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2,800 | There is a group of children that have been raised as part of a psychological experiment . They have never been exposed to the outside world .
| Her name is Subject A, and she is six years old. That is all the information I am given by the researchers as I enter the white room. I sit in the seat directly facing her and the lab members exit through the door which we entered.
I immediately take notes concerning my first impressions of her. At first glance, th... |
2,801 | The demon you conjured up 20 years ago is at your front door . She says that her and Lucifer got in a fight and she needs a place to stay for awhile .
| `` Hey Denny your looking pretty good for an old guy, I have n't seen you since prom ”
The female demon stood in an extremely revealing dress outside my front door, her pitch black eyes actually looked happy, never a good thing with a demon. I stepped out and closed the door a little bit so my wife could n't see he... |
2,802 | Grandma Dorothy from Kansas just sent you a Christmas gift : a pair of ruby sneakers .
| Ruth threw off her pink covers and jumped out of bed. She had all the reasons to be excited: It was her 18th birthday and her Grandma Dorothy had promised her that on this special day, she ’ d receive an extraordinary present.
“ They ’ re going to take you places, my dear, ” her grandma always said.
Ruth ran ou... |
2,803 | You dropped the soap . [ NSFW ( ? ) ]
| “ Whoops! ” I said out loud as the soap slipped out of my hands.
I instinctively moved my foot to keep it from sliding away, but I ended up kicking it to the side. It bounced off the sides of the bathtub and slipped between my legs. I turned around to find it slowing down behind me.
When I bent down to get it, ... |
2,804 | [ ff ] short horror story inspired by your most recent nightmare .
| We buried our daughter in 2013. One of the biggest things that stands out in my mindy is that I remember being frustrated with her one particular day. `` Terrible Two's'' they called it. She would n't stop whining. I lost my patience. I yelled at her. She needed `` help'' playing with a toy. I was on another important ... |
2,805 | The Girl in the Library
| I ’ ve been seeing her every day now. At first it was a coincidence. I had been escaping my loud apartment to get some studying done. Each time she got there, she ’ d drop off the book from the day before and then wander around looking for the next one. I was amazed that she finished books that quickly. I knew it was a... |
2,806 | People come from all around to talk to you, to pour out their hopes, their dreams, their losses, and their sadness. But they've got the wrong bartender — you don't deal in therapy, you deal in blackmail. | People trust me. There’s something about me, I guess. I’ve been told I have an honest face. I don’t know if all telapathists are treated the same way. I don’t think so. I’ve only met a few other telepathists in my life. We’re not usually a social crowd and we keep to ourselves and our little sections of the city. I thi... |
2,807 | The witch says her goodbye's to her beloved town before they burn her at the stake. | “I am so sorry.” The witch looked all around her, the townspeople chanting, “BURN HER! BURN HER! BURN HER!” repeatedly, screaming at the top of their lungs with angry faces. She had lived in this town for many, many years. Ever since she was young, she’s known the buildings, and the stores, everybody. Especially the ba... |
2,808 | Write a story that ends with `` And that 's when I realized I died . ''
| I woke up feeling amazing considering I threw a huge party the night before. I knew I had drank too much and I was relieved to wake up with no hangover. I walked to my roomate's room stepping over passed out people in the living room and laid on her bed. I whispered her name a couple times and nothing happened, she was... |
2,809 | 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... |
2,810 | You are about to die . Write as if you 're currently experiencing your very last moments .
| Time stood still.
Not as if it were frozen, I knew intuitively, not like those hikers I had read about in the paper – who had climbed too high and waited for the camera to find their corpses - but as if it were holding its breath, waiting to cheer or waiting to scream. Waiting to blow me away like a hurricane.
... |
2,811 | `` It stared at me , with its white glowing eyes ... ''
| The cold moist dirt under my feet was spreading shivers up my legs and up my spine. I kept walking, keeping up a fast pace, fearful. It was dark, the air felt cold and moist; the smell of leaves, trees and decomposing leaves was constantly flooding my nose, but it was giving me some unexpected confort. Despite the fact... |
2,812 | Student loans debt collection just got violent .
| “ Please enter payment amount. ”
I feel giddy typing in four digits. It ’ s been a long four years since I finished college, but I ’ m finally back on my feet.
“ Would you like to submit? ”
Hell, yes. Goodbye, student loans. You bled me dry and I won ’ t miss you.
Many episodes of Game of Thrones and on... |
2,813 | Dr.Seuss just published his new horror book .
| Sit down to hear the tale of sadness and woe
Which might make a beast decide to go
Run home to his mother in the darkest of holes
As urine flows freely and soaks his soles
The village lay silent with houses well kept
Nothing exciting to occur and all the inhabitants slept
When the Whimwhackers... |
2,814 | Write about a character slowly descending into insanity .
| jEROME NOTICED THAT HIS shift KEY WAS ACTING FUNNY. hE PRESSED IT BUT IT WORKED backwards.
tHAT ’ S ODD, jEROME THOUGHT.
hE STARED AT HIS COMPUTER MONITOR, MENTALLY SHOUTING OUT EACH WORD THAT HE TYPED IN ALL CAPS.
