to school and their coffee was made. Then, they rushed off to work and sat in their little cubicles, typing away at the compu... |
2,254 | On the day the world is to end a woman looks on at the oncoming doom , idling rubbing her pregnant stomach .
| The screams. That ’ s what I noticed first. They said on the news what it was I ’ m sure, but I never really paid much attention to the cause. Some disease maybe, a plague, a natural disaster or all of it at once. I didn ’ t care at the time, and by the time I did, it was too late. The power had been out for hours by t... |
2,255 | Not everyone bitten by a werewolf gets to turn into a badass monstrosity . Some get stuck with other canine breeds . Describe the life of a werepug/werecorgi/werechihuahua , etc
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“ Well my eyes had opened and I squinted them as the light abruptly violated me. I remembered holding my breath, during the adjustment. The body just felt so heavy, the ground so cold, gray, and claustrophobic. As things had come into focus I realized I had been lying on the cement unsure of the surroundings. Kidnapp... |
2,256 | All your life you slaved in the mines , hauling the black rocks to your master . You hear the masters mad laugh , `` Ho Ho Ho ! `` , he demands more rocks .
| Swinging my pickaxe at a furious rate I feel a presence behind me, a massive man with a massive personality. Suddenly I am jerked to my side with such violence my pickaxe slips out of my hand. With one hand choking me he picks up the coal and asks “ is this all ”?
“ Sir you must understand my wife is too sick to work... |
2,257 | Theme Thursday - Silence | Palmer moaned fearfully as he looked into the mirror, his mouth open as wide as it would go. The black chitinous creature, clamped to his tongue, retreated further back into his throat. It’s crab-like legs scraped and poked, making him gag.
He had discovered it when he went to brush his teeth. His tongue was numb and ... |
2,258 | You have a superpower. To you the age of a thing is the only thing that determines how tough something is. A freshly smelted block of tungsten would crumple like spun sugar, while an antique book might as well be indestructible. | As we grow older, it gets harder for us to escape death.
The mother opened the door for me. I greeted her with a handshake, my hands deep covered in leather that preceded all my past generations.
The already mourning client just stays there, silent. All the talking was done during the payment.
As I make my way throu... |
2,259 | Some dragons ask for a tribute of gold, or general teasure. The ones you should really watch out for, though, are the ones who ask for knowledge. | Because by the gods are they dumb. No sense of self preservation, totally clueless, and clumsy. All of that in a few thousand pounds of mythical monstrosity can do a lot of damage. How creatures, who can live for thousands of years, could possibly forget what their primary food source is, is beyond me.
I’ll never forg... |
2,260 | You were born with the abillity to see past the edges of any photo. Any photo you looked at could be expanded into a panoramic view of the moment that picture was taken. One day you walk into a museum and realized your power worked on paintings too. Then you saw something that left you stunned. | I’d waited ages to come to this museum.It was the memorial museum of Rosa Lorenza , my favourite actress.This museum didn’t allow any photography so it was all so new. Everyone knew she died from murder , and that her killer was never found.This museum was huge , it had many different wings but i immediately went to th... |
2,261 | The first murder happens after a thousand year golden age of peace on Earth .
| He looked down at his hands, the blood had barely started to dry. It pooled up in his palms, streaking down the shallow trough-like creases on his fingers. In them, he saw only despair. He had done a terrible thing, such a terrible thing that the word for it was all but lost.
For over a thousand years, humanity h... |
2,262 | Make me smile .
| I woke in a sweat, thunder from the storm outside shaking the creaky old house on its foundation. I heard a squeaking noise a few rooms over, seemingly from nowhere. I grabbed my phone for a flashlight, but it was dead. I got up from by bed and walked to the light switch, but it seemed that the power was out. Luckily, ... |
2,263 | To the cashier , it seems like a normal grocery cart : bananas , lemons , garlic , gum , candy , string , listerine , oil , matches , soap , and bleach . Little do they know you intend to murder them with the items .
| The bored looking cashier picked up the bananas with a scowl on his face. He ’ d been given a pay-cut, his girlfriend had left him and his dad had been diagnosed with stomach cancer. His life, in his eyes at least, couldn ’ t possibly get crapper than it was currently. Of course, the cashier was unaware that the normal... |
2,264 | When the doctor said you had a month to live, they meant it literally; for the next 30 days, you cannot die. | “You have one month to live” Well, I thought I’d end up the wait and kill myself, I went outside the hospital door to the street and waited for some to come and kill me, but they’ve all stopped and yelled at me “do you wanna die?” Yeah I do, please kill me now, I hate waiting. I went on home and went straight to my med... |
2,265 | Free Write Tuesday! Share (or reshare) any of your stories here, prompt-inspired or not | It was supposed to be just another late shift at the student radio station. Stephanie, half-asleep, half-caffeinated, and fully regretting every life choice that led to broadcasting indie lo-fi beats at 2:17 a.m., sat alone in the sound booth.
