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300 | A man finds that he can now talk to food . After only a few days , he is dying of starvation .
| The screaming. Why wo n't they ever stop screaming?
Twenty days ago, I woke up to the sound of voices coming from somewhere in my apartment. At first I thought someone might have broken in, but I was quickly proven wrong. When I went to see what the commotion was, I found nobody; but voices the voices had to be com... |
301 | As an act of kindness, you give a bee a drop of sugar water. Unknown to you, the bee pledges an oath to you. Now, it’s your darkest hour, and the bee returns. | It’s down the road, not across the street.
We’d sing-songed the phrase so many times as college kids, always with a levity — usually with a laugh. The older generations wag their fingers at our cavalier attitude towards death. We shoot back statistics. We shoot back searing pain.
I’ve recalled the phrase many times o... |
302 | Set up your story using a dad joke , play it straight and do n't make it a comedy .
| It was dark when I left Jim ’ s house and the drive home took far longer than normal. I was drunk and tired as hell; I had been up for the last 36 hours working my ass off on a term project I ignored until the last minute. Thankfully my parents are out of town this weekend. Normally I would be verbally lynched and grou... |
303 | Whenever people die , their remaining lifespan is given to the murderer , otherwise is thrown away . You are a 1,230 year old serial killer .
| They're dogs: filthy, instinct-driven beasts who spend their days on all fours with their backs in the air, growling, panting, and whining. They're snakes: slimy creatures of the dirt who wrap themselves around their prey, slithering up and down their bodies, teasing the air with their tongues, before striking with thr... |
304 | You tossed your rent bill across the room in frustration and it went under your bed . A minute later , a grotesque claw pushes the bill back out with a wad of cash .
| I paused for a minute. In my life I've paused for no more than 2 seconds to process whatever it was my visual cortex was processing before this. Try it. Don ’ t think, don ’ t blink, and don ’ t do anything for a full 60 seconds. That was my reaction to seeing a claw, slimy and dirty and what looked like it was oozing ... |
305 | You were born with special eyes, the sea was as clear as glass to you, by the time you got old enough to join a ship's crew, you were smart enough to not tell them about everything you saw below the waves | I was young when I first realized that not everyone else could see the Other World. My mother pulled me away from the pier when I asked my questions, shushing me with fearful glances over her shoulder. “Not now, Dia, tell me about it later, okay?”
I would wait until evening to tell her of the Others, the ones who watc... |
306 | It 's the execution of your husband 's murderer . You feel nothing .
| I stare through the Plexiglas into the room, watching as they lead him in. No, not him, it. That thing isn ’ t human anymore. Maybe at one point it was, but no longer, not after what he did to my husband, to my family, to me. The deputies lead it to the center of the room and strap it in. It sees me and struggles, atte... |
307 | A short story with no dialogue , in or around a greenhouse
| When I found the shelter amongst the trees, I did not know what it was. A structure of crystal, it shone brightly. Upon first sight, it blinded me, and I retreated in fear, seeking the safety of the brush. For a long while, I waited, peeping through the branches, but saw no man, nor beast, nor entity. When the night ca... |
308 | On the 9th of October, the world ended. | What do you do with a dead girl’s coat in your car?
No, I’m really asking. I wish I knew. Shit, I wish I knew.
It’s an ugly coat. It is an ugly coat. Bright orange and vibrant blue plaid with patches on the elbows for absolutely no possible reason. Knee length and boxy and lined with material so cheap it tears if you... |
309 | "unholy abominations"? i'll have you know i went out of my way to use only the bodyparts of clergymen, so there should be nothing unholy about them, quite the opposite actually. | (A bit of foul language)
It was at the ungodly hour of 6:00 when that bitch decided to pull her own personal Martin Luther and nail her complaints to my door. Lacking a nail or a hammer to do it with, she taped it to my door and began pounding on the door.
When I opened the door, I saw my absolute favourite person in... |
310 | After spending a really nice vacation off the grid, you return to civilization to find that apparently you missed a whole alien invasion attempt and other stuff. | Relaxed from my monthly 4-day isolation, I climb out of my underground bunker, only to find MY HOUSE COMPLETELY DESTROYED! WHAT HAPPENED HERE?! WHAT THE FRICK?! WHY IS EVERYTHING ON FIRE?! WHY IS THERE GREY BLOBBY MEN IN THE DISTANCE?! Ohhhhh my goodness. Oh no. What happened…?
With a detached sort of panic, I begin w... |
311 | There is a demon that lives in the corner of your eye , which only you can see , and all it does is stare at you .
| It ’ s there again, whatever it is, whatever he is, he ’ s there again. I ’ m not scared. I was at first when he first came, but it ’ s OK now. I ’ m getting used to him. He just lurks there, in the shadows. Sometimes I ’ m not even sure he ’ s real. He never comes close when I ’ m watching. I ‘ ve never seen him. Not ... |
312 | You call an old family owned appliance/electronics repair store and ask if they can fix your (obsolete, antique appliance), which is unknowingly a code phrase for initiating an interaction with the mob, who is using the store as a front for their operations. | PART 1
Clay waited in the abandoned warehouse. His eyes darted around the dusty shipping dock, and his ears were open for any sounds that would indicate anyone—or anything—was possibly in the warehouse with him. He kept one of his hands around the handle of his holstered revolver. He kept another hand under the head o... |
313 | You live in a house with a powerful poltergeist that only plays harmless pranks . Until some thugs do a home invasion . [ Wp ]
| Long time reader, first time poster. I have n't written anything all summer and'm rusty. I'm hoping this subreddit will help me get back on the saddle. Be Kind.
