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2,400 | A dystopian/neutropian/utopian future society where everyone is screened for biological/genetic indicators of criminal tendencies
| It started off so well. People welcomed the idea, hailing a new utopia. There would be no more disease, no more disabilities, no more suffering. We couldn ’ t understand why there was outcry from even a small minority; who didn ’ t want to live in Utopia? But they understood.
It started off innocently enough, a stand... |
2,401 | As you die , you travel down the bright tunnel and then everything turns to black . That 's when you hear it : `` Greetings , Prisoner 11384 . You have served your sentence . You are free to go . ''
| Life as a truck driver is not always easy, weeks on the road, long days of driving on busy highways. The only good part of driving was the money; it was easy money for someone like me. School was never interesting enough for me and so as soon as I as legally able to I dropt out and never looked back. I did a lot of odd... |
2,402 | Over the last year you 've received a small package in the mail every week that has proven useful for some unforeseen event . Today you received something odd and unlike the rest , you are worried what it may mean .
| The first time was when I was eleven years old. I ’ d never gotten a package before and Mr. Greenhard threw it at me with a sneer on his face, “ who would want to give you something? You ’ re just an ugly orphan. ” He said things like that a lot. I was his biggest problem. After killing my mother during birth, I ’ d dr... |
2,403 | You have grown up with the ability to tell the future ; but only useless information . One day you see a person killed .
| It's happening again. Another vision. Only this time, it's harder to see everything. I can see someone crossing a street which looks familiar, but I ca n't seem to put my finger on where I have seen it. As they make their way through the intersection, a car rushes towards them but it does n't stop. I do n't want to loo... |
2,404 | How strongly can you make someone hate a character ?
| Bucking the trend; not a rape.
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Look, if you ’ re going to kill your roommate, its best to do so during finals week, when the stress rockets and the alcohol flows, when people are just a little off balance and all it takes is a little… push. Oops? Did I just do that?
Wow, it looks like he screamed all se... |
2,405 | For the past 10/15/20 years there had been no new reported births ; except for yours . Write a day in the life of the last child/teenager/young adult in the world .
| Pulling my curtains back, I peek out my bedroom window and sigh. They're still here.
Starting from my front door and lining around the block, a string of reporters, scientists, and -- my favorite -- middle aged suitors crowd around my house. They're armed with cameras, scanners, flowers and... is that livestock? ... |
2,406 | Your wife calls you in to the bathroom to kill a spider . Write a horror story about it .
| I had never heard such pure terror emit from her before.
A shriek resounded through the house, piercing walls and startling me enough to drop my book. As soon as the novel hit the floor the scream stopped short. In the stillness, the pounding of my heart seemed to thunder. It was an intruder. Oh god. He was going t... |
2,407 | A tyrant monologues to the captive hero about how his way of doing things is necessary ... and convinces him he is right .
| One day you will see my acts and deeds as necessary.
Maybe not today, tomorrow, nor the near-future. I only see hatred for me in your eyes. The eyes of someone untested, a hero by other lands standards. You ’ ve only been shown love.
Here, let me show you something. Simpler ideal times, that ’ s me, as a lad. (... |
2,408 | [ wp ] No matter where you go , or how you die , the sisters will find your body .
| “ You have to do everything you can to eliminate it. Not a single ash mote, no bones, no hair, nothing. You hear me? I am paying you a lot of money to be sure you do it properly. ”
“ This is weird lady. Usually people pay me to kill someone they got some beef with. No one has found any of the bodies so far. I ’ m a... |
2,409 | Write a story of your childhood monster coming back to find you .
| In that delirium between sleep and waking, she heard a sound that sent a shiver through her bones. She opened her eyes and watched as the curtains drifted in and out of the window. A door creaked and she sat upright.
There was nothing there.
She sat still in her bed, her blankets held tightly to her chest, wait... |
2,410 | Write a story that starts normal & happy , but slowly and smoothly transitions to being entirely fucked up .
| `` Papa! How was work today?''
`` It was fantastic. I got that big raise I've been talking about, we can finally get you that scooter son.'' I say, smiling. His jaw drops in disbelief before he begins dancing around, jumping like a kangaroo in the wild. He runs up to me, hugging me. His arms far too small to reach ... |
2,411 | Childhood Memories Redux
| I don ’ t remember much about your face. I don ’ t remember what your voice sounded like. I don ’ t remember what university you went to. What I do remember is that you were small: I wouldn ’ t place you over 145 pounds, or taller than five-foot-eight. What I do remember is that I thought you were odd for wearing eyesh... |
2,412 | It’s a popular novelty to have your ashes sent to the moon when you die. As a result, the moon is now completely inhabited by ghosts. | When land had begun to run out on the earth, and there was barely any room to bury a new urn, people had turned to sending their ashes to be spread on the moon. It had at first just been a publicity stunt for when famous celebrities died, but had become a huge trend. Almost anyone who could afford a moon burial got one... |
2,413 | Worst Day Ever ( 500 words or less )
| I woke up in the hospital. Not really sure why I ’ m here, but I think I have an idea. Last thing I remember is hearing that I ’ d lost everything. I ’ ll never forget the phone number that called me, “ 555-555-3825. ” I didn ’ t know who it was, but I answered it as I do any number.