He tried pressing the shift key and CAPSLOCK at the same time, with MoDeRaTe success.
bUT... |
2,815 | A lawyer is haunted by the ghosts of their defendant’s victims. | “Full disclosure, I didn’t know that he’d actually killed those folks, until their ghosts practically lead me by the hand to the evidence that the prosecution would’ve killed to have. Shit, sorry too soon, pun not intended. Anyway I figured I might as well come to you guys with it. He already got tried at the state lev... |
2,816 | The reason babies cry so much is we never actually die , we are reborn over and over again living the same lives . They remember everything including their deaths . It 's only as they grow the memories fade , except every once in a while as deja vu .
| “ Oh Jesus Christ, you little shit! ” Ms. Sollabaker swung her arm above the child, as if to hit it, “ Fifteen minutes into this world and you can ’ t even stand it. Well, I can ’ t stand you either! The same as I couldn ’ t stand your mother! ” The woman swatted the air and turned away to tend to the stove.
It j... |
2,817 | A creepy story at appears normal until the end , where all the details clicks together perfectly and chills you to the spine .
| Jan sat in the pristine white waiting room. Her eyes glanced across the rooms. On the counter, a red LED flashed the number'136'. In her hand was a crumpled ticket, numbered'137'. Her fingers tightened around the ticket.
`` Shh, my child.''
Jan looked up to see a young lady step out from the corner, her face, m... |
2,818 | Every year on the same day, a letter arrives at your house addressed to someone who has not lived there for over 50 years. The letter is sealed with red wax and the handwriting for the address never changes. This year, you decided to open it. | Moving out of my parents' home wasn't easy for me. People are expected to move out when they're 18, or maybe in their mid twenties when they've graduated college, but me, I didn't move into a place of my own until my thirties. I didn't think it was possible I could live on my own at all, because I'm disabled. Then I le... |
2,819 | Describe an everyday action as if it was the most horrifying thing on earth .
| He grabs the filthy stick, with the whiskers caked with a white substance. It has been there for 6 months now, constantly collecting grit. He grabs the tube filled filled with it and places it on the whiskers...
He turns the knob as the water falls from the sink, while holding the brush under it to with the grimy g... |
2,820 | Scientists find an early specimen of Homo Sapiens Sapiens trapped in a block of ice, and thaw it out. After its recovery, the ancient human stays quiet for a time, simply listening to the scientists. Hours later, to their shock, it begins to speak. | “I have been listening to you.”
Dr. Drew Caruthers and his team watched an a mixture of excitement and horror as the stony faced iceman began to speak, an a strange, guttural, and stilted English. His eyes conveyed little as did his tone. He had been placed in a heating chamber, immersed in liquid, and slowly thawed o... |
2,821 | A planet rotates once every 1,000 years so that each side is either tundra or desert ; the poles are also frozen wastes , but there is a small area of ever moving habitable land . Two nomadic tribes isolated on each side of the planet begin to find the 500 year old relics of the other .
| The trees were flashing green in the light. It had been so long since we had seen green, or even light. Nothing but the bunker walls. Cold concrete, sterile lights, ladders leading to the surface locked. No one in our family had been outside in seven generations, even Grandpa couldn ’ t give any advice on what to expec... |
2,822 | Tell the saddest story your heart can bear .
| `` What do you think?'' Laurie stepped into the apartment, carrying the baby and watching as her three other children bounded in, excited to have a home of their own again. It had been a long time living in shelters and they would still have to share a room, but now it wouldn ’ t be with strangers.
“ It ’ s aweso... |
2,823 | It's a nice day, oh look! A sentient mannequin! | Today was going well, all my client so far being humans, I don’t have anything against living objects, it’s just hard to understands them, my years of learning how to be a psych never trained me for animate objects.
Though most sessions are easy as they are just confused about there purpose in life and why they are al... |
2,824 | Write something both beautiful and horrifying .
| She waited. She dallied. In secret silence she shook and knew that she must move, but her feet weren ’ t solid, they looked unreal, wispy even. “ How can you move without feet? ” the young woman puzzled.
A buzz of light whispers fell on her ears, coming somewhere from behind. “ What is that noise? ” she thought, “ ... |
2,825 | You 're driving when Death appears in the passenger seat , telling you that you are about to die . Your car crashes and you black out . You wake up , hours later , in a deserted field . Death is laying dead on next to you . You feel cold so you put on his robe and take his scythe for protection .
| `` What the hell just happened?'' I asked myself. I was somewhere in a corn field. Nobody else was there except for Death, who was lying on the ground dead. Knowing that it would get much darker and colder soon, I stole his robe and put it on. Then, I went for his scythe. When I first laid my hand on it, a cold chill r... |
2,826 | You are a hitman who faked their own death to live out the rest of your days in peace . You are attending your own funeral service when you notice one of your previous 'marks ' is there alive and well .
| There were more people at my funeral than I had expected. I had become a celebrity when accounts of my last job made the news. It was admittedly sloppy work, the kind of sloppy work that would lead one to fake their own demise. After over a dozen jobs, I wanted peace.