My house is haunted. I ’ m okay with it.
I moved in five years ago, within the first few weeks things started to go bump in the night. I would go out a... |
314 | Your daughter wakes you up in the middle of the night insisting there 's something scary in her room . You go with her to check it out and prove she 's just imagining things . After you turn on the light , she does n't see anything out of the ordinary and calms down . You 're frozen with fear .
| My daughter, Emma, has been having night terrors for the past few months. She wakes up screaming, and I have to run in and lie in the bed with her until she calms down enough to go back to sleep. The doctor told me that this wasn ’ t particularly unusual for a 4-year-old, especially one who has recently experienced a t... |
315 | I could have stopped then and there, I should have stopped then and there, but I decided against it. I kept on *whatever your character was doing* until I heard the sweet release of her voice, like a bell in a boxing match I was done. | I could have stopped then and there, I should have stopped then and there, but I decided against it. I kept on raping that evil fucking chihuahua until I heard the sweet release of her voice, like a bell in a boxing match I was done.
That goddamned dirty Chihuahua had shat on my polar bear rug five times, and I was li... |
316 | You are at the wedding of your abusive boyfriend 's younger brother . Your BF gets mean drunk and throws a scene where he confronts you for not having accepted his proposal . What happens ?
| I misread it as'ex-boyfriend' so I just went in my own direction. This is my first submission. I hope you like it.
I was stretched thin by nerves and stress. I watched him carefully; afraid he might cause a scene. This was his younger brother ’ s wedding after all; he couldn ’ t be that low of a person. Oh, but I k... |
317 | Write a story that seems scary until the last sentence . [ WP ]
| I woke up sweating to the noise of clatter downstairs. I peep out my door and see masked phsycos running around and screaming downstairs.One catches my eyes so i hide under the bed.They open the door and walk beside my bed and stand still until suddenly she jumps down and pulls my legs from under the bed.She then creep... |
318 | A child is kidnapped . Outraged , the monsters that live under their bed and in their closet vow to find them .
| With a low creak, the door to the closet slowly opened. Two glowing red eyes appeared, staring into the dark bedroom. The eyes vanished as the shadow silently floated to the foot of the bed. Its eyes reappeared and two spindly arms rose menacingly. A soft growl rumbled from beneath the bed as the shadow leaned over, cl... |
319 | We have spent the last few years romanticizing our monsters , even making them sexy objects of desire . Time to take it back to the roots : Take any sexy modern monster , and make us fear them again .
| Gabrielle limps as she runs, the heel broken on one shoe, tears running her mascara down her face. She takes a second pause to fight with her shoe, tearing at the straps and through her skin with long nails before she gets the broken shoe off. She pitches it behind her, into the darkness behind her.
A chuckle, soun... |
320 | Uber and Lyft had a new challenger: Dryve. Their entire business model relied on hiring action movie heroes to drive at high speeds, through all obstacles, to get you to your destination as fast as possible. By any means necessary. | I’m walking to work like any other Monday morning, and I see this new notification on my phone it’s about this new controversial app called Dryve.
From what I understand some rich up incoming billionaire decided it’d be a great idea to hire stunt drivers, like the kind you see in movies, to drive as a taxi service. To... |
321 | You didn't believe it at first, but a 5 year old girl put a spell on you. | It was 7pm and I was babysitting my neighbours daughter. Her name was Diane and she was a very sweet girl. I watched her from a distant, she was playing with her barbie dolls while whispering things under her breath. Maybe she’s just pretending they are telling or something. “Alyssa! Come here please. I want to show yo... |
322 | The window nearest you is shattered by the blast wave of a nearby explosion .
| Another wretched Tuesday. I sit at my desk and note the piles of applications that have gathered on my desk since yesterday. More things I ’ m putting off. I decide to get a coffee instead of looking at all the rubbish I have to deal with.
