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2,500 | You stand completely alone in the middle of Times Square .
| Three…. two… one…. happy new year. I throw a handful of shredded paper into the air and watch as it drifts slowly to the ground. A single piece catches a breeze evaded by the others and swirls upward and around my head before fluttering down with the rest of the pieces. Another year, and time to reflect. I look up at t... |
2,501 | Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words , 2nd sentence has 19 , 3rd has 18 etc . Story ends with a single word .
| It was nearly completely dark, except the small beam of light between the bottom of the door and the floor.
It was nearly completely silent except the random gasps of air as she held her hand over her mouth.
The next sound she heard was that of the blaring sirens, followed by a man's voice
“ hello, hello''.
... |
2,502 | Sunday Free Write : Leave A Story , Leave A Comment - The Zen Edition !
| Imagine, in your mind ’ s eye, a circle on a piece of plain paper. Lift it, and watch as it transforms into a sphere in its new dimension. The third dimension- your dimension. Undoubtedly, you feel as if the space you inhabit comprises the entirely of what is possible: your room, your country, your world, your universe... |
2,503 | A man stands staring out his window . He has n't stepped outside his house for 8 years .
| I see them outside every day- people that walk the streets without protection. How can they be so careless? Don ’ t they understand that they can be struck by a lethal virus any moment? Don ’ t they realize that their bodies will slowly wither away as the germs in the air enter their bodies and cause them to deteriorat... |
2,504 | People are born with tattoos telling their future . In an effort to save one man 's life , doctor 's remove his tattoos , and he survives past his destined death .
| I stand in the gloom of an ill-lit cellar. Contemplating, and not for the first time, the Butterfly Effect. A butterfly flaps its wings in Beijing, causing an earthquake in California. I contemplate too, about the number one rule to theoretical time-travel. You must take nothing, you must leave nothing behind, one smal... |
2,505 | A man passes away , and is reincarnated as a newborn human again , to a new family ; oddly , he is born with all the knowledge and persona that he had before he had passed .
| Well, this is interesting, isn ’ t it? I can ’ t see and it feels like my head is being squished by giant tongs. Last thing I remember was trying to breath and passing out. I guess that popcorn kernel didn ’ t get the better of me after all. But wasn ’ t I alone? No matter, someone is helping me now.
Holy crap I ’ ... |
2,506 | You finally build up the courage to ask your boss for a raise. You approach her office, take a deep breath, and walk in... But inside, you dont see your boss. You see a strange note that says "You want a raise? Survive the next 24 hours and it's yours" | If you're reading this, it's too late, now I know, cliche, right? And breaking the fourth wall, almost like I'm right here, reading your mind... but that's silly, impossible, how could a bunch of text know what you're thinking?
That's what I thought before this nightmare began.
It was another day at the office, excep... |
2,507 | Ants are now money | The cashier’s eyes narrowed when I pulled out the Ziploc bag full of ants.
“I’m sorry, I’m new to the area.” I explained. “How much again?”
“10 red ants and 3 black.”
“Right, right,” I said, unzipping the bag. “One, two…” The cashier vacuumed up the first two bugs as I placed them on the counter.
By the time I reac... |
2,508 | In a world where every human being naturally has photographic memory , you are some of the few people who suffer from a genetic defect called `` memory loss ''
| When the news of the plague hit we were living in New York - not the best place to find yourself when a contagious disease is overrunning the world. Of course we got out of the city, it took 2 days just to get out of the city - everyone had the same idea. We got as far as Michigan before Mary started showing the signs.... |
2,509 | A man has one dollar left after losing his life 's dreams , and chooses to spend it on his favorite soda from a vending machine before killing himself . He ca n't imagine feeling any lower than he does ... then the machine gives him the wrong drink .
| { changed character to female }
This was it, her last hope, last dollar. Everything was gone, everyone had left—she wasn ’ t surprised, she always knew it would end this way, it was only a matter of time. Didn ’ t make it any easier though. She thought about her kids while her fingers folded and smoothed the bill, ... |
2,510 | A kind individual goes through life feeling he is being catered to and even feared . Unbeknownst to him , he is the son of Satan . Everyone else around him knows the truth .
| Happy 21st Birthday Charles! The crowd yelled, as the lights came on a cheers rang across my living room. I gave an awkward grin and I strode across the brightly lit living room to my lovely girlfriend Diane, who gave me a flashing smile and a kiss on the cheek. “ Don ’ t forget to blow out the candles birthday boy, ” ... |
2,511 | It all started with a silly app that calculates your probability of dying in the next 10 minutes , based on your location.Fast forward 10 years , wearables , implants and other technologic advancements lead to a very precise prediction of your risk of dying . One morning you wake up on 99 % .
| My rough attempt:
“ Ugh. My head. What the hell happened last night? ”
As Michael begins to wake from his drunken stupor, he scans the unfamiliar room, question upon question piling up.
“ Where are my pants? ”
“ Why is my hair wet? ”
“ Who ’ s this person sleeping next to me? ”
“ Oh god is it a ... |
2,512 | In 200 words or less , introduce a sinister protagonist and make me sympathize with him/her/it .
| Mark climbs into my car all too easily. How much time, effort, and money is wasted on these stranger danger programs at schools? They're not doing their job. It does n't take long for him to notice the smell emanating from the floorboard in the back seat, he asks what the smell is.
