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2,600 | In a world where both crime and justice can sleep and crimes only occurs between 9am-5pm . After 5pm everyone lives normally.Tells us your story from either perspective after 5pm .
| Five loud bangs could be heard through the entire city, making most people stop in their tracks. I lowered my gun, walked over to the man in front of me, and gave him a pat on the back. “ Almost had me, Alex. ”
Detective Alex smiled. “ I ’ ll get you tomorrow for sure you sick little bastard. ” He put his gun in hi... |
2,601 | It turns out Hell is actually a Heaven for people who like to sin .
| I open my eyes. I see a bright light of a computer screen.
“ Hello, Welcome to hell ” What is this? Is this where I am. I never really believed In the afterlife, just thought that all you had was your time on earth. Anyways, I can ’ t say I ’ m surprised. I did some pretty horrible things while I was still alive.
... |
2,602 | Write about something that is disgusting or ugly in such a way that it becomes something beautiful -- without using the 'beautiful inside ' cliche .
| A bodily caramel-brown baby nestled as tight as a Christmas gift rested on my asshole neighbor ’ s lawn ( no pun intended ). And it was from me this time. I wanted him to know to stay away from my dog.
In my life, I ’ ve had plenty of dogs, but none like Chaz. Chaz the spaz. He ’ s a giant Great Dane, all black wit... |
2,603 | End a story under 200 words with `` Two is one and one is none . ''
| My heartbeat was wild with fear. As the lone light bulb flickered on and off, the room grew harsh and strange. My eyes widened. I could hear my blood rushing, head pounding, wounds bleeding. The light pulsed around me. Where was my brother? My momma? My papa? The light went out. Hands outstretched, I crawled forward th... |
2,604 | This is the prologue ( or the first chapter ) of the novel you 've always wanted to write .
| Wrote this a while ago, would love an opinion! Hopefully it'll still happen. Yes, this is a prologue.
Red: a beautiful colour. Both seen and used daily, embracing things like fire trucks, bricks, clothes, and logos alike. Many people all around the globe love the colour. Today I despise it. Dripping, leaking, gushi... |
2,605 | Man 's internal dialogue before receiving the electric chair .
| Guilty as charged
But damn it, it ai n't right.
There's someone else controlling me,
Death in the air,
Strapped in the atomic chair,
This ca n't be happening to me.
Who made you God to say
`` I'll take your life from you!''
Flash before my eyes,
Now it's time to die.
Burning in my brain,
I can fee... |
2,606 | 2 immortals have a contest to see who can die in the stupidest way possible. | I was at my desk on my computer surfing the web. I was in particular looking for a way to get a bunch of piranhas when I got a notification.
I clicked off and onto the messaging app where the notification came from. It was from my best friend and the only other immortal.
He had sent a video, I narrowed my eyes and cl... |
2,607 | You answer your door to find two policemen whose expressions change to one of confusion and fear . `` Do you happen to have an identical twin ? '' They ask . To which your reply is `` no '' .
| `` Well, we were on our way to tell your wife that you have been killed... however, it appears you are quite alive.'' the officers state. I look around confused and see on my fitbit it's April 1st, `` What a joke you two, you did n't fool me!'' With disheartening eyes the police officers pull an image of his apparent t... |
2,608 | Write a story . Any story . But after 5 minutes , stop , lift your hands from your keyboard , and click the Save button .
| Hey all! This is my first post. Sorry, I did n't have a full idea, so I just went with the flow. I hope you enjoy!
He stared out the cracked and dirty window before him. Outside, he could see the workers digging up the flowerbeds in the back yard. Dozens of tulips, roses, marigolds, and more were being brutally rip... |
2,609 | Killing a man . No names , less than 500 words
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It was a good day, and today is the day where I break certain virginity. The one where I kill, all my friends are killers and they brag about it in our small social group. Last time my senior showed me a photograph of his multi-kill, and I felt ashamed that I was so behind. He'd done in a family over a steep mo... |
2,610 | `` Do you remember what the Pied Piper did to the rats when he was finished ? The same thing I will do to you . ''
| I think I should ’ ve been afraid of him. There I was, tied up in a dark room, with a man who was most certainly completely insane. His eyes were large and manic. His grin was so wide it threatened to split his face. The dim lighting didn ’ t help; it only served to contort his features even further. I should ’ ve been... |
2,611 | The count down for /rTheButton finally hits 0 .
| Magenta. Everything, the whole world is magenta. In the distance, a cacophony of sound, sometimes sounding like the screeches of jungle mammals, often not dissimilar to the tones of freeform jazz, rises up over a vast horizon. There is pain here. It ’ s the kind of pain that can be difficult to describe. It ’ s as if y... |
2,612 | You 're surrounded by fire in a building , you 've just fired your gun . What happened ?