I ’ m stirring insipid granules into hot water when suddenly there ’ s a low... |
323 | When you were a kid, you and your friends found an alien and helped them elude the government along with getting them back to their ship safely. About twenty years later, they came back with an armada in order to invade Earth. | Now that the day has come - that 7,065 days later, just like he said – I don’t know if I’m as ready as I thought I would be. It’s May 7th, 2065, and I’m writing this in case anyone makes it out. Maybe this is our fault, but what were we supposed to do? We found a dog looking creature in Tyson’s backyard, and it was hur... |
324 | "I like watching you while you sleep." | “I like watching you while you sleep,” said a voice as I sprung awake, the third time this week. I looked around as usual, nothing is their. I don’t know why I’m having these dreams, well there less like dreams and more like voices. I try to calm down, I look at the clock, it’s 3:17. I try to go back to bed, I start do... |
325 | You absentmindedly step on a spider . Unbeknownst to you , that spider is the only son of the Don of the Spider Mafia . He puts out a spider vendetta on you .
| Everything is dark – I was sure to shut every light, board every window. I shut my eyes to the black mass of undulating mounds that move like a sea on the walls and floor of my apartment, but the sound – the skittering, rustling, shifting can drive you mad. Even if you shut your ears or your eyes, the blackness will st... |
326 | Theme Thursday - Blindness | Sarah entered the dimly lit exam chamber where Sorceress Hortensia waited beside a table, its contents blanketed with a black sheet. Hortensia narrowed her eyes and pointed.
“Gloves and goggles off, please.”
Sarah stifled a groan and pocketed her leather gloves and safety goggles. Hortensia tied a scarf around her ey... |
327 | On a rainy day, you take a shortcut through an alley while walking home. You go to step on a puddle, and fall through into a world you REALLY shouldn't be in. | I pop out of the other side of the puddle. Disoriented and dizzy from the sudden change of gravity, I take a moment to get up. My first instinct is to jump in the puddle again, to see if I can return to my old world. No luck. I decide to take a moment to study my surroundings. It seems very similar to the alleyway I wa... |
328 | Reincarnation is real , and you only realise as you slowly float towards your next life..
| Déja vu. Of all the times to feel déja vu, you'd feel it while you're lying here dying, would n't you? Your liver's never been severely lacerated before, your pulmonary arteries have never sprung a leak, and your left lung's never been punctured. You did get side-swiped by a car while you were on your bike when you wer... |
329 | Two very old immortals meet each other on a busy street by chance . Each having believed they were the only one until now .
| Did n't follow the prompt, but hey whatever
After we were forced apart, some of us took to mountain caves and other dark places. I do n't know what became of the dark ones. Maybe they bred, maybe they formed colonies. Good riddance to them.
We all were scared, but the dark ones were cowards. They scrambled from... |
330 | The lucid dreaming pill was an amusing diversion at first. Things got weird when we realized that everyone who took the pill had the same dream. | He dreamt of a ship among the stars.
He could move in the dream and went to the front of the ship and stood looking out. Below him the stretching clouds of dust backlit with starlight. The ship empty but somehow screaming on in the darkness. He stood for a time at the window and then he turned and that’s when he began... |
331 | When you sleep your conscience is projected into your body from other multiverse. You mostly watch the events of these other worlds play out but lately you've noticed you're being hunted. Not just you, but EVERY you in the multiverse. Whatever it is, it's coming. | This isn’t how my Transitions normally go. I’m always just a stranger in these worlds, an observer. No matter what I do, no one notices me. I live as a ghost in these other worlds, but that’s been changing.
Last night I was in the marketplace, watching a young girl and her mother picking out fruit. I noticed the micro... |
332 | You think you have the power to stop time. In reality, everyone pretends to freeze when you walk in a room so you leave. | I roamed the remnants of the world today, like always. I have left the forests I was passing through behind and now find myself in a world of gray stone. The old ones must’ve built this, I think, for it is much too straight and regular to be the work of mother nature. I must be wary here, for even if my skin is rough l... |
333 | After returning from a business trip you find yourself disgusted by pungent smell. Searching for the source of the smell leads you to your storage room. The source of the smell? Your own dead body. | When I was ten my dad got me a hermit crab from some no name kiosk at the mall. I had remembered the moment vividly, as my dad had never in all the times we had gone to the mall so much as looked at any of the kiosk while we hopped from store to store. I remembered his gaze seemed drawn to the small faux bamboo and pal... |
334 | You are in love with the monster under your bed
| It was some time in late November, when the sun sets earlier and the Christmas lights outside your window cause all the objects in your room to cast creepy shadows across the walls. It was truly the most wondrous the time of the year—for bedroom monsters, that is.
Dad rubbed his bloodshot eyes and peered under the ... |
335 | Your father is paranoid and locks every door and window each night out of fear of "the monsters." You think he is crazy until you begin to hear voices whisper to you outside the window... | Saturday, 12 March 2016.
Saturday night football has always been a way for me to relax and cut loose after a long day at school. Yes, I have school on Saturdays. Here in the middle of nowhere, things work differently. A strange place, with its own charm to it, similar to the charm of that old school architecture you s... |
336 | Your spouse (erroneously) thinks they’ve done a good job hiding the fact that they’re an assassin for hire from you. You’ve known for years now, but find just how awful they are at hiding it endearing, and don’t want to spoil it for them. | “I like you in that dress,” Grant said to me, putting his strong hands on my waist and starting to pull me close.
“It’s just my cleaning dress,” I answered and pushed him away, a little reluctantly if I’m being honest. “Because I’m going to clean. Don’t you have an office to get to?” I asked.
