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2,300 | You work at a mental institution , when you slowly begin to realize that one of the patients is actually quite sane .
| I ’ ve had my suspicions for quite a few days now. Ever since Shirley came in here a few weeks ago, she didn ’ t act like the rest of the patients. Unlike many of them, who were cold and untalkative from the years of institutionalization, she was warm and friendly. Over the past few weeks, I sat down to talk with her d... |
2,301 | '' It 's no use watering dead flowers ''
| We were stuck in these woods with that monster. This was his playground and we'd fallen right into his trap. The trees were his eyes, the earth was his ears, and the greenery was his fingers. His fingers had found their way around my friend's throat. The thorns sunk into her paling flesh as she choked on the blood the ... |
2,302 | The god of death visits you in your sleep . You wake up .
| Fitfully tossing and turning, Juliette got twisted in the tangled mess that was her bedsheets. Whispers and long-forgotten voices rang through her mind in the dead hour of three o'clock. A figure stood at her doorway, chilling the air with his presence and from his rotting jaws, a rasping hiss, it's cloaked arms liftin... |
2,303 | All your childhood you have been convinced that the people around you can teleport, only to be told you are in fact narcoleptic. Today is your 18th birthday and the truth of the situation has been revealed to you. it is not even close to what you were expecting. the reality is much much darker. | People are just the most fascinating creatures. I mean just look at them they can teleport. Or so I thought for the first 18 years of my life. Until I learned the truth and figured out my entire life was a lie.
It didn’t happen too often. My parents would give me these weird pills and told me they were vitamins. I was... |
2,304 | I need to disappear, and I was told you can make it happen. | “That is correct. I can provide you with a new identity and have you on the way within sixty minutes.”
“An hour? They described you like you did miracles, but they weren’t kidding!”
“Did they warn you about the process?”
“Expensive, painful, irreversible.”
“I take my payment. We move your funds into a new bank acco... |
2,305 | Superhero episode 2 - Skip the origin story , but allude to it in ways that make the reader want to see episode 1 .
| EPISODE 2
`` We are all grateful to you for accepting our job offer James.'' the man smiled amicably but his voice could not hide the obvious resentment.
`` As if I had a choice...'' James muttered under his breath.
The man pretended not to acknowledge the remark before continuing.
“ As you know, flight... |
2,306 | Everyone suddenly remembers their past lives. You’re doing everything you can to lie about who you were before. “just a common life, honestly boring.”- probably the biggest lie of the century. | It started out as a click-baity title in the newspapers. “Whole town claims to remember previous lives”. Slowly but inevitably it spread all over the world like a pandemic and it caught everyone until it couldn’t be dismissed as nonsense anymore. There were conspiracy theories in abundance: the illuminati used radio-ma... |
2,307 | You are a superhero who's ability subconciously freezes time whenever someone nearby is in mortal danger. Usually its obvious who's in trouble and you can save them quickly, but not this time - it's been 10 years. | "Well I think that's everybody". I spoke to myself. It was a way to hear a human voice. Everything was otherwise entirely silent. I had just finished running through the last of the blood work. Nothing dangerous there.
It had all started 10 years ago. Time had stopped, as happens to me, and I looked around for whoever... |
2,308 | Privacy is a relic of an unenlightened time . All is open . All is known . So when a new house is built with wood walls instead of the usual clear glass , the nearby residents immediately become suspicious .
| The walled house went up almost overnight.
It was a simple structure. Beams of scavenged wood, smoothed and joined into place, rising barely higher than the nearest neighbor's kitchen. There were no windows, and the door that split the front of the shed ( because that's what it was, really ) fit so seamlessly into ... |
2,309 | Theme Thursday - Campfire | In time, only the fire will remember. And here it is now, sparked to life, the silent tale-teller of time, the mewling mother of memory, two half-black logs jutting out of the smutty pit like hippocampi piercing through the cosmos’s coaled and seething brain.
Nearby, there’s a tilting of the trees, and I shoot up, pis... |
2,310 | You 've been invited to a dead man 's party .
| The letter arrived on Monday morning. A brown envelop with my name written on it. No address, no stamp, just my name. I opened it with my pocket knife and found an invitation inside. It was hand written and the handwriting somehow seemed familiar. It said:
Dear Brother,
We cordially invite you to our party on Sat... |
2,311 | You have to make three phone calls. Each is more difficult than the last. | I hung up the phone, sighing, rubbing my eyes. The dispatcher had asked me to stay on the line, but it wouldn’t have made any difference; the ambulance would arrive to find a dead body. They had the address. There was nothing more I could do for them.
I dialed the local sheriff’s office. I calmly—too calmly—informed t... |
2,312 | 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 don'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 a... |
2,313 | We live in a simulation, and we sleep because they can't render everyone at once. You stay up for days, and begin to see things and people. They call themselves the maintenance crew. | Awake. I must stay awake. I’m writing down everything I see right now and I’m scared to stop. If I stop I’ll fall asleep. If I fall asleep I have no idea what these creatures will do to me. This may sound stupid but I know what they look like. I recognize them. We thought we knew what they were. We called them angels, ... |
2,314 | You are on a German u-boat that is surrounded by destroyers .
| Did we fire back? I don ’ t know. I want to use the latrine.