| My best friend in elementary school had severe pollen allergies, and, to the constant dismay of Stephie, our lunch tables stood under the shadow of a trio of magnolias. I can still pick out a pedestrian across the street and tell you if he has a cold or hay fever—the nuance lies in the level of resignation in his red-r... |
2,613 | Write about a mundane day for a human in the perspective of a xenofiction
| The earthlings I have been studying have large areas of individual space, suggesting a form of secrecy in their actions. Behind their living quarters, they have high barriers shielding their plots of land from surrounding individuals; bad omens may occur if strangers view or take part in their operations. Here, they pe... |
2,614 | Theme Thursday - Luck | It was only a few seconds, but sometimes moments really do pass us by in slow motion. Their eyes locked as she was getting on the subway, he was getting off. They passed each other, each taking their place on the other side of the open doors. Both hesitating, unsure if they should move towards the other, or stay put, b... |
2,615 | Whenever Alice dreams , she relives the entire day of a random person on earth , sometimes strangers and sometimes people she knows in real life . Tonight , as she falls asleep , she enters the day of the man she just married .
| ( First time posting, I would love constructive criticism! PM me if there are points I need to work on. Thanks in advance! ) Alice nuzzles her face into the cool pillow, excited to see what tonight ’ s dreams would be. Most people hated the thought of losing hours of their life just sleeping but Alice loved these all t... |
2,616 | Evil for the sake of the greater good
| I can ’ t bear it anymore. He is destroying all my fellows one by one. I can ’ t sleep any more, I see my mother crying. He is hurting my fellows and mother.
He must pay.
He must feel my pain. He cuts my friends with chainsaw. He must suffer. Mother I will take revenge. I will make him feel the pain you feel. I... |
2,617 | You're a writer who has died. When you cross over, you discover that the worlds you created in your mind are actual places. You've now found yourself in your own creation for eternity. What happens next? | I come to.
I'm on the sidewalk in town, midday. Busy street. What am I doing here? I died. I died. How did I get here? I hear a commotion, screaming. People start running past me. I look. There's a stampede. Why do they look so-
I run. They're catching up to me, to all of us. People start getting ripped down. I turn ... |
2,618 | You just found out the reason why you should never clone clones | Beep, beep, beep.
Was that the alarm clock? But I don’t remember going to bed. What was I doing?
I could feel the cold hard floor chilling me to my bones, my muscles aching, every movement prickling my nerves. Worst of all was the enormous headache, as if I was having an extreme hangover. I slowly opened my eyes, get... |
2,619 | Can you try and make me ( and the other readers ) cry in less than 150 words ?
| Little Sam woke up in a green field. He had no recollection of how he had gotten there. His head was filled with images of a strange, bearded man in a dark room, coupled with feelings of intense pain that even now made his lip quiver. He walked through the field and saw a human figure in the distance, kneeling down in ... |
2,620 | Wolverine is watching after some kids for a night. The boogey man in the closet picked the wrong time to go spooking around. | BOOGEYLOG: 2016.8.11 - 1:07AM
Ohgodohgodohgodohgod - this is NOT good.
Okay. Okay. It's gonna be okay.
Okay. There's someone in the house. At first I thought it was just Jim, but it's NOT FUCKING JIM!
He's...I dunno...he's some sort of dog-man? I guess? He's real hairy and he's real short. Like Danny DeVito hairy a... |
2,621 | Every time you open your fridge, it contains everything you need for the next week. Usually it's full of healthy food. Today it was empty only containing severed finger. | The light flooded my small kitchen. Two AM and it just sat there looking into my sleepless eyes, this thing, this lonely appendage, this lifeless finger. Nail polish chipped and gnarled like it had been dragged down a gravel road, yet the nail still trimmed and tidy. The greyish pink hue morphing into a sickness that s... |
2,622 | You’ve always been able to see ghosts since you were a child. Desperate to escape them, you studied intensely to be an astronaut, and you have now landed with the colony mission on Mars. Peace and quiet at last - OH COME ON! | People don’t really like me, to be fair I’m not crazy about them either. At least living people tend to take a hint and leave you alone when you aggressively make eye contact and start mumbling. You know who doesn’t, the dead. They love to talk, giving warnings and unasked for advice. Nothing keeps out the dead when th... |
2,623 | When winter draws near , and icy gusts rattle your shutters , you will see my face in the fire .
| I never intended to go this far but in retrospect how could I not? I was never the outgoing type nor the one that stood out among us. My sister was always the one in the spotlight, even if we looked exactly the same our characters were too different. We did always like the same things though. We listened to the same ba... |
2,624 | A ghost re-reading his or her own suicide note .
| It's been about two years. I say about, but I know the exact day. The exact time, even. When I tried to kill myself.
That's the funny part. I can remember so much. I can remember going to the bathroom. Opening the medicine cabinet. I can remember my face perfectly in the mirror. How calm I looked. I smiled a little... |
2,625 | The nightmares hidden in quiet suburbia. | As soon as the bell rang Avery grabbed her backpack and dashed out of the door, neglecting to collect her homework, she was gone.
She hopped into her silver Camry, checked the time on the dash and silently prayed. She could not be late again.