The red "ON AIR" light buzzed overhead. Static crackled for a split second—... |
2,266 | It is the 24 th of july , your birthday , and also the day that humanity is going to reach 10 billion inhabitants . You are watching the number grow , live on a site . Just as it 's about to hit 10 billion , at 9,999,999,999 ... It Hits 2 . You are still alive .
| “ Guys, guys, hurry up, we ’ re almost there! ”
“ Hold up, hold up, I ’ m coming, what are we at right now? ”
“ 9,999,632, 9,999, 687, WOAH, IT JUST SHOT UP TO 9,999,972, WHERE ’ S JOSH, HE ’ S GOING TO MISS IT? ”
Josh screams back from the bathroom “ Wait, wait, wait, I ’ m zipping up right now. ” He think... |
2,267 | `` Well this is a bloody mess . '' the first voice says .
| A little girl walks through the dark, her head down. She walks quickly. She's wearing a nightgown and socks, carrying a stuffed rabbit with her.
As she walks, she can hear things all around her. She looks to her left, her brown hair in her face. She brushes her bangs aside and can make out two glowing eyes.
She... |
2,268 | An advanced civilization lived on ancient Mars when it was a habitable world , but wars over resources have brought them to their knees - from the viewpoint of a member of this species , describe what happens as they slip into extinction .
| Ironically, it started with a snowy period. More than we ’ d ever seen in the Northern Reaches, drifts swallowed entire towns. The leaders chalked it up to an anomaly and just moved ahead. In truth it was just the most dramatic warning sign. A hot dusty drought followed the snowy period and again, the leaders convinced... |
2,269 | `` There used to be six of us ... Now I 'm alone . ''
| There used to be six of us… now I am alone.
No one understands how I pulled it off. The house is far too large for one, and the yard leads off into the woods. I ’ m a very persuasive person; they quit their jobs weeks before I even struck, at my recommendation.
The first was Tyrone. Blonde, All-American… hopeless. ... |
2,270 | You are born without a soul . While this causes a lot of issues with your state of mind and your relationship with religion , there is one benefit in particular that makes you useful in a way .
| Feelings.
Such commonplace things, yet they constantly interfere with everyday life. People feel happy; they feel sad. They are angry; they are in love. Every change brings a new approach. They either become more productive or less productive. They can either function socially or don ’ t get out of bed. It ’ s irra... |
2,271 | Write about being straight growing up in a predominately gay environment , where being straight is taboo .
| At first you tell yourself you're only curious.
Jess Plunkett. Year 2. Red hair and dimples. She lifted up her skirt for a bite of my brownie. I'd have given her the whole thing if she'd asked.
Then you tell yourself it's a phase.
Marie Tallon. Year 7. Brunette ringlets and a scar under her left eye. We had... |
2,272 | You just bought your first house. Add the realtor walks away he mentions the house is haunted but doesn't specify if it's Casper the friendly ghost or Amityville horror type haunted. You call him a week later. | “I’ve seen them I tell you!” I yell into the phone. On the other end I can hear him sigh. “Alright, tell me what you think you saw.” Mr. Chambers says this like he’s talking to a kid who insists there’s a monster under their bed. “There’s a little girl in a purple dress, a middle aged man with a huge scar on his face, ... |
2,273 | A bank robber walks into a bank , in progress of being robbed , and is taken hostage .
| Fuck my luck.
With my face still resting on the cool marble tile, and my eyes still shut, the collection of voices merge together to form a single chaotic noise. Blood trickles down the side of my head, and into my ear. Involuntarily, I reach up with my hand, as if to swat the invisible fly that drifted into my ear... |
2,274 | There exists a stone in Washington D.C. with a gun embedded in it. Whoever can pull the firearm out becomes the next president of the United States. | It was a beautiful day. The sun was bright. Roxanne was enjoying a peaceful picnic with her daughter, Fiona. Then a news alert went off. “Stay here, Fiona. I’m gonna go watch the news.” The news said,”Welcome to breaking news. Reporter Alex here with reporter Cassie. Today, we’ve reported a stone with a gun embedded in... |
2,275 | Every night for the past six weeks, a man has the same dream of standing in the middle of a dark room, hearing a voice whispering in his ear: "DO NOT OPEN THE BOX". A few days later he receives a present from his girlfriend. "What's this?" he says. "It's a wooden box" she replies. | Holy. Shit. Jethro’s heart hammers. As soon as he sees that thing in Tammi’s hand, he can hear the voice. Raspy, intimate, commanding, and a little afraid: “DO NOT OPEN THE BOX”.
“Well ain’t you gonna open it?”, asks Tammi.