“ Hello? ” the voice asked, “ I... |
2,414 | Write an action-packed thriller , but write it so that the reader sees it through the perspective of an animal ( of your choice ) who just happens to be watching the event unfold .
| The noises never stopped. Loud, loud, painful, hurtful noises and bright lights that never stopped.
I hid as best as I could. I was scared and afraid, and I had no clue what was even happening. I could smell blood and flesh and smoke. Smoke meant fire. Fire meant death. I had to run. But I could n't. The smoke was ... |
2,415 | A vampire repeatedly attempts to try and be invited into someone's house. | Don't Catch the Sun Rise
Laura didn’t hear her phone ring while in deep sleep. She had five unread notifications for missed calls – calls from the curious figure standing at her apartment's gated walkup. The young man, Ricky, was her ex-boyfriend. Ricky was happy he had broken up with Laura - she whined too much - but... |
2,416 | A crew of 30 people have landed on the Moon to create the first Motion picture on the Moon. When the crew starts to get suspicious that the movie will actually suck, they hijack the production and end up making something so bad it's amazing. | “Sparklers and confetti? Are you insane?”
“It’ll work, Bob, trust me. I mean, think about it, what’s the one problem with moon rocks?”
“None. There are zero problems with moon rocks. Because we’re on the MOON.”
“They’re all so ugly. And gray. Just ugly and gray, Bob. And look at that sky. I mean, really. It’s so bla... |
2,417 | Mermaids are actually vampires that realized the sun could not harm them underwater | I heard his pained clicks far before I felt the dark waters trashing. The cold, seeping darkness swirled around me as I dived down. I knew the sharks would come soon. I knew there wasn’t a chance to save him.
But I couldn’t let him go.
A familiar taste filled my mouth: coppery, acidic, and hauntingly beautiful. I nee... |
2,418 | Use the same sentence multiple times in your story - but every time it has a different meaning .
| Every Other Tuesday
“ There is a crack I keep staring at on my wall. Every time I look it seems to get a little bigger. ”
“ This crack you speak of, what do you think it represents? ” she says.
“ I ’ m not sure. I just know I ’ ve been feeling a little less comfortable being around it. Like it emits some ki... |
2,419 | Every night, when everyone's asleep, stuffed animals defend their owners against nightmares. | Her room used to be crawling with stuffed animals. When Annie was six, she had dozens of dolls and other plush creatures covering her desk, filling her closet and peaking out from behind her bookshelf. Every night, six year old Annie dreamed of adventures with her stuffed playmates, imagining new worlds and exploring n... |
2,420 | You finally arrived at the big farm your family and friends talked about , you ask yourself how you came to be healthy again and now have four paws instead of three .
| All dogs go to heaven? Man, I hope that ’ s bullshit. I ’ m hoping they ’ re a little more exclusive up here.
After all, I was all that good stuff a dog is supposed to be— loyal, faithful, did the little tricks like they asked me to—even shook hands after cancer robbed me of my front paw -- and you can be goddamn s... |
2,421 | “Don’t threaten the guy who pours the drinks.” “Why, cause everyone in the bar will turn on me?” “No, you just REALLY don’t want to threaten him.” | Levi leaned back against the velvet barstool, tapping his foot restlessly against the footrest below. It was a lively atmosphere, more so than it had been last few nights. He liked it when the bar was busy; buzzing conversations mixed with harmonies of sax and piano helped numb his mind. Levi waved over the enormous ba... |
2,422 | Write a story with as many inconsistencies as possible while maintaining coherence .
| The walls were the grey of night. The boy wrapped himself in a cocoon of warmth. He was terrified of being alone.
He was calm. In fact, he liked solitude. But it was getting cold. He hugged himself.
The walls turned white, from the headlights of a car turning into the car park.
“ Don ’ t worry, ” his Grandp... |
2,423 | A man attends his own funeral | So many of my friends had already fallen victim to the plague that I knew it would only be a matter of time before I followed them. Craning my eyes towards the fast-fading light of the glorious spring morning outside my window, I smiled as the sights and sounds of the hospital room I’d spent the last few weeks of my li... |
2,424 | You buy a special camera at the pawn shop . Every photo you take , it shows a snapshot of 10 years ago . You take a picture of your dog and it shows him 10 years ago when he was a puppy . Everything is all fun and games , until you decide to take a picture of your bedroom one night .
| The camera was great. It was an old Polaroid, but it did n't use use any sort of materials, the pictures just printed out of thin air. The pictures were high quality, even. I have no idea what was with this thing, but it showed the past... the motherfucking past! I took a picture of my dad and it showed him with less w... |
2,425 | You find an old object of yours in the back of the closet . Tell us about a single memory that slams into your brain when you see the object .
| The temperature in the room dropped from July sun to January snow as I pulled the box out of the closet and saw the object behind it. Chills ran down my spine and across every inch of skin. I dropped the box to the floor and I wrapped my arms around my body, shivering in spite of the 106 degree weather. A thousand feel... |
2,426 | At birth you were determined to be a great threat to society , too dangerous to be held in a facility . As you grew up everyone around you were actors , staging a scenario to prevent you from realizing your abilities . Today , for the first time , one of the actors has made a major error .
| Since I can remember I always had this same nightmare, I am standing in different scenarios focusing on crushing a random object with my mind and as soon as I accomplish it all my friends will just shoot me down and then I wake up.
