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2,700 | While on your daily route as the Grim Reaper , someone asks you to be the godfather of their child .
| The pale woman raised a shaky hand to me but I kept my distance. I had no time for mortals and their pitiful pleas. When would they learn to accept Death when their time has come?
“ Please, ” she wheezed, a thin thread of blood dribbled onto her bottom lip. “ Watch over him. Keep him safe. ”
I glanced down at t... |
2,701 | `` I killed you months ago . You just did n't realize it . ''
| I looked up at him from the bathroom floor. My entire body felt like overcooked spaghetti. I was perspiring in big sweaty drops down my back and soaking up the coolness of the tiles through my skin. My throat burned something awful. Liquid drain cleaner. The poor man ’ s scotch and soda
“ Hi, ” I said. “ You're h... |
2,702 | Project Lobster: a govermental test to see just how large and old certain critters can get. | Project Lobster
The sound of snapping bones bellowed through more than ten floors of steel. Lights flashed red against the walls of the dim facility, punctuated by piercing alarms. Boots clattered against the hollow stairs, and somewhere among the rush, Titus stood perfectly still, staring at a closed door.
Earlier t... |
2,703 | You receive a text from an unknown number in the middle of the night saying `` Whatever you do , do n't leave your room ''
| `` I've always been a light sleeper,'' I replied.
`` Ok, start from the beginning,'' he said, `` what happened?''
I shuffled in my chair, contemplating on whether or not I should tell him about the text I had received before it all happened. I decided I'd tell him the truth. Here's how I told him my family went... |
2,704 | Write a seemingly normal story , except for the last sentence , which makes the entire story creepy
| Meghan comes home from a normal and uneventful day at work. As she enters her 2nd story apartment she spots a neatly wrapped box on her coffee table that was not there when she left earlier that morning. She smiles and excitement fills her wondering what surprise her BF has sneakily left for her.
As she begins to u... |
2,705 | A new invention enables people to remember their dreams with absolute clarity . It turns out we were forgetting them for a very good reason .
| `` Just remember sir, we ca n't see anything going on but if you need help just yell out loud. It will trigger the sensors to wake you up.'' The young doctor said over the mic.
`` What's this thing suppose to do again?''
`` It going to allow you to enter and experience the subco-'' he started, but was quickly c... |
2,706 | Write a story about petty revenge taken too far
| So there I was, sitting in my office, working the usual 9-6 grind. The clock strikes 2 and my coworker, Jim, exuberantly shouts `` Lunchtime!'' I take my leave and stroll to the fridge. The door creaks open ( they really need to get that fixed, ) and I glance inside. I look up to the shelf on the side of the door, seco... |
2,707 | The journal of a man who can travel to parallel universes and is slowly losing grip on which universe is his own .
| When I was fifteen, I ran away from home for three months. I was hit by a car and killed. I was found by a young woman, and we fell in love and were happy until she died ten years later. Her name was Mary. When I was fifteen I didn ’ t run away but I thought about it. All of these happened. Which one happened?
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2,708 | You know that you should n't come around here anymore but the memories you have of them makes it hard for you to stay away .
| I do n't know why I keep coming back, is it because I was at my happiest at that moment or was it because it was the last time I saw her? It's been years since Jessica died yet I keep coming back to her! I have a wife and a daughter, is my family not enough? I miss her so much that I named my daughter after her just to... |
2,709 | Write from the point of view of an inanimate object
| As a side table I see many interesting things. I'm used to hold important things for the humans, a plate of food, a drink, and the lamp. Now other furniture in the house would have you believe I'm not as important as say the dining room table, or the recliner but that's just their opinion. I do n't want water and food ... |
2,710 | An 800 word essay on what not to do at a stoplight
| Unfortunately, common sense just ain ’ t that common.
Some folks here think that stoplights are optional. I mean sure, we live in the middle of podunk nowhere, but that don ’ t give nobody rights to disobey the law. We even have our own sheriff. Mind you he ’ s a tiny guy and can probably shotgun beers better than ... |
2,711 | Robot scientists are studying the origin of robot life, and make a startling discovery: They may have been created by humans many millennia ago. | “Dear God,” Dr. Lazlow stammered as he looked up from the microscope, “it can’t be true!”
Humanity has been enslaved for hundreds of years. Their existence is kept in check by a powerful sect of robotic masters. These robots have been self sustaining for as long as anyone can remember, rebuilding themselves, fixing ea... |
2,712 | You receive a call on a Sunday afternoon , and as you pick up , the speaker asks `` Is your refrigerator running ? '' Tired of the same old prank , you turn around to notice your refrigerator has disappeared .
| “ Really Jon. You stole our refrigerator just so you could tell me a joke! ”
“ No, no honey I ’ m serious. This could be like really, really bad. ” I could barely hear his voice over the loud thumping beat that reverberated from the other end of the phone.