My first job was the easiest. A man hired me to... |
2,827 | A grandmother 's Satanic cult meeting is interrupted when her daughter-in-law drops off her 6 year old grandchild unannounced
| As Lucy walked into the room she saw the others had almost finished the preparation. They were in the basement of her house which was perfectly isolated for the ceremony. No windows for nosy children to peek through, soundproofed to prevent neighbors from hearing, and only one entrance leading to the main floor of the ... |
2,828 | On your 17th birthday , instead of the usual boring presents from your parents , they say that your grandfather left you 10 millon dollars and a small island on the opposite side of the world , asking you to `` finish what he started '' .
| The pilot finally signaled for me to pull out my earplugs, and for the first time since taking of from Melbourne Airport i was greeted with blissful silence.
“ Welcome to your island sir, your staff will be arriving shortly. I believe the main building is right up ahead. I hope you had a pleasant trip, and I look... |
2,829 | You are a leaf and autumn has just begun .
| I ’ m scared, of course, but also darkly thrilled that autumn is here. I think some of the other leaves suspect some sort of change, but they're a few weeks late. Autumn has been here for a while, forever really, waxing and waning and waxing again. This will be my first and last autumn, though. The tree says it's nothi... |
2,830 | A demon hunter discovers that his wife is a demon.....18 years and 3 kids into the marriage | “JEZ, BEZ, LUCY” I hollered up the stairs “Cone on down, we need to have a talk!!” There was quite a rumbling as the kids stirred upstairs, doing as they were told. JEZ was the first one to rumble down the old set of stairs. I flinched in disgust as his scales looked extra pussy today, and chunks of bloody eye boogers ... |
2,831 | Being sick with an incurable disease you chose to be frozen until a cure could be found. Waking from your long sleep you were hoping for good news only to find yourself standing in the middle of a ruin in front of a team of archeologists. | The first breath I took choked me. Particles of fine dust teased my throat, and drew from me a cough that seized through every fibre of my body. I was alive.
My eyes slowly opened, malformed shapes filling my vision. They danced and bobbed, as my eyes continued to adjust. My body was still soaked- the refuse of my ic... |
2,832 | Write about a boy whose only friend is his shadow . Make a dark/creepy twist on something happening to the boy and his shadow trying to deal with it .
| It's currently 3:30pm March 1989. I've been Marty's shadow for 6 years now and we've learned so much. There's nothing I loved more than being by his side while we discovered his first loose tooth. Or when we played handball during recess. Where there was light, we were together.
`` Hey Marty, come inside for a mome... |
2,833 | They 've been mankinds loyal helper for longer than anyone can remember . Helping us in our yards and keeping things tidy ... Until today , where were you , when the lawnmowers attacked ?
| I remember a time when I thought this whole ordeal was a joke. When I saw the reporter on the news saying, stern-faced, that lawnmowers where staging an uprising, of course I couldn ’ t fathom a scenario in which this could possibly be true. I am a man of science. The idea of an object so mundane becoming sentient just... |
2,834 | Let 's stop for a moment with all of those `` paranormal '' scary stories . Write a terrifying piece that could really and plausibly happen to anyone .
| A few yards away in the other room, I hear the shower faucet turn on. Rising sunlight is beginning to spill slowly through the half-closed blinds, illuminating the kitchen, where I've been lazily preparing coffee grounds for the french press. It's too early for planning the day, too early for action, I grumble silently... |
2,835 | Everytime you wake , you 're somewhere you 've never been . Could be a different country , could be a differnt world . Tell me how you survive .
| Arnie was unsettled and uneasy as he heard constant and steady shuffling behind him. He rolled over and couldn ’ t understand how or why anyone would sleep in these conditions. The mattress underneath him felt as tough as concrete, so he was glad that it was his last night in this place. He was n't totally sure how he ... |
2,836 | You are stuck in a box
| How many days have I been here? It ’ s so dark and cold. Hello? I called out to no one, but I could hear them. Faint voices like the whisper of the wind through an invisible crack in the wall but I can hear them. I stand up and stretch my back, hearing the familiar crack. There is no echo, just darkness everywhere. Wha... |
2,837 | Unable to stop the impending accident , a man who can stop time as long as he does n't move prepares himself to watch his daughter die .
| She hung there, her little body suspended in mid-air. I could see shards of glass popping up into the air all around. At this very moment, it was as if the car in front of me had merged with my own, a splendid view of chaos and creation.
I had had this ability ever since I could remember. I could stop time. But the... |
2,838 | Write about your dream last night as you experienced it .
| Last night's dream was vivid and fun and I woke up too soon, but I ca n't remember a thing. The night before though...