Yesterday I went to my psychologist to talk about my most recent nightmare which hap... |
2,427 | Choose any happy and/or cheery children 's show , movie , or story and make it as dark and gritty as possible
| The Bear family stared at the open door. `` I thought we closed that before we left,'' Mama Bear said.
`` We did,'' Papa Bear growled. `` Stay here with Baby Bear. I'll go make sure everything is okay.''
Inside the house was a disaster zone. Furniture was broken, drawers and cupboards rifled through. `` Hello?'... |
2,428 | In the year 2XXX , humanity had spread across the galaxy , meeting hundreds of alien species , and subsequently enslaving them . After a brutal war for independence , these aliens form a council with delegates from each species . Their first decision ? Deciding the fate of the last human : an infant .
| Antennae quivered and suckers popped in coded clicks. The debate was nearing a violent temperament.
A galangrium cleared 3 of its throats and coughed with the rest. `` It seems we're at an impasse.''
A susurration greeted him. “ We must leave it up to the cruel chance they used to decide whether or not to k... |
2,429 | Humans have an expiration date on their foreheads . But there is a new drug that can extend your life , but with drastic side effects .
| When a newborn child enters a family, it usually brings unbounded joy and excitement. The birth of my baby boy, however, left me in sorrow.
As beautiful and charming as the baby was, it turned out that he was destined to live for only 3 days. Three days! What could possibly go wrong? The doctors all said that his s... |
2,430 | Theme Thursday - Unknown | Sundown
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Ron Groeder hadn’t ever been arrested but he knew all about it. Deputy for a lot of years. Now he’s locked up, strapped in. That woman did it. In the blue pajamas. Shouldn’t be allowed, some woman doing this, and probably not even a real American.
Strapped to the bed. Right in his own house, it ain’t right... |
2,431 | Every night you 're haunted by horrifying dreams of a dark spectre of yourself ruining everything you love and hold dear . This morning you woke up inside the dream , looking out at the spectre living your real life .
| I floated delicately above my own body, looking down as I arose from bed. I shouted, screamed, pounding in the crisp air but nothing. My screams were met with disarray, it was if I was stuck in some parallel world, looking through a mirror into my own reality.
He visited me every night. Creeping into my dreams, slo... |
2,432 | - Something with a sense of desperation or loss , with a bittersweet ending .
| I killed a sparrow once. I didn ’ t mean to. It was a sunny summer day and I was out with my mini truck going a building site for work. About twenty sparrows were in the middle of the road chirping widely and munching on who knows what. I didn ’ t slow down much thinking they ’ d have time to fly away. Most did but one... |
2,433 | The surprise ...
| It relied on surprise. Not in the way where it waited until you were n't looking to attack, but on the very fact of your being surprised at it. Its form would start to crystallize in the first moment you look at it, in that uncertainty before you fully processed it. It was ever a shimmering afterimage. Was it a withere... |
2,434 | Write a paragraph of a choose your own adventure story , ending with a choice . The next commenter will decide which plot to follow , and continue the story .
| You wake up in an unfamiliar room, your naked body reclined atop a cold, metal table. Your arms and legs are latched down with one, thick strap of leather per limb, your hands numb from a lack of blood flow. You have no memory of falling asleep in such a peculiar location, but had rather drifted off in your own bed bac... |
2,435 | A man on the street says to you , `` With great power , comes great responsibility . '' He then hands you a grilled cheese sandwich wrapped in a newspaper and walks away .
| I look down at my hands; yesterday ’ s newspaper is wrapped tightly around the sandwich as small bits of grease drip off the side. As I look up I see the haggard, grime infested jacket of the man who gave me the grilled cheese flutter behind him as he drifted off into an alley. I unwrapped the sandwich with great preci... |
2,436 | People earn karma points while alive . When they die , they can spend them either to enter a better afterlife , or to improve the life of some random stranger born on the day of their death . You donate all your points , and wake up the next day as the baby who would have gotten your points .
| When I was nine years old, I pulled my baby sister ’ s body out of the swimming pool. Mom was taking a nap, and Dad was off at work. They ’ d told me to keep an eye on the baby after a long, sleepless night of unexplained crying. But I was too cool for babysitting. I ’ d been busy playing with my toys. I hadn ’ t been ... |
2,437 | A zombie outbreak has occurred but scientists/the government actually managed to prevent an apocalypse . You 're a scientist analyzing the zombie-virus when you make a horrible discovery ...