“Mr. Wilson won’t mind i... |
337 | How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak
| I itch. I remember what happened. I don ’ t want to remember, so much blood. Why am I still here? What ’ s the point of this? Is there a point? What kind of God would let this happen? It was so quiet and peaceful before. We had just sat down for dinner. Roast beef, potatoes, green beans, oh what I would give for a pota... |
338 | Sentient leftovers..
| Lewis was a fat kid. He opened the refrigerator and grabbed a slice of double-chocolate cheesecake with his bare hands. He was promptly eaten by Dr. Zuggs, a transdimensional monster who does these sorts of things just because he wants to, gosh darnit!
Dr. Zuggs, who looked like a great green blob of gelatin, peere... |
339 | You wake up in the middle of the night and looked at the time , the time was broken and read 6:66 . You checked other clocks , all of the time read 6:66 .
| I woke up from my slumber and my eyes peered towards my clock my eyes were still foggy but it read'6' something. I thought i had some time before getting up for school and I rolled over. But something felt wrong. Something unusual. I once again looked at the clock. What no it ca n't be that. It does n't work like that.... |
340 | Write the most terrifying story you can possibly imagine , and make me genuinely afraid .
| Shh.
Hear what?
Shh. Quiet now. Let me listen – perhaps it was merely the wind howling down the chimney. It ’ s cold this spring, you know – cold, and still without rain. Doesn ’ t seem right, does it? So long without rain, and this year stretching long.
No matter.
Would you like a story before you go t... |
341 | Theme Thursday - Beach Day | The Atlas Turtle Episode 3: Hatching
English Subtitles On
[Seafoam hissing]
On the tropical shores of New Caribbean, something amazing unfolds. The sands shift as a hooked nose breaks the surface. Blinking through the grit, the baby Atlas Turtle gazes up at the moon for the first time.
But this is no time for st... |
342 | You're an immortal. Finally when you think you're about to die you wake up the day you became immortal. "I'm also stuck in a time loop?" | Finally, after a seemingly endless search, I’ve found a way to die. I know that might sound like an undesirable endeavor; however, after you’ve been around for 483 years, it becomes top priority. I’m so thrilled at the prospect of dying that I feel more “alive” than I have been for hundreds of years. While I had many g... |
343 | Mortality is a contagious disease and Earth has been quarantined because of it. A team has been dispatched in an attempt to cure the planet. | Disclaimer: I read the title as "Morality instead of Mortality" lol
When the first aliens arrived on planet Earth, I was busy eating cereal at midnight. The TV in my living room was flashing as the special news program announced their arrival in a small town in Tennessee. It just so happened to be the little small tow... |
344 | You and your fatally ill companion are living under extremely poor conditions.This winter will be your last .
| December 27 2014
My name is Tom. I've been living on the streets with my wife Lisa for three years now. I'm afraid we wo n't make through this winter, my wife... she's developed a sickness. She's constantly vomiting and just the other night, I overheard her talking to herself, or at least I think it was talking. It... |
345 | You see 'YOU'RE' on a guy's tshirt. Then, you find a dollar with the word 'BEING' on it. Right after, you see 'WATCHED' written in graffiti on a wall. | My morning started just like any other regular morning. Then, things quickly got weird. It all started when I was walking down the street and a guy wearing the word “You’re” on a white T-shirt walked past me. That was it, just one word. What made it even more strange was that it didn't even seem like it was part of the... |
346 | "Depressed? Anxious? Unhappy?" The sign shouted at you, "Why not become an amorphous entity and shirk the confines of time and space? Embrace your Eldritch Nature today!" | "Depressed? Anxious? Unhappy?" the mural shouted at me.
The words ran over and over in my mind. I staggered around the midnight street, salt in the air, reaching desperately for a passerby to secure my sanity. There was no one.
An advertisement painted on the side of an old warehouse was shouting at me and I felt lik... |
347 | You find an interesting green book on a shelf, but upon trying to pick it up, the bookshelf reveals a door behind it. The door is unlocked so you enter and walk down the hall. At the end of the hall, you hear "Wait, she is here? It is 12 years too early!" | Ever since my father passed, this house has seemed lifeless. I have vivid memories of these walls as a kid but know they seem unrecognizable. However, there was one room in the house that was as alive as ever. The library.
Recently I had been spending my entire day in there, endlessly gazing at the stories contained b... |
348 | A new invention enables people to remember their dreams with absolute clarity. It turns out we were forgetting them for a very good reason. | I had always kept a sketchy dream diary. Thoughts, images, prompts. Always blurry and out of order. The pills offered the ultimate clarity in recall. I wondered if it might do anything about the deja vu as well. The family had a touch of precognition in dreams, skipping a generation as such things are wont to do.
