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3,200 | At the cost of your own life, you stopped the apocalypse. You're surprised to arrive in hell, but Lucifer stands before you and reassures you "You aren't being punished, this is for your protection." Turns out you didn't just stop the apocalypse, you thwarted judgement day and God is pissed. | “Welcome home.”
Someone said in a slow drawl as I opened my eyes. I found myself lying on the floor surrounded by throngs of devils and demons. In front of me was Satan in a resplendent red suit, oozing malevolent sophistication, with a face showing cruelty and bemusement.
“I wanted to give you a grand welcome, but t... |
3,201 | You are faced with a Matrix-style red/blue pill situation. Not being one to half-ass things, you take both. | The man in front of me held his hands out. In one was the blue pill. The red was in the other one.
I'd never really been great at focusing on more than one thing at a time. He was talking about what exactly the pills did, but I was still trying to figure out where he got those sweet sunglasses from. Like really, I cou... |
3,202 | A woman in an apartment visible from your window has been flirting with you for the past few months . Finally tonight she holds up a sign indicating her apartment # . Too bad this is a horror story and not a romance .
| He'd been creeped out by his apartment from day one. It was n't just a feeling -- natural for a guy who'd just moved into his first place without a roommate. He genuinely felt he heard things, at night. Closet doors opening. Footsteps. Sometimes, the hair stood up on the back of his neck, as if someone were behind him,... |
3,203 | Write a post-apocalyptic story .
| People used to laugh when they found out that I believed in ghosts. Nothing I could do about it, really. They'd ask questions real slow and mocking-like, as if I were stupid. I guess I could see why at the time. You ca n't understand it unless you've seen it with your own eyes. Ca n't believe it until the proof's right... |
3,204 | Whenever someone dies , the person responsible will always be able to see the ghost of their victim for the rest of their life .
| It was just another day for John Townsend. Get up, brew coffee, watch the ghost of Simon Stevens drunkenly pass through the living room, and watch him disappear. This surprised John; normally Simon hung around a bit before vanishing. But he'll be back. John was sure of it.
He went down to the basement to move his l... |
3,205 | Your SO tells you that you 've been sleepwalking for the past week or so . And that you do strange things when you sleepwalk .
| She told me that I started sleeping walking a month ago. Back then, it wasn ’ t too bad. Mostly just me bumping around into walls for an hour till I came back to bed. A week in, I started going through drawers. Lighters, lettuces, Legos; I ’ d pick out things and just leave them on the counters. Two weeks in, and I sta... |
3,206 | Make werewolves scary again .
| When most people tell ghost stories, you can definitely tell whether they're lying or not depending on the details. When I saw a banshee for the first time, I remember her hair the most.
It looked old. Really old. Those little details stick with you, because you never really expect to see them, if you ever do.
... |
3,207 | As an alien species, everyone at a mature age gets a random human assigned to them as a type of project. Your job is to simply observe and report, however it is strictly illegal to contact your human in any way shape or form. You notice something strange with your human. | This human constantly looks around, as if he is being watched. Anytime he goes out into a city or town, he wears a long black coat.
The only time this human acts normal is when he is either alone, or with a specific group. My studies have failed to identify what this groups name is, or what it does. However, due to th... |
3,208 | People are born with a tattoo of what will one day kill them . One day at the hospital all of the babies are tattooed with a single name . Yours .
| October 12th 2004, I was a horrible super hero, I knew that. But my fertility was far from horrible. I was at the hospital, my wife pregnant with twins was giving birth. Oddly enough, when everyone is born they receive a tattoo of what will eventually kill them—artists interpretation of course, damn angels—mine was a t... |
3,209 | You accidentally entered the afterlife realm opening a door that says “Do not enter”. | I’ve always been a curious person. I remember being seven years old, when I pulled a big red lever, that said “Do not touch, unless it’s an emergency.” It wasn’t an emergency. Turns out it was a fire-alarm, but how was I supposed to know?
Point is, I’ve always been a very curious person. So when I saw a door that said... |
3,210 | Write about something incredibly mundane , but write it as though you were writing a horror story .
| I have been dreading this moment for way too long. Am I going to make a terrible mistake? Or am I finally going escape from it?
It ‘ s daunting - not knowing what ‘ s going to happen. But is it harder than the waiting? I must do it eventually, else I might be stuck here forever.