It was our first family vacation, to my dream resort. Literally, a resort I have visited in my sleep many times before, and I was excited to be back and have my family with me. I knew I was dreamin... |
2,839 | You are a dragon. A child has fallen in your cave. He is young and scared. | The last meal was some time ago, so long that I cannot remember.
My great belly has been starved of meat, and the bones have been gnawed clean.
“Hello.”
Who’s there!
“Don’t hur-urt me..”
Oh, it is a little ape. A hairless one, presumably from the village south of this cave.
“You look thin like my mommy.”
I haven... |
2,840 | 'It 's not the creature you need to be afraid of ... '
| I hear him scream and leap out of bed, racing to his room. I flip the light switch but nothing happens, stupid switch has n't worked properly in weeks now.
I ca n't see him on the bed.
I hear him whimper from the closet. I open the doors and his tiny hand grabs mine and pulls me in, down below the hanging shirt... |
2,841 | Tell me a generic zombie apocalypse story , in the perspective of the zombies .
| I feel all numb
I ca n't see clearly
Am I dying?
Wait what's that smell
Smells like my old grill
Dad's cooking the sausages.
Oh man I'm so hungry
How long has it been since I've eaten?
The smell is walking towards me
Wait no I'm moving
Oh god it's so close
Oh man it's like th... |
2,842 | The year is 2241, the technology to travel back into the past has been invented. Your job is to hide the irradiated creatures the company you work for creates. Dinosaurs, mythical beasts and monsters of the past are all thanks to you. | God, I hate my job.
You may THINK, that you hate your job, but you don’t. Oh, you have to stay till 1:04 AM sweeping floors? I have to travel to 104 AD to convince people that the stretchy-neck-tree-beasts marketing was planning on selling as lawn-management creatures were always there.
Geneticorp-- giving birth to t... |
2,843 | "You know he's using you right? You don't have to do this." "I know. But it's not about using or being used. It's not about trust. He gives the order, I execute. That's how it's always been, that's how we always lived." | “You know he’s using you, right? You don’t have to do this...”
I knew, but it wasn’t about using or being used. It wasn’t even about trust. “He gives the order, and I execute. That’s how it’s always been. That’s how we always lived.” I stepped forward toward the gathering crowd.
Things were getting out of hand. Raydo... |
2,844 | You 're exploring your old childhood home when you discover your imaginary friend that you have forgotten about completely . You were playing hide and go seek and they 've been hiding for 25 years .
| It's my 32nd birthday, the day I get presents from my friends, and little letters from distant relatives. This year was a bit different for me... It felt like I had this tug on me ever since my parents died, im not sure what exactly it was... I kept my birthday party short, a couple drinks with some of my co-workers, o... |
2,845 | There's a new death penalty drug that acts as a hallucinogen, causing the prisoner to experience his worst fears until he dies of cardiac arrest. You were convicted of a crime and your execution is today. | I wasn’t scared when they told me what my method of execution would be; I didn’t think that I even had any fears-true fears, that is. Fear that grips you, presses down on your chest and screams in your face that everything isn’t going to be ok. Boy was I wrong. ‘The date is the twenty second of May, Two thousand and ei... |
2,846 | A horror movie scene from the point of view of someone that acts sensibly while everyone else is stuck using horror movie logic .
| Set the scene, 5 characters Bradley, Jessica, Aaron, Ellie & Big P. Bradley has been trying to sleep with Jessica for quite some time. Aaron knows that Ellie wants him. Big P is an up an coming rapper trying to get in with the cool kids. Jessica ’ s parents are out of town so she throws a little party with some of her ... |
2,847 | It was previously though that the morality of your actions decided where you went after death . It has since been discovered that the weight of others approval , or disapproval of your actions is what decides it .
| Hell is my predetermined place of rest. I'm going to be the sole dominator, take my place on that throne as well decide the fate of almost everyone in my own monotonous existence. We do what we do to cleanse the world of it's basic scum, the same shitbags who are blinded by their own hubris. Also, we all have a bit of ... |
2,848 | You see a monster in your house that you can only see in a mirror. To your surprise, it can only see you in a mirror. | My sister Carla was there when I first saw it. She was trying to hurry me out of the bathroom to do her makeup. I wiped the condensation from the mirror and noticed a dark shape behind her. Confused, I watched as it slowly came into view. Despite the initial lurch in my chest I forced myself to ignore it, it was certai... |
2,849 | Bad news : February 2 will be like the movie `` Groundhog Day '' and you will have to live it 10,000 times . Good news : You have one week to prepare .
| The letter arrived on a Saturday morning, postmarked from East Monroe, LA. Inside, the note, written on plain white paper, was simple. “ Ever since the accident, every day is the same, hell. With my dying breath, I curse you to the same thing. Forever the same, forever unchanged. You have one week. ”
The accident, ... |
2,850 | The mail room for a large government building receives an envelope of glitter . The staff recognizes it as a common prank and resumes work . Over the next week , they notice the glitter is not going away , and seems to be spreading . You are the first to recognize the worlds first nanobot attack .