Jethro’s head spins. His neck feels clammy.
“I uh… I don’t think I should.”
Tammi frowns at ... |
2,276 | Tell a story , but have there be two narrators arguing over how it was told .
| It was a crisp day in early autumn
No, it was late summer
It was actually the first day of fall
No, that ’ s the day we heard about it, it happened the day before that, besides you call it by the weather when it ’ s on those border days
Alright alright, it was a crisp day at the end of September, one of... |
2,277 | When someone dies , every person they have killed is brought back to life . At your father 's funeral , the whole cemetery is resurrected .
| I look around and see nothing but pale faces some mutilated by maggots from the ground but some fresh..I suddenly recall one as my dads old manager, but with a little less skin. Then I see one of my neighbors who never returned my dads lawn mower and supposedly got into a car accident. After I see my dads latest ex-wif... |
2,278 | You almost pitied the demon/evil spirit that haunted your new house. Your grandma was overprotective in life and now in death she is ever more so. | “Shoot!” I looked at the time, 15 minutes before the bell rang for the start of school.
And I was still at home in bed.
I scrambled to get out of bed, panicking as I grabbed the nearest pants and shirt, some sweatpants and my ugly 9th grade graduation shirt, and hurried out the door in a messy disaster. I jumped in t... |
2,279 | Write a first-person account of somebody turning into a zombie .
| The blood in my mouth feels warm. I guess I ’ ll have to get used to the taste. Any second now I ’ ll be different, I ’ ll be one of them.
Why did I jump? Why did I take the easy way out? The fall should have killed me. Seven stories is a long way to go. If I knew I was this strong, I wouldn ’ t have jumped. I woul... |
2,280 | It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized , to their horror , that humans had superior technology in all things , except inter-planetary spaceflight .
| The buzzing swarm moved into attack position - 200,000 miles from our earthly planet.
A booming fleet of over 6 billion hovering creatures.
We call these guys WaveRats on earth, although the official species name is officially unknown.
WaveRats are the first and only form of life that ’ s ever contacted ear... |
2,281 | A lone hiker in the mountains is being stalked by something paranormal .
| You're walking in the woods
There's no one around and your phone is dead
Out of the corner of your eye you spot him:
Shia LaBeouf.
He's following you, about 30 feet back
He gets down on all fours and breaks into a sprint
He's gaining on you
Shia LaBeouf
You're looking for you car but you're all turn... |
2,282 | Mankind is on the precipice of worldwide immortality . Tell a story of one of the last people on Earth to die .
| Most diseases end in one of a few ways. They ’ re eradicated by our own immune system and we get better, or they turn our immune system against us and kill us, or they make us so sick that we die before our immune system can intervene.
It ’ s against the best interests of a disease to kill its host. Killing the hos... |
2,283 | The death penalty for murder no longer exists , instead technology has been developed that overwrites the mind of the killer with that of their victim .
| Enlightenment, a lot of people called it. The strongest form of immersion.
He did n't look like a man that would choose it. The tattoos on his face were so contorted by the look of pride on his face. He was thin. Obviously a drug addict, which explained the mugging. It had only happened yesterday, but he's first in... |
2,284 | Theme Thursday - Hangover | Staying Hydrated
-----------------------------------------------
Oh gods. Why does everything ache?
I open my eyes, blinking rapidly against the harshness of daylight.
Ugggnnhhh. Ow. I wish I could sever my head from my body.
A huge mattress cushions me, a soft comforter envelopes me in its warmth. Peering around,... |
2,285 | You've been trapped in Y location for Z hours, solve for X to escape the algebra zone. | Three days ago, we found the final puzzle. All the other puzzles were leading to this one. If we got it right, we could have escaped.
If we got it right.
I sit on the edge of the cliff, staring into the distance. Alone. The waves lap gently against the shore. Less than a mile off the coast, a small skinny island stan... |
2,286 | “Ah the American dream; a Husband and kids, a big house, and the family dragon..” | Ah the American dream; a husband and kids, a big house, and the family dragon. I’m only missing the last thing. About 3 weeks ago, an inhumane dragon breeding business has been shut down by activists. The local animal shelters are in chaos. They are on the brink of having to euthanize dragons to make more space. My dau... |
2,287 | Just as you can barely remember dreaming , your dream version can barely remember being awake . Your dream self is talking to his therapist about his recurring `` daymares '' .