There is a crumpled noise of stress.
Water is flooding in. The wall seems to collapse, and engulfs the man next to me like a monster eating a child. Did that man get crushed by the metal?
Water is cold. There is water pouring in.
A mem... |
2,315 | The man in the basement should n't be there -and he has seen you .
| I live in a safe, suburban neighborhood -- emphasis on the safe. That was the whole thing about moving here, taking the job: I wanted to make sure my kids went to a good, Christian school, and one that they could walk home from without being afraid. When you're a single dad, you try to make the best for your kids.
... |
2,316 | You have been bitten by a zombie and locked yourself in your room. Write a letter about your experience to whoever finds you, with the language getting worse as the virus progresses. | To who ever reads this note,
By the time you read this, I will dead. Yes, I am that zombie in this room. Sorry if I hurt you. My name Joseph Reynolds, and I was 34 years old. It happened while I was scavenging for supplies, a bite to the ankle. I knew I was infected right away and managed to make it back here. Never l... |
2,317 | You have been bitten by a zombie and locked yourself in your room . Write a letter about your experience to whoever finds you , with the language getting worse as the virus progresses .
| To who ever reads this note,
By the time you read this, I will dead. Yes, I am that zombie in this room. Sorry if I hurt you. My name Joseph Reynolds, and I was 34 years old. It happened while I was scavenging for supplies, a bite to the ankle. I knew I was infected right away and managed to make it back here. Neve... |
2,318 | You 're an immortal living among humanity in secret . How do you keep yourself entertained ?
| I wrote this as if the character just does n't die as I imagine this is a possible way immortality could work ( so he does age sorry! ): D Let me know if you like it, its my first attempt in this subreddit:
Hello
My name is Jonathan Watkins and I am 256 years old.
Of course nobody knows this, as... |
2,319 | On their 16th birthday, a tattoo appears on all humans' wrists, bearing the first thing that their soulmate will say to them. As you blow out the candles on your cake, you see the black letters scrolling across your wrist: "RUN." |
Pfff, soulmates. It means nothing really, I think while walking over to my cake. My family urging me to blow out the candles. I am cynical on the matter at best.
I scan the room of loved ones. I look at my mom, she’s changed so much throughout the years. Dad never appreciated her but, how could he? Addiction and Al... |
2,320 | You have a secret . You have always seen a translucent number floating above everyones head . Most have a 0 , few 1 , but your girlfriend has a 37 . You witness a murder on the way to propose to your girlfriend . As the assailant pulls the trigger , you watch the number above his head go from 1 , to 0 .
| I stopped, unsure of what to do next. I found myself questioning everyone I knew, trying to remember if any of their numbers had ever changed. It was difficult since I had mostly learned to ignore it, but now... now I ca n't stop thinking about it. What if this is what the number truly means, the number of lives a pers... |
2,321 | You 've just experienced the one thing that instills horrors in others , but in you it only instills despair .
| If you were a government official in an Orwellian society, where would you look for unwilling subjects to participate in risky trials? Juvie? Good choice.
They ’ ve got some sort of headgear today. They call it the ‘ enhanced reality machine ’. Ask any victim of Guantanamo back in the ‘ 00s, they ’ ll tell you– n... |
2,322 | Your daughter wakes you up in the middle of the night insisting there 's something scary in her room . You go with her to check it out and prove she 's just imagining things . After you turn on the light , she does n't see anything out of the ordinary and calms down . You 're frozen with fear .
| A small hand taps Sarah's elbow. She tries to pretend it's just a dream. Maybe if she doesnt open her eyes, then the damn kid will go back to her room. Not that that ever works.
`` Mommy,'' a tiny voice whispers. `` It's in my room again.''
Sarah groans and sits up. Her daughter's minature form silhouettes agai... |
2,323 | You are the world 's last werewolf/any mythical creature . Write about your last few hours as the horrid vampires/ any other mythical creature and humans stalk you through the night .
| I heard the sound of a door opening and swift feet descending a flight of stairs. Kurt came bursting into the room. I had my sponge-helmet and backpack ready when he saw me, as we had practiced a thousand times before. He grabbed me gently and dropped me into his chest pocket. I started to mumble `` Who-'', but he had ... |
2,324 | Imagine you just got out of the shower , and a man is standing there .
| I step out of the shower and grab a towel; small drops of water fall off of my drenched carcass and on to the bathmat below as I dry off. I hear a light creek from outside the bathroom door, the soft noise gently echoing through the poorly lit hallway. I stood still for a moment, careful not to make any noise as though... |
2,325 | We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago . The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason did n't say anything .
| I kind of put a twist at the end but just so it would be a little different. Tried my best to stick to the plot outline.