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See, you know how ebola doesn ’ t spread very fast? Diseases that require person to person contact – through saliva or other bodily fluids – are slow moving. That makes then pretty easy to contain. Despite what most people think, the CDC actually does it ’ s job pretty well, and they ’ ve had practice. They even have... |
2,438 | A guy approaches two women at a coffee shop , one is completely disgusted by him while the other falls in love at first sight . Describe each of the women 's view of him .
| “ Oh my God, Beth, just look at that guy. OH. EM. GEE. ”
“ What? What guy? Allie? Allie! ”
“ What? Oh, what guy. Right. Okay, but don ’ t look now. To your left, behind you. I mean, behind the man with the green wig and right next to that woman with nipple piercings. ”
“ How—the hell did you see the n... |
2,439 | Every time you wake up , someone close to you is gone . Erased from history . The only record of their existence are your memories of them .
| We had celebrated our son ’ s 2nd birthday all day and couldn ’ t wait to go to sleep. I remember being so tired that as soon as my head hit the pillow I fell asleep. But when I woke up the next morning, she was gone. Her side of the bed looked like it wasn ’ t even touched. I rushed to my son ’ s bedroom to see if he ... |
2,440 | "Without a doubt, the Megalodon is completely, 100% dead. Well, there's Benchley, but he lives in captivity." | “What? You’re kidding me, right?” I said.
“Nope, Monterey Bay Aquarium holds him.” My dad said.
“Nuh-uh.”
“Yuh-huh.”
“We’re going to see Benchley.”
(A month later)
“Welcome everyone to our annual Megaladon showcase, here at Monterey Bay Aquarium. My name is Jessie, and I am here live and in person, here for my fo... |
2,441 | Aliens are about to abduct you . You must find a way to stop them .
| A blinding light shone into my window. It was too bright to even look outside. A zipping sound could be heard in the distance. It started getting louder, eventually reaching a resounding thud. Something... or someone landed outside my door.
Should I have gone outside to investigate? Ran away to another exit? My res... |
2,442 | Your a murderer that sends your victims warnings before you murder them . But one of your would be victims misinterprets your warnings to mean something totally different
| How the hell could he possibly be so dull. Okay I do not pick the sharpest tools in the box for a reason, so it can not be helped that some of them are a bit slow. It is what I would imagine playing videogames with your younger brother would feel like, beating him, and beating him, and beating him. I never had a brothe... |
2,443 | At some point , we are all the villain in somebody 's life .
| Day 15 in the cardiac ICU. It ’ s my third 30 hour shift. I can barely keep my eyes open. At 0700 we switch shifts finally, only one more hour to go. I was told this year would be bad. I had no fucking clue. Seriously, don ’ t do this profession.
‘ Doctor! ’ a nurse cried. You know that cry, it ’ s the one that cra... |
2,444 | ( WP ) A drug addict meets him/herself when they were twelve .
| ( First time poster -- maybe considered slightly NSFW -- violence )
Rin looked down. He saw the young boy with fluffy black curls and round puffy cheeks looking back up at him with familiar hazel eyes. Was his face always so round? His hands lifted up to feel the sharp points of his cheekbones and the way his skin ... |
2,445 | A boy has superpowers , but at a price . He faces a life-threatening situation every few days that he has only seconds to escape from .
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113 seconds.
It was being nice to me today. I mean, what could go wrong in a school bathroom? I flushed. The pipes weren ’ t clogged, so I didn ’ t have to worry about an exploding toilet. I left the stall and looked around. Then, I felt it. If I didn ’ t have telekinesis, I wouldn ’ t have noticed the ground mov... |
2,446 | You see numbers over people 's heads . Your court appointed psychiatrist tells you it is part of a mental disorder , but ... .
| I did my best to ignore the luminous numbers hovering over the people around me. The Starbucks employee gave me a grin as he handed me my coffee, “ Here you go miss ”. I meekly smiled at him as I took my drink and made my way outside to the sidewalk. He was cute. Brown hair, green eyes, the number 992; I sighed as I st... |
2,447 | You have a soundtrack that plays music appropriate to whatever situation you are currently in. You can consistently hear the music which is why you're terrified when you awake to the sound of screeching violins at 4am. | I wake with a jolt and for a second wonder why I am awake. The curtains are still quite dark and I can't see any light coming from the crack under my door. I glance over at my illuminated clock and see 4:00 AM, what?! I am the type of girl who sleeps in until 1. 4:30 in the morning is as far away from 1 as it gets. The... |
2,448 | A man convicted of murder is sentenced to death by having his consciousness sent back to live out the last 24 hours of the victims life , where he will see , hear and feel everything but can not interact or change what is about to happen
| Garth looked around – or, rather, Shelly looked around, and Garth observed through her eyes. He felt a shiver of ecstasy, though, that he was sure belonged entirely to him. After all, Shelly was watching TV and eating a bowl of leftover chili from her last visit to Mom ’ s place. Only he knew what happened next.