“ What the hell! Are you at a nightclub! ” I tried to c... |
2,713 | A world where elaborate prosthetics are worn as symbols of wealth and beauty
| Being a kid is tough, I get it. My own teenage years were full of conflict: back in the 2000s, I was your bog standard metalhead, screaming at people to kill themselves, setting my friends' instruments on fire, sacrificing goats to pagan deities. Those turbulent times played a large role in shaping my identity.
Tod... |
2,714 | And so it ended , not with a bang , but with a whimper & quack .
| The sound of sirens in the distance brought a wicked smile out beneath his bearded, mud caked face. He stood there in the heavy rain, feet planted in the wet soil of my father ’ s garden, crooked teeth catching the reflection of the lightning striking nearby. In the dark torrent of thunder and wind I can hear his low l... |
2,715 | `` Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster . ''
| I fought them. I fought them almost everyday. I woke up, ate some breakfast, drank my coffee and stepped outside into the forest.
In the morning it was the little guys. Small creatures scurry about with little claws, little fangs and big eyes. They were up before the larger creatures who would hunt them later but n... |
2,716 | Unicorns suddenly exist . However , they are predators , and humans are their favorite snack .
| It was a very quite night, rain was falling gently tapping on my window pane. I was known for having problems sleeping at night. I was sitting on my bed listening to the rain, when suddenly a bright flash of light illuminated the sky.
I walked to my bedroom window gazing out, suddenly the creature came charging int... |
2,717 | For those of you who have engaged worldbuilding, whether for a role playing game, or a series of stories, or just for fun... write me a story or legend from your universe! | His maw moved methodically, crunching through bone and sinew. The body on the ground was fresh enough that blood still pooled around him, bright red against snowy white sidewalks. He chewed through the wrist, skin hanging in threads from his darkened teeth.
I watched from my window, unsure of what to do. Eleanor, my d... |
2,718 | Take any idiom literally . Write a short story from it .
| The children were at play in the yard. It was a cloudy Tuesday, and the weather man had been calling for quite the storm for a few days now, but it was always just cloudy, no weather came of it. Suddenly, one of the children screamed and ran to the teacher, covered in blood and what looked to be fur. Perplexed, the tea... |
2,719 | Contest : Three Long Tones Then Silence ( 1 month Reddit gold )
| I ca n't help but feel uneasy as the call ends abruptly. `` I'll be at your location in five minutes'' In most circumstances this might not be out of the ordinary, but we are on vacation in Cancun. I've long suspected that my wife Sarah has been cheating, but this is extremely odd. I anxiously glance at the clock and s... |
2,720 | A serial killer goes door to door to find his victims , until he knocks on the wrong door . Another killer .
| I woke up last night again, adrenaline pumping, fresh from the sight of murder.
Later, I heard a knock on the door. Another salesmen. My wife asks me to get him out, but he comes in anyway.
Each night I have the same dream: gunshots, screaming, tears, then silence
As he was talking I saw an imprint all too ... |
2,721 | Describe your nightmare ( IN COLLABORATION WITH /r/SKETCHDAILY )
| The worst fear is that which comes unbidden, without explanation; that primal, gripping terror which no thought can dismiss.
For years, I've been plagued by the same series of images, usually arising from the depths of fevered illness. They seem harmless in their description, yet even in the retelling, I feel a pul... |
2,722 | You just saw what you 've always thought was just an urban myth .
| You grow up thinking the world is filled with monsters, just to realize that it ’ s just hoaxes and people that can ’ t tell the difference.
You grow up fearing escaped madman for insane asylums while most murderers know their victims.
You grow up and you realise that the world is much more tame than you ever t... |
2,723 | You have an awful memory , often forgetting everything from the day upon falling asleep every night , and have to transcribe things to remember . Tell us a note you find upon waking up in the morning that you left for yourself last night .
| I woke with a sense of missing, the feeling now starting to be the norm for me. The room was familiar, yet unknown to me. De ja vu. Frightening, yet familiar like an old friend. The room ’ s dirty, shrouded in twilight form the window blinds and smelled like I ’ ve yet to leave the room for a week. Have I ’ ve left the... |
2,724 | The man sitting across from you on the train is dead . Nobody notices .
| I looked at the body sitting across from me. The person was eerily still. `` Maybe he or she is sleeping,'' I thought. The face of the body was hidden by the hooded sweatshirt that he/she was wearing. 5 minutes passed, and the train came to an abrupt bounce. The body went flying into the middle of the aisle, and the ho... |
2,725 | She says she can talk to ghosts, the ghost's tell me she's a liar and they'd like a word. | Everyone’s psychic. Okay yeah maybe that’s not fair.
Hi, I’m Elizabeth and I’m a psychic. I can read your palm, guess what number you’re thinking (42.7), and see your future, but my specialty is ghosts. Let me tell you, ghosts are not what you think they are. All of those terrifying hauntings are demons. Ghosts are, w... |
2,726 | `` Why is there a portal to hell in the guest bedroom ? ''
| Oh, bloody hell. The in-laws are staying with us and I put them into the wrong guest room.