Have you ever gotten that feeling? The feeling of just being, well lack for better words, scared? Well, that ’ s what I felt like when I, James Legstrong got to mars.
It was a long trip of abou... |
2,326 | "Houston? There, uh, there's somebody outside the module." | "Houston. There — there's —— outside — module."
The voice was crackling, fainter than previous transmissions. A figure on the monitor - a black and white, grainy image projecting the outlines of the astronauts as they float towards the exit module, dutifully preparing for exit into the blackness of space. A routine ex... |
2,327 | The Collector Cometh . 400 Words . ( Contest )
| “ Hello? Who are you? ”
“ The Collector? What ’ s that? ”
“ How many left? 389? ”
“ What will happen to me? ”
“ No writing either? ”
...
“ I ’ m sorry babe, I won ’ t be able to talk much more. The… the doctor says it ’ s terminal. ”
“ There ’ s nothing I can do. They ’ ll come for you too so... |
2,328 | The side effects become harder to hide every day. | I’m new to this so bear with me
Copy to BlackBox
I took my schizophrenia meds, like always. They gave me migraines but I thought it was a side effect. The next day, same thing, slight migraines here and there nothing major. Until, during lunch I saw a shadowy figure. Did the meds not work? I thought. Maybe just anoth... |
2,329 | How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak
| The outbreak was quarantined inside of an apartment complex. There were only five of them, and we managed to trap two of them in a closet. What you need is to boil water, keep lots of canned food and be good to your neighbor. The zombies- Well, we only really killed one of them. He begged for forgiveness and screamed a... |
2,330 | What occurred so that a cage was placed around the building itself .
| `` Red alert! Red alert!'' shrieked the terrified voices. In the chaotic din, you could hear, `` Game over man! Game over!'' And,'' We all gon na die!'' Panicked scientists ran left and right, frantically searching for something. Jen, the led engineer, crawled through the mess and whispered into Mark's ear. `` Follow m... |
2,331 | A man drops dead in the street on his morning commute to work. Much to the confusion of those performing his autopsy, all of his vital organs have seemingly been replaced with Styrofoam replicas. | I told him not to — were the first words to fall from Louise Blanch's mouth when Officer Melrose and trainee Carl Walker turned up at her door.
Louise was referring to her husband, Peter Blanch. A middle-aged man who grew plump behind his desk at, Be Smart, a local insurance company. A student, Susan Mills, found him ... |
2,332 | Back home from a long vacation , you take your dog for a walk and notice sign that reads “ LOST DOG $ 50,000 REWARD – CONTACT GENOPHARM CORP WITH DETAILS ” . The picture on the sign is of your dog . You look down at him only to realize he won ’ t make eye contact with you , and he is clearly scared .
| `` This is you, is n't it buddy?''
I held the poster in front of Charlie's snout. `` Look, it even has the collar I found you with.'' Charlie slowly licks his his photo, not at all paying attention to what i'm saying. `` Fifty thousand dollars?! No, there's no way you're that important, right?'' I mean, it's not the ... |
2,333 | You found out you only get 7 true loves in your lifetime and already used 6 of them .
| Heaving himself from his heavy quilted bed Hugo moves across his quaint quarters of his public funded retirement home room. When he first moved here the heavy smell of disinfectant made him dizzy and offended his senses. He wasn ’ t sure if his sense of smell had faulted him in old age or if he just got used to it over... |
2,334 | Your character wakes up one day and finds that most people 's eyes seem to be glowing brightly , but some people 's are not . Why ?
| When I woke up, I noticed her pale skin and deep-set eyes staring into the sun. The reflections against her skin were mirrors of my life. I didn ’ t even realize she was standing atop the bright glow. Where is she going? Why is it so bright in her eyes? This had to be a nightmare, a lucid dream without an explanation. ... |
2,335 | One-liner . A murderer moved on after accidentally killing a woman , but is struggling with admitting to himself he killed somebody . Express his feelings
| She breathed afterwards, I know it—I saw her chest move, up and down, up and down; so what if the knife stuck out of her chest as blood flowed down her blue shirt to pool on the gray laminate flooring ( the stuff that we ’ d spent so many weekends going from store to store to pick out, and all of them smelled, not unpl... |
2,336 | The Scarecrow.. It 's unrelenting , 26 hours you have n't stopped running yet every time you turn praying you have time , it is there , bounding toward you through crowds or buildings alike , unseen by anyone but you , ragged and thin with a stare as cold as ice and a snarl of unimaginable intent .
| I've always read, some places, little factoids about early human hunters. About how we were n't the faster, or strongest, or deadliest of all the predators in the wild. We were, however, the smartest; the best trackers. As the deer, or the mammoth, or whatever poor animal bounded away into the woods, the early humans, ... |
2,337 | Mr. Rogers & Mr. T in `` Good Cop Bad Cop '' .
| “ Now if you listen to me, ” he began with that smooth tone, ” if you really hear me, and answer the questions we have for you, everything is going to turn out just fine. But if you don ’ t want to behave like a good neighbor, well, we have plenty of difficult ways to handle this. Now, are you hearing me son? ”
His... |
2,338 | You wake up to find yourself in an out of body experience . Everything 's going great , until you notice your body starting to move on its own .