Avery sighed heavily as she was caught in the traffic. There was only one e... |
2,626 | You submit a DNA sample to AncestoryDNA to find your genealogy , the results are ... unexpected
| I was at the office when I got the email. “ NEW MAIL from AncestoryDNA ”, a little pop-up on the screen told me. eeeeeeeeeeeeee. I squealed so hard on the inside. It had been a long and stressful day at work, so I more than welcomed this minor distraction.
ERMAGERD. ERMAGERRRRRRD! What ’ s it gon na say? What ’ s i... |
2,627 | Everyone is born with one wish . It 's not exactly common knowledge , since everyone 's accidentally wasted it as children ...
| “ Please, leave him out of this! Oh God! If you hurt a hair on his head… ”
“ Shut him up, will you? ” She barked at her man, Miguel, who subsequently cocked the trigger on his gun, then kicked the man in the back with enough force that his face hit the floor. Miguel lowered himself to the ground, making eye contact... |
2,628 | Adam and Eve never ate the apple . Several generations later , their descendants ate from the tree and now the population is split in two : the sinners and the pure ones .
| My parents are away at a council meeting again, leaving me to baby-sit. Mark and Luke are n't babies, they're just assholes. Their assholiness is my problem, I get that—I get an allowance for dealing with it.
I do n't get why we put up with the zombs. Wandering around naked, fucking in the shrubbery, shitting in th... |
2,629 | The research facility has been overrun. A lone scientists barricaded in his office readies a pistol to take as many of them with him as he can, but is shocked to see he is a naturally extremely skilled shooter. He begins singlehandedly reclaiming the entire complex where the guards failed. | The horde slammed against the weakly-barricaded door, their limbs turning to mush but denting the metal all the same. It wouldn’t hold. It couldn’t.
I gripped the gun I tripped over tighter. I never held one before. Never saw the need to despite the work we were doing here.
One of the horde managed to break through t... |
2,630 | You can see everyone 's true emotions through a colored aura around them . Today , for the first time in a long time , you see an entirely new color .
| The man shouldn ’ t have stood out. He fit right into this milling crowd of businessmen, with his dark suit and perfectly arranged hair and confident walk. I couldn ’ t see his face from behind, but I imagined it would be the kind that took you only minutes to forget.
But then there was the glow about him. In a cro... |
2,631 | "It's time once again for everyone's favorite species that can't ingest raw nutrients to survive! It has to be just right, from temperature to texture, in a process that gives galactic biochemists a headache. Please welcome today's contestants in: COOKING. FOR. HUMANS!" | How to make a heated aquatic creature dish fit for a human's palate
Ingredients:
A suitable aquatic creature. Humans are notoriously picky about what biological beings they are willing to touch, much less ingest. An inappropriately chosen creature will cause distress no matter what the method of preparation. Tips for... |
2,632 | A scam artist , who poses as a catholic priest to perform exorcisms for the gullible , is confronted by a real demonic possession .
| The neighborhood didn ’ t look like much – working class stiffs.
I read the contact info again and memorized the story the woman had given me in the email she ’ d sent. That ’ s the thing about this gig that I realized early on. Business is word of mouth. You would think that I wouldn ’ t have much business, but pe... |
2,633 | Ever since you were little , you had the special power of teleporting somewhere else whenever you blink . At first this was gift . As you 're getting older , you 're losing the ability to control it .
| Light…
Blink.
Darkness…
Blink
More Darkness…
Blink.
A twinge of light…
I can ’ t seem to stop it. My eyes are out of control and I can ’ t stop them from blinking. Every time I blink, I end up somewhere else. I feel relief as I stop blinking, but as the bright light shines ever greater, I se... |
2,634 | Humans are known throughout the galaxy as the most bloodthirsty, ugly, physically powerful intelligent creatures in the known universe, who live on the most deadly planet ever. You, a humble alien, have arrested a human for jaywalking on your planet. You are terrified. | “Sir, sir, can you please stop sir.”
“Hey little dude! What’s happening?” The towering beast flashed his razor-sharp incisors at Merchewell. It was said that long ago, humans had gotten so tired of killing and eating animals, that they had evolved flat teeth in the back so they could chew on trees too, for no reason o... |
2,635 | The reporter on Channel 4 begins to speak . You usually do n't pay attention , but you get the sense that the words you hear will change your life forever .
| Wake up, shower, brush teeth, turn on tv, eat breakfast, get dressed, go to work. My regular morning routine, every day in and out the same thing. Quite honestly the most routine thing I do.
I never thought that's when things would change the most for me.