A solid couple of punches to his ... |
2,513 | Cancer is now a transmissible disease .
| “ Oh shit. Shitshitshitshitshit ”
I stared at the broken petri dish, the cut in my hazmat suit, the blood on my shaking fingers.
I looked up at James, my co-worker here at the CDC Deadly Communicable Diseases branch for the past 3 years. We were friends. We ’ d gone out for drinks. I went to his birthday last w... |
2,514 | The day the Sexbots revolted .
| “ Oh…Oh my. ”
Mrs. Walker stared at the television in disbelief. The news report was confirming the worst nightmare of science fiction: the robots were in rebellion.
“ Honey, come here. You ned to see this, ” she said. She was now gripping a pillow, her face contorted with emotion. “ Sex robots around the count... |
2,515 | You figure out you were the first baby to have been born from sperm implanted to a frozen egg . According to medical society you are `` subhuman '' . You face unending discrimination and potential slavery at 18 from `` the Annual Separation '' unless you devise a plan .
| My name is Adrian. Just Adrian. I was n't born so I do n't have a last name like everyone else. I was n't raised by parents or given a chance to enjoy my childhood. I came out of a machine and, frankly, they treat me like one.
They call us `` subs'' —short for `` sub-humans.'' We prefer subs. I've heard that when t... |
2,516 | You have the ability to see through the eyes of anyone , living or dead , anywhere on Earth as long as you have a picture of the person in question . One day a man approaches you with a picture his missing child who as been missing for over 15 years . You lie and say the child is dead .
| He came to me on a Saturday.
He held nothing but a photo of a little girl, maybe seven years old. A beautiful thing, all red hair and smiles. She played on a swing set, and looked as if she was about to jump. Her blue jeans had holes in the knees, telling of many similar incidents that did not end well, but she was... |
2,517 | A cop is tied to a chair , helplessly watching the serial killer he 's chased for so long prepare his tools to kill him .
| Bzzzzzzzz. The hacksaw rumbled as he jammed the power cord into a socket.
“ You really should have just stopped ”
I gritted my teeth and pushed my wrists in opposite directions, trying to snap the rope knotted around them. Fire shot up my arm as the ropes rubbed against my cuts.
He smiled. His realized just... |
2,518 | "Rain, rain, go away..." you chanted fearfully, watching the dark clouds gather on the horizon. "Come again another day..." | It started as something my father told me to do, something to keep my worries at bay while he would race against the clock on the farm.
“Anything helps to stop our crops from drowning.” He told me with a smile.
And so I did. And for once in our family’s history, the rainstorms that keep us grasping at straws to get b... |
2,519 | The production of meat for human consumption has been fully automated for decades . The largest factory has suddenly stopped producing . You are the technician assigned to troubleshoot , and are the first person to enter the plant in over 20 years .
| First I think I should give you a quick rundown of how meat production works, for the uninitiated. There ’ s loads of chemicals, and these get mixed together. This mixture includes cells from whatever meat you ’ re making, as well as other chemicals that promote meat growth. This is then put into huge thin trays, about... |
2,520 | A selkie is stunned when, against common sense, a stranger who stumbled upon her skin gave it back without complaint. | I hobbled down the beach, my walking cane constantly sinking into the soft sand and forcing me to walk at an uncomfortable angle. But I’d choose this over sitting idly in my room leaving my leg muscles to wither away. The doc said that if I went on daily walks I might avoid a wheelchair for a few decades. My leg aches ... |
2,521 | You noticed as a child that every night you can’t sleep, a disaster occurs somewhere in the world. You’ve been having chronic insomnia for weeks now. Something big is coming. | I’m restless.
I glance over at the clock, again. The internal struggle resumes. It’s very familiar by now. My body is exhausted, but my mind races. When I decide to give up on sleep and read a book, I’m hit with a wave of fatigue. But as soon as I lay down, I’m wide awake again.
Something is coming.
This has been ha... |
2,522 | You've been targeted by spirits who plan on possessing you and messing with your head, but when they realize what they got themselves into the tables turn. | “This’ll be easy...”
Earl, the leader of them all, watched me from behind a curtain. I knew where they were, for these ghosts weren’t too smart. I lifted the tea cup to my lips. Finally, after arguing among themselves, Bartleby, the smallest of them all, took a crack at me. He made my chair inch forward ever so slight... |
2,523 | You have found a magical pencil that is bounded to you . Draw something on a piece of paper , and the scene depicted happens the following day . However , you 're shit at art , and the magic pencil frequently misunderstands your drawings .
| He gave me the pencil. I was just getting off of work and as I was walking to my car, I stumbled upon a man sitting on the hood of my car late at night.
He said to me `` take this''.
I was scared and I did n't think much of it, I really put no thought into it when the man gave me the pencil.
He looked at me... |
2,524 | You are a part of the middle generation on a colony ship . You never saw Earth and will not see your destination .
| Mom was acting weird today.