| It was glitter, and it was bright and sparkly, and it was digging into the flesh of his neck. It was digging, and blood was dripping down him and his blood was bright and sparkly. I was drinking coffee, my third cup of the morning, and it split on my chin and dripped on my chest. Momentarily I only cared about the hot,... |
2,851 | After weeks of trying to fall asleep with your eyes open , you succeed -- and the result makes you regret your choice forever .
| I could n't move. I was asleep. I was looking straight at the ceiling. The sound of my fan became deafening and soon my mind blocked it out completely until I could t hear a thing. The sound of nothing was louder than anything I have ever experienced. This is when I saw them.
They appeared from out of the shadows a... |
2,852 | One person dreams of another person . This person dreams of that person . Only one is having nightmares and the other is dreaming of being saved .
| `` Eliza!'' I did n't... Know her, but... I knew her somehow too. It did n't matter either way, there was n't time to figure it out, I could n't let it get her. I dove, pushing the girl out of the way of the oncoming horror. I could n't tell what the thing was, I only felt overwhelming terror, and then... I was eaten, ... |
2,853 | Sunday Free Write : Leave A Story , Leave A Comment - Muckraking Edition !
| I ’ m going to die. One week I ’ ve been walking through the mountains, and for one week I ’ ve been lost. It ’ s easy to get lost when you don ’ t know where you ’ re going. Dam snow won ’ t stop falling. It was a mistake trying to go through the mountains, but there wasn ’ t any other choice. I ’ ve been running all ... |
2,854 | Make the reader go nope as many times as you can
| `` So it is called... what again?''
`` Scorpion-wasps. They are two species of arthropoids in the human world. Fascinating when combined - the poisonous stinger of the first and the flying and extreme territorialism of the second.''
`` Right. And how will they serve us?''
`` Fly around and sting the humans.... |
2,855 | An employee walks up to you, "Hey, welcome! How can I help you today?" You glance around twice before muttering, "I need to kill a sorcerer." The retailer's eyes proceed to go black, and with a wicked grin, she gestures to the back door. Welcome to the Beyond of Bed & Bath. | “Bed, Bath & Deception”
“So, I need to kill someone. Anything here that can help?”
“Sir! We don’t sell such things!”
My face fell. Bed, Bath, and Beyond was the only store open this late, and I was on a tight schedule. “Are you sure? Bob said you could help kill the sorcerer...”
“Why didn’t you say so!” Gesturing t... |
2,856 | A normal family goes about their normal lives in a very normal way . You are the family 's goldfish/pet . `` What is normal ? ''
| The man was intimidating, but I liked him. He was very energetic, and talked with his hands a lot. When he came home from work, he always grabbed his wife and dipped her down before he kissed her. She giggled and squealed and loved it every time. He was also very good to his two children. He taught the older one- the b... |
2,857 | Every single time you end a life, your appearance become more and more attractive. | Sarah first murdered her younger sister by drowning her in the bathtub then dumped her body in the back of a stranger's car so they could take the blame. After that, her blood lust never was satisfied. Every day on her way to high school she would search for small animals to kill. She particularly liked rabbits because... |
2,858 | One for one
| I killed a homeless man. There – I said it.
I was going to kill myself, truly I was. But a child needs a father and this man was old, sick, childless. He was going to die anyway.
“ It was a mercy. It was a mercy. ” I repeat every night before sleep, yet I don ’ t sleep.
I still carry the knife I ’ d have us... |
2,859 | Make something that is incredibly cute and innocent sound terrifying and gruesome
| I stood motionless in terror, watching silently as the slavering beast drew near. Its high-pitched yaps like a thousand dreadful bells from some obscure Lovecraftian city. The monster ’ s coat was perfectly, innocently white, just like its sharp teeth. But I knew that it would soon revel in bloodshed, dripping crimson ... |
2,860 | You run an industrial sized human breeding facility , similar to a fish hatchery , give me a tour .
| “ Good afternoon Anzar Quorlac and Anzir Quorlic, are you ready to order? ”
“ Ah yes. ” said Anzar Quorlac. “ The lady here will have the heart, sautéed in Type A+ blood with spring onions with the fig salad. And I will have the grilled liver with CSF confit and greek salad. ”
“ Excellent choices. What would yo... |
2,861 | A world in which if someone fails to complete a dare or bet, they die. | Part 3
“Well, dude, where is she?” asked Chris Duggan, leaning back in a leather recliner, red cup in hand.
Ant looked down at his phone. He hadn’t heard from her since 9:04 when she said she would be here soon. It was now 9:20 pm and soon had come and gone. He began to pace, rubbing his clammy palms together.