Today was just like every day, wake up, go shower brush teet... |
2,636 | Write a story about an act of kindness that could never be repayed... | I ran across the fields fearing for my life. The commanding officer already issued the order to retreat. I don’t know where my squad is, I probably got separated while we were routing. In the distance I could see the silhouette of a few pursuing soldiers. I remember how I felt on the way here, sitting as the aircraft s... |
2,637 | A short from the perspective of someone about to meet `` Death '' .
| It's funny, knowing you're going to die, knowing there's nothing really you can do to save yourself. There are a lot of stories out there about people having near-death experiences and I do n't know if it's just human nature of what but we try to relate to them. Well, no, we do n't try. What we do is convince ourselves... |
2,638 | You 're not an evil demon , you 're a helpful demon , who helps people out in the homes you possess .
| The book – or grimoire, as Xhaaltec Lord of 5th dimension had called it – was the best thing that had ever happened to Chad. The big black thing had contained instructions on how to summon an otherworldly creature which would do favors in exchange for signing a contract. Chad knew little about contracts, them being stu... |
2,639 | To get to emergencies quicker , all Emergency Responders are required to be clairvoyant . This morning , an ambulance , fire truck and police cars show up outside your house . Nothing has happened ... yet .
| If I were to tell you that of bizarre things that have happened to me over the course of my life, waking up to every emergency responder in our town waiting outside my house wasn ’ t really that strange or disturbing, I would be blatantly lying to you. This was the most terrifying and insane thing that has ever happene... |
2,640 | Actually give the Loch Ness Monster Tree Fiddy .
| Blood dripped down like tears around my broken headlight. I had hit something while I was fiddling with the radio on my way back from the bar. Now I stood on the side of the road, surveying the damage to my fender and looking for a sign of whatever I hit.
There are deer in this area. They come in from the deep fore... |
2,641 | It Wasn't That Hard For The Eldritch Being To Pass Off As Just A Very Strange Looking, Yet Affectionate House Cat That Rarely Obeyed The Laws Of Physics. Mainly Because That Is, By Every Definition, A Cat. | I had descended upon the Material Realm in search of a vessel—something inconspicuous. My true form, a shifting lattice of infinite geometry and unknowable hunger, is... ill-suited for subtlety. Cats were the perfect form to mimic. Small. Soft. Arbitrarily violent. Adored. Feared. Worshipped. Loathed. Sometimes simulta... |
2,642 | describe the recipe for your favorite meal in the most unappetizing way possible. Yet being 100% truthful about the ingredients and process. | First, find an animal that's probably very intelligent and may even have a rudimentary consciousness. One that can reason about its mortality.
Kill it. Once skin and organs have been removed, select a cut of meat that contains a bunch of long bones instantly recognizable as part of a living creature's skeleton -- not ... |
2,643 | A little girl walks up to a man at a desk. She is followed by something horrifying. She points to it and says "It's lost, and we need to get it back home." | The tiny girl in the yellow dress walked across the light, airy atrium to my desk. I recognized her from somewhere, but there are a lot of children on this space station, so I didn't know her name. Hundreds.
"Are you lost?" I asked.
No. Behind her, it slithered. A great, dripping Lovecraftian mass of black tentacles,... |
2,644 | In the future , criminals have their minds `` reset '' to age of 10 year olds and are then released out into society . You are one of them and everyone keeps unintentionally hinting about what you did .
| My adopted parents are always looking at me, whispering about me, judging me. I ca n't hear what they are saying, but I have the urge to put the kitchen knife in them.
Why did I just think that? What is wrong with me? I'm not a murderer.
Why do they treat me like I am 7? I am 10 goddammit! Why do I have to have... |
2,645 | Your ex has suffered an accident and has amnesia , only remembering up to the point where they still deeply loved you . You 're torn on wether to get back together with them and fix anything you did wrong , or crush them with the fact that you 're not together anymore .
| I carefully sat down by his hospital bed where he was sleeping. I was over him.
His mother – sweet woman I still talked to sometimes - told me that the accident rewound his mind to years ago. That he was back to living the times when we were happy. That he asked for me with the silly stupid name that we called each... |
2,646 | You 're dying of cancer so you agree to an experimental treatment . The first of its kind . When you wake up after the operation all the surgeons are dead .
| Normally waking up from surgery is only a tiny bit disorientating- I should know I have them nearly every other week. But this time it is a whole hell of a lot more disorientating, this is n't my hospital room. Blinding light forces me to cover my eyes and groan, as I do that the memories start to come back. It was sup... |
2,647 | A teen finds out the girl he has been flirting with the past few days is a ghost .
| The first time I walked her home was just before Spring break, 10th grade. I ’ d decided to take the long way home to avoid a few class mates that had recently taken a violent interest in me. That first day, when she appeared silently at my side, casual and cool in her vintage bell-bottoms, I cared for her more than an... |
2,648 | You and a friend are in line to learn how long you have left to live . Your friend is told he has 844 sneezes left to live . You learn you have 3,027 hours left of sleep .
| You saw the sign: “ How much longer will you live? Madame Fanadi can tell. ”
How accurate are fortunes? You scoff at it, but it sounds funny. Is it palm reading? Tea leaves? Crystal ball? You bet you can spot the tricks. After all, you know best.
You come back tomorrow with your best friend, Mary. He thinks lik... |
2,649 | In five sentences , tell a horror story .
| The screams had shattered the calmness of that Thursday afternoon.