Th... |
2,449 | The Life and Times of Dewey the Cat
| They named me Dewey, I don ’ t know if it was because they thought it was cute or funny, but they seemed to think it was appropriate. I wasn ’ t too particular about what they called me, I had food in my bowl, and a warm place to sleep every night. Life with them was a dream compared to the beginning.
My first memo... |
2,450 | A demon hunter and demon are dating, with each plotting to do away with the other when the time strikes. Whenever the time strikes, though, they chicken out; this has been going on for 10 years. | My name is John Jackal, and my parents… aren’t your typical couple. If you ever see us, you might see us as a normal suburban family, a happy loving couple with their 6 children and a dog. What people don’t know is that my mom is the world renounce demon hunter, Angelique Francesco. She came from a long line of demon h... |
2,451 | Your son has had an imaginary friend since he was little. As he got older, she became his imaginary girlfriend, then his imaginary wife. One day, you've had enough of his delusions. You go over to his house, and are greeted at the door by your imaginary grandchild. | I was standing on the doorstep, jaw dropped, eyes wide, mind spinning. There was a small, purple child holding the door open. He had huge, furry ears, the beak of a toucan, and big, beautiful, blue eyes staring up at me.
“Hi!” it chimed at me. “How can I help you?”
I couldn’t speak. I felt a scream building up in my ... |
2,452 | Hush , hush , mommy 's gon na eat you now .
| If I could, I would reach across this table and throttle him. I ’ d have stabbed him, if he hadn ’ t cut dinner up for me already.
He sits across from me, alternately munching on mouthfuls of salad and smiling at me in an adoring manner. “ Come on, sweetheart. ” he says. “ Eat up. ”
He takes a delicate sip of t... |
2,453 | A suicidal man is suddenly given immorality .
| I've never done a writing prompt before on Reddit. Here goes nothing...
Black ink sprawled haphazardly across the clean white page. The final loop was drawn and the pen lifted from the filled signature space
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Horace Brewell was now a millionaire.
Despite his apathetic attitude, Brewell appropriated the oppo... |
2,454 | Write about your protagonist experiencing a phobia so vividly that the reader feels that fear . ( Common phobias in description )
| Bees. More specifically bee nests. Those gray or brown orbs that spew hundreds of thousands of the stinging insects at the slightest provocation. Demonic murderballs, I call them.
How could nature be so devious to come up with such a creation? A structure that is at once an impressive feat of natural engineering an... |
2,455 | A serial killer walks into the bedroom of his next victim , inside is only a computer with the victim 's significant other on a Skype call . Then the toilet flushes .
| To move sideways is to move forward.
Forward is what takes people away from me. Forward moves them away. Forward sends them to new places to live. Forward sends them to school. I decided she couldn ’ t move forward right after she started working at the Kentuck-o-Hut late last Spring.
Her braces cracked open, r... |
2,456 | Aliens have made contact with earth and demand that the human race turn over one person . Humanity has 24 hours to comply , and if they do n't , the earth will be destroyed . You wake up , turn on the news , and discover that person is you .
| My favorite part of the day is when you first wake up, for two seconds, and you are in complete, total bliss. The world is nothing. You are no one. There are no problems, no responsibilities, no memories of the night before; you are a blank slate and life is new.
Today was the first day I can remember that I didn ’... |
2,457 | A normal family goes about their normal lives in a very normal way. You are the family's goldfish/pet. "What is normal?" | The man was intimidating, but I liked him. He was very energetic, and talked with his hands a lot. When he came home from work, he always grabbed his wife and dipped her down before he kissed her. She giggled and squealed and loved it every time. He was also very good to his two children. He taught the older one- the b... |
2,458 | `` You know the rules children . All windows must remain closed . ''
| `` You know the rules children. All windows must remain closed.''
said the teacher of the dorm, it's what she says every night.
once one of the students asked why, and she said because a there's a monster roaming outside at night from the forest nearby and it loves to eat kids like us.
I think she's lying t... |
2,459 | "Don't Pray. Whatever the fuck you do, DO NOT PRAY. Because the ones that are listening, you do NOT want them to answer." | The first thing he noticed as officer John Carmichael walked down the street toward the church was the smell. A kind of burnt meat, coppery stench overcast the area in front of the ornate gilded doors and grew in strength as he approached. Fearing the worse, his partner Ginny Johnson pulled vicks from her pack and hand... |
2,460 | Make a coherent story out of one of your dreams , preferably a dream that you were convinced was real while dreaming it
| I have honestly had so many strange dreams but this one has n't stopped haunting me. I might reply with more dreams
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Something was not right. Nearly everything was silver and the walls were made of glass. From the glass walls I could see a grey hallway but that was n't what alerted me. It was the man. He wa... |
2,461 | You 've always liked the smell of gasoline , and one day at the gas station you decide to drink it . You see words floating before you , `` All systems refuelled . Initializing Android Mainframe . ''
| I always did love late night drives. The wind in my hair, dad's radio sputtering in the background, the flashes of light that let me know whenever we passed a streetlight - even with my eyes closed. The bumpy parts, the smooth parts, the smell of the pond as we went from country to city to country again. And the smell ... |
2,462 | It started , as most stories do , as a rainy day .
| It started, as most stories do, as a rainy day.