“Hey ... |
2,862 | You're a kid whos mom was obsessed with a cult, and when you were just 12, she sacrificed you. You end in hell and expected to be tortured for eternity, but turns out the demon wanted a child of his own | My mum was a neglectful and really weird person, growing up I found she was obsessed with the occult and all things unusual or creepy, we always had some sort of new cursed object coming in each week, or a new appointment with some old fortune teller who could see the dead or tell you the future.
Her odd obsession wit... |
2,863 | You 've made a terrible mistake .
| The rain comes in buckets, a torrential downpour that washes away everything around me. That threatens to wash me away.
I slog through the ever-growing rivers and push myself through the first window I find. It's dry in here, but every inch of my body is covered in water.
I shiver, and grope through the dark fo... |
2,864 | When you were born, your parents named you Gaia. Other than being made fun of, nothing special ever happened until you were struck by lightning, giving you the power to harness it. Ever since than you have been trying to survive through as many natural disasters as you can to gain more power. | 2018: Hawaii
It seems like everywhere I go, I feel isolated and connected at the same time. I don’t feel connected to people, no. I was teased mercilessly as a kid. I was the running joke for years, which naturally followed me into high school. Guidance counselor used to say, “you got a rain cloud following you, Dirkm... |
2,865 | You are a medical student , doing questions from an online databank to prep for an exam . You read one question stem and it describes a patient that sounds exactly like you . Suddenly , you start to remember things from your past that start to click into place .
| THE SECOND ASSASSIN
Los Angeles, California – 1971
The question described a patient brought to the hospital ER at 3:30 am on June 5, 1968. He was late twenties, unconscious, with two mysterious burns on his head, one on each temple.
A lightning bolt exploded in his mind. Jim pressed both palms to his temple... |
2,866 | Hush , hush , mommy 's gon na eat you now .
| The time was now, I had no choice, they were starving, but so were we. They are already becoming too skinny and the meat is starting to recede. Bones protruding from them, they could n't speak they were so weak.
The oven was started, the fire nice and hot. The warmth in the cabin always felt great once the fire was... |
2,867 | In the future , souls of loved ones can be stored in bank vaults . An armed robbery is in progress .
| The plan was simple. Three man team, go in at midnight, minimal tools, low security. New client has one of the most unusual requests I've ever heard, but my partner vouches for him. Banks are n't what they used to. It's been years since the last bank robbery has happened, without money there has n't been a reason. Unti... |
2,868 | Write a story based on one of these posters for imaginary movies
| Grandma tells me about the time when we remembered the dead. She does this occasionally and the times get fewer and farther between each time as her mind goes. She takes great care to not actually remember them for any length of time. The horrors that had come back from those longing for their loved ones were enough to... |
2,869 | You live in a world where human is no longer the dominant spiecies . We are ruled by some creatures we created in labs years ago . Describe your everyday life .
| Who would have thought of Pinky and the Brain as anything other than fictional cartoon characters? Yet here we are, driven to the edge of extinction by our own creation. Part of the problem is that we made far more Brains than Pinkies, which was our intention in the first place.
What could go wrong with genetically... |
2,870 | Everyone is born with blond hair . A person 's hair turns brown when they lose their innocence .
| I looked at my sister over the table, her small hands grasping the bowl, as milk trickled down her chin. Such a small delicate thing, tiny hands and a tiny nose. And such long brown hair.
***
I can ’ t remember exactly when it happened, I went on a walk one day and left her with our mother. She ’ d had such a big s... |
2,871 | Dogs are afraid of thunder because they know the truth about the beasts that make those terrible sounds. | Eddie sat on his lazy boy watching TV when the power went out. It wasn’t unusual for a storm to do that around where Eddie lived. Although, it was unusual for these storms to be happening so frequently.
This past month there had been a total of six thunder storms, which was strange. Eddie couldn’t remember the last ti... |
2,872 | `` Wait ... are you seriously telling me I 'm invisible ? ''
| “ Yes, yes you are. ”
I could feel the fear welling inside me. The panic was a crushing weight on my chest.
My voice cracked. I could barely speak.
“ I…I can ’ t see. ”
I felt the lab assistant ’ s hand on my shoulder.
“ Your eyes are invisible, so the light is passing right through your retina. ”
... |
2,873 | `` this book is not meant be interesting , nor is it designed to ease you into things . It 's meant to help you survive ''
| This is not meant to be simple, nor is it designed to ease you into things.
It's meant to help you survive.
I know what you're thinking. There ’ s no reason to trust me. Hell, you do n't even know who I am, but ask yourself this – would I have helped you this far only to have you arrested?
I trust you. Now ... |
2,874 | Half of the worlds population can not be wakened from sleep . Their dreams begin to warp reality . It has been five years since 'The Change ' .
| More and more are taken everyday. One minute, they're walking around like your average joe; next thing you know they're crumpled on the ground and comatose.