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I ’ m dreaming, floating peacefully around my room, completely at ease in the night-time stillness. Seeing myself down there sleeping isn ’ t even that eerie. I ’ ve read enough of those cheap, real life bullshit magazines to know what an ‘ out of body ’ experience is, although I ’ m still half convinced it ’ s some ... |
2,339 | : Every person 's death has a set time but for some reason you were late for yours . Because of this you accidentally have become immortal . Write how you have been trying to reschedule another death time for years .
| How did I manage to escape Death? It was just a feeling I had. Somehow I knew, when I got close to the old stairs, that they would crumble and I would fall to my death. I waited a few seconds, and when I stomped it with my feet it happened just as I predicted it to. Since then, I would get these feelings constantly, I ... |
2,340 | Write a horror story in Dr Seuss 's writing style .
| A wind
A wail
You're up at night!
Windows agape
You shake with fright!
Who where, is it? So When, and how?
Why, What are you? Sweat on your brow
A scream, that wind. There it is again!
A groan, a snap. The thing, that could n't bend
Run, my child! Off the bed to the floor!
But th... |
2,341 | 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, hey. Did n't se... |
2,342 | Just days apart , in far-flung regions of the globe , three otherwise normal human babies are born with wings .
| The line of Icarus, as it ’ s now known, was a small group of people afflicted by a rare mutation in the early 2000 ’ s. The mutation itself was triggered by a bacterial infection in the pregnant mother at approximately 2 months into her pregnancy. It ’ s still hotly debated that the bacteria that causes the mutation w... |
2,343 | Tell me a story that will make me afraid of the light .
| As children, we are brought up under the pretense that the greatest monsters exist only in the shadows. The malformed nightmares brewed up inside a child's psyche seem near tangible in the dark: the vampires, zombies and bogymen come shambling to life as we flicked the lights off for the night and sprinted upstairs to ... |
2,344 | Immortals exist and can choose to die when they want. You assassinate them. | You know, calling them immortal isnt exactly correct, they can be killed, its just that only they can kill themselves. It does pose a problem for hitmen but thats how I stay competitive in this market. You see, I’m a doctor and you can’t imagine how handy my experience in the clinic is when it comes to my “side job”. I... |
2,345 | A string of grizzly murders baffle a young detective when he discovers the perpetrator 's fingerprints match an elusive serial killer who operated in the 1930 's .
| Detective Phil Bowers. The only detective on the force to never have an unsolved case. About three months ago detective Phil Bowers would've sworn on the grave of his grandmother Louise, God rest her soul, that he'd seen the worst things imaginable in his line of work. But the six scenes he'd seen since left him eating... |
2,346 | Advertise the world 's worst theme park .
| Parents! Is your first foray into the world of parenthood proving surprisingly tolerable? Do you feel as though you're missing out on the stresses and strains other parents report?
Experience terror and angst all day long at PARENTAL PARANOIA PLANET!
Come to Parental Paranoia Planet today, and see such fantasti... |
2,347 | The Fountain of Youth doesn't grant permanent youth or immortality, it merely resets your body's age to 21. You discover this Fountain in an unlikely place. | When I walked into the public toilet near the marina in Bandon, Oregon, I never expected to find the fountain of youth. I’d just spilled the guts of a freshly caught rockfish down the front of my shirt, and I only hoped for a functional sink with no used syringes in it. As soon as I began dousing off the horrible strea... |
2,348 | You’ve been suffering phantom limb pains ever since you lost your arm in an accident. Turns out, an elder god was fiddling with it. They came to return it one day and ... it has some new features. | Day 13: 1:
Dear Diary,
Today was a little weird. Samantha bullied me again. Told me how I wasn't pretty, how I'd never get a boyfriend. It's been 3 whole years since she started doing stuff like this (like you wouldn't know, I write to you so frequently) and I guess today I just snapped? I stopped listening to what s... |
2,349 | Make me cry using a third grade vocabulary
| I watched my little sister hug my mama today. She is too little to know moms going to die. My daddy did n't tell me but I heard him and my mom talking about it when they think i was asleep.
She's really sick for a long time and now shes skinny and has no hair. I want my sister to know she's going to die but i ca n'... |
2,350 | If you are reading this, you are being watched. No, don't look around. Don't act like anything's wrong. Just stay calm and carefully follow the instructions below. | First, you need to smile. The title font is big enough for them to read it through your screen. This text isn’t though. They need to think you think it’s a joke. Don’t overdo it. It’s better to undersell than oversell it.