I to... |
349 | Write a short story that does n't contain the word 'the ' .
| Inky blackness covers a vast expanse above me. Where am I? My back aches. Actually, my everything aches. I wince and roll onto my side. My vision clears. I ’ m in a desert, that much I know. Shifting sands grate against my skin. My clothing is tattered and my body is bloodied. I sit up and cough red. I can see stars no... |
350 | After breaking out of your coffin , you seek out your loved ones only to discover you are a zombie . You must find a way to tell them , whilst not getting killed .
| He turned the front door key in its lock, shimmying it a little because the lock gets stuck sometimes.
“ The burglar is at the front door! ”, he yelled out, grinning at the never-ending joke that he and his wife enjoyed.
“ What the …? ” Stepping into the foyer/living room, he noticed everything about the place ... |
351 | Forwards
| The sun shines far overhead, the only bright light in the dimming landscape. I hold my flashlight tight to me, panicked as I flee for cover. The Darkness is closing in, fading across the sky like an unnatural sandstorm. The world becomes blurry, things morphing in the distance into things that should not be. Trees beco... |
352 | the monster in the closet finally lures the child into the darkness , only to realize something is very very wrong
| Tap tap tap on the door.
Bitsy gathered her bravery, approached the closet's door as she knew she must, face her fear as she did each night. Mother, with her dangling eye and missing arm, always insisted, every night, that nothing would be there. That Bitsy did not deserve it yet, that she would open the door to find... |
353 | You 've just been found guilty of murdering the man who killed your pet cat . Make your final statement to the judge - who can sentence you to time served or the death penalty .
| Mike couldn ’ t listen anymore to the overwhelming evidence presented before the judge, so he tuned them out and thought about the true events of that night. It wasn ’ t even six, spaghetti noodles were boiling on the stove, and he was going through bills at the kitchen table. It was summer, so the sky was only just be... |
354 | You and your friends decide to go on a night tour of a horror house . As you explore the house , it suddenly goes dark and when your eyes adjust to the dark , you see all of your friends dead . You are alone .
| They were all dead. The last thing I remembered was the blackout. I moved my arms and legs trying to find my friends but there was nothing around me. My eyes adjusted soon and I saw them. They were hanging from their legs, covered in blood, their lifeless eyes wide open in awe and horror and I was standing in the centr... |
355 | Whenever someone dies everything they made rots away. | The first time Nash noticed, it was subtle. A rusted-out pickup truck, half-sunk in the mud, its license plate rattling loose in the wind. The name on the mailbox beside it—he couldn’t remember it, but he knew someone used to live there. The house behind it slumped inward like a corpse left too long in the rain.
By th... |
356 | Write about an apocalypse from the point of view of a pet
| Such a good prompt!
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Day 1: Just an ordinary day. My human, Joey, woke up with me at his feet. I sat on the window and looked outside until he finally got of bed to feed me. As soon as we walked out of the bedroom, the smaller human, Cassie, ran to me... |
357 | A strange, unknown genetic marker has been found in anyone born blind. Just believed to be part of their disability. Scientists discover a way to correct it, granting the blind their sight. But they then discover it was a dormant gene for a reason. Many have begun to call it the Medusa gene. | Darkness surrounds me. At least that is what I have been told it is. The paper on the exam table is cold. There are small clicking sounds coming from the pump that they are using to inject me with gene therapy drugs. Perfume from the nurse wafts ahead of her as she comes to test my blood pressure.
“Mr. Pike are you fe... |
358 | "You've misunderstood. The reason I followed you is not because you're the hero." The Demon King explains "Its because your master is the Royal knight. And I've liked him for 80 years now. How do you suppose he lost his Holy Knight Tittle in the first place?" Smugly | I felt emasculated. What would I tell the bros over brewskis tonight? They already thought so highly of me, how could I explain The Demon King who I so highly touted was really just after my boss? I can already hear their scoffs, see their smirks, feel their “playful” jokes.
So that night, I skipped brews, instead thi... |
359 | It's been 23 years since they buried me alive, hoping that would be enough to kill me. | It's been 23 years since they buried me alive, hoping that would be enough to kill me. So did I. I thought to myself, maybe I can actually die. Actually, I've been hoping that for the past several millennia. But nope, I've been picked up by a goddamn bloodhound. Life is a vengeful mother fucker.
Oh, hello. I didn't se... |
360 | Write me a story about taking care of a child that is n't yours .
| It was Wednesday. I was still feeding canned meat to the child, but I knew that would no longer be viable. I had already gone through every can I had stored in the fallout shelter—and that was meant to be a haven for three hungry people for as long as five years. I had begun buying in bulk at a warehouse store near dow... |
361 | Zombies do n't die when being shot in the head , but rather the heart
| What the hell is that?
Jarvis pointed out into the yard where a weirdly shaped, Vaguely man looking thing shambled about, arms outstretched palms forward as though it were pushing a huge box of mime.
`` Zombie, his new partner Roberts explained.
`` Never seen one of those? He continued, Someone probably thoug... |
362 | a wholesome cookbook anecdote for a beloved recipe that suddenly shifts into the horror genre. | I am so glad to be sharing with you guys my grandma’s secret chili recipe! It’s the one year anniversary of my blog, and I have twelve subscribers. It’s a real reason to celebrate.