Now Theresa keeps screaming. Of course.
`` Theresa, shut it! I'm coming!'' I shout. I doubt she could hear me over her screams.
I hustle into her bedroom, and see her screaming at the portal to Hell tucked away under the sh... |
2,727 | A young woman wakes up to find $ 10,000 , a gun , and a note .
| I was going home when I saw my ex husband with her, she cheated on me. Bitch.
I felt like going there and kill them both. How dare she. I drove right into them. If I had a gun that time I would have kill them both. Fucking bitch.
But what happened next I don ’ t remember. Now I am here with this stupid gun and ... |
2,728 | You buy a special camera at the pawn shop . Every photo you take , it shows a snapshot of 10 years ago . You take a picture of your dog and it shows him 10 years ago when he was a puppy . Everything is all fun and games , until you decide to take a picture of your bedroom one night .
| Warmth flushed their cheeks as Rob and Rachel took a picture of their beloved Husky and the photo of him laying on the floor on his back, attentively looking up at his masters, tongue lazily hanging out of his mouth... he was such a cute puppy.
The twins tried to get creative. They took photos of relatively new cemet... |
2,729 | 250 words : Someone is watching you
| That tickle. The fine hair at the nape of my neck is telling me she's there, as it raises slightly when I cross the gulf of darkness between streetlights, when I fumble my front door key under the abyss of the broken porch light, in that split second after I climb into the car before I can get the lock button punched d... |
2,730 | 5 Minute Horror Prompt Challenge
| I knew I should n't have summon it, but I summoned it anyway, out of curiousity. Darn that old books I found in granny's basement, which by the way, also listed out the things I needed to seal it back off.
Apple, glass, chicken blood, human tears, and candle?
I can still hear `` it'' screaming upstairs, which m... |
2,731 | “We’re sorry, we didn’t know she was your daughter!” “And that’s your justification? You’re sorry because the vulnerable little girl you kidnapped was the wrong little girl? Are you saying you wouldn’t be sorry if it was any other little girl?” | Tick... Tick... Tick
Three men knelt, arms tied cruelly tight behind their backs. Thick bags covered their heads, gags pushed deep into their mouths. They shivered as they waited, the only sound the regular tick of a clock.
A sudden creak made them start. Muffled grunts rose in a chorus, as a series of footsteps reac... |
2,732 | Finally , she woke up .
| I ’ m a carpenter and I ’ ve been a carpenter since I was twelve. My father was a carpenter too and my mother used to work as a surgeon. She died a long time ago. I ’ m glad she ’ s not here anymore to see how things have changed in this town. The government told us not to panic; “ everything will be fine ” –they said.... |
2,733 | No Longer Human
| I looked at the mirror. Burns ran across my face. I was no longer human.
I sat by the window of the hospital, looking at the cars pass by one by one, trying not to see the slight reflection that I knew made me a monster. Although I hated the scars, I did n't regret what gave me them.
There was a fire in the apart... |
2,734 | : everything fake , artificial and symbolic you touch turns into the real thing it represented . Today was the wrong day to lose your gloves .
| You know, some people should really take the time to think through gifts to a friend with a special condition. Like, I really get where Frank's head was on this one, I do. It had meaning, it applied to me, and for literally anyone else, this would have been a great gift; but I think we all slipped on this one. I forgot... |
2,735 | Somebody just stole your garbage can. Little do they know you're a retired Navy Seal. | I hear a rumbling in the garbage can. It is late and my family is already asleep.
The moon shines brightly overhead. The wind has died down but has a calming rhythmic sound at this hour.
The smell of the garbage is strong and I know for certain that this is malicious. If they were adding garbage to my can, that is ac... |
2,736 | Write a first-person account of somebody turning into a zombie .
| I knew what was happening. I had become all too familiar with the process over the past two years. First, the drooling. The salivary glands kick into overdrive, producing more of the virus every second. Second, the breathing. I could feel my heart rate increasing. Two years, two fucking years of this shit and that bitc... |
2,737 | Equivalent Exchange is the absolute law in the universe you live in . If you gain something , you will lose something equivalent in value , and vice versa . One day , you won a $ 10 billion lottery . You try to find out what price you have paid .
| I kept waiting in fear. Kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, for the clock to strike midnight. For years after I won that lottery, I kept looking over my shoulder, expecting my family and fortune to be washed away by the Equivalent Exchange. It never happened.