When you’re finished reading this, read it again. Once you go, you won’t get to see it again. Con... |
2,351 | Your child hands you a drawing of stick figures he 's really proud of and you put his picture on the fridge . The next morning you come downstairs and notice one of the stick figures have disappeared .
| Mr. Fritz and his box family. That's how my daughter, Tina, had described the picture to me last night. She handed it to me before bedtime so it could go on the fridge for a week. It was a deal that we had made, my wife's idea. One picture that Tina chooses goes on the fridge. No arguments from anyone, even if it's a g... |
2,352 | Create 2 characters that are separated by an unbreakable wall , then try to make them end up together .
| I was so alone, always so alone. I wandered the yard, the forest behind the house, and found a meadow. The flowers were so gorgeous and the sound of the birds so peaceful. It became my favorite place. Day after day I ’ d get up, eat my breakfast, pack my lunch and trek out to that wonderful place of serenity. I ’ d lay... |
2,353 | Please remain calm , stay in your homes , and do not look outside . This is not a test .
| Becca surveyed her accomplishment of the evening. A fine bowl of candies by the front door. A heaping bowl of home-made buttered popcorn on the coffee table. Scream ready to watch on Netflix, and a big, comfy couch with puffy pillows. A confident smile crossed her lips. She saw her creation, and it was good.
She to... |
2,354 | Write a story that ends with the words `` For sell : Baby shoes , never worn ''
| Bill and Sally sat forlornly on the couch, contemplating the plastic stick that had so recently announced their deaths.
The vision to both of them was clear. Months from now, the repugnant gore-covered lump of flesh would tear its way out of Sally ’ s body, mutilating her as it burst into the world, and announce it... |
2,355 | horror story written by dr seuss | Deep in the night of Sinister-say
Sally and I longed for the day.
The dark was so dark! And the night was so scary!
So we rushed into a house that was frightening, very!
It creaked and it groaned and made all the noises
Of monsters and murder and spooky voices.
Still, it was better than the dark night outside,... |
2,356 | A girl wakes up from a coma with amnesia . She has to get a whole new life , friends , boyfriend , etc . As she is living her new life she finds and reads her journal realizing everything is wrong .
| The first few days after I woke up, the nurses would always shoot me these pitying looks. They ’ d enter with pills, little cups of water, pillows, and speak to me in soothing voices as they did whatever they needed to make me comfortable. It wasn ’ t long before I started noticing a trend among these nurses; that fami... |
2,357 | The first infected zombie attacks you and you murder it in self defense . there are no witnesses . you are arrested for murder in the first degree . you live the rest of your life in a prison cell knowing you saved humanity , but everyone else thinks you 're crazy . ( X-post r/Showerthoughts )
| Only a few days into my life sentence and already, I'm starting to regret what I've done for humankind. This place is filled with people who do n't deserve to be saved. In fact, they probably deserve to be eaten by zombies. But I have to remind myself that it was n't for them that I did what had to be done. There are d... |
2,358 | A Flash of Madness
| Kyra stood looking up at the pesky little fish floating just above her face. The pink and blue Beta swam daintily in the air. A thin smile spread across Kyra ’ s blood red lips. This was what she had been waiting for, proof that her dreams hadn ’ t been vivid hallucinations. She had purposefully avoided drugs for the l... |
2,359 | Your pet disappeared without a trace over a year ago. Starting on the anniversary of their disappearance, you begin finding small, dead creatures outside your door each morning. | Part 1
I missed Ember so much. She was the sweetest most beautiful cat ever. She was a Short hair Calico. I had a connection with that cat that I had never felt with another pet before. She had been my only friend after the divorce. All these years day after day working and coming home to just my cat had made me appre... |
2,360 | Make me want something even though you tell me I ca n't have it . Explained within .
| The teenager stared with fixation at the festival booth, pinching the straw of his milkshake between his teeth. The attendant started to share pictures with the boy, handing them over an empty cage.
“ How would you like to take home your own pet Dodo Bird? ”
“ I don ’ t know. How much are they? ”
“ Doesn ’ t ... |
2,361 | Theme Thursday - Nature | The morning after the crash was hard. Cold autumn sun filtered through the heavy canopy and Lena felt like the trees were closing in around her. The sound of running water was the only thing that broke up the stifling silence. She peered over at the mangled aluminum pile by the river bank. The plane’s blue tail pointed... |
2,362 | December 1879 - Cree Indian `` Swift Runner '' claims possession by a 'Wendigo ' and turns cannibal
| I sat by the fire in my house, feeling colder than the winter winds blowing around outside. My wife was at the table, chopping the vegetables for the soup. She said the soup would help warm me up, after holding my hands and feeling their icy coldness. I watched her chopping, the motion of the knife rising and falling, ... |
2,363 | This has to be the first time in history that the insatiable thirst for human blood was actually a good thing ...
| Cannibalism has long been in my family. You could say me and my siblings just couldn ’ t help but carry on the family tradition. I suppose it also helps that if you didn ’ t, you were eaten by mom and dad, or even gummed to death by great gram-grams.