I want to share a little bit about this recipe before I jump into it. I ate this all through my childhood, and it’s really important to me... |
363 | You pick up today 's journal . The headline is about a suspicious death : yours
| The headline read “ Freak accident on the 405 caused the death of one person. Police identified the identity of the deceased to be Emily Johnson. ”
I stared in disbelief. This had to be some sick joke someone was playing on me. Yet that was my face on the newspaper. My name. I picked up the phone and called my moth... |
364 | A murderous spirit comes up against its greatest nemesis - a horror movie critic. | When Alexandra Flores moved into the house at the end of the dirt road, I had to admit, I thought she would be easy. Easy to scare, easy to mess with. But when I learned what her job was... that was another story.
I was thrilled to have a new tenant again, really, I was. I hadn’t heard a true terrified scream in so lo... |
365 | Write 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar ' , as a horror tale
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It was a particularly average day in 1969 when the beast arrived. Burrowing it ’ s way through the earth in the middle Grand Central Station in Manhattan, it began its rampage. It was the size of a small house, and it only grew the more it ate. The first day it ate Grand Central Station, and after that it slept, curl... |
366 | I could have stopped then and there , I should have stopped then and there , but I decided against it . I kept on *whatever your character was doing* until I heard the sweet release of her voice , like a bell in a boxing match I was done .
| I could have stopped then and there, I should have stopped then and there, but I decided against it. I kept on raping that evil fucking chihuahua until I heard the sweet release of her voice, like a bell in a boxing match I was done.
That goddamned dirty Chihuahua had shat on my polar bear rug five times, and I was... |
367 | Someone 's been afraid of the dark their entire life . They just went blind .
| Opening the curtains on a morning and seeing beams of light fill the room always brought a smile to Marty's face. Joy filled him when the long summer days rolled around and it did n't get dark until late at night. Ever since he was young, he was aware of something lurking... watching him, just waiting until he was thro... |
368 | Its the zombie apocalypse. Zombies regain their personality and memories, growing smarter, depending on how full on human flesh they are. You are a zombie who just ate your first human, meaning you are slowly regaining your sentience. | Hunger. Hunger. Hunger. Anger. Kill. Devour. Hunger. Stomach. Fill.
He’s sitting on the floor, soaked in blood. He just turned, and his skin's already rotting. He’s crouched over a dying woman, ripping apart her arm with his teeth. She’s crying, beating at his back and screaming for him to stop. Meanwhile he’s smiling... |
369 | You are legally 100%, completely deaf. One day, at 3 AM when you’re on YouTube watching videos with subtitles, you hear something for the first time in your life outside your door. | Diary –
So, here I am, right? 3 a.m. and Youtubing my favorite hot dog recipes again. The subtitles were thankfully actually working this time as opposed to the usual disasters it makes from translating the audio poorly. I always wonder what the audio actually says. I don’t think the man meant to say “This hot doily l... |
370 | A man witnesses the rise of the first Zombie in an Undead Apocalypse . Why does he fail to kill that Zombie and save the world ?
| There is n't anything worse than being woken up in the middle of a good dream. One moment, you're flying through the sky, the next, your kid brother slams open your door.
`` Cody, something's wrong with mom.''
Of course he turned on the light when he came in. Now, not only am I pissed off, but I'm also blinded ... |
371 | They have always feared what they do not understand, you set out to find out why. | There was an empty shack at the edge of the village. Abandoned for as long as I could remember. My parents always watched me, knowing how curious I was and ready to pounce the moment I got too close. The door was tantalizing, crooked and hanging from its hinge, left a crack open to tease me of its contents. After so ma... |
372 | In four sentences , tell a horror story .
| March 7th, 2008 Tracy Trachtenberg was home alone late at night awaiting her parents return from visiting their hospitalized neighbor the soul survivor of a brutal home invasion that left six dead hours earlier. Sitting sleepily on downstairs couch Tracy was startled by the sound of laughter echoing from her open bedro... |
373 | In Monsters Inc. , A monster goes in one door to scare a child , only to find that the child had made a demonic sacrifice in his bedroom . The child thinks that the monster is a gift from Satan .
| The door itself emitted a gloomy atmosphere. Could this be it? Could this finally be something interesting? I had soon become bored when I started working at Monster Inc. Scaring children was fun of course, but I needed more.
I had been one of the few monsters that were not scared by the children. The children mere... |
374 | You've just signed up for a service that will wipe the last year in its entirety from your memory. Write a letter to yourself, which will be delivered to you after the operation, explaining why. | Dear Amber,
Your castle is gone. It didn’t look like much – the porch roof was always crooked, the steps rotted, the windows drafty. You were the only one who ever saw the magic in that place – but the magic was real. I saw it too, and I’m not sure I even believe in magic.
The fire started in the attic, near the crib... |
375 | Every week since you moved to a new place you started hearing a new jingle from what you suppose is the local ice cream truck. When you remark on how creepy it sounds you find out that nobody else can hear it. | I felt like I was going insane.