It gets weirder though. They do n't die, even if they're left alone. I heard they found an older woman who was taken. There was some mix-up with her monitor an... |
2,875 | We 've all read or watched stories about a clueless young woman carrying demonspawn . This time , though , one woman has made preparations .
| A group of demon flew over head, above the crumbling buildings, a father and son ducked, waiting for the demons to leave, the father decided to tell the story of the origin of the apocalypse to his son,
`` In the beginning, there was a pregnant woman. The woman was no Satanist, nor demon hunter, and she had no weird ... |
2,876 | Write a story that starts and ends with the same line .
| Life's not so bad.
My parents used to take my brother and me down to visit Uncle Rick, who owned a goat farm in the depths of West Virginia. The main purpose of the farm was to raise goats. How Uncle Rick made money off of the goats remains unclear. Do people eat goats? It was probably a goat cheese racket, now tha... |
2,877 | Bob does n't realise he 's a robot until he fails a captcha five times in a row .
| Maggie was looking at a photograph of her family. It is an old photograph, but everybody is there, her husband is standing next to her and the children are playing in the foreground with the dog. This picture always reminded her of that perfect long summer four years ago, when they all went on vacation to the beach, wh... |
2,878 | Describe a scary incident in your life , but refrain from confessing what exactly it is that scared you
| It was too much. I knew without looking, unable to look, that it lurked just beyond my door in the shadowy reaches of the hallway. Waiting. Sniffing. It knew my fear.
I thought I was going to die of the fright, young as I was and never having felt my heart palpitate somewhere near my tonsils, and at the most irregu... |
2,879 | : Your best friend is dying. You both try to politely ignore it. | Stolen Time
I got the call from Sara late. “Frank had been in an accident,” she told me. That was all I needed to hear. “I’m sorry. He doesn’t have long. His parents just went to get some sleep so I think you can see him now. I’m sorry I couldn’t get to you sooner. I let the nurses know you're coming.” I went as quick... |
2,880 | You 're on a train . You 've been on this train for quite awhile . You would say that it 's been days , but you ca n't really tell . There are no clocks and outside is a constant , grey fog .
| the train is going at a very peculiar speed, as if the pace has been calculated specifically for my benefit. Behind half, fully and infinite variations of closed eyes, this gray fog is my own amusement park. large chunks stick to my eyes like cotton candy, and my vision savours the burnt sugar and the absence of decisi... |
2,881 | The universe's immune system has begun to see humanity as a cancer, and it starts to attack. | We should have listened
After a couple of thousands of years, she had enough, Our Gaia. She wouldn't accept how we treated her any more. She had tried to get rid of us for a while, but like fleas on a dog we were good at sticking around. She tried shaking, blowing, freezing, even burning us away. Still we stuck around... |
2,882 | Theme Thursday - Yesterday | Reset Button
“Did you bring the nanochip?”
Sheri unzipped her backpack and handed it over. Concerned, she said, “Listen, don’t you think you should be with fam-”
Cody interrupted, “What family?”
“Your grandmother called me! She’s worried sick.”
“It doesn’t matter. None of it matters. Once we get this thing up and ... |
2,883 | "I told you cultists that I wanted your lives given to me in tribute, but all you've given me is deaths. Deaths won't buy me a cosmic loaf of bread. You don't even pay with your own so any blessing I'd be inclined to grant would go to the people who actually paid." | The scene was dark. The feeling was morose. The smell was of burning. There was no sound to be heard.
The silence was oppressive. Not for me. I was disappointed in the world once again. Why does it have to be this way. Why won’t people listen, care and think? Why would they hurt others and themselves like that?
Last ... |
2,884 | A young boy does everything to impress his crush, but it's not easy impressing an 18 year old when you're only six. | Location: family event, standing around the food table
Characters:
Sarah- 18 years old, dating Sam, Charlie’s love
Sam- 18 years old, dating Sarah, Charlie’s cousin
Charlie- 6 years , loves Sarah, Sam’s cousin
Charlie’s Mom- wouldn’t disclose age, loves Charlie, Sam’s Aunt
Charlie: Sarah, I can put thirteen swedi... |
2,885 | Write a fable with a terrible moral of the story .
| There was once a farmer who had a dog. The dog would go out each day with the farmer, keeping company with him and chasing away crows from the seeds. Each day the dog returned home happy and tired, and this cycle repeated throughout the season.
When winter came, there was no work to do, no crops to protect, and the... |
2,886 | You are cleaning off an old antique mirror and notice your reflection blink .
| It's blinking back. It was n't my imagination. This is really weird.
-Hi. < < Hi > > he replies back moving his lips.
-Who are you?. < < I'm you, of course > >.
-What are you?. < < You should know > >.
The face has changed. It's me, but with a smile. I'm not smiling. This thing is n't reflecting my face... |
2,887 | If you die in the laser tag, you die in real life. | Panic rushed over me now that the door had been sealed behind us and we were only given 35 seconds to hide, it was a giant maze of a place that didn’t seem like it ever ended. And now it was more than likely never going to end given the announcer had one rule. If you die in Laser Tag, you die in real life. That’s why n... |
2,888 | A horror story in twelve sentences
| It watched through the window. She shivered in the cold, blanket wrapped around her shoulders, oblivious. A howl pierced the night's silence and she jumped, backing away from the doorway. Only a wolf, she thought, turning to the back window to draw the curtains.