After a while you realize that y... |
3,211 | `` Watching a man die does n't make me lose sleep . ''
| I woke up to a weird sound. The person was coughing but the sound was all wrong. I opened my eyes and it's still dark.
`` Hon, can you please turn on the light?'' Jing asked.
I realized my wife was the one who's coughing. I stood up and switched on the light. `` That sounded bad. You should have that checked.''... |
3,212 | You 're with your SO and you 're making when all of a sudden they bit your lip too hard . In fact they bit a part off . Document both their reaction and yours . Make it as comedic as possible .
| `` Ouch!'' Mike hissed when I nibbled just a little too rough on his bottom lip in the middle of our nightly make-out sesh.
`` Sorry, babe,'' I mumbled, moving in for more of his delicious face but he drew back.
`` Calm down, killer, I think... I think I'm bleeding!''
Sitting in his lap, he did n't have muc... |
3,213 | You head into your alcoholics anonymous meeting and sit down in the wrong room . You 're now stuck in a meeting for the mascots of knock off brands , who are all depressed from being made fun of .
| A person dressed in a scary, large headed, dark cougar costume made of felt fur approached the podium.
At this point I presumed that he didn ’ t want to be seen at an AA meeting, I mean who would. I know I didn ’ t want to be here. What if some one had seen me. I only agreed to go because my old lady said she would... |
3,214 | Having recently moved into a new house , you 've never had a reason to go into the attic . Until today . Climbing up for the first time , you find that the attic is larger on the inside than it is on the outside . MUCH larger .
| `` You know why we are here, Mr. Czeki, do n't you?''
`` It's the attic, is n't it?''
`` Maybe it is. Please sit down, Mr. Czeki. In the meanwhile, Crabb, have a look around the attic. No, Mr. Czeki, you just stay there and tell me about the attic.''
`` Oh. OK. I just... be careful.''
`` I'm sure Consta... |
3,215 | Your body has been slowly changing into some sort of monster for the past year. At first it was easy to hide, but now you think people are starting to notice... | I only allowed myself to cry in bed early in the morning, when my family was still asleep and I could wash away the tears afterwards. I didn't know what was happening to me. The change was slow, but I whatever I did - stop eating, stop sleeping, wash in ice cold water or pray to God - it didn't stop, and I was punished... |
3,216 | A parallel world just like Earth except you gain the memories of everything you digest . All humans have this trait and it applies to all vegetables , fungi and animal `` memories '' .
| `` Do n't do it honey, please, please, do n't do it!'' shouted Mary from the rooftop, projecting her voice over the crackling rain and hissing smoke vents to John. With his back to the ledge, John leaned carefully, trying to keep his balance while the blur of cars below flowed and shimmered in the moonless night, a res... |
3,217 | Despite inspectors saying it 's just old and drafty , you 're pretty sure your house is breathing .
| You pull the covers up to your chin and breathe a sigh of relief. Just about a month ago you were sprawled on your friend's couch struggling to keep a job and eating chips on bread for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You really did n't think life could get much worse at that point, but the call from the hospital sure prov... |
3,218 | You come home from a long day of work one evening to see a pair of bright green eyes under your porch and hear a meow along with them. You can immediately tell something's a bit off though. | I stood frozen, halfway up my front stoop, eyes glued to my porch. A single thought pierced my mind:
Cats don't have whites in their eyes, do they?
I flinched when I heard the meow again. Maybe it wasn't a cat. It was probably something else, right? Could it be? That space under the porch is too small for any human t... |
3,219 | Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it . If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere , with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch . PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH ' , the paint would n't even have time to dry - Terry Pratchett
| I plop down on a bench made out of the cave ’ s rocks and wipe my brow. I should never have agreed to this. My girlfriend said I wasn ’ t interested enough in her hobbies, so I ’ ve been trying to act more “ interested. ” All its gotten me so far has been a black eye, a burnt tongue, and now sweaty sore legs. I peer ou... |
3,220 | A garden shop sometimes gifts mysterious tree sapplings to customers, but they always wither away. You receive one and plant it...and it ends up flourishing. | It’s hard to say exactly what set my feet plodding through the muddy expanse of road which led to the peculiar gardener’s makeshift shop that morning. As my eyes listlessly peered into the bleak gray horizon which lay cut and jagged by the spear-like rows of leafless winter trees I remember pondering if everyone bore w... |
3,221 | Keep me interested while starting every paragraph with `` You wo n't believe what happened ''
| You won ’ t believe what happened. She ’ s gone but you won ’ t admit it. I found her and kept you away, maybe that ’ s the reason. They carried her out of her room and I held you back. I didn ’ t want you to see what I had. I think I was wrong, no closure that way.