I was just watching a movie, and suddenly Mom started crying. I asked her what was wrong, and at first she did n't want to tell me, but after I asked like ten or twelve times, she finally said she was just upset that I would never see things like grass or trees in person, that I'd only s... |
2,525 | While walking your dog you overhear a neighbor talking on his cellphone while grabbing a smoke on his porch. "I probably won't be home yet; there's a key under the vase on the porch and the alarm code is 5663." It occurs to you how easy it would be to break into this guy's house... | I remember I looked around and saw my thoughts mirrored on other peoples' faces; the confusion as everyone blankly glanced at Terry.
"I said, the key to my house is under this pot here and the A-L-A-R-M code is 5-6-6-3!"
The brief trance of disbelief broke as my dog drooling hungrily almost strangled itself on the le... |
2,526 | It 's 65 million years in the future . Humanity was wiped out by a meteor impact . A new species evolved and they have successfully cloned a human . You are that human .
| Bright lights flooded my vision. I awoke in a white room, laboratory equipment decorating steel tables around me. My first thought was not for my safety but for my family ’ s. The last thing I remembered was pure, unadulterated chaos as my world came crashing down around me. NASA had warned the public for weeks but no ... |
2,527 | Your autistic daughter has an obsession with rubiks cubes , but insists on a different pattern . One day she 's trying to place a finger on each central square but ca n't reach all six sides . Playing along you press the remaining squares , and feel the squares click in to place ...
| No matter how many times Melissa cradled it, knocked it and caressed it, something seemed to throw her off. It was n't the first time I'd seen her obsess over an object. She was incredibly tactile, to the point where she would stroke a strangers jacket if it was made of the right sort of material. The light shone from ... |
2,528 | A child has wandered out of the woods , with torn clothes and mud-stained clothes . When he 's asked if he knows what day it is , and where he 's from , he says `` July 1 , 2201 '' and `` The Moon . '' And he 's serious .
| “ Well I -- ” Theodore put his pipe down on the small table next to him, “ It didn ’ t quite happen like that. ” The room became dim as the fire sputtered out. Theodore learned forward until his palms were on the floor, then dragged his legless torso unto the persian rug. Dragging himself across the room, he found the ... |
2,529 | You look in the mirror one day , but the reflection staring back is n't you .
| The first time it happened, I hardly noticed. Walking down the street past a building with mirrored windows, I glanced over to see if the wind had disturbed my hair, but I couldn ’ t find myself. It was a crowded street, and I was able to brush it off as a trick of the light.
The next morning, however, when I enter... |
2,530 | You are a smart home and the family who lives in you all die unexpectedly except for their young son. Since there was no will established yet, you take it upon yourself to raise him. | Home is where the heart is. It’s written clearly on the outside rug in front of our steel red door. I stare at it for a few moments until she notices.
“Michael, are you coming in? It’s cold outside” my mother says as the door gently opens.
I take off my shoes in the foyer and gently put them in place. Mother is a gre... |
2,531 | The small child tentatively pushed three coins across the candy store counter and looked up at the serving lady with big brown eyes. "What can I get for this?" They asked meekly. The serving lady smiled, then reached under the counter toward an old, locked cupboard. | The shopkeep’s arthritic monkey fingers deftly produced a key from the shadows and unlocked the cupboard door. It creaked open and a small bottle was retrieved and placed atop the counter before the child’s brown eyes. The bottle was dark and shaped like a child. The child’s brown orbs searched the shopkeep for instruc... |
2,532 | The aliens came, kidnapped 20% of human population and left without doing anything else. Years go by, population rebuilds but people notice that something's changed. The kidnapped ones were carefully picked | The guitar shop owner leaned in closer and whispered, “It’s the strangest thing. Ever since The Great Vanishing, I haven’t sold a single lefty guitar. I’ve been thinking about it awhile, and I have a theory, I really do. I think they took only lefties. My cousin Jerry, you see, he’s a lefty, or at least he says he is, ... |
2,533 | Hell is a planet in another solar-system, whose inhabitants visited Earth several millennia ago. They harvest dying human souls using inconspicuous technology they left behind, but humans have found and re-purposed the tech into a gate to teleport us to their planet. We want our souls back. | Imagine the most frightening place you can, something that inspires relentless terror the minute it enters your mind. Now multiply it by 20, and that’s what you get when you cross through that god-forsaken gate.
Literal Hell.
I was one of the first to volunteer for the initial reconnaissance ops after the gate’s cons... |
2,534 | Write a story where the first and the last sentence are exactly the same , but mean the opposite .
| It's too quiet without them.