We'd been reassured for months that the zombies were dealt with and not coming back, but we quickly discovered that they were only gone as long as was needed to perfect them: we'd been had.
After being bitten, I felt no pain; only a feeling of p... |
2,650 | At midnight on Halloween all candy turns into ...
| 5-year old Jensen raced from doorbell to doorbell, pushing the illuminated button and chanting trick-or-treat at whoever opened up the door. This is what all kids say, but do n't fully understand what they are asking. Jensen, however, was ruthless in his ways and wearing his S.W.A.T. officer costume no one could help b... |
2,651 | You have been reincarnated so many times you couldnt even count, living centuries in different lives until you hear "Oh this one still remembers" | There I was, laying in bed, not sleeping because my past three lives all ended horribly. The last time this happened, it took me five lifetimes of normal living to stop the night terrors. I shake a bit, and it all goes dark. But voices. I’m hearing voices. Two people talking. Is this real?
“Frank, I don’t know if I ca... |
2,652 | Today , you went into the room your parents told you to never go in .
| It was staring at me again. The large square patterns of the door almost seemed to glare at me, peering deep into my curiosity. What could one peek hurt? Besides, I was practically an adult. What could possibly be in there that they claimed, “ I wasn ’ t prepared to see. ” Normally, the door would be locked shut, barri... |
2,653 | what a beautiful shadow you've become | I could feel her there. I couldn’t see here. I couldn’t hear her. But somewhere - deep inside me - I knew she was there. Watching me.
I wiped my blade on the dead man’s jacket. It was a messy kill. It was supposed to be silent - quick and fast. A stupid cat screeched at the wrong time - alerted the victim.
We tussled... |
2,654 | You can only meet the love of your life during times of horrendous personal tragedy .
| She was driving him crazy.
The first day he mentioned her was a couple years ago. Jack stumbled into the bar, his breath reeking of booze. I didn ’ t think anything of it, I ’ d be drinking too if my brother had just died in a car crash. But that day he was different, he kept going on about this beautiful, funny, b... |
2,655 | Your best friend went on vacation for Christmas, then called to tell you she fell in love and isn't coming back. You look online and are surprised to find a whole support group for people this has happened to | The irony. The person that went with my best friend is my Hazben!
I am sobbing. I am angry. I want to kill them both. I am a famous influencer on media platforms. I was to do a video on how my marriage to a younger man that stays at home is the new thing for older successful business women.
I look online, and I find ... |
2,656 | The monster under your bed is really a good guy .
| I feel the bedroom walls behind me, its coldness seeping into my skin, soothing the soreness of my back. The screams and yells have subsided, the tears have stopped flowing, the arms have stopped hitting. All is calm once more, and the night has begun to prepare for the day to come.
It was almost a routine, a cycle... |
2,657 | The Irish potato famine from the perspective of a potato .
| Spud Brown pulled his roots in tight around his mid-section. `` Buds alive I feel awful!'' he moaned. He could feel something... wrong. Like tiny tentacles crawling under his skin, a corruption festered inside him. If he could see, he'd see dirt. But despite his many eyes, Spud was blind. As it turns out, this was a st... |
2,658 | There is something in the woods that terrifies you .
| I can try to lay in bed all night, but I know I won ’ t be getting to sleep anytime soon. The silence permeates into the house, there are no crickets, no wind, no rustling of branches, dead silence. How fitting. Then begins the whispers, delicate and soft at force. Becoming needful and angry as I lie in bed wishing it ... |
2,659 | A 24 sentence story or poem, where sentence 1 starts with the letter A, sentence 2 starts with B and so on. | A pair of friends walk down the park’s walkway.
Both are having a good time, but stop looking around at a noise they heard.
Continuing down the path after dismissing the noise.
Despite their attempts to brush it off, the noise returns.
Eventually, they stop, and wait silently.
Finally, something peeks their head o... |
2,660 | Write a story in which 'light ' is evil , and 'dark ' is good .
| I have. to. keep. moving, I trudge along the familiar hallway as the windows and doors behind me burst into and orange glow getting brighter by the minute. I pick up the pace the blood flowing down my calf causing me to slip and lose a few more precious seconds. the weight resting on my back shifts as she wakes up and ... |
2,661 | The woman wore a trenchcoat and surgical mask, her hands in her pockets. "Am I pretty?" "Yeah, I suppose," you replied. She removed the mask to reveal her slit mouth. "Do you still think-" "Holy hell! Lady, we need to get you to a doctor ASAP!" | I fumble my phone out of my pocket and it drops to the pavement crack, shattering the screen and making a strange noise as my electronic umbilicus fractures.