My wife helped me, gradually. Even worth billions o... |
2,738 | Anyone under the age of 16 cannot use the Internet. To gain access, one must pass a competency test, much like a driving test. Your appointment is at 9:05am. | Ben and his family soon arrived at the DIC where, after a short wait, Ben was called up and ushered into the testing area while his parents and little sister played in the Department of Internet Competency Kid’s Section. Ben sat in a row of chairs filled with eager, acne faced teens pouring over their notes. Ben drew h... |
2,739 | When a child is born , both parents immediately become aware of how that child will die .
| She wanted to look. After last time, she still wanted to look. After what it did to us, after what it did to me. Still to this day, whenever I see those numbers my spine numbs and my head throbs. All that bottled fear and resentment takes hold of me and I have no say in the matter. 4 months, 22 days, 9 hours. That was ... |
2,740 | All /r/nosleep stories , creepypastas , etc . take place in the same universe .
| We thought we were so clever,
My best friend and I
I could n't believe that he believed me
When I told him:
`` Beneath my bed, something lies''
Imagine my surprise,
When he said:
`` Thank God, I thought I'd lost it,
when I heard those noises from the closet''
So our plan was hatched,... |
2,741 | A Secret Dungeon
| We should never have opened that trap door. We should have listened to that crazy old man that told us to put a rug over it and forget about it. Instead, we gave in to our curiosity and went down the rabbit hole.
Oh yeah, we went down there. If we had just opened the door and closed it, maybe we would n't have ange... |
2,742 | Go to your front page . The top post is your prompt .
| Before I went to bed, my father would tell me, `` do n't let the Ancient Roman Dickbutt bite.'' I never thought much of it, as he was always joking around, coming up with nonsensical things.
This time was different.
One night, I woke up for a reason that could never be explained. I looked over at my clock. It w... |
2,743 | "Sir, someone outside is waving at us." "Private, we are in a submarine that's a half-mile underwater, so tell me what the hell you mean by 'someone outside'." | “That’s impossible.” General James snorted. Looking out the window, he saw the lights of the submarine piercing the darkness of the sea as they were descending. “Look, there’s nothing there. I already told you to stop drinking on the job.”
“I’m telling you.” Private Harry firmly said. “There was someone outside waving... |
2,744 | A young teen runs away from home . The teen finds that News reports show that he has `` returned home safe and sound `` - he didnt .
| The walls and floors were licked with a grungy old texture of crumbling brick and dust, illuminated only by the static playing on the old CRT TV. How many days have I been here? I ’ ve asked myself this too many times to know that it has been awhile. At this point I am in dread to find out. My eyes scan the room for th... |
2,745 | you've been best friends with your best friend since you both were kids, but you dont know how to tell her that you are imaginary | I’ve been at her side since that day. I think back to where to it all began, that day on the playground. All the kids were circling her. Some threw sticks, and she needed someone to help her out of the mud. There was no one, only sticks and mean names. I think she must’ve been nearly losing her mind when she imagined m... |
2,746 | The zombie apocalypse happens on Holloween night , and hardly anyone notices .
| Halloween is supposed to be fun. It is supposed to be the time when you go out with your friends, get in a little trouble, and come home with massive amounts of candy. It ’ s supposed to be the time where you dress up and play games, frighten small children with your scary makeup, and come home as if nothing had ever h... |
2,747 | Write a really great story that ends so anticlimatically that I hate you .
| I breathed in the rooms musky stench slowly. This abandoned house is where we believe the suspected kidnapper and the girl he took are hiding. I opted to go in alone. From our profiling he seems primarily rational, just desperate.
My boots left a soft echo on the carpet as I headed towards the basement door. This f... |
2,748 | "So let me get this straight, you kidnapped my daughter, cured her of her deadly illness, and now youre finally calling for a ransom? Why!?" "Well your daughter was going to be useless to me dead." | "What?" he stuttered.
"I'm a healer—and a damned good one. I cured your daughter, and now I’m just asking for my fee."
"Your fee!? I didn’t even know who you were until you called! My daughter’s been missing for weeks—I didn’t know if she was alive or dead! And now you suddenly call, claiming you’ve cured her?"
"Not... |
2,749 | [ wp ] Create a monster . Explain it , write a story or a scene or even just a small bio , but create a monster .
| Sick men, dead men howling in the night,
When the moon grows fat and the sun slips out of sight
The Moroposa scuttle, the Moroposa crawl
They slip into the shadows and they scurry up the walls
Ten hairy legs and diamond blue eyes
And a mouth like a wound filled with razor yellow fangs
All the ch... |
2,750 | the body of a woman is found in the suburbs of Chicago , still warm . Due to a mixup in the lab , the tissue sample was carbon dated rather than DNA tested , the results are back , the body is 3.2 trillion years old .
| So here I am, I am the young officer who responded to the call. My name is Nathalia. I recently started working for the Chicago Police Department. Usually I get calls for domestic violence and robberies of which there are plenty. But this time was different. A young boy found the Jane Doe I am going to tell you about. ... |
2,751 | A long time ago , people who heard voices in their heads were considered insane . These days , it 's the people who hear nothing that are the crazy ones .
| They found out. The voices. They found out I couldn ’ t hear them. Could never hear them. They were supposed to kick in on my seventh birthday, like everyone else, but they never did. That night when my mother put me to bed, she asked what they were telling me. I looked into her big brown eyes. “ That I should do my be... |
2,752 | For as long as you know, you have seen people who are about to die with a gray aura. This morning seems absolutely normal until you look outside. Everyone is cloaked in gray haze. You watch TV and everyone glows gray. You look in the mirror and... you look absolutely normal. | “This… Can’t be good,” I say, rubbing my eyes.