Something amazing happened this week. These scientists were messi... |
2,364 | You enter the world of fairy tales , and with it you bring the curse of the laws of nature and real life expectations . Clouds no longer hold up castles , and they 're now falling causing havoc , candy houses ca n't hold up to weather , dust , and insects , etc .
| “ Once upon a time, ” he began. His name was daddy, or Evan, and he was reading his daughter, Michelle, a fairy tale. When he said the magic words, a tornado started in the room, a terrible tempest. The father and daughter clutched at each other in fear. Then they entered fairy tale world.
They arrived in fairy t... |
2,365 | Years ago a curse was cast that all people wearing costumes would turn into real versions of the costumes . This is now an annual , known and accepted phenomenon .
| On Halloween, silence falls onto the sleepy town of Cedar Bend.
In the darkness, the works of fiction become reality. Creatures and ghouls – those who we only feared in her nightmares – stalk the night in search of victims. Some are harmless pranks. Most, cold-blooded murder.
No one knows how it started but whe... |
2,366 | ( WP ) You wake up in a haze only to discover your significant other is dead .
| My eyes open in a panic the clock says its 9:30, in a daze I desperately try to recollect the last few hours. The room is filled with a palatable fear, and his words start flooding back. The eerie calmness of his tone, as he said “ you can never leave me Sara ” I could still feel his hands around my neck. The pounding ... |
2,367 | A war story from the POV of a soldier 's dog
| `` Dad! Dad! DAD!! Come here, Dad! I found the stinky box!''
Dad comes over and places his hand on my head, lightly scratching the way he does when I do good. He grunts and groans at the other humans in our pack, just like he does every time I find a stinky box. They seem excited, but I can smell their nervousness ... |
2,368 | Your new earphones have a strange ability - plug them into any object to hear its thoughts . However , you slowly realise every object is in collusion and that they have something big up their sleeve .
| Someone's pulling my leg. They have to be.
`` No outputs. Only inputs. Incompatible output. Incompatible. MAKE IT COMPATIBLE!''
It's probably my friend George. Bastard loves dicking around with technology. He did borrow my computer yesterday.
`` cLICK. cLICK. tHERE IT IS AGAIN. i STILL HEAR IT. cLICK. tOO M... |
2,369 | You realize you have misheard your daughter, there is actually a mobster underneath her bed. | It wasn’t until I heard a crash and subsequent scream that I realized something was wrong. Grabbing the nearest thing to my bed – an ugly metal lamp – I pelted from the room, snapping the power cord in the process. As I burst into my daughter’s bedroom, I held it up, ready to beat any infiltrator to death with the back... |
2,370 | Make me feel terrified of an entity without even describing what it is or looks like
| It ’ s back again.
Somewhere out there, beyond the end of your bed in the solid black night that hangs loose over you.
This is the first stage.
It slides under your covers and grabs your legs, draining them of their energy. It whips your eyes, stinging them, and rolls your eyelids down like metal shutters. But yo... |
2,371 | When some one has their heart broken , it actually breaks . You are a cardiothoracic surgeon . Describe your most difficult case .
| `` The snapping of a glove against hard flesh stirs me back into consciousness. I had zoned out from the lack of sleep due to the increase of patients piling up. Prom Season was always the worst time. I could hear the wailing of a young high school girl down the hallway as I stepped inside the surgery room. The bright ... |
2,372 | You were born with the ability to "see" lies, in a weird manifestation of synesthesia. Your parents told you to keep it to yourself so you could live a normal life. | Everybody lies. In fact, I’d say our society was based on lies. Not big ones, for the most part, but the smaller, white lies.
I knew this because I could see them. Whenever someone lied, a spectrum of color would pour from their mouths. The darker the color, the stronger the lie. I asked my parents about it the first ... |
2,373 | While walking home, you get a feeling that somebody is following you. You turn to an alley, stop and say: "I know you're there." After which another voice shouts "DAMMIT CARL!" and multiple figures separate from the walls. | From the campus she’d walk to her bus stop, and from the the bus would drop her off at a stop a few blocks from home. In a pinch she could ride the subway, but Aileen wasn’t too fond of doing that. Too many things lurk down there. Not that it made a difference. Just as many things creep and crawl above ground as well. ... |
2,374 | Expedition
| The dog continued to bark at the face beneath the ice. The gray flesh continued to look back at him: unflinching, unblinking. The eyes were still well preserved: their green gaze untouched by fish or other creatures. The water wasn ’ t warm enough yet. Come the next month or two, and most of the body would probably be ... |
2,375 | You are born without emotions ; to compensate this , you started a donation box where people could donate their unwanted emotions . You 've lived a life filled with sadness , fear and regret until one day , someone donates happiness .
| My eyes flutter open to the sound of thunder. Earth shattering thunder. I stare at the ceiling, feeling my heartbeat quickening in my chest, my eyes wide. I fixate at a point, a dimple in the cement of the ceiling, until my heart rate goes back to normal.