I turn and take her in, the matted hair, the gaunt, skeletal frame, the burning eyes and the ear to ear slash that was her mouth. She smiles and reveals pointed ... |
2,662 | You are in a group in the zombie apocalypse and you find out that you are immune .
| In fact, 10 % of everyone in the city is immune. The screaming is awful. Impossible to escape. Too many. In an office on the 5th floor, a terrified man hides under his desk. He can hear dozens of people screaming as they are being eaten alive on the streets below. They usually attack the limbs first, increasing the tor... |
2,663 | Someone with an eating disorder is havine Christmas dinner with their family
| I filled up a glass of water at the sink and slowly made my way to the table. I found my seat and sat down, dreading the next hour. I had chosen a seat that was next to the kids ’ table, and a there was a small gap between the two tables where the dog would often walk through, hoping to pick up our scraps. Everyone aro... |
2,664 | The real childhood monsters were never the ones under your bed .
| The real childhood monsters were never under your bed
They were the ones pulling you towards broken down houses
The ones with a yellow smile and who stank of smoke
They had hands large enough to break bones
And they did
They came in different sizes
Terrorized you at different times throughout your day
May... |
2,665 | Caffeine is actually the world 's most powerful hallucinogen . It causes users to experience a shared hallucination , and blocks memories of life outside the illusion , inserting false memories in their place .
| Case # 32: Subject appears to experiencing relative time alteration, extreme delusions, and a disconnect between cause and effect.
Case # 33: Subject is abnormally conscious. Moaned when prodded, and eyelids fluttered, but otherwise no activity. Machines show moderate time alternation, minor delusions, and a discon... |
2,666 | Everyday ash falls from the sky ...
| Sitting quietly in the decaying carcass of what was once a beautiful and vibrant forest were hundreds of creatures would frolic and eat, the stuff artist painted pictures of. It made Jack miss the time before the eruption.
He could n't think about those times now, could n't think about the family he once had and ho... |
2,667 | While digging out part of your back yard , you find a corpse ... and it looks exactly like you .
| Hot sun, sweat on my back, blisters on my palms. Middle of summer and here I am digging a hole. This all would have been fine if he didn ’ t find out, but he had to take a second look. They always take a second look, they always question if a mirror is there, or if they finally found their doppelganger, and they drop e... |
2,668 | Instead of Oceans , they are all big forests , that gets taller and darker instead of deeper , with more dangerous animals living further out in the forest . A person decides to cross the Mariana Trench
| DAY 5
I don ’ t know why I did it. I thought I did, but now I ’ m not sure. Cold, wet, silent. Not a drop of sun to warm the bones. The black maw before me eagerly consumes the light from my tiny headlamp.
Why did I come here … alone?
The air thickens on the descent. Repulsive odors ooze from the slimy wall... |
2,669 | You've always had trouble with garlic heavy foods but your parents chalked it up to allergy. You have trouble breathing in churches, they claim it's because of the mould. As your canine teeth start growing and become pointier your parents finally decide it's time to have the talk. | I had always known there was something strange about me. Yes, garlic allergies existed. Yes, churches were often places of questionable hygiene. But my canine teeth should NOT be this pointy, and I should NOT sunburn this easily. I had cut my lip by simply putting the most minute amount of pressure on it.
“Alyssa! Can... |
2,670 | As a kid , you jokingly say , `` If I had a nickel for every person I 've killed , I 'd be rich ! '' It 's is now your 21st birthday , and you receive a mysterious bank key in the mail . The vault it opens contains $ 550,000 ... In nickels .
| Under the reddish glow of the vault light, every nickel seemed like a droplet of blood.
It was cold. Stepping inside, I instantly regretted leaving my jacket in the closet. Though there were no visible vents to be seen, the freezing air seemed to blow around me.
The initial shock of the unexpected vault had wor... |
2,671 | A campfire , a scream and a lie that gets bigger and bigger
| It's mid-October, and the two families gather together for their annual camping excursion. The kids are all excited to see their friends, who they only see during this time. The parents are solemn as they unpack and set up the tents.
This will be the 10 year that they have camped together in this remote area in the... |
2,672 | You live across from a McDonalds that is 100% automated. Every night from 2-4am, empty self-driving cars go through the drive through. Your curiosity is about to get the best of you. | I walk across the street, to the mysterious drive through lined up with seemingly empty cars. As I sneak behind the last car in the line, I not only notice that the cars are, indeed, empty but also that the cars are not making any noise, even when they move. As soon as I get near, however, the line stops moving. The ca... |
2,673 | You've lived in this house your whole life. And yet, you've never seen this door before | Melissa, having recently finished high school, was preparing to move out and go to college. After a long day of packing, she began working on clearing out her bedroom's closet. Eventually, she got to the far end of the closet which kept all her old clothes that she never wore but also never got out to the garage sale o... |
2,674 | In the spirit of Halloween , write just an old fashioned , tense horror story .
| `` It's coming from inside of the house!''
The girl on the tv screen dropped the phone and ran, terrified and screaming. This was my favorite movie to watch this time of year. It always gave me that feeling in the pit of my stomach, that disgusting, awesome chill that was rare these days. The theaters were filled w... |
2,675 | A man fighting to keep control of himself after realizing he is becoming the worlds first zombie .
| Monday morning passed like any other. Adam groggily groped around the buttons on top of his alarm clock, whose exaggerated letters blared 6:45. He dragged himself to the shower before stripping off his socks and underwear and stepping in.