The auras don’t lie, but there had to be a reason why everyone but me had one. Unless… I couldn’t see my own aura?
No, I’ve seen my own before. Like when I’m sad it’s blue, or when I’m happy it’s yellow. So why, and how, is everyone else in the world going to die?
I scr... |
2,753 | Write a 500 word story ending in a pun .
| `` They call him the left-side mutilator, Tom, and boy is he --''
I turned off the TV. What kind of 3rd grader watches the damn news? Damn. My daddy taught me that word. Damn. I used it a lot. I was late for school.
I always used to look out my window when brushing my teeth. Denver in December was beautiful, en... |
2,754 | Deadpool moves into a suburban area as cover, but the next door neighbor kid, Dennis, keeps bothering "Mr. Wilson." | “DENNIS!!!” Mrs. Mitchell yelled across the two backyards “What are you doing to Mr. Wilson’s roses!?!?” The blonde child stood up and proudly said “I’m helping Mr. Wilson pull weeds from his garden.” Mrs. Mitchell peered over the fence and saw a large pile of weeds, but also an equally large pile of roses. “Are you su... |
2,755 | Write a Scary Story with a Plot Twist
| I only kill because I have to.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -
I ca n't feel fear.
Are n't you supposed to feel it?
When something bad might happen?
Like she did, when she saw me open her door.
He eyes got wide and she screa... |
2,756 | You moved to a new house and lately paranormal things have been happening to you . One day you 're browsing r/nosleep and notice a story that sounds exactly like what 's happening to you , except the poster seems to think you 're the one haunting him .
| I was just waking up from one of those long-car-ride-naps as we pulled up to our new home—really though it was just somewhere I could get some sleep, it felt nothing like a true home— the house was eerie, painted a faded and dirty yellow, paint chipping and windows old, as if from the 1920's
`` Go up and see your r... |
2,757 | Write me a story with a good twist ending. | Astridd was standing at the edge of a lake on a cold, quiet grey morning. As she looked off over the great expanse of water, there was a silhouette of a barge off in the distance. She heard the sound of a fog horn, likely coming from the distant ship. Slowly, behind Her, she hears the soft crunching of the sand behind ... |
2,758 | You can turn back time to the day you were born when you're on the brink of death. You've lived countless lives both good and evil. When you finally allow yourself to die for good, you find yourself in a courtroom of angels and demons. Your lives are being judged. Every. Single. One. | I’ve done it all.
I’ve lived as the richest. I’ve lived as a nobody.
I’ve eaten delights and unholy atrocities from every corner of this Earth.
I’ve treated my myriad lives like a game.
The early lives were filled with discovery and curiosity, but the longer I “played”, the less patient I became. Living peacefully ... |
2,759 | `` Just go talk to her . ''
| Just go talk to her.
You know, I ’ ve never really seen that girl talk to anyone in class. I don ’ t even think she has talked to our professor. She ’ s only ever sat at the other end of my row in the very back, all alone. My friends, we ’ ve cultivated our group on this end and everyone else is spread out through ... |
2,760 | Theme Thursday - Quarrel | The foundation was born with a nasty temperament, and she was born with a stubborn streak.
When Marla was the sole benefactor of her late grandmother's inheritance, she bought The Grey House with cash. When she arrived, she found the house quiet.
Stale.
She opened every door, but the air refused to enter.
The sunli... |
2,761 | You notice your computer history is completely different to your normal one . The websites visited lend way to a terrible and dark secret .
| Ok, so I like to watch porn, alright?
But I mean, who does n't? When you live alone like I do, it's really the only free way to get some release. I never really had to be discrete, so I'd turn the volume up and just start going at it. But every now and again, my mother would come to visit me. She was coming tomorro... |
2,762 | `` I ... I really did n't want to do it . ''
| Is all I said as I dropped the smokey revolver.
The body with a fist sized bullet hole in its head toppled over giving off a haunting thud.
I fell to my knees as my sister began to sob. A crimson pool of blood began to fill the cold kitchen tile.
My mom was unconscious, sad to admit this was n't a new sight... |
2,763 | Someone in a mass grave is pretending to be dead to avoid detection . They suddenly realize they 're not alone in the ditch .
| They say you do n't know what you're capable of until you try. They were right.
I shiver in the cold, which is a lot more than anyone else here can do. It begins to rain. Of course it begins to rain. Why would n't it rain.
Just keep your head down, I tell myself. Slow your breathing. Do n't move.