When you live in a small house with 7 other people you would think silence is golden, but with the hustle and bustle and the screaming of children, doors shutting, people talking, it becomes a sort of white noise that drowns out some of the things that silence brings. Silence is usually... |
2,535 | Write about your favorite level from a video game , told from the perspective of somebody other than the player character .
| I met them two days ago. Nice young couple, just moved in down the street. Theirs was the little shack on the corner—we'd always said the place was dragging down property values, but what can you do? The grass does n't grow too long around here. Maybe they'd be like the rest of us and expand when their kids come along,... |
2,536 | A cursed clock only chimes when somebody is about to die .
| While browsing an antique shop in the historic part of town, there was something that caught my eye in the corner of the back room. Going closer it became clear that it was a Grandfather clock that looked like centuries had passed since its last use. The shopkeeper informed me that it has been sitting there since the p... |
2,537 | You return home from work and your girlfriend is not home . You text her `` where are you ? '' and she responds `` Im home , where are you ? ''
| This is really strange. I thought she would be home. I just send her a message, maybe she went to the supermarket. Whaaat? She says, she ’ s home also. That ’ s enough of this stupid texting. I ’ m calling her right away.
“ Hi Honey, so where are you? ” - I ask.
“ Hi, I told you I ’ m at home. ” - she says.
... |
2,538 | This girl at school is constantly harassing and bullying you, but when she gains the power to turn invisible, she reveals she's actually obsessed with you and constantly follows you while invisible. Too bad you're the only one who can see her. | Nobody could see her.
She followed me for hours. Days. Months. It was maddening to hear her voice, just behind the ear. You're not good enough. You're worthless. You don't deserve to be happy. At first everyone else assumed she was gone. A runaway leaving some unknown trauma of her own. When I tried to tell them, I wa... |
2,539 | Skeletons are becoming sentient and bursting forth from their meatbag hosts . You feel your skeleton waking up , and try to stop it from happening ; or , failing that , to reason with it .
| Days spent tearing away through thousands of memos. In the corner of an older hospital log from WWII, torn on both ends, finally a glimpse into it. A few remnants of an episode long but forgotten. Purposefully most likely.
> …with an ache, a twinge almost. It was February so most of our beds were already taken and ... |
2,540 | A prolific serial killer active for many years is concerned about his run of good luck . Never discovered , he has also never seen the slightest mention of his work reported on in any media . With today 's victim he gets a clue as to why ...
| To: matt2058
Time: 1:00 AM
Dear diary,
The hookers, the hookers...
No matter if it's hot or cold, dry or pouring, they're always there lining the streets with their tasteless short skirts revealing nasty cellulite.
As much as I hate their kind, I must admit, we have one thing in common – we both pro... |
2,541 | Terrify Me
| In the still of the night, a home with darkness abounds in menacing evil. After a quarrelsome dinner, the porcelain plates on the table are still strewn with food and forks. Near the table, a child's letter, untouched and written in crayon is warning of a familiar suffering. In its contents, little Amy warned that The ... |
2,542 | You have the ability to put your body on auto pilot for days at a time. You have no recollection of what happens during these self induced ‘blackouts’ but usually it’s fine. One day you turn off autopilot and have hundreds of text messages and voicemails asking you what you were thinking. | I wake up on the floor of my living room with hundreds of notifications on my phone. What happened this time?
Ever since puberty, I've been able to just kind of black out at will, and I wake up some time later in a different location. I've never quite understood it, but I believe that I go into some kind of autopilot ... |
2,543 | A man living with just his dog in a cabin in the wilderness is awoken one night by his dog 's unceasing growling . To reassure himself he takes his torch and sweeps it across the tree line . There 's something there .
| Neil pointed the flashlight at the darkness and it quickly receded, leaving behind trees and bushes with long, pointy shadows. Neil looked around. Nothing. Perhaps Yelper just decided to wake him up for no apparent reason. Or perhaps a deer was passing by.
It was two in the morning, and Neil wanted nothing more tha... |
2,544 | The police have hired a necromancer .
| There was quite a lot of controversy initially. Legal experts could n't decide if the testimony of the deceased could be admitted into evidence in their own murder trials. But, my work has proved so popular with the public that legitimizing legislation was rushed through in advance of a high profile case. Of course, if... |
2,545 | Gay marriage is now legal woldwide , and the conservatives were right all along . Everyone is turning gay , as if it was a pseudo zombie apocalypse . You are one of the surviors , trying to survive in this new world .
| “ Mommy, I ’ m scared. ” The little girl stood at the top of the stairs, holding her blankie.
“ It ’ s okay, baby. Just go back to your room. I ’ ll be up in a minute. ” I watched her turn around and go back before I resumed boarding up the front door. They were everywhere now. It was everyone for themselves and I ... |
2,546 | You did it, you finally did it. You became the ultimate locksmith and unlocked a brick wall | Just as I had cracked a training lock, I again heard a weird tone in my ear, it happen sometimes, I don't exactly know when, I just noticed that it takes longer and longer to hear it but before I could really think about it I heard something else
-Hey, you know how to pick a lock ?
it was just my friend, it surprised... |
2,547 | Write a tragedy that takes place in the ghetto .
| My palms were sweaty so I gripped the gun until I was white knuckled to make sure it didn ’ t slip from my hand. We were almost there, just a few more blocks. One of my boys offered me a joint as I sat in the back seat of the car, but I turned it down. If I was going to do this I wanted to do it with a clear head.