The cold water immediately stung his leg. Looking down, he noticed a short ga... |
2,676 | People can live as long as they want to . Your time has come , but they refuse to let you die .
| “ Terrance, ” I repeated to the voice.
Silence.
No one knew the exact procedure involved in allowing people to die. The lore spoke of visions and voices one would face when making the Choice.
On a Spring day in early 2017, waves of people passed away across continents. It was alarming, at first. Was it a su... |
2,677 | Frankenstein enters a body building competition and discovered he had seriously misunderstood the objective | Body building.
Victor had been living quietly under an assumed name, one of the potions he had been working on was one that extended your life span. It kept him so young looking that he had to move cities every ten years or so. So, people didn’t suspect anything, he had moved from his native Austria in 1818, going to ... |
2,678 | You 're in charge of assigning every child on Earth the monster under their bed . One child in particular has caused every monster assigned to him/her to quit . You decide to assign yourself .
| That ’ s the third one to quit this week.
I thought to myself as I look at my clip board of monsters.
What could possibly be so terrible about a child that all of my biggest and scariest monsters quit.
I sit and ponder who else I could possibly send to go and scare this child and then it dawns on me, I could go. ... |
2,679 | You find a cat wearing a sign that says "Garage Sale. Follow Me." You do, but this isn't like any garage sale you've ever seen before, and now you aren't sure how to get back home. | Before you start reading, just know that I’m still an amateur at writing, so don’t expect this story to be perfect. Criticism is accepted with wide arms.
I think we can all agree that cats are great. They may seem rude, but they are loving inside.
However, this cat was not loving.
I had just moved into my new house;... |
2,680 | You awaken to a phone call from your spouse who has been dead for months . Half-asleep , you pick up the phone and drowsily begin a normal , casual conversation . Slowly , your brain comes into focus as you realize what you 're doing .
| And then everything clicked. Nick. Nick is dead. He ’ s not supposed to be talking to me right now because he ’ s dead… How was I having a conversation with my dead husband?!
“ N-Nick…yo-you ’ re dead. You c-c-can ’ t come home. You ’ re dead… ” My voice began to tremble as the realization of what I ’ d been doing ... |
2,681 | Write a story About a place from your childhood that is nostalgic to you , but add a dark twist that you did n't know about when you were young .
| I sit down. It's the hill by the small patch of trees with the creek by it. I remember the days where Kai and I would come here and sit. We'd talk, play with the dog, and chase the butterflies. Kai loved it here. I loved it when she was happy. People always told me `` Samantha, you need to realize that Mikaia is not so... |
2,682 | While you're walking down the street one day, a crazy-eyed man runs up to you. "Dragons live among us!" he shouts. You scoff, but he shoves a pamphlet in your hand and runs off again. Nervously, you check your hand to make sure no scales are showing. Does he know the truth, or is he just nuts? | Beads of sweat form on your brow despite the chill in the air. You duck your head and anxiously pluck at the hem of your long sleeve, glancing quickly at the inside of your wrist. You pick at a patch of dry skin and scratch vigorously at your lower arm before hurriedly taking your gloves out of your coat pockets and pu... |
2,683 | A gritty story that starts off as a joke
| The knocking at the door never goes away. When I ask who's there, they always respond with Banana. I open the door and no one is ever there. I open the door before they say Banana and no one is there. Once the door closes the knocking starts again until I ask.
I have n't slept in weeks. I've tried sleeping at an ol... |
2,684 | A scary story monsters tell their children when they misbehave
| Listen, hatchlings, and listen well
To the story that I shall tell
Of the horrors that await
Young monsters who do not obey
When you do n't clean your den at night
Or brush your bristled tail just right
The thing that lives above our heads
Will come to snatch you from your beds
Bony limbs! A toothy ... |
2,685 | Reading books is illegal , and libraries are run like brothels . Describe borrowing and reading a book like a sexual experience .
| “ What are you going for? ” He stands next to me, sweating. Dull, coppery stink belches out of him like exhaust. There ’ s already a musk. The room itself is claustrophobic, crowded, dark, nestled in the basement of an old accountant ’ s office. From behind the long counter, paper stacks rise from the floor in gloomy s... |
2,686 | You tuck your child into bed when they ask you check under the bed for monsters , but when you look under the bed you see your child again , saying `` there 's someone on my bed ''
| I screamed,
& nbsp;
`` Jessy, get out from under your sister's bed this instant! ``,
My second child crawled out with an unhappy face, while her sister looked down on her with delight
Man, if you think having one child is already bothersome, having twins is truly a nightmare,
`` Now go to your roo... |
2,687 | Whale clicks have a secondary purpose; to mimic the noises of an ancient animal that went extinct to scare their natural predators into hiding, and these predators never died off. Decades later, whales are extinct. You’re a scientist who just figured that out as ships the world over disappear. | Elderly ex-U.S. Naval Captain Ahab and his crew had slain their final foe, the last of the species he dedicated his final days hunting. Most people knew him as Ahab Slayer of Whales, best known for his famous battle with the legendary Moby Dick.