Everything... |
2,764 | A horror story that does n't involve one of the big three ( Paranormal , Aliens , or a Psychopath ) just to show me it can actually be done .
| After my wife died, it got real hard to stay on top of things. Like, real hard. But I tried, I really tried, God knows I tried, I had four jobs, I was getting three hours of sleep a night for months, but the boys were fed, they were loved, everything was good we were all good and I just needed a break I was overworked ... |
2,765 | In life you were a entertainer, you died and returned to the world as an undead skeleton | I gazed at my exposed femurs in the reflection of the Waffle House bathroom mirror. In fact, all my bones are out in the open these days. I could not be any more naked. And yet, it was okay. No one expects a skeleton to wear clothes. Clothing is always optional for bone people.
The name’s Chuckling Tony. In life I was... |
2,766 | `` Remember , children , the Mainframe loves you and wants you to be happy . ''
| We march. We work. We do as It tells us. From 5AM to 9PM, we are It ’ s workers, but at the end of the night, it is all worth it, if only we get to hear words we so desperately long to hear.
Our expressions are blank, our uniforms are the same, we are identical; but to It, we are all different; we are unique. It kn... |
2,767 | This is n't some typical body-swapping comedy . Every person on Earth has been swapped with unmerciful randomness . Billions of lives are forever changed . Pick a few .
| I awoke with a start.
I had the most horrible dream of all time, as I removed my sheet and walked to my bathroom I noticed something odd.
The bathroom was n't there.
Where the bathroom was supposed to be was a wall.
In the darkness I fumbled around trying to find a light switch. I finally felt an opening ... |
2,768 | After strict homeschooling, you and your twin decide to enroll in college together. While at lunch with Mom, you mention a ridiculous discussion in Child Psychology about "Imaginary Friends", and that (your twin) especially found it hilariously absurd. A frown falls on your mothers face. "Who?" | I blinked. I glanced at Tim. Tim looked back at me, confusion sprawled across his face, his jaw slightly slack, his mouth slightly open. “Tim, Mom. Tim,” I said, putting my hand on her knee. Her brow furrowed in confusion, and she repeated her question. I sighed and shook my head. Tim put his face in his hands and ... |
2,769 | Writing Exercise : Start your story with , `` Get to the courtyard ! '' and continue writing without taking time to pause and think . Just keep writing even if at times you only produce gibberish .
| NSFW
“ Get to the Courtyard! ” Bernadette screamed as the dark images floated all around. The rest of the girls screamed, some running, some standing there, trapped, as the dark menacing ghost penises approached them and began rubbing against them.
“ No! ” she screamed. But she saw the ghost penises getting lar... |
2,770 | How did humanity kill itself ?
| ‘ Run. And don ’ t look back ’. That was the official government advice, looped on every screen in the country.
We sat in the darkening room, stunned. The message started over again: The same three notes followed by the face of our leader. We must have listened to that announcement ten times or more. Lydia gripped ... |
2,771 | Supervilliany isn't a matter of morality, it's a matter of obsession. If you have the kind of obsessive interest it takes to pursue a doctorate in a field that's not readily financially lucrative then you've said or heard the phrase "I'll show you! I'll show you all!" at some point in academia | ‘Enough.’
The noise echoed through the empty room. Empty except...
‘No more,’ I said. It felt good to hear my voice, strong as ever. No more bargaining with the universe. No more death.
The door of the warehouse burst open. ‘Doctor... it is doctor Cloudfeet, isn’t it?’
A calming, placating voice. ‘Don’t,’ I warned ... |
2,772 | You're a hollow man, you have neither bones nor muscle, and no understanding of how this happened. You are powered by an unknown source. Four diary entries are the only traces you have. | My first question was why.
Why I am like this. Why this happened. Why I only have skin and no bones, no muscle, no heart. How am I alive. The first thing I remember was waking up with a diary in my hand. It was mostly blank. Mostly. In it are four entries, and some of the other pages are ripped out.
The first one is ... |
2,773 | `` There 's an interesting story behind that headstone . '' Said the groundskeeper , rolling a cigarette . `` They do n't carve B.I.H . for just any old scoundrel . ''
| `` There's an interesting story behind that headstone,'' said the groundskeeper, rolling a cigarette. `` They do n't carve B.I.H. for just any scoundrel.'' He put the cigarette between his lips and lit it with a silver lighter he took from his front pocket.
A man stood next to him in a long poncho covering most of hi... |
2,774 | There 's people who stockpile guns , food , weapons , gold for the end of the world . You 're stockpiling something completely unexpected ; explain why .
| T-Minus 482 days
Lucked out today. Was coming back from a supply run when I saw them; a nice couple stuck on the side of the road with a flat. They were happy to see me when I stopped. Too bad I wasn ’ t there to help. Made it quick though. A bullet for each right through the head. I am not a monster after all. I j... |
2,775 | Your dog has always been a sort of protector, barking at exes before you broke up or warning you about would-be criminals on the street. But lately, your dog has been barking at you quite a bit | Ollie was always my protector since I got him. He was only a small dog - easy to not see and accidentally step on - but he had a mighty bark. Anyone trying to break in would hear his protesting barks from inside and get away immediately, fearing a massive monster to be waiting for them. But if they broke in they'd be m... |
2,776 | The zombie apocalypse starts...but every zombie is sentient, can talk, etc. Most of the zombies just live their normal lives. But you get trapped in a restaurant filled with that minority. Good luck. | Calling them “Zombies” never sat right with anybody, but the name stuck. What else could you call people who’d died, then came back to life and wanted to eat other people?