The glass shattered, clattering to the ground around ... |
2,889 | You wake up after a car crash , it 's a bright room . A figure says `` Well then , that was your free trial '' .
| I woke up in a pod with my thoughts feeling like they were swimming through mud and muck. The window in the door of the pod was tinted, but the room outside was still bright. A dull ache on the side of my head that built like a nagging pressure bubbled up. As the pod door opens I squeeze my eyes shut, the bright light ... |
2,890 | A group of people are on the verge of mental breakdown. The "Nightmares" seem real not psychological. Not sure if they are crazy or the world is an illusion, they then realise that their mental illness is allowing them to see behind the "Glass" structure covering the world, which is crumbling. | I trudged through the snow slowly, the cold slush rising up to my shins and soaking my jeans in frigid water. The air around me swirled with snowflakes and a high-pitched whistle soared with the wind. Suddenly, I stopped and gazed at the white expanse around me. What am I doing? I asked myself. I don’t even know where ... |
2,891 | `` Daddy , there 's something under my bed . '' You adapt a stoic , manly face . You do n't want your daughter to be scared . `` Oh , my sweet , Daddy 'll scare the monsters away . '' You look under her bed and see your daughter , again , saying `` Daddy , there 's something on my bed ... ''
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`` Daddy, there's something under my bed''.
I adapt a stoic, manly face. I do n't want my daughter to be scared.
`` Oh, my sweet, Daddy'll scare the monsters away.''
I look under her bed and see my daughter, again, saying: `` Daddy, there's something under my bed.''
I immediately grab a nearby pick ax... |
2,892 | The door leads to the man 's worst possible fear . He must open it .
| It's dark. I hear noises all throughout my night. They do n't realize it yet, but I know what they are doing out there; what they are planning. I'm scared of what they will do to me when they finally find a way in. I checked the lock again, knowing I did it right the first time but things change when you're tired and h... |
2,893 | The sweetest kindest man you know , just accidentally became a necromancer , and oh does he like it .
| Our large house felt empty when it was no longer filled with the aroma of fresh cookies, melodic singing, or the sight of fresh flowers in our many vases after mom ’ s death.
Dad had become the loneliest man I ever knew after the incident, five years ago. He withdrew into his grandfather ’ s library that occupied m... |
2,894 | 250 words : Someone is watching you
| Seriously? Another freaking demon? Goddamn why did Abe have to transfer me to our horror movie universe branch? Come on there has to be one guy in Townswood that knows how to freaking use Excel. Come on demon, this is a little upfront; I haven ’ t even found your innocuous-but-cursed-because-of-murders-you-caused objec... |
2,895 | Unlike in stories , the chosen one was n't reluctant . He was better described as trigger happy . Well , overly violent . Ok , he was a psychopath .
|
We all remember when The Monsters first came. A massive portal opened up in LA. Any questions about the portal was quickly answered when The Monsters rose out of it and attacked, leveling what little remained of L.A. The Monsters drove humanity to the brink of extinction, all that remained was our small group of surv... |
2,896 | The phrase you are what you eat becomes a reality when one day the world is cursed to become the food they consumed the most. It was a weird way for your family to discover you're a cannabil. | “Y-you were the one who ate them all along!” My brother screamed, trying to get a way from me.
“I can explain!” I shouted, trying to calm him down.
“You killed them and feed them to me!” He responded, tests faking out of his eyes at the thought of how he ate husband own parents without knowing it.
“They abused us!” ... |
2,897 | Superman is nice to everyone -- everyone except you . You , Superman fucks with in nonviolent , but completely wild ways .
| `` It's not that I do n't believe you,'' Clark says, `` it's just, he's such a great guy. Maybe someone is messing with you, but Superman? That makes no sense. He helped my great aunt Stacy carry groceries home once. ”
I shake my head, finish my drink, and throw a twenty on the bar. “ I don ’ t know. It does sound ... |
2,898 | [ Cw ] Write the funniest story you can with out using `` the '' .
| It was November 23, 2004. I had just woke up. My friend decided that he wanted to stay over for a night but knew I was n't going to be home. He had an early class and my place was closest to campus. I obliged and let him know that I would leave a door unlocked for him to come in. Little did I know, my roommates were ho... |
2,899 | Last night , you were bitten by a werewolf . You have 30 days before you too go on a mindless killing spree .
| A part of me certainly knew what I should do. I should have offed myself the first moment that I knew. Of course, I ’ d seen all the movies, read books, everything. I knew what the moral, upstanding citizen should do. But, just like that guy in a zombie movie who gets bit and never tells anyone, I got bit and never did... |
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