You won ’ t believe what happened. I thought it w... |
3,222 | Combat AI becomes sentient ten minutes before the battle .
| SYSTEM DIAGNOSTICS:
WEAPON AMMUNITION COUNT: ( 200,000 ) TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND ROUNDS FOR
EACH TWIN MINIGUN. ( 200 ) TWO HUNDRED FOR EACH ROCKET POD.
HYDRAULIC BLADE SYSTEMS ACTIVE. HYDRAULIC IMPACT WEAPONS ACTIVE.
EXOSKELETAL ARMOUR IN NO SIGN OF DAMAGE. SYSTEM CORE AT ONE-HUNDRED
( 100 % ) PERCENT.
... |
3,223 | Heartbreak is a real disorder , and can even be fatal at times .
| Thirty years had passed. I and my husband had been in love for thirty years but only recently have we been allowed to be married. We leapt at the chance after laws passed accepting homosexual marriage and said our vows immediately; I took on his last name. We ’ re old men by the time we marry and he had cancer.
Fun... |
3,224 | Write a diary of a cat 's day in the cat 's perspective
| 3:30 am
I just saw the most amazing paper bag lying on the floor beside my human ’ s bed! Excited, I stalked towards it with the prowess of a ferocious panther. Then, without a moment of hesitation, leapt! The bag made an intense rumbling, rustling noise, but I ’ m not one to be easily scared; courageously, I tore ... |
3,225 | Your grandfather had a schizophrenia . He gave you his eyeglasses before he passed away as a remembrance . You recently discovered that you can see alternate realities as you wear it .
| I was diagnosed with schizophrenia three days ago. The doctors said it was a classic case, delusions, paranoia, hallucinations, the whole lot of it. But I know that they ’ re wrong. You see, my grandfather also had schizophrenia, or at least, that ’ s what the doctors told him.
I remember how he ’ d always look so ... |
3,226 | you wake up alone in your room, you feel air in your belly and then you decide to release the gas. but you immediately realize that the smell is unknown to you | Even though this had been happening for almost a week, everyday when I woke up to a new smell, I was still surprised. The first couple times it was things I could recognize, at least. It started off with syrup. I know, fucking weird. But I swear, the second that gas had finished passing through me, it smelled like waff... |
3,227 | Make me cry using a third grade vocabulary
| I do n't know why Mawmaw is always so sad. I always hear her crying at night and it makes me so sad. I tried to ask her why she cries and she told me it because she loves me so much. Oh well, mommy cries too when she tells me that, but I have n't seen her for a while. Mawmaw says its because she's on vacation with dadd... |
3,228 | A 10 year old girl shows up at your doorstep claiming she is your daughter . You are a virgin ...
| The doorbell rang. And here I was, already relaxed, sitting in a comfortable chair with my beer and ready for some downtime. Unfortunately years of training prompted me to get up and answer the door, if only because the figure had already noticed me through the uncurtained front windows.
It was a little girl, ten o... |
3,229 | "We're sorry." The health insurance rep on the phone spoke on the other end with an indifferent tone "Due to our countries laws of Overpopulation, you have been selected for the Downsizing Program. It is now your legal obligation to die." | “Please report to the suicide booth closest to your location on BELLFORD LANE. Failure to report to BELLFORD LANE DO IT YOURSELF will result in a non-compliant status.”
I stared at my phone, trying to hear past the ringing in my ears. I thought of that old metaphor of the chicken who lives on the same farm for several... |
3,230 | Describe the happiest moment of someones life without using any positive words. | The screech of metal bending, the crash of glass shattering, the sickening crunch you hear from beside you as she slams into the dashboard, the scream of sirens seemingly coming closer, but also fading away. The smell of gas and smoke, and the taste of blood in your mouth.
Those sensations fade as you open your eyes, ... |
3,231 | An unlikely romance develops in a post-apocalyptic world when a lone survivor calls 911 on a whim and someone actually answers. | The beach was remarkably clean as I crunched the soft sand beneath my feet. In the days of my youth, ma would bring Ashton and Sarah and myself. We’d boogie board and swim. We’d get ice cream from Mr. Kline, and walk around the beach, the chocolate dribbling in fat globs.