| My therapist sits across from me, his face bubbling and oozing into different shapes. He brings a hand to his face and it transforms into a beautiful young woman, she looks at me and gives me a faint smile. “ So, tell me about these dreams you're having. ”
“ They're not dreams. ” I stammer out my words. Before cont... |
2,288 | Writing Prompt
| It wakes me up and I'm out of bed, instantly. My girlfriend makes a noise, but she's still sound asleep. I look at her for a moment, scratching my stomach, before I lurch - naked - to the window. I part the curtains. The street is still - lamps burning, no cars, no lights on in the apartment block windows. I let out a ... |
2,289 | As a lonely child, you turned to a ouija board for a friend and found a lonely demon doing the same thing. After 20 years of being inter dimensional pen pals, they’ve asked to meet for real | Now nearing the age of thirty, I sit in front of the ouija board, waiting for him to appear in any second. He said there is nothing to be afraid of if the planchette were to briefly be in bright blue flame, or if he were to surface with less fingers than I have. But I didn't really care when he seemed to worry about wh... |
2,290 | "Until help arrives stay hidden or barricaded, do not engage any of the subjects at any cost. They are hostile and-" You tune out the alarm system as you cradle one of these subjects, a young injured woman, in your arms. | All throughout the space station, power fluctuated and flashes could be seen from outside as the subjects searched for a way off or to gain control.
“Until help arrives, stay hidden or barricaded. Do not engage with any of the subjects at any cost. They are hostile and…”
Dr. Kelsey Glass tuned out the alarm system a... |
2,291 | You thought it was so cool that your new house was made from recycled parts from a decommissioned airplane...until you started to see the passengers of its final flight. | The door swung open and the stale smell of the 1960s filled the air, it was a scorching day but inside of this old fuselage the air was cold and damp. I shown a torch through the doorway into the cabin and stepped into what would soon be my new home. The house prices had gotten so bad in LA that I could actually buy an... |
2,292 | The scientist closest to finding a cure for breast cancer also happens to be a massive pervert
| I kind of feel ashamed posting this...
I ’ m one of the leading experts in breast cancer in the world. I ’ ve always been fascinated with breasts. It started when I was a young boy and one of my school teachers showed me hers. I don ’ t care how they look – firm, saggy, droopy, perky, big, and small – I don ’ t car... |
2,293 | a murderer enjoys setting elaborate traps for his victims , weaving mysteries and riddles into an extended process designed to make them paranoid . Only problem is , this time , his subject is too stupid or oblivious to realize that he 's in danger
| “ Yesssssss ”. I wheezed like Voldemort trying out words for the first time in a while. “ Go near the door! ”
I watched as a young woman approached the trap door I had set in front of my house. It was Halloween and what I thought was a PERFECT time to snag someone. People go missing all the time right? What better ... |
2,294 | A sinister tale where a common household appliance is the villain .
| Everyone knows about the brave little toaster. But no one in hell knows about the one in the background, the stalker, the one that ruins your life. When the thing emerges, we all cower in terror. Let's start from the beginning.
When I was a young lamp, fresh out of the box, I saw her being torn apart, crushed; gone... |
2,295 | Your soul does n't leave your body at the moment you die . Instead , your consciousness leaves your body at the moment your funeral rites are completed .
| She waits for years and years and years, hoping and praying that someone will find her. It ’ s far too late to hope that it would be before she would decay, too late before the maggots infested the corpse, and too late as her bones were spread by a few hungry animals. She can still feel them, even though they ’ re not ... |
2,296 | You wake up to see someone has scribbled all over the walls of your room with a marker. You find a digital recording device on the nightstand. Pressing play, you hear your own voice say, "It's been 712 days. You must escape. Follow your notes. Don't forget again." | My body shakes as I try to get up.
''What happened to my room?'' I say it out loud.
There is no one around except me. The blinking light of the VCR draws my attention and I press play, it takes a few seconds to start. It’s me…
''You are confused, I know. But you need to listen because our time is limited. First, you... |
2,297 | `` It was unsettling to know that they had been watching me the whole time , but I felt foolish for ever thinking that they weren ’ t . ''
| I never really gave it much thought. Why would I? I have had a comfortable life. I was living in a big beautiful newly-built home. Well, I was there since it was new anyway, it's been six years. But my home has always been kept clean and as pristine as the day we all moved in.
Life was so easy for me. I did n't do ... |
2,298 | You can predict with absolute certainty when someone is going to die. Your friend does not believe you because s/he has the power to prevent the deaths that you foresee and has been unconsciously doing it since you met. | I realized I never noticed, the signs of maturity. The curved wrinkles on her face, the grey-white hair. Mom looked both, a little different and exactly the same. When I was growing, she was growing too.
Blood Red Aura began forming around her body as I looked. The Truth I couldn’t ignore. the color was blinding me. I... |
2,299 | Captive Audience : You 've been taken hostage , not for ransom or for violence , but because your captor just really needs someone to talk to .
| The grunts and labored breathing of my captor accompanied the banging and scraping of chair legs as he dragged me down a set of stairs into what I assumed was his cellar. With my wrists and ankles bound to the seat by ropes and a burlap sack covering my head, all I had to go on was guesswork. The air was wet with milde... |
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