That little jingle, the lighthearted but creepy ice-cream-van-sounding-song.
I heard it every week, roughly the same time each week. It was always a Monday morning.
I asked others about it, apparently they’d never heard anything like it- not even the couple who’d lived on my street fo... |
376 | Describe intense pain without using any descriptions torture or violet vocabulary . Make me feel it .
| My business trip had ended early, so I decided to catch the next available flight. I slowly crept up to the house, making sure to be as silent as I could. I opened the front door, being as quiet as possible.
I heard a couple creeks from my steps on the wood floor. I slowly made my way upstairs. My wife was going to... |
377 | You must tell your partner to run and never contact you or come back ever again .
| I clutched at my arm and hastily rolled up the sleeve to my coat. Originating from my palm and climbing all the was up to the pit of my elbow was lines of red energy. This energy brought equal amounts of pain and awe. I cried out in agony as the lines crawled up my arm, worming their way into the meaty sinew of my fles... |
378 | `` I 'm sorry , but I have to know for sure . ''
| Pale blue eyes softly dart from side to side, pink edges the eyelids meet the fair white skin of the face. Each detail of the eye is noticed, looking carefully you can see light wrinkles emanating from the edges of the eyelids, even closer you see delicate fibrous strands running radially on the iris.
Eyes can tell... |
379 | You just landed that big promotion that you've been working so diligently for, so you and a few friends from the office go out to celebrate. After a few too many drinks, you black out. In the morning you wake up to find that you've somehow switched bodies with the neighborhood cat. | “This is not good,” you think to yourself. You look around. There’s a dumpster with a single banana peel lying by its wheel, there’s the end of the alleyway, and then there’s a small shattered mirror propped up against a wall. You walk up to it.
It’s you. But you are not you. In the mirror is a cat.
You lift a paw an... |
380 | You were blessed with the ability to open your fridge and access some other random fridge in your country, being able to have fresh, new food every time you check. Except you just opened your fridge and there’s a head in there, among other things... | [NSFW image description] "COOL-HEADED"
Don't ask me how, but I came into possession of a unique object.
"A genie lamp?" you may ask.
No, take another guess.
"A spellbook?"
Not even close.
"A horn of a unicorn?"
No, dummy. These don't exist in any world.
It's going to take forever, let me just tell you.
See, I h... |
381 | You are in love with the monster under your bed
| She ’ s the only one who ’ s ever understood me. She ’ s been there as long as I can remember.
When my friends and I, at the age of eight, played Bloody Mary in my bathroom, they feared what they would see in the mirror. I knew exactly who I would see, and she would see me. Out of the curtain of darkness, first her... |
382 | Theme Thursday - Zodiac | The Bridges Sisters’ Spells and Brews shop had appeared as if from thin air overnight—a round cottage with a mushroom roof and a “Help Wanted” sign in the window. Dressed in my cleanest blouse and skirt, I steeled my nerves and opened the door. Branches of dried blooms dangled from the ceiling, emitting a stale potpour... |
383 | On your 16th birthday, everyone is granted a spirit guide from their past, be that a fallen mentor, former pet, or even something such as a bug you once squished. You wake up to find the spirit of your old pet rock, who had fallen and broken years ago, but whose pieces you've always kept. | I knew who my spirit guide would be by the time came.
There were only two I had ever lost, both within the past year. One was likely to become a guide for her own family, so that left my grandmother. The one family member I missed once she was gone. The one I wished I had known more, rather than less.
Even as I looke... |
384 | You are Alois Hitler, spending your days trying to protect your son from strange future people who are after your son Adolf's life. | They mostly came at night. At first, Alois was frightened, enraged – who were those intruders who dared to invade his home and put his family in danger? After the third man, he grew restless. Sleep evaded him. The house shrunk around him, the dark rooms became smaller, and when he sat at night in the kitchen, a long kn... |
385 | Write a horror story in Dr Seuss 's writing style .
| There was a man who lived in a house,
In this house with the man lived a mouse.
This mouse was a big and brown,
And when the man found him, his screams could be heard from the nearby town.
But, fortunately for the man, it was only a mouse.
A big, brown mouse that lived in his house.
At least, th... |
386 | Write Out your Most Memorable Dream as a Story for all of Reddit !
| ( Part 1/2 - Thank you for enjoying this, it has been great writing this and getting the memory out of my mind!
This is 100 % real I remember every detail, and this dream was long. )
I am so lost…
The museum had closed hours ago and my desperate foot falls echoed through the large empty halls. My only compa... |
387 | It first started with bumping your toe in the cabinet corner and the door handle catching your coat and almost chocking you . Your friends think you 're paranoid , but you know better . The furniture is really out to get you .
| Day 3 - I ’ m scared even as I write this; I would swear that even my keyboard is starting to twitch and jerk in a way nature did not intend, and when electrical objects start to fail I guess it will have really gone down hill... My toe remains bruised and my throat remains fragile after the events of the last few days... |
388 | I want you to terrify me . Paranormal or just plain frightening reality . Make me too scared to leave my computer .
| Every now then I have to stop and place my fingers on my head like outreached claws, digging my nails into my skin. It has become a tick of sorts, one that I no longer control. I ’ ve stopped looking over my shoulder, stopped caring if people think I ’ m a freak, because I am.