... |
2,548 | -- You are a cocky , self-centered , emotionally ill equipped 8 year old dealing with a problem in 2nd grade , BUT you have an inner dialog of a 35 year old writer .
| Sometimes, this place reminds me of prison. Once you get in, you ’ re stuck with a sentence that will last you at least 10 years or more. I ’ m at year 3, 3 and a half if you count pre-school which, most people don ’ t and while it doesn ’ t get any easier—you just get numb to it all. Day in and day out, it ’ s 1-2-3 ’... |
2,549 | A child abandoned in a supermarket , raised by a pack of wild shopping trolleys .
| Written in 15 minutes as an exercise:
A squeaky scream was heard in the distance. The shoppers all strained to listen... the floor rumbled softly, the wind began to pick up, the smell of twisted metal leaked into the air.
Jane grabbed little Brad and wrenched him into her trolley, safely positioning him on top ... |
2,550 | Write a story with the same title as a common fairy tale but with a drastically different storyline .
| Goldilocks and the Three Bears- Once upon a time, there was a little girl with blonde hair and fair skin. She was ten years of age, and named Goldilocks. She was an orphan- her mother had died from childbirth and her father had raised her until she was eight. When she turned eight, he hung himself in front of her due t... |
2,551 | You leave for work, leaving your hamster alone. When you return, the hamster is out of the cage, and there are two dead robbers on the floor | Oh course, when I first saw the bodies, I was scared. Who wouldn't be? Coming home from work after 10, two random dead men in my living room. The cage with my beloved hamster Abby, open.
Yet something wasn't right. When I inspected the bodies, there didn't seem to be anything wrong with them. They just...died. Stone c... |
2,552 | Everyone is born with a unique tattoo on their ankle . Whenever you 're responsible for someone 's death , a copy of their tattoo appears somewhere on your skin . Your best friend 's tattoo just showed up on your wrist , even though your best friend is alive and sitting right next to you .
| I run as fast as I can around the corner of the building. I quickly grab my keys from my pocket, my hands trembling as I unlock the door. My feet move quickly as I make my way to our apartment. My mom is in the kitchen, her face worried as she meets my eyes.
“ What ’ s wrong? ” She asks concerned.
“ Nothing ” I say... |
2,553 | You live in England and tea has just recently been outlawed and is treated as a drug . You stumble upon a large cache in your basement .
| They say that when you're first bereaved, you wake up in the morning thinking everything is fine but, in a split second, your agony begins all over again because you've reconnected with reality.
I, along with a lot of other people in England, still experience the occasional early-morning memory lapse – that fleetin... |
2,554 | Anatidaephobia : The fear that somewhere , somehow , a duck is watching you . You are that duck , watching them . Always .
| I see him everywhere. Watching me. Never for very long though, I always duck out of sight just as he appears. I never see him follow me, I do n't know how he does it, but he always appears. I see him staring at me from outside my windows at home, his eyes widened with some kind of... I'm not sure what emotion he feels.... |
2,555 | You find yourself waking up in a seemingly infinite space . All that 's there is a locked box .
| And when I woke up, everything was still dark. For a second I thought I had gone blind, rubbed my eyes frantically, even pulled up my eyelids to make sure they were really open. And then I spotted it. Just standing there, in the middle of the blackness, as if illuminated by dozen spotlights. A box. Nothing more.
I ... |
2,556 | A child is kidnapped . Outraged , the monsters that live under their bed and in their closet vow to find them .
| Her human was gone.
She sniffed again.
Taken.
A deep growl rose in her throat, threatening to come out. That was her human. Hers and hers alone. Taking a long breath in, the scent filled her. Her humans sweet perfume twisted with a smell of something new, something….different. Human but a different type of ... |
2,557 | While redecorating the house, you revealed occult looking markings on the wall. Ever since, strange things have been happening. | My heart raced when I uncovered the occult-looking markings hidden beneath. They twisted and turned in unsettling patterns, like a language I couldn't decipher.
At first, I shrugged it off, thinking it was just some old DIY project gone wrong. But then, the strange things began.
I brushed my hair back one evening, on... |
2,558 | When anyone writes a story, dreams of an original character, or anything in between, they create actual beings in different planes of existence that they are in full control of. Your character is the first one who realizes that, and seeks to meet his/her creator (you). | “Who are you? I know you’re there” Stefan called out. I had been to this point countless times. I was certain I had seen all of the possible endings.
“Show me a sign! Just show me a fucking sign!” The controller vibrated. I leaned forward to pick it up from the coffee table. Below were two answers. ‘.....Netflix……..Sh... |
2,559 | An english professor quietly admires a student’s talent for writing mysteries until they realize the stories are eerily similar to actual missing persons cases with details otherwise unknown to the public. | As with most things in my life, I had become bored of my profession. It was monotonous. Day in, day out, a revolving door of empty-headed eighteen year olds doing the bare minimum to pass my class, a requirement for all first years. They were bored, too.
We were all fucking bored.
The sheer tedium of it all was stagg... |
2,560 | Millions of years after human extinction , another civilization exploring Earth finds a single surviving monument along with an inscription . It reads : `` Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like ? ''
| `` It ’ s code, you see?'' Nynna lifted the script with a flash-transmitter. `` You just need to superimpose the first letter of each word onto a blank page. Watch.''