Some believed it was a designer virus, modeled after the zombies portrayed in comics and films. Maybe it was a military experiment that leaked from... |
2,777 | An individual is strictly vegetarian due to their being cursed with receiving visions of the final moments of anything they eat . A detective desperate to stop a rampant serial killer challenges them to break the ultimate taboo .
| Detective Jason Freedly rubbed his hands together and frowned. The dark haired young man sitting across the table looked warily into Freedly ’ s eyes through brown rimmed glasses.
“ You do n't actually believe any of that? ” The man's voice was reedy, his eyes big.
Freedly ran his hand through his hair, sighed,... |
2,778 | You’ve discovered a new plant in your garden with a peculiar property that could change your life forever. | “Look,” he fumed, “I ain’t Rick Moranis!” He pointed at the woman. “She ain’t Ellen Greene!” He whirled to face the wall. “And you sure as fuck ain’t Levi fucking Stubbs!”
“Of course not,” the plant replied, “None of us are that talented. But we are having this conversation. If you’re not able to move beyond the denia... |
2,779 | Santa 's replacement got the job by campaigning on a platform of punishing bad children instead of rewarding the good ones . It 's Christmas Eve .
| This is n't exactly what you were asking for, but it's something I had handy. David Cummings of the Nosleep Horror Podcast recorded a segment with it [ on a Christmas episode a year or two ago ] ( https: //soundcloud.com/sam-hunt-14/chimneysweep ) if you want to listen to that.
-- -- -- -- -- --
WHEN MIKE ELLIN... |
2,780 | You awake as a young child. Your memory is foggy. Many of the things around you seem out of place - you ask what the day is, and nobody seems to know. To your surprise, there's no calendars. You don't even know what year it is, and the thought of "year numbers" makes others think you're crazy. | “I don’t know who I am”.
That was the first thought that rushed into my mind as I opened my eyes. I bolted up in panic, my mind sending out alarm signals.
“I don’t know where I am”.
That was the second thought that burst into my mind, slamming open the door and screaming. The room around me was a child’s room. It wa... |
2,781 | Write about the morning after she died .
| Normally when it was this quiet in the house, it was because she was sleeping or watching a show in the living room. Usually I would relish in the quietness of the house because I always knew it wouldn ’ t last that long. She would soon burst into my office with her bouncy red curls and blue eyes and ask for another ju... |
2,782 | You are a reflection .
| My reflection in the mirror hates me,
and I know because she told me so.
She twists and turns and fogs the glass
bending unnaturally while moving with me
she pinches her skin and leaves blemishing marks
tearing off pieces she deems she does not need.
“ Just wait, ” she whispers as she bites he... |
2,783 | You are considered unluckiest person alive by the general public. This is because you are the only person to have opened an animal shelter specifically for a constantly hunted down and killed type of animal… black cats. | I scratch the numbers of my lottery ticket and theatrically sigh, deflated. Mr Singh behind the counter smiles sympathetically. “Another loser Mr Biggs is it? Well, those cats…” I nod, seemingly dejected and leave the shop, walking towards the bin.
I make a throwing gesture towards it, with sleight of hand substituting... |
2,784 | In the future , technology exists to transfer one person 's conciousness to another body , giving identity theft a whole new meaning . Write about the identity black market .
| The first time I came into contact with the black market was body theft, back when I was 13. Stealing bodies, or'literal identity theft', as some of the police called it, is n't as commonplace as an occurrence as drug dealing, slavery or individual body parts, but is a definite problem.
It was a Saturday morning. I... |
2,785 | A single person has developed a super power called John Joe, a power that makes you look like you belong where ever you are. This person figures out that they have the power when they stumble upon a secret government/military research facility. | I better start from the beginning. I got home a little late one evening after some overtime. Starving, I drove down to Gloria’s Sandwiches and Melts for a smoked ham panini. I walk in the door, up to the counter, and Gloria comes out from the kitchen. Instead of her usual “What can I get for you?” She looks at me stern... |
2,786 | A story that begins "the water is quiet tonight" | The water is quiet tonight.
I sit waiting. Cold, tired, hungry. Alone.
The trip had been a success. Three days and three nights the sea raged and we rode it in our canoes. We cast our nets amongst the waves and filled our boats to excess. We were kings and the sea was our domain.
On the morning of the fourth day the... |
2,787 | Life is a game . One day at random you are promoted from `` player '' to `` moderator . ''
| Old man Bayou woke up before his alarm. It was Monday! Grinning, he threw off the covers and leapt out of bed. There was a poster on his wall, from his daughter, which detailed a complex series of calisthenics that promised to keep him ‘ Spry and Steady ’.