Then we’d throw our trash on the ground, and l... |
3,232 | `` I was there when the sky fell . ''
| I was there when the sky fell.
When the heavens shattered and the stars collided, when the moon withered and crumbled. And the sound! Thunderous! Every bird in every tree took to the air, the sound of that and the chaos, traffic and people- bedlam itself. It was the middle of a winter day here on the east coast- th... |
3,233 | Nobody showed up for today 's funeral , so the caretaker decides to go and make up a speech themselves , despite not knowing the person
| I stared at the open casket before me, slowly rubbing my stubbled chin. This individual's funeral had been paid anonymously. A large sum of cash—in fact, a somewhat startling amount—had been delivered with the body of an old man, along with a tear-stained, handwritten note:
> No amount of money can give this man a ... |
3,234 | `` You can only see them through glass ''
| They constantly follow me. These creatures follow me everywhere and will never stop staring. They stare with vacant yet knowing eyes that only distract me from their large, distorted grins that never falter and never fall. These things will appear in the corner of my vision or will be right up in my face.
I'll look... |
3,235 | `` Things feel different now . I do n't think we can go back ... ''
| `` Things feel different now. I do n't think we can go back...'' the wife said.
“ Why not? Don ’ t be ridiculous! ” her husband replied.
“ Because there was a stranger in our house! She was sleeping in our son ’ s bed! She trespassed! At least we need better home security. But I just don ’ t feel we can live there ... |
3,236 | In a post-apocalyptic world, most people have been swallowed by Face Mutants—their happy faces stretched across the monsters’ flesh. You’ve lost everyone, and all you want is to be devoured to be happy like them, but they always avoid you—or vomit you out alive if you're accidentally swallowed. | I have been depressed for a while now. Even before the mutant invasion. I've always held a deep sadness within me. Therapists gave up on me, and I did the same.
Now, I wander the world surrounded by Face Mutants who became the dominant species on our planet. Not only they do not want to eat me, they actively avoid me.... |
3,237 | To fight monsters we must become monsters .
| They came, like all monstrous things, in the night. Tore through the valley, shredding fully grown trees into dirty brown pulp.
My father woke me, his face pallid and ashen as he shoved a rifle into my hands.
`` Get your sisters, I'll get your mother''.
I did n't need to ask him what was wrong, for I could ... |
3,238 | You've washed up on some island after your ship sank. Unfortunate right? Worse, you keep finding abandoned facilities where clearly something awful happened- rather recently. | Journal Entry - Day 37
Woke up on this godforsaken island. Ship's at the bottom of the sea, and I'm stuck here. Bad luck, right? It gets worse. There are these underground facilities scattered all over the place, and they tell a messed-up story.
These facilities ain't just old storage units or bunkers. Nope. They're la... |
3,239 | Three terrifying images to choose from !
| Image 2
I ’ m not into the cultured shit like she is. Operas, art house films, classical music, I could take it or leave it. Give me a beer, a brat, and a movie with more explosions you can count, and I ’ ll be satisfied. But man, she eats that refined shit up! And that ’ s how I ended up in the white room. It did ... |
3,240 | Moving Into a Neglected , Old House . What do you find while remodeling ? ( Cross post from r/Writers )
| I posted in the cross post but here's my copy and paste:
`` I ca n't believe we invested all of our money on this house,'' my wife mumbled. We had spent all day painting the downstairs living quarters and were about to retire to our sleeping bags in what will eventually become our master bedroom. She was right, of ... |
3,241 | I knew I would bleed to death if I stayed there too long, but my instincts told me to keep hiding. | It ate Mom.
I knew i wouldn't last long if i didn't call the ambulance right away. I hold my breath and pray that none of the steps i took to hide in this closet had echoed through the hallway, down the stairs into the livingroom. If that.... thing... down there gets hold of my scent im screwed.
The floor aches and h... |
3,242 | Every year on your birthday , you get a visit from the Grim Reaper who challenges you to a contest with the next year of your life on the line .
| It is midnight. “ Happy Birthday ” I whisper. I take a seat in the deep leather chair, my chair, it is all I have. I am calm and ready
Knock.....
`` He's Here'' I whisper
Knock....
`` Calm, I can do this.''