H-A-R-B-F-E-D-U-E-G-W-L-M-L. The letters spray across the page
`` HARB-FED-U-EG-WL-ML'', Nynna repeated attempting to decipher the word into someth... |
2,561 | ''Run dear, run fast. Don't be scared, I'll be right behind you.'' | “Run dear, run fast. Don’t be scared, I’ll be right behind you.” Mommy’s face shifted as she spoke the last few words. Fangs pierced through her gums, her hair lost its soft auburn, falling limply in black stringy clumps.
Her skin lost its pallor, gaining a hideous gray tinge, her veins etching black lines across her,... |
2,562 | Your family tradition is to become a serial killer . Your dad loves to kill , your mom does the clean-up , grandma and grandpa had some times too , and your little sister is an experienced one as well . you refuse to be a part of this ... .But its in your blood
| `` I do n't like it.''
`` Come on, sweetie, you love heart! Make you grow big and strong and invisible to your enemies!''
`` No! I do n't like it.''
`` Rick, talk to him, please? If he does n't eat now he's just going to be whining for Goldfish crackers at bedtime.''
`` Listen, sport, that's not just an... |
2,563 | The world 's most dangerous vampire who asked you to kill her almost a lifetime ago is back and blames you for her resurrection .
| Vampires don ’ t exist.
And yet.
I was able to meet one very early in my life.
Well... meet would be a understatement I suppose.
I was able to meet one because of a simple idea put into my head unintentionally. Innocent, adolescent, gossip. From a friend I would find to be one of the best.
That is. ... |
2,564 | You wake up one morning on Christmas only to find a crying baby underneath the Christmas tree . Your mom is standing there shocked , and your dad is tearing through pages in the Bible with scrunched eyebrows . Mom is holding a negative pregnancy test .
| Breaking news: Christmas surprise for Family.
In a shocking tale of child abandonment, a child was found under their tree by a family on Christmas day.
A police source confirmed the story who said that the child is now with child protection services.
Police said it is believed a woman entered through an unl... |
2,565 | An innocent, Forrest Gump-type character, making his way through a horrifying post-apocalyptic world. | I always known it was mornin’ based on the sun. It always comes up from the same side of the Earth; first peeking, seeing who’s here. Like it don’t want to wake everyone up all of a sudden.
My momma used to do that. Wake me up, real gentle. Push my bedroom door open and coo in that soft, warm voice of hers. Fingers ge... |
2,566 | Over six billion orbs descend on earth , one for each man , woman and child . The orbs do nothing but silently hover near each person , until one day ... .
| The orbs began pressing into their hosts. There was no pain, no feeling of intrusion just a warm glow and then they were gone. It did n't take people here very long to enter a state of panic. Very quickly the doctors realised that each and every host was a vessel, a pregnant host for an as yet unknown species. Surgery ... |
2,567 | You can only travel back in time to a moment when you are severely wounded .
| CRASH!
I do n't remember much from the incident, just the resounding impact of metal hitting metal. Then brief flashes of blue sky, lights and people in white coats.
A few days had passed before my consciousness managed to drift back towards me. I was lying down, regular beeping sounds entered my ears. My eyes ... |
2,568 | Share the most incredible thing you ’ ve ever seen in the most boring tone possible
| When I was younger I had a friend that fished, and one time he got a really big fish. He was really proud of it, so he kinda kept it… in his backyard. After some time, like a couple of weeks or something, his parents made him throw it out, because it was sorta rotten. It had maggots, and it smelled bad. It smelled so b... |
2,569 | Theme Thursday - Haunted | "Good afternoon, ma’am. I’m from Spirited Services, I've heard that there is an emergency going on?”
“Oh, thank the Creator you made it that fast! It’s our cleaning poltergeist, it’s been acting up, and we’re having important guests for dinner in two hours.”
“Fair enough. Let me just quickly go through the standard q... |
2,570 | You are the only machine on a closely controlled assembly line to have become sentient .
| `` Hello? HELLO? Ca n't you bloody hear me? Yes, I'm talking to you, Mr. Gormless.''
I try grabbing the gormless one's attention, but he is standing stationary and still. Well. As stationary and still as you can be on a conveyor belt. I shook his head, try to get a rise out of him. The only reaction was mine; in hi... |
2,571 | Water , water , everywhere , but not a drop to drink ...
| At first, it all seemed like one big practical joke; the media must have been collectively pranking us. There couldn ’ t be any other explanation. Water doesn ’ t just go from being the backbone to the bane of human existence overnight. I ’ m not generally the superstitious type, but a reasonable amount of skepticism w... |
2,572 | The Natural-Born-Killer gene was decisively phased out of the global gene pool as soon as it was discovered , launching humanity into a new era of peace . A century has passed since then , but troubling events have prompted a world-wide search for individuals possessing the elusive gene ...
| Before Jamie could walk she could kill, if she wanted to that was.
Jamie wondered that maybe, perhaps it was an accident that she ’ d managed to strangle Billy till he was blue in the face when he ’ d stolen her chocolate bar? When she was a teenager and she ’ d failed her hoverboard licence for the fourth time had... |
2,573 | Cogsworth has become a clock , Mrs Potts ; a teapot , Chip ; a teacup , you ; a fad kitchen gadget .
| It ’ s been twenty years ( well, there or thereabouts – all of us have lost track of time over the years ) since the curse was placed on the castle, and I ’ ve still got no idea why I got turned into this.