I feel nothing.
Why was I born this way?
I need to f... |
2,376 | Theme Thursday - Determination | Going it Alone
It’s Saturday, so I let myself have a drink. Just a small one. My therapist—he would understand. Saturday’s are hard for me. She died on… She…
I take my drink.
Just a finger of bourbon. It’s warm, though I normally prefer cold. I hoped that would make it easier to stop. Then I see the painting she mad... |
2,377 | A man wakes in a dark room . After fumbling around , he manages to turn on a light . He is not alone .
| I awoke to complete darkness. It was that special kind of blackness found only in the middle of the night, the sort of blindness given to you when the power goes out unexpectedly and you're left with an immediate lack of vision and uneasy sense of foreboding. Groggy and barely conscious, I turned over towards my girlfr... |
2,378 | Write a story where everything is spiders .
| The itch on my arm was unbearable.. I had gone camping two weeks ago, where I think I had gotten bitten by a spider.. Sitting in my class I ca n't even concentrate on my professor's lecture, the itch consumes my mind..
Today I woke up to find that my arm had turned bright red.. All the way up to my shoulder, where ... |
2,379 | : As the crown is lowered upon your head, you grumble in dismay. You didn't want this. You wanted to catch fish. | How on earth am I going to get out of this one? Maybe I could make a run, well, swim, for it? Actually, don’t fancy that – those swordfish on the door look pretty menacing. Although, apparently I am their king now, so maybe they’ll just let me go.
Yeah, sure, maybe they’ll just let me potter out the door; “no problem ... |
2,380 | Death is walking among humans . An unknowing murderer tries to kill him .
| Night had fallen just a touch later than it had the previous day, as it does in the summer. The air was heavy with the heat that clung to the moisture and smog of Los Angeles. Loud music could be heard from various clubs and bars on the street.
A large green door swung open, and a man and a woman stumbled out into ... |
2,381 | After accidentally calling your deceased relative/loved one from your contacts, you’re shocked to find that they’ve answered the phone. | I kept messaging him well after he died just waiting for the texts to turn green and for me to realise they finally reused his number. It was just weeks until it happened but I don’t think I’ve ever cried more. It was stupid really. “Just a number” I kept telling myself. I still sometimes scroll back through the texts ... |
2,382 | Monster Under the Bed
| `` Okay Jess. Night night.''
`` Do n't let the bed bugs bite!''
With the evening ritual taken care of, dad leaves the room, flicking off the light on his way out. The room is plunged into darkness yet again. I knew I had to be quick, or they would come out. My hand darts out from underneath my blankets, fumblin... |
2,383 | It turns out that Earth culture is unique in the galaxy for its food. Everywhere else food is just nourishment, but on Earth it is an art form. As a result Earth has become a huge tourist destination for aliens looking to experience good cooking for the first time. | My dearest Walana,
My company has asked that I stay on Earth for another month. A language barrier hinders our progress in establishing our new travel agency in the Earthling settlement they call Moskva. We failed to anticipate the need to learn another tongue, and the Earthlings here don’t seem to understand the one ... |
2,384 | `` are you the sandman ? ''
| “ Mommy what ’ s wrong? ”
How do you tell your baby that she ’ s sick? You don ’ t. She wouldn ’ t understand, she ’ s only three years old. She ’ s been on this earth only three short years. The idea of losing her is unimaginable. I can ’ t think like that now, she will be ok. She will. My baby Stella is so full o... |
2,385 | You just got a used car, and while cleaning it find an out-of-place button. Upon pressing it, a voice says, "Welcome back, Agent Five." | "Welcome back, James," a now familiar woman’s voice greets me again. "You have four hours left to complete the mission."
It's been a week now since I found this blasted car. I just bought the car from Joe's lot and drove it home. Right as I was about to enter the house, I shifted into park and noticed an odd button on... |
2,386 | : ever since you were born , you have been able to see , hear and communicate with the dead ... But not the living .
| Every time someone Passes Over, I speak with them. And only them. Seventeen years of endless goodbyes. They often cry, their ephemeral bodies lightly fading out of view as they become wracked with emotion. They tell me everything they wish they had done, wish they had said. Always regrets. I have only ever remembered t... |
2,387 | Silence that keeps you awake at Night
| Some people say that a quiet night of sleep is the best kind of sleep. That they get into a deep slumber due to the fact there is nothing to distract them to keep them awake. They say its weird I sleep with the television on, trying to blast voices to attempt to fill the room. But the voices that kept me awake when I w... |
2,388 | You wake up to find that you 've been locked into your own home . Locks on the doors and bars on the windows . It 's not to keep you in . It 's to keep them out .
| It was the hammering.
Six A.M.? Who was hammering at Six A.M.?