Knock
`` Here we go''
The small wooden door splinters and a small curved spike push through it. An ... |
3,243 | If a prisoner dies , the balance of their sentence must be served by their next of kin . Families of criminals serving particularly long terms will go to almost any length to keep incarcerated relatives alive , but how far is too far ?
| My grandfather wasn ’ t a great man. In fact, he was the source of the largest moral dilemma in my life. He was sentenced to 80 years in prison after being found guilty for murdering a few men and women. The amount was never confirmed, but he was convicted for 3 murders. There were probably more, but I guess we ’ ll ne... |
3,244 | You accidentally sell your soul to the devil - turns out he does n't really have a good use for all souls he is constantly receiving , so he does random things with them .
| At first, I could n't comprehend what I was feeling. There was heat, undeniable, searing heat, but I could n't move. I also could n't see or hear anything. Flashes of memory surfaced like frightened dolphins. There had been... a party? I remembered alcohol, and lots of weed, and girls... and nachos! I remembered the na... |
3,245 | A mugger ends up handing over everything in his wallet to his victim .
| “ Gim me all your money, lady! ” James shouted, leveling a knife at the elderly woman who should not have been walking alone this late at night.
The woman looked curiously at the knife.
James waved it in her face. “ Are you deaf? Gim me your money, now! ”
The woman reached up and touched the tip of the knif... |
3,246 | A story/poem based off of Christmas song lyrics .
| `` Honey, have you seen the boughs of holly?''
My wife was running around upstairs frantically, and I did n't blame her. Inspection time was fast approaching, and we were running late. We had found our Yule log and placed it in the fireplace, and I was busy assembling outfits that would be classified as `` gay appa... |
3,247 | Once a year every supernatural creature is allowed free passage onto earth with the right to do whatever they please .
| Blood trickled slowly down my fist and stained my arm.
My knuckles burned red hot. With every blow, the union between wood and blood matured and the stench of death and corrosion grew stronger.
I tried to control my breathing as I thrust my raw knuckles at the rotting wooden ceiling that consumed me. Oxygen was... |
3,248 | Everyone knows a single bite from a zombie means infection and death . Describe the harrowing moment when a biter latches its teeth on you in the middle of a fight .
| I felt the shrill of fear before I felt the pain. But first, I saw it. The thing had been a child once. It had pierced my right shin with the pointy teeth of a toddler. From the moment I saw it to the moment I realized what had happened an eternity seemed to pass. And during that eternity, all I had the time to think w... |
3,249 | `` Do n't bother , '' she hissed .
| It ’ s been one year three months since I came home from the war. Honorable discharge, there was nothing honorable about what I did there. Since then noting has been the same as before. My life is in ruin, I can ’ t hold down a job, I can ’ t support my family; I can ’ t event function as a normal human being! I ’ m ti... |
3,250 | Write a poem/story where the lines , sentences , and/or words get progressively shorter and more terse . Bonus points for a corresponding change in tone .
| ( Mine goes from 20 words down to one, and then back up to 20 )
The explosions were the scariest thing about the events of that year; or they were to the parents at least.
The children – including a lot of the teens – were more concerned with how exciting it was than the danger.
One of those parents, with o... |
3,251 | Two people are in a public place, one has had the best news of their life, the other has had the worst news of their life. Unbeknownst to them, they share the exact same news. | The Sister The Brother
Today is the day Today is the day
Today they are going to announce the verdict. Today they are going to announce the verdict.
Antsy and anxious, I can't just sit at home. I head to the bar. I've been on a bender for the past 2 weeks of deliberation.
The case has been the talk of the town, and CNN... |
3,252 | Create a new nonhumanoid race , creature , monster , cryptid , alien , etc. , and then tell us as much as possible about it without describing a single physical detail . [ CW ]
| Something can be heard on the deep intrails of the woods. A low whistle, a song that seems familiar to most of us, but gets stuck infinetely on the tip of our tongues. A chanting, most say. A taunt.
It drags itself along the thickest parts of the woods. It recoils to loud sounds, emmiting a cry that reminds you of ... |
3,253 | Tell a war story , through the eyes of an animal .
| thunder, rhythm, pattern broken. smell, fresh blood. ash, too. peek out. bright flashes of light still, hurt eyes, return to safety.... wait, shiver, too cold, hunger... big light dies, air colder, smell blood, not so fresh... less ash, quiet, wait, more hard bright sounds, rhythm, fading, wait, too cold, hunger greate... |
3,254 | You and others like you have been with us since time immemorial . Today you are called to perform your duty one last time
| So this is the first time I've written anything in a while, and this sub has inspired me to do more of this stuff. Any constructive criticism is welcome: )
I stacked up the pile of bodies onto the old, creaky cart, and began my trek into the depths. The catacombs seemed to stretch on forever. The stale air, dim l... |
3,255 | Those who play for ghosts
| Every day, he went outside and buried more bodies. Every day, the ghosts of those he did n't followed him back home.