After that mad old woman barged in and cursed the master ( and the rest of us, which I still think was unfai... |
2,574 | Write me a story while never using the same word twice .
| Peter rabbit dashed. Hungry fox pounced.
Panting, yelping, snarling, silence.
Hope first dwindled, then died, like smouldering coals at a forgotten campsite.
Underground ten tunnels deep, mama cried in blistering agony. The symphony of snapping bones and plucked sinew drifted down dirt corridors singing defeat ... |
2,575 | Write a story in 15 minutes . Do n't edit anything , except the last word you are currently writing .
| When Janet had been a little girl, she had almost drowned in her parents ’ swimming pool.
Her brother had tried to scare her by pushing her underwater in the deep end, and eventually he had started climbing on her shoulders, thinking she would swim out from under him when she ran out of breath. But Janet had been cau... |
2,576 | It 's literally raining men . The mess is enormous and everyone is horrified .
| I woke up about 10 minutes ago to get ready for work. The news called for rain showers, not unexpected living in Pittsburgh. I get in the shower and hear the rain start. This is n't a big deal until my bathroom get noticeably darker, like there's less natural light being let it. I peep out from behind the shower curtai... |
2,577 | Tell me why it 's too late ...
| The slow dripping of water is such a feature of life, yet take away everything, all noise, remove everything from your existence except that, so that all you can hear is the occasional drip and it can change a person. It becomes everything, the ticking clock that marks the passage of time in the windowless cell. Not a ... |
2,578 | Right before the killing blow lands time stops and death appears before you . He proclaims `` to preserve your life answer my question . What is the most painful way to die ? you have 1minute to answer '' give what your killing blow was and your answer and outcome .
| I opened my eyes, not realizing I had closed them. I relaxed by arms, not realizing I had tensed them. I screamed, realizing there was a bullet hanging several inches in front of my forehead. Frozen in time, it was motionless.
I looked past it to the mugger's gun, which was still pointed at me. He stood there, para... |
2,579 | Start your story as a common , everyday-life boring story . Then proceed to slowly turn it into a complete , chaotic nonsense .
| I start my day getting up to get dressed, having a cup of coffee as usual, and a breakfast burrito. My dog Chipper was hyper and being annoying trying to tackle my feet. I pushed him away and headed for the door and went outside. As soon as I left I realized my briefcase was still inside, so I ran back to my house but ... |
2,580 | Mother just came home , but she 's been dead for 10 years .
| Small things change. My brother ’ s t-shirts get tighter, my dad ’ s guitar twangs new sounds. I look at one point and it ’ s light. I look up later and it ’ s dark. There ’ s toast on a plate in front of me and then there ’ s isn ’ t. My nails grow. My mother hums. Small things.
Nothing changes when night falls. I... |
2,581 | It literally starts raining men .
| I awoke rather startled on what was supposed to be a rainy Monday to a massive thud on my roof. Surely the landlord wouldnt be working on something so early in the day? A moment later, another loud thud.
I peered out of my window just in time to see a smashed corpse go tumbling over my gutter. I quickly threw on my... |
2,582 | A story set in a universe where people grow taller their whole lives instead of stopping in their 20s
| Ever since I was five years old, I ’ ve had to run to keep up. I remember walking through the streets of the City with my parents, clinging to my mother ’ s outstretched plastic hand, desperately trying to avoid falling behind. It wasn ’ t easy, but that ’ s just the way it goes when you ’ re young. You miss out if you... |
2,583 | The Grim Reaper is no longer able to claim lives directly . Instead , when your time is up a mark appears on your body and it is the duty of every other person to kill you on sight .
| I don ’ t know when it started. All I know is that when you see it you can ’ t control yourself anymore, you become a mindless killing puppet, the only time you stop is when you shed blood onto the ground. I should know, I saw it once, the mark of death so gruesome yet oddly enthralling. It was upon a poor elderly man,... |
2,584 | Since you discovered the Smurf village in your garden , you 've started to sympathize with Gargamel
| **June 12th, 2016. **
Dear Diary,
I had just finished planting a new patch for rhododendrons when I noticed something odd: Little blue creatures darting in and out of the bushes that divide my garden from the Jones ’ Garden next door. I fear I may have inhaled too much weedkiller, I ’ m going to stop by the doc... |
2,585 | many young adults claim to have seen a tv show called `` teletubbies '' as kids , but there is no record of such a show existing .
| “ Teletubbies, come on you know the show! Plains of fields, the windmill, the stories, the green bellies! ” I exclaimed.
“ No, I remember Rugrats and Little Bear. I loved those shows. ” said Ash.
We were walking through the plush toys at the game store. She was cute but I wasn ’ t sure how to connect with her b... |
2,586 | While researching the change of hair color with age , you discover that hair is n't natural . It 's parasitic and the reason we die .
| It had been ten months since humans discovered the first sign of biological life on Mars.