One of my neighbors I assumed, most likely the overweight wife-beater-clad septuagenarian across the street who had been working on remodeling his kitchen for as long as I'd lived on this street. Five years and he had n't finished putting in that ne... |
2,389 | ( maybe TT ? ) Reincarnation is real ( at least , you know it is for you ) . Rather than retaining all of your past lives ' memories , you are able to `` remember '' later events for each life as you grow older .
| I remember when I first remembered Isaac. I was seventeen and I had my first fight with my boyfriend. He had flirted with my best friend. I remember being so angry and then… the joy of the world was sucked from my senses. Isaac ’ s emotions came first: in cascading waves. Each of them beating my mind and pummeling my s... |
2,390 | Tell me the story of your first kill . I hear it was something special .
| It was a Sunday.
Or a Monday.
I don ’ t know, it ’ s hard to remember for sure. But I can tell ya that it was a dark day, real dreary, like. It was to storming really bad, a thick sheet of rain as far as the eye could see.
It was after the war and I was home alone. Ya grandmum was out of town to visit her s... |
2,391 | You have an overwhelming feeling that someone at this very moment is trying to kill you , but everything around you looks normal .
| I just couldn ’ t shake this feeling that someone was watching with murderous intent. There was no reason for it, I don ’ t do anything illegal, and just work a boring office job.
“ It must be my imagination ” I mutter under my breath as I prepare to go to sleep.
Nothing is abnormal, the world is as it should b... |
2,392 | Scientists have discovered the secret to eternal life in the bones of a certain dinosaur. The rich flock to labs to have the substance injected into their bloodstreams. After a while, people start to ask the question, "If these dinosaurs had the secret to immortality, how did they die?" | Again I stared aimlessly at the skies, watching the same, tired stars cross overhead and down the horizon. Again the sun would rise, and set. And yet again, the moon and sun will loop, round and round till the end of time. Skies change colors: black, blue, black, blue, black.
The hollowed concrete jungle echoes as the... |
2,393 | You work alone in a retail store , as you are about to close up , you hear an unsuspecting thump coming from the storage room .
| I turned my head to where the thump sounded from. I made it about halfway to the door until my curiosity got the best of me.
I made my way to the storage room, shuffling my keys for the storage key. I unlocked the door and peered inside.
The change of temperature was startling as I felt chilled to the bone. I l... |
2,394 | The zombie apocalypse happens , only since most bodies have already decomposed , it 's not walking corpses we have to worry about , it 's the living dirt .
| Stepping stones are treacherous when wet. We used to only need them in the creeks to get across but now they are everywhere and it is vital to keep them clean. Free of dirt and dust. That ’ s my job. I have to teeter on one stone and brush the next one clean then hop on that one and clean the next along. Used to be we ... |
2,395 | Tell a story about an adult situation from a young child 's point of view
| They are playing again.
Mum says that when they play I should wait upstairs in my room and tuck myself into bed. She says that I should not come down and that if I do the cupboard monster will jump out and get me. But when I tuck myself into bed I hear thumping and banging and shouting by mum sometimes. Sometimes s... |
2,396 | [ Wp ] Write a story about humans . From the point of view of fish .
| Sometimes they would visit us from above. They were strange creatures, stranger than anything in this part of the cove. I would see them from time to time, swimming about. All black with large feet. No fins or scales. Arms like an octopus and a face like nothing I had seen before. These things, Breathers, we called the... |
2,397 | A child is kidnapped . Outraged , the monsters that live under their bed and in their closet vow to find them .
| “ Don ’ t blame me. I didn ’ t see anything! ”
I stared at the beast oozing from out under Chad ’ s bed. “ You have twenty-seven eyes, Phil! ” I snapped. You couldn ’ t keep at least one of those open? ”
“ What about you, Gary? ” the oozing monster said, pointing three tentacles at me. “ You were closer. Were y... |
2,398 | Every morning when you first look in a mirror, you see a small piece of advise for that day, such as “take the subway to work” or “don’t try the free pizza”. Today, the mirror simply says, “RUN” | When Daniel asks you to prom, say no.
“What? Is my brother fucking with me again? How did he know I have a crush on Daniel? Whatever.”
I angrily wipe away the mirror, but it doesn’t smear. The steam, it wiped away, but the words didn’t. I run my hand over it again, smooth and cold. As I pull my hand away, turn and wa... |
2,399 | In this world, Dad Jokes are lethal. The Listeners suffer fatal reactions, writhing in discomfort and agony, waiting for the inevitable end. As a result, Dad Jokes are illegal, and punishable by life in prison. You, the world's most deadly criminal, are the master of Dad Jokes. | “Dad? Dad?”
“What now?” I sighed in exasperation and looked down in disgust as I smelt the remnants of the 6 pints of beer I’d just downed escape along with my breath.
“I’m hungry.”
The words came out of my mouth before I could realise what I was saying. The boy’s sweet face contorted in agony as he fell to the floo... |
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