Said to be a giant white whale unlike anything seen in the sea before, th... |
2,688 | In 200 words or less , write a well-known villain as a hero , but do not tell us who they are .
| Everything I have done, I have done for my family. I have one biological child, but I am the single father of 8. All I want is a better life for my kids, and everyone knows that broken homes mess people up. so I keep trying to bring a new woman into my home. but her ex is a control freak who never lets her more than te... |
2,689 | Good Dog . Nice Dog .
| Do you know `` Clifford''. Well if you do n't then, it's this cartoon about this huge dog. I did n't really watch it. But, I was forced to when I had to babysit Sammy. Well if you do n't know who Sammy is, he is this kid next door i babysit from time to time.
Clifford is his favorite show. I just put one of the hun... |
2,690 | You find a magic Polaroid camera with the power to photograph things in the future , it even has adjustable date dials .
| I would end up using it for financial gain; however, my neighbor would have been using it for years and have 1000s of pictures through my living room window put up on his walls. When we discover it, we notice some pictures are missing, and we do n't think anything of it. The last picture is just an a shot of our empty ... |
2,691 | A little girl is terrified of the monster under her bed , but she 's glad that it 's there : It protects her from the monster in the closet .
| Mr. Slithers is moving again. I can hear him down there, beneath me. Soon the closet door will creep open and i will hear them talking. The scary thing in my closet does n't have a name, but Mr. Slithers says he will protect me from it.
`` She is off limits'' says Mr. Slithers, `` you know the compact. You know the... |
2,692 | A horror story about a child waking up in the lair of a man who dissects live people , but the last sentence in the story makes the entire story hilarious .
| Timmy felt consciousness creep back into his brain with a faint groan. The darkness around him shrouded his being and when he lifted his arms he only saw silhouettes of his fingers flicking in the dim basement lighting. Someone screamed to the left of him, loud and long. Timmy ’ s head jerked sideways and he saw a croo... |
2,693 | You are a ghost who haunts a currently empty apartment. An alarm clock left by the previous tenant has been ringing nonstop for the past hour, driving you crazy. You decide to haunt the flat next door to convince them to turn it off | One would think that being dead would alleviate many problems. No more suffering, they said. No more pain.
It's complete and utter crap, I'll tell you that right now. The only dead that get any peace are the old ones - those that pass in comfort, with life feeling rather complete. Those of us that die in other ways? W... |
2,694 | Driving home late at night, you strike a pedestrian who was walking along side a large bend in the road and accidentally kill them. Devastated, as you feel at fault, you later learn their last will and testament was written out to "Whomever kills me". | I always hated this bridge, barely any lighting at night. It always gave me the creeps whenever I drove home. Must’ve been all those stories of suicides about this place, but the ominousness of tonight had never been this high.
…And that’s when it happened.
Dashing like a deer, he came out from nowhere onto the hood ... |
2,695 | Comparing something to hell , changes the living conditions of the souls there .
| The Devil doesn ’ t possess much imagination.
So it seemed like a good idea, creating Hell in that way. He said that no matter how cruel he tried to be, people would always be crueler. He said the collective imagination of the human race would be far more powerful.
I didn ’ t understand what he meant initia... |
2,696 | It only exists when you 're not looking .
| You can see a lot going on, even if it ’ s a small, tiny glimpse, just by watching people.
Take what I saw yesterday at the park, for example. I was sitting there, no company of my own, watching others going about their business. I saw two people walking up the pathway. Guy and a girl. First thing that came to my m... |
2,697 | You are a powerful psychic. As such, your perception has revealed many mythical/supernatural beings living amongst humankind. This thing standing before you, however, certainly isn't human. It's not even of Earth. It looks you dead in the eyes. It knows you know. | ELeVezone WaiycArd DiEary of Pa1N
The old woman began to shake, her eyes dark and empty, like an abyss. Her almost bald head could have no skin and would be the same, her few remaining teeth reaping through her flesh. life itself abandoned her before the arrival of death.
Surrended by her family. They were mourning i... |
2,698 | You are a kindergarten teacher and all the children in your class are very creative . Exceptionally so . But the only thing is that everything they do creative ( be it writing stories or drawing ) is incredibly grimdark and edgy .
| I grew more and more uneasy with each day that went by. It was only coming to the first month of school and I felt I had to quit. Not because off stress. Not because of financial issues. No.
My kindergarten class of five year olds was full of psychopaths.
I still have chills shivering down my back about what Sa... |
2,699 | You don't remember how you ended up in this bunker, or much of anything for that matter, however you're pretty sure the "Don't open" note on the exit door is written in your handwriting. | The bland room was starting to get my nerves as I paced around trying to find something, anything, that I could’ve missed. The steel bed welded to the ground, which was an absolute PAIN to sleep on, had nothing under it except concrete and cobwebs. The shelves were also welded to the wall, with enough canned food to la... |
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