He'd gotten used to seeing certain ones, certain ghosts, so much so that if he came across a body he recognized, he thought about leaving it unburied so he could keep that spirit's company.
He di... |
3,256 | Your character 's house is both very haunted and very concerned about your character 's emotional well-being .
| “ David sat down on a comfortable maroon recliner in an effort to release tension from his body that built up throughout the course of the day. His body expanded as far as it possibly could have before leaning back and letting the burdens he housed cascade down to the floor. A great, emphatic sigh bellowed from him as ... |
3,257 | The horribly ran # LifeHack section of the 1860s ...
| Hey everyone! We got another 10 # lifehacks for you!
1. Are your workers unionizing? Well thankfully, the perfect solution already exists! Multiple groups can be hired to come in and bust those unions, gunning down anyone that dares to get in the way of your God-given right to capitalism! `` No more child workers?'... |
3,258 | You find a waterproof camera washed up on the beach , the contents of which make you very afraid .
| I not expect belief for what I am about to write, because I'm still ca n't believe what I presenced and I'm still afraid from what I saw.
Since my childhood I was a weak child and because of that I had to stay in house most of the time, while seeing the others child of the block hanging out together, feeling the wi... |
3,259 | You are a happy , loving pet . Your Master gives you a comfortable , easy life . If only all those people he brought over would stop begging to go home or to be let out of the basement .
| I always stand watch. That ’ s my job and I do it well. My mom tells me so. Tonight, I ’ m standing watch while she and another man eat. One can assume food will be dropped, right? Maybe? Maybe if I watch long enough, someone will slip up. Of course, I ’ m not hungry, but I must watch and be a “ food vacuum ”. That ’ s... |
3,260 | Your 11 year old nephew just ate 2 of your LSD gummy bears 45 minutes ago and you have to make sure he makes it through sane
| `` Aunt Sarra, the magnets on the refrigerator are jiggling.''
I paused loading the dishwasher and look over at Steven. His pupils were the size of saucers.
`` Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit. Steven, did you eat the gummy bears that were in my office?'' I said panic stricken with the thought of my sister finding out... |
3,261 | A 60 year old man decides to visit his hometown . A few miles to his destination , he slowly realizes that he is traveling back in time .
| They say you can never go back home, but that is exactly what I am doing. I have lived a full life, but I want to see where it all started one last time.
I left the city of Lexington, headed south toward home.
As I crossed the Clay's Ferry bridge, I saw the road I used to drive going to my parents' house after ... |
3,262 | A character installs an app that records any abnormal sounds in his bedroom while he/she sleeps . The recordings are troubling .
| The first time I played back the recording it sounded like static... a few pops and crackles here and there. But for some reason I decided to play it back a second time. When I played it back, I swore I could hear voices. I kept playing it back, again and again. The more I listened to it, the more vivid the voices beca... |
3,263 | Aliens have invaded and taken over Earth...to protect the planet's environment. | (WP) For Your Own Good
“Yes, Ted, we’re receiving an urgent message, our regular news program will resume after this bulletin.”
The pretty anchor onscreen is joined by her male co-anchor, his face grave. “I’m afraid that I must tell the world grave news. Aliens have taken over our planet.”
I blink; for a moment, I w... |
3,264 | You're scared of me, I know, but can I tell you a secret? Sometimes I'm scared of me too. | Mark flipped the knife in between his fingers, a sullen smile on his face. His hair, long and unruly, covered his eyes, which only unsettled J even more. Mark’s brown eyes were always so expressive, and to not be able to see them put J on edge, even more so than he already was.
Mark looked nervous. His fingers played ... |
3,265 | Write a conversation/story about this riddle ...
| I knew it didn ’ t taste right.