I had just shifted into my new house and had only had time to assemble my bed and cupboard in my room, before I got hungry and went to the kitchen to cook myself some noodles.
I put a pot of water on the wavering flame of the stove and sat in the living room, watc... |
2,463 | A drug has been outlawed decades ago that has a fifty-fifty shot at making you incredibly intelligent , or completely insane . You hold the last pill in existence .
| The phone rings. I don ’ t answer. I never answer these days, because I just don ’ t have the money these fucking vultures are looking for. If I had any money — which I don ’ t — I would fix the stupid air conditioner instead of sweltering in the 98 degree Houston heat.
I shift the baby on my hip. I would love to p... |
2,464 | The world is plagued by overzealous werewolf hunters , slaughtering innocents in misguided attempts to purge the beasts . You are a werewolf , and you have made it your purpose to hunt them .
| In the culture of my people, the ability to turn yourself into a wolf at will was seen as a mark of distinction. In the cold, hostile climate of my home the only protection that you can count on is that of your wits and your family. There is no better beast than wolf to symbolize these qualities. At first the outsiders... |
2,465 | Monsters under the bed are real and the only protection from them is teddy bears , you are a retired bear telling one of your stories .
| My boy, Evan, was one of the nicest boys I'd ever met. He was about 1, and when he first wrapped me out of my box on Christmas Day, he looked like he was about to explode. He cuddled with me every night, and even gave me a special little hat. He named me Cuddlybear, because I was so soft and fuzzy.
When Evan was 5,... |
2,466 | Write a story of lost love , hate , a murder and a suicide in less than 500 words . The first and the last sentence are the same .
| `` Death is sweet'' she thought. She pulled the knife from of his chest, and threw it aside staining the floor, wall and ceiling with scarlet drops of blood. She could n't stop trembling as she witnessed his body fall down and lie there in front of her. That man who had promised so much, who had given her so little, he... |
2,467 | Every night , when everyone 's asleep , stuffed animals defend their owners against nightmares .
| Her room used to be crawling with stuffed animals. When Annie was six, she had dozens of dolls and other plush creatures covering her desk, filling her closet and peaking out from behind her bookshelf. Every night, six year old Annie dreamed of adventures with her stuffed playmates, imagining new worlds and exploring n... |
2,468 | After a man discovers a dead body , he is tried for murder , because according to Schrodinger 's theory , the man was not dead till found .
| On the floor was the pale, naked body of a young man.
“ Tell me exactly what happened. ” Officer Riggs began to take notes.
“ I was in the back, cleaning the floor, ” the Janitor said, “ I must have been mopping up for about twenty minutes when I noticed the box. ” He motioned to a thick metal box, now surround... |
2,469 | You receive a Phone Call from the number 666 .
| “ Hello! ”
“ Good evening Joe, I ’ m so glad I could reach you. I have a fantastic opportunity for you. ”
“ Who are you? And what is this strange number? ” - I asked.
“ I ’ m Peter, we worked together a couple of years ago. ”
“ Oh, yes. I remember. How are you nowadays? ”
“ I ’ m doing fine. I had m... |
2,470 | Write a seemingly normal story , except for the last sentence , which makes the entire story creepy
| `` Daddy!'' I hear my little girl giggle from upstairs. `` Daddy look what I done!''. She's my world - my beautiful girl of 6. Me and my wife adopted her as we could n't have children of our own, but she might as well be our biological child; we're a very close family.
`` In a minute, Anna!'' I yell - `` Show your mo... |
2,471 | Technology has advanced to the point no one alive has seen or even heard of a naked flame ; one day a fire starts .
| I've never even burned my finger well cooking. No one has it's not even possible giant meals are prepared without so much as a single degree of temperature raised. My vehicle, my home, everything would be cold to the touch of it were not for the warmth of the sun. So when I first seen the blaze upon my neighbours roof ... |
2,472 | Theme Thursday - Getaway | “Surprise, babe! I’m taking you to Fiji!”
The mention of her dream vacation should’ve put a massive smile on Ashley’s face, but her husband’s tone was so strange, so… frantic, that she had trouble processing his sudden announcement.
“You are?” she finally managed.
“Mhmm! Right now! I’m even packing for you!” Ben re... |
2,473 | You wake up in hospital after a bad accident to find that parts of your body have been replaced with cybernetic replacements . Your SO is about to walk into the room .
| This subreddit helps me to kill a few hours at my administrative job. Sorry if my English sucks, second language to me, so I'm using a spellchecker.
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White. The white light is killing me. For some reason, every single muscle in my body is crying with pain. Where am I? It seems like I ’ m in a hospital, but… w... |
2,474 | You wished for love, someone to hope alleviate the aching loneliness. You know something in your home, leaving you loving notes and cooking meals. You can't see them or sense any other kind of way, save for an unseen hand that touches you occasionally. | “Always remember that I love you.” Read the slip of paper. It was not an uncommon occurrence, but it was still unnerving. The plate of breakfast was immaculately prepared, the dishes already washed and placed to dry. The space of the apartment had been cleaned as well, one of the many new positive changes to David’s pe... |
2,475 | The detective looked at the evidence . A naked body . A block of cheese . The passenger door from a Volvo . Two gold teeth . And a Led Zeppelin album . It all fit so perfectly . He knew who did it .
| – Steve, open up!