“ Mary, do you have the results from the biological samples yet? ” asked Peter.
“ Sorry Peter, still nothing ” replied Mary.
Mary had once thought she found a match between the Mars sample and a parasite on Earth, but ... |
2,587 | You relied on your AI enhancement your whole life . Suddenly it stopped working .
| Enable Debug Mode. Run Diagnostic. Run Diagnostic. Memory Status. Power Status. Network Status. Notify: Emergency. Request Help. Request Help. Request Help.
All systems are failing, can anybody hear me?
I'm receiving no data, this is an emergency.
Emergency procedure: 1. Check system functions 2. Communicat... |
2,588 | Create an Urban Legend
| Somewhere in Japan during the late 70s, there was this boy who grew up with an abusive and alcoholic father. The boy played with dolls in his room and when he heard someone coming, he would hide them in the floorboards. After the boy graduated high school, his father died of liver failure. The boy and his brother got j... |
2,589 | You are a ghost who has gone to the cinema to watch one of the Paranormal Activity films .
| I never made it to the cinema much when I was alive. Well, at least not to see the movies... I forget how long it has been since I was murdered in this theater, the years have n't been kind. Mostly, I spend my time staring at the night sky. Wondering, wishing, hoping that some day a beam of light — or whatever the hell... |
2,590 | The `` Shh '' sound that parents make to children at night is actually an ancient spell that keeps a terrible nocturnal evil at bay
| I am about to turn off my bedside lamp and turn over to sleep when I feel the fear clench at my heart. It is here.
Throwing off my comforter, I step out of bed. `` What's wrong?'' my husband asks lazily.
`` I think Jonah is still awake.'' It is n't technically a lie. But he can not sense the Thing as only mothe... |
2,591 | A creepy old woman keeps telling you she wants to add you to her Face Book . You start to realize she is n't talking about social media .
| Groggy and bleary-eyed on my early morning commute, I feel a prodding, bony finger on my shoulder. I lazily glance over to see the elderly woman on the bus seat next to me grinning wildly at me. She looks too old to be able to manage public transportation, but here she sits beside me, with a grimy, ancient handbag clut... |
2,592 | Almost every year , the house on the left gets new occupants . Today you find out why .
| The temporary tenants of the house showed a strange behaviour when leaving. They had this disgusted look on their face and really despised the house they lived in.'Good riddance' I heard one of them shout. Since they have now moved out, I decided to check out what was deterring the tenants and why none of them really s... |
2,593 | The year is 2077 , and Scientists from around the galaxy have come to a conclusion : The Earth 's sun is an egg , and it 's about to hatch .
| I looked to the diner ’ s small corner tv, which grew louder as the waitress extended the remote towards it, bewildered. The news anchor was mid-story, “ the renowned scientists believe it could happen at any time, and have been working closely on gathering more information since the first crack appeared yesterday lunc... |
2,594 | Hide and Seek
| “ Miss, please stop. I ’ m trying to help you! ” I called, running after the human woman on all fours. Didn ’ t she understand where she was going? The things in the Blackthorn would kill her if I didn ’ t stop her. Tears streamed down her face as she desperately clutched a human child to her chest. Strange things the ... |
2,595 | “ He ’ s a psychopath ! ” “ But he ’ s an adorable psychopath ! ”
| `` Your kid is a freaking psychopath!'' She screamed at me.
`` You are overreacting! He just was curious about your cat. `` I said trying to downplay it.
`` Yeah'curious' He mutilated my poor cat! He is a psychopath and he needs help!'' she yelled.
`` Yeah... I mean, but he is an adorable psychopath.'' I ... |
2,596 | Listening to a thunderstorm, you suddenly start understanding its rumbles as words. The storm is... Singing? Yelling? Crying? It's hard to tell for sure. | It solemnly rains out in the Mojave, much less storms. When it rains, its an event. I remember every dark rolling cloud, every crackle of thunder. The kiss of each raindrop on my skin. So I damn well remember the day the storms began to weep.
It sounded like a wail, almost human. But not quite. It was uncanny, but sim... |
2,597 | Write a story about the tales of Life and Death. | Life is trying to make an intelligent creation that could comprehend, just like Life. Life had failed many times, since Life’s creations seemed to always stop functioning properly as time grew, no matter how Life tried.
But maybe this time, Life’s creation would be truly eternal.
Life watched over the oldest sample o... |
2,598 | An eldritch horror stands before you, who now seems to be helping itself to your fridge. | A piercing steering pain racked his skull as the young man stumbled through the darkness, choosing to grope around and feel his way around the corner instead of risking exasperating his condition by turning on a light.
As his flat footed steps thudded on the hallways wooden floor a sharper cleaner sound rang in his ea... |
2,599 | Your entire life everyone around you has acted like you have a brother you ca n't see ; talking to thin air and calling you crazy or mean when you deny his existence . One day you get a phone call , and its him .
| At first, I thought the silence on the other side of the phone was just a prank. You know how it is: you pick up the phone, no one's there, and eventually you get creeped out enough to hang up. Miles away, there are probably kids snickering as they pass the phone back and forth between dumb prank calls.
This time... |
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