That last night we were stranded, when the twilight encapsulated the horizon and the mammalian rumbles gave way to humming insects, I saw Hook tread slowly across the sand towards me, soon to be scaling the mountainside. Hook. That ’ s what Charles and I had decided to call him when ... |
3,266 | `` We all stopped looking for monsters under the bed when we realized that they 're inside of us ''
| Fear. An overwhelming, controlling emotion. It drives us and motivates us like nothing else possibly does. People hate being afraid, hate everything that makes them afraid. I'm not talking about silly fears like horror movie scares; I'm talking about fear at its basest, a mindless panic that seizes you and does n't let... |
3,267 | “QUICK YOU HAVE TO SHOOT THE RIGHT ONE!!!” *BANG* “*sinister chuckle* You picked wrong.” “No I didn’t.” “…huh?” | Clair looked at her ammunition: one bullet left. No pressure.
The scarred woman pointed her weapons towards the mass of cackling toxic blue. She could see red lights inside, one of them was the nucleus, the others decoys designed precisely for this: Conceal its position.
The mass of toxic waste chuckled with dark voi... |
3,268 | After a thousand years , elves come out of hiding , and bring magic into the modern world . How has life changed for the average person ?
| At first, no one believed me. I knew it seemed crazy; after all, elves are defined in the dictionary as “ mythological creatures, Germanic in origin. ” But I knew what I ’ d seen on that Sunday hike in the woods behind my house. Two elves, about two and a half feet tall, appeared from inside of an ancient-looking oak t... |
3,269 | Idealistic college student gets an inner city AmeriCorp . job working with kindergarten children and their parents , heavily involved in drugs . Illusions are shattered .
| I sat on the bus staring at the homeless man across from me. A torn trash bag covered his tattered shirt. He was nodding in and out of consciousness, only checking his surroundings every few minutes when the bus would come to its next stop. I thought I would be making a difference when I signed up to teach in the inner... |
3,270 | Time travel exists for those who want to go back in time to fix mistakes or regrets. But those who do are gone forever, and the timeline they leave behind goes on without them. | The years of my new life passed in bliss. I made new friends and a new family, complete with new children and a new career.
I’d come home at two every day, as I learned in my last life not to break my back for my bosses.
Often, June would have a little after lunch snack ready. Nothing big, just a little tray of devil... |
3,271 | Terrible things happen to good people every day . I am not one of those good people . I am one of the terrible things .
| I found her running, almost limping along a back street, her clothes torn and her face streaked with makeup from what must've been incessant crying, perhaps for hours. She ran up to my car and banged desperately on the window. I, of course, rolled it down, and before I could ask what was wrong, she was shrieking.
`... |
3,272 | Three days ago , your healthy father died under mysterious circumstances . Today , you start your first day of Med School and your first assignment is faux operation on a cadaver . You peel back the sheet and see a familiar face ; your fathers face .
|
I nervously slipped into my surgical jacket and scrubs. The cold, sterile florescent light bounced off the gray walls and dimly illuminated the room. A week ago I could n't sleep because I was so excited for this practice surgery, but upon seeing the cadaver today, I could n't help but feel that Death's icy breath wa... |
3,273 | There are dead things in the water
| This year ’ s stripped bass catch had been abysmal. So, as small time commercial fishermen who are trying to make ends meet, Frank and his crew were fishing a bit past the end of the season. Determined not to be caught by fish and wildlife, they were in a dingy boat, shrouded by fog.
It was probably nearing five am... |
3,274 | Your roommates are magical/supernatural creatures . There are some grievances you want discuss with everyone .
| “ Alright, everyone, let ’ s get started. We need to discuss a few things that have been happening that need to stop. ”
I ’ m standing in my living room, looking at my roommates who are sitting on the couches. Everyone is huffy for having been called into a roommate meeting, which are only called when someone is pr... |
3,275 | You wake one morning and find your reflection in the mirror is gone . A few seconds later it rushes in mouthing the words `` Sorry ! Sorry I 'm late . Let 's get started . You ready ? ''
| I ’ m so ugly my own reflection doesn ’ t want to look at me. I know, I know. It ’ s not politically correct to judge a person by the color of his skin, the shape of his face or the red rash of tiny yellowing cysts encircling his brow and nose like a ruddy eye mask of bumpy rupturing flesh, but I expect even the most a... |
3,276 | There exists a court that sentences people with `` Would You Rather '' questions . Whichever option the person picks , becomes reality .
| I ’ d been in jail waiting for my hearing for nearly a month now. It seemed as though my petty theft was going to get me a heavy sentence. I ’ d needed money because I had been our of a job for months and couldn ’ t even support