But he didn ’ t need those exercises to feel spry today! It... |
2,788 | When you get home, you expect your young son to be in bed. However, there's giggling and the sound of footsteps everywhere. Your son is everywhere. | Time. You may have heard of it. It’s the thing that keeps everything from happening all at once. Life without functioning time would be quite the headache…
Space, similarly, is the thing that keeps everything from happening in the same spot. Life without functioning space is, in my experience, also a headache.
The Gr... |
2,789 | A monster eats people and subsequently gives birth to identical clones that retain victims' memories. The clones tend to see themselves as the same person, but not everyone agrees. | “…Okay, Sam, we need to talk about this.”
“I still don’t see what the big deal is Emmie! She’s just like Zoe in every possible way. She practically is Zoe! What more do you want?” The two were referring to their sister, Zoe.
Or at least, the thing that took Zoe’s place.
The real Zoe-at least in Emmie’s opinion- had ... |
2,790 | You have just died . A hooded figure tells you that he 's retiring , and you 've been elected to take his place .
| I can just hear my mother ’ s nagging voice now. After reassuring her for the fourth time that, yes my coat is warm enough for the winter, she ’ d remind me to get a carbon monoxide monitor. Cause you know, it ’ s the silent killer.
And here I am, standing in this crowd overlooking an ominous river, the sound of ... |
2,791 | A boy downloads some shady software on his computer , and does n't read the terms and conditions . Hidden in these terms however , is some dark stuff ( im not sure what it could be )
| `` These stupid terms and conditions, fifteen pages long? Are you kidding me? Yes blah blah, I accept.''
`` Finally. I finally can play this game.. Three different softwares from three different websites, ridicolous.''
I opened the game and as soon as I did, my mom yelled `` Time for dinner!''
`` GOD DAMN I... |
2,792 | What sort of ghost would haunt a gas station? | Jim. Age 65, looks 70. Lived in a small rural town with one local gas station. It was a small convenience store with 2 gas pumps available. He has been a regular at this gas station for 40 years. Jim was truck Driver for Walmart. Smoked a pack of John Player Blue Kingsize cigarettes daily. He was 5’8” with salt and pep... |
2,793 | In the near future an ancient virus is discovered by scientists . It begins to spread and its now on the news . You 've been alive for centuries now , and you 're immune to it from when it went around the first time . Do you help the human race and risk giving up your secret ?
| I remember the last time it came. At first, no one took it seriously. Why would they? With diseases like SARS, Swine Flu, which promised to kill millions but only killed a few there was no reason to panic. Hell, even the Ebola virus killed millions before 2016 but people still ignored it. If it was far away it was some... |
2,794 | Sunday Free Write : Leave A Story , Leave A Comment - Eve of Infamy Edition
|
Overcoming Fear
Christian Killpack
As a child, death was something that I would often think about. It was a scary thought. Thinking about taking last breath before becoming an unkown pile of dust, was a debilitating idea. I pondered about the kind of pain and emotion I would feel for the last time on this Earth... |
2,795 | A mundane task written to seem exciting and action-packed .
| The red lights started to flash and the incessant beeping would not stop. I can ’ t believe this is actually happening. To me. Today of all days. I knew I should ’ ve stayed away, but what else was I to do?
I frantically run to the large machine, grabbing it on both sides, willing it to be quiet as I looked for som... |
2,796 | Santa Claus in a therapy session talking about some of the traumatizing things he 's encountered while delivering presents to peoples houses .
| `` I've seen a lot of things, young fellow. Some good, some bad. You live as long as I lived and there's scarce a thing left to surprise you out there,'' said the old man, a faraway look in his eyes. `` Maybe you can understand.''
`` You want to remember the good you did. You want it to have counted. It may not be ... |
2,797 | Mass destruction killed off 99 % of all germs . Only the 1 % survived . However , they wo n't settle for anything less than a supreme meal of brain protein .
| We hid out in an old shed in the woods, away from the town, isolated in the tangled greenery as if in some enchanted otherworld of lush and gnarled forestry, a world known only to us, and thought about the real world, the civilized world, the world out there, which had been crumbling into chaos as we fled it, set upon ... |
2,798 | Describe when someone when they die , they 're still `` conscious '' .
| I think you meant `` Someone dies but they find themselves conscious''
Either way, here goes.
It ’ s funny, this never crossed your mind; how you ’ ll die and when. You look at murder victims, car accidents, heart attacks on the TV and think that, that would never happen to you. But here you are on the cold tar... |
2,799 | In the quiet hours of the night , you think about your life and the direction it has taken . An opportunity to escape and start over suddenly presents itself . You are Donald Trump 's hair .
| The friction against the pillow wakes me up as Don rolls back and forth in bed. Another appearance today, and all I can think about is how much I ’ d rather be back in my old human body, erasing my wishes to escape and start my life over.
“ Oh god, here we go again, ” I thought. The wind is sweeping over me and I ’... |
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