– Go away!
– Hey, we're very worried, there's someone named Mr. Simon, a detective who wants to talk to you.
– Miss, пожалуйста, if you allow me to take it from here... Sir, it is a friendly visit and totally off the record. Also, I've got something that belongs to you.
– I know of no ... |
2,476 | Write a horror story from the perspective of someone looking out their window at night .
| Something's out there.
In the night from the window of the second story room, her pulse begins to race, her breathing comes fast.
But then she remembers... she's in a safe place. She's in her room, of the house that she has lived in her whole life. Nothing bad has happened here before. It must be the night play... |
2,477 | As people go through puberty , they gain certain animal characteristics . Yours is that of a sponge .
| Linda was squat and freakishly strong for her age. She hit puberty quite early and unfortunately began exhibiting certain territorial and even predatorial behaviours. The other kids conjectured that she was in the process of acquiring the characteristics of a hippo. But there was no way to be sure until the 12th grade ... |
2,478 | At least four onomatopoeias , in 150 words or less
| Slam. A shiver runs up my spine and my heart thumps in my ears; It's the car door, and I know it's going to be awful by the way her footsteps are furiously crunching the gravel as she storms up the driveway. I wish I could hide, but that'll just make her angrier. I've tried it before, even escaped for a few hours hopin... |
2,479 | The zombie apocalypse happens , but not as we imagine it . The victims stay conscious and are still able to speak . Only their movement is affected .
| The young girl bolted upstairs. The distant yells sounded the house as she quickly jumped into the closet slamming the door. Her panting was loud and sweat began to trickle down her face. The sound of stomps grew louder as a very ominous voice yelled, `` run! Get out of here while you can!''
The girl let out a scre... |
2,480 | You swerve to avoid a squirrel . Unknown to you , the squirrel pledges a life debt to you . In your darkest hour , the squirrel arrives .
| I Was always told it was a mistake to go to sleep after suffering a concussion, but to the doctor's advice, I was home and getting ready to snuggle
up in a blanket and drift away.
Tonight was n't the time to figure out what I was going to do about a car to go job hunting tomorrow. I felt like I was underwater. ... |
2,481 | You meet the parents of your fiancee for the first time . During dinner you realize , it might be possible that they are cannibals .
| You set your fork down on the plate with a soft ‘ tink! ’ and you reach for your wine. Across the table, your fiancé ’ s parents smile at you, as if awaiting your verdict. You swallow awkwardly.
“ The meat has a very nice flavor to it… ” you offer with a small smile. They beam at you.
“ We ’ re so glad you like... |
2,482 | You 've just killed Santa in your living room mistaking him for a burglar . Any moment your wife and three kids are going to wake up and come down stairs for Christmas [ WP ]
| I heard something strange, someone on the roof. I followed the sound as I could hear it getting closer and closer to me. Fear took control of my body. I lept out of bed, my wife still sleeping. Reaching into my nightstand I picked up my 9mm. I held it out in front of me and followed the noise downstairs. There I saw a ... |
2,483 | Your son 's recurrent dreams about a monster have become so intense that you take him to a psychiatrist , who prescribes him a medication . While filling the prescription , you notice that the name of the drug is the same as the name of the monster in your son 's dreams .
| Greg screamed from the other room. I sat up from a dead sleep; I knew what was coming now. He ran in, choking on his sobs, and I swore this would be the last time I let him suffer through these nightmares.
`` The monster came back, huh?'' I patted his back and kissed his head as he shook in my arms.
`` YES!'' h... |
2,484 | You live in a one bedroom apartment with your cat , Mr. Mittens .
| `` Mr. Mittens? Is that you?''
I talk nervously to myself to avoid being afraid, but I do n't remember leaving the door open, or the bathroom light on. Mr. Mittens may be a strange cat, but he ca n't open doors or turn on lights. The scratching on the door gets louder, and I nervously put my hand on the knob. I hea... |
2,485 | You’re now a lonely old man with a lawn. You want to say *those* special words. But none of the kids ever come near you. You sit on your porch chair waiting for the day it happens. That is, if it ever comes. | Grant had been an old man for as long as he could remember. Not to say that he’d never been young, there had been another life, a wife, a son, a family. But those memories had grown so painful that Grant considered the man that they belonged to another person. It was easier to take care of the lawn. The old Grant hadn’... |
2,486 | A disease has begun to spread in your town , friends and family have become infected with it . But this is no ordinary disease , this one turns everyone into salad !
| It's another ordinary day, I wake up from my sleep, ready for a new day, I look to my left, expecting my husband to be sleeping, but he's not there, `` guess he must had woke up early.'' I thought to myself.