It ’ s been days since I ’ ve slept, w... |
389 | You've succesfully taught a crow to speak English. In return, it taught you to how to understand Crowspeak. What you've been hearing lately, has you very afraid. | Caw! Caw! Caw!
The sound is a constant shrill, piercing the evening air from the branches of every tree along my path home, drowning out any other sound that might carry through the summer sky. I wish now, more than anything in my life, I had never tried to understand what they’re saying. I look like a freak, a lunati... |
390 | Trembling , you claw your way out of the ground . You have no idea of your identity , nor of the reason you 've been brought back to life .
| I ’ m scared, I ’ m really, really scared. I feel the sand pressing down my chest, but I can breathe fine; I feel the dust coming to my eyes, but I can see.
The only thing I know is that I have to keep crawling. Even If it ’ s the last thing I do because it ’ s the only thing I can remember. I don ’ t know where I ... |
391 | Write a story/poem about pain in 40 sentences . 20 words in the first sentence then 19 and down to 1 . And then back again from 1 to 20 .
| My mind blooms in agony, I scream in desperation as I feel your heart beat stuttering, stopping, it ’ s just stopping.
My hands continue pushing down, tirelessly, and this rhythm I have been sustaining was supposed to keep you here.
My eyes are glazing over, one two three four five… don ’ t stop, I can make it ... |
392 | In the future , thanks to advances in embryonic manipulation , any creature imaginable can be created . This has started a trend amongst the rich of designer pets . Suddenly , one of these creatures kills their owner and escapes into the wild .
| It wasn ’ t a terribly uncommon occurrence that a gene-spliced designer pet escaped from its home. As a Catcher I ’ ve had to run down everything from a kitten-rabbit with more fluff on its body than a brain within, to a dragonfly the size of a mastiff. What I ’ ve found is that there is very little gray area between t... |
393 | 20 tons of Nutella have been stolen. You are part of a secret task force tasked with finding it. Your partners: the M&M guys, an Oompa Loompa, and Count Chocula | The flash from Mark’s camera refracted off the pool of blood, casting the delivery man’s face in a grotesque red tint. The fellow lay sprawled in the most textbook recently-murdered pose I had yet seen. He vaguely reminded me of the QWOP guy.
“Just a man doing a job. Goddamn shame. Where the hell was his security deta... |
394 | In 2812, two scholars collect and publish "The New Brothers Grimm", an anthology of folk tales from human colony worlds. These are their stories. | Don't Touch
In the heart of the red forest, somewhere near the center of the Angora system, Dr. Claire Bennett, a renowned xenobiologist, trudged through the dense undergrowth, her keen eyes scanning the vibrant flora and fauna for any signs of unusual life forms. She had dedicated her life to discovering new species ... |
395 | Your father is paranoid and locks every door and window each night out of fear of `` the monsters . '' You think he is crazy until you begin to hear voices whisper to you outside the window ...
| Saturday, 12 March 2016.
Saturday night football has always been a way for me to relax and cut loose after a long day at school. Yes, I have school on Saturdays. Here in the middle of nowhere, things work differently. A strange place, with its own charm to it, similar to the charm of that old school architecture yo... |
396 | Unbeknownst to you , the Devil on your shoulder is trying to protect you from the Angel convincing you to do his version of `` Good '' .
| I always thought the ‘ Devil and Angel ’ idea was funny, but then it happened to me. Something is off though. The Angel seems to be off. The Devil doesn ’ t seem to have any differences though. It has just been the most recent things the Angel as told me to do that has been weird. For example, last week the Angel sugge... |
397 | Everyone 's eye color changes to reflect their mood . However , yours are always an icy blue .
| Cold, distrustful, broken, I know that is what everyone thought of me. My eyes were not windows to the soul, they were broken. Locked forever on a single color. It made everyone around me so uneasy, I might be smiling and having a good time, but my eyes would not be that deep shade of satisfaction. Just ice cold orbs d... |
398 | Lycanthropes only transform when 100% of their planet’s moons are full. Callisto III, which has seven moons with varying cycles, has become a haven for this reason. However, nobody realized that each moon increases the intensity, and the moons have just aligned. | For the first time in a long time, I was afraid.
As lycanthropes, our animalistic power often got the better of us, whether we liked it or not. When the majority of our kind lived on Earth, we were known as a nuisance. People often were hurt on those nights, but no one was ever killed. We always had some semblance of ... |
399 | You decide to double check the permissions you 've given to certain apps . It turns out you gave them more permissions than you expected .
| I scroll down to the older apps, the one ’ s I've had downloaded since I first got the phone.
“ Alright, time to revisit your privacy settings. ”
Not having been well-versed in smartphone usage at the time of the downloads, I may very well have given permissions to the apps that I had no intention of giving. I ... |
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