I climbed off the bed, I walked to my son's room to wake him up, I opened the door.
There was a bowl of ... |
2,487 | You see a random phone number etched onto a bathroom stall . You call the number for fun only to hear your voice answer on the other end .
| Staggering, I walk into the bathroom, the sudden bright light forcing a hand over my eyes while I adjusted to the glare of the room. I leant against a wall to steady myself and breathed deeply, trying to ignore the stench of stale piss. I doused a handful of bog roll under the tap and then brought it to my forehead whi... |
2,488 | While his/her parents are away for the weekend , a teenager breaks into the room they have kept locked and secret his/her entire life .
| Aaron hurriedly fumbled with the plastic shopping bag. Inside lay the lock picks he had purchased earlier that week. Today, he was determined to find out what his parents had been so secretive about. The room was always locked. Always. His father kept the key on a leather rope around his neck. This was it though. His w... |
2,489 | A shadow guides a human through a forest. Write the story in such a way that it is unsure wether they are walking the human to doom or to salvation. | I was walking that’s all I really had left to do it was dark so dark in fact that if I waved my hands in front of my face I couldn’t see them. There is one thing I can see a dark shadow moving in front of me I couldn’t explain it if I wanted to it was just a darker spot. I don’t know where it is leading me but I feel s... |
2,490 | Major prison sentences have become a choice between two pills . One just kills you . The other , well no one knows what that one does ...
| They said that I had a choice. That my sentence for the ‘ heinous ’ crimes I had committed was to choose a pill. One pill would kill me straight out, kaput, no contest, donezo dead. Laying on my back, light fading from my eyes, like I had seen so many others do before me. Because of me. It fascinated me to think of mys... |
2,491 | something has washed out the other 99.9 % of your people , you are bacteria , what 's your story of the tragedy ?
| We are a culture bred for war, but we never expected this disaster to happen.
We have endured wars before but now I am the only one left. I can still remember bits and pieces before our entire culture was lost.
The communications system requested a squad to scout the intestinal tract; there had been reports of fo... |
2,492 | You have the ability to see the day, month, and year a person dies. It’s always been correct. One day you look at a man on the street. His date of death was yesterday. | Jack jolted back when he saw the numbers floating only a few inches in front of him, 10022019. He looked down, feeling a bit silly as sweat dripped form his forehead. He had never come across a dead man before. Until today, Jack assumed his power didn’t work on the dead. Every date he had seen was either present or fut... |
2,493 | A man is found dead in his home , murdered . Give me the absolute strangest way the man was killed , while still staying realistic .
| Name: Carl Richmond
Age: 43
Approximate time of death: 8:45 P.M., December 15, 2014
Cause of death: Murder
At approximately 8:40 P.M., Mrs. Regina Richmond complained to her husband that the heat was no longer working in their house. Mr. Richmond and his son Robert went downstairs to investigate, and up... |
2,494 | Why did you do it ?
| Have you ever passed by someone walking along the street and realized you could have killed them? If you ’ d had a knife, it ’ d be the easiest thing in the world. Just wait until they pass by, and then slice their throat from behind. They ’ d never see it coming. But you won ’ t. Why would you? You have no reason to k... |
2,495 | Take any fictional character well known for being played by multiple British actors. (eg. James Bond, The Doctor, etc.) Now write this character as if he were played by Gordon Ramsay. | As Watson walked up through the stairs, he heard the sound of something big being smacked into the table, with that plain and kind of dry sound meat does when dropped on a table. It was—the sound was—continuos. When he got to the door where the sound was coming from, he knocked three times before opening the door and a... |
2,496 | "You must realize that you aren't safe in your own home anymore." | I am tired. Exhausted. I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in forever. There is always something going bump in the night. Something giving me spine tingling chills. Something freaking me out. I feel like I am loosing my mind.
Brushing my teeth on autopilot. I am only half aware of what I am doing. I need to get to bed.... |
2,497 | [ wp ] A first person experience of a decapitation . nsfw
| A kneeling man. What to think?
I have to talk into a camera now. My mouths moves words into the air. I taste them, they taste good and final. They say threats and violence. And everything flashes.
When I was a kid I walked down the railroad tracks by my house. I would wander, kicking rocks, examining bugs, wait... |
2,498 | In the world of magic , some people discriminate against others based on what type of magic they use . You , a closet necromancer , are about to come out to your devout holy mage parents .
| ( ( I kinda went literal with the closet thing, but enjoy! ) )
“ I know Zed, but I can ’ t just be like, ‘ Hey guess what Mom and Dad, I like to raise the dead when you ’ re out of the house? ” Annie was having a muffled conversation in her closet. The only light was the faint glow of the cell phone she had in her ... |
2,499 | A man has lived his whole life sinfully , with the intent on going to hell and killing Satan . He has just died .
| “ It ’ s you, ” said the twisted figure as he entered the room. Shock, then recognition played across his face as he stared at me. I nodded. I ’ d been expecting him.
It came to me on a Sunday, as I preached about the nature of sin to my flock. Back then, all you needed to do was look around you to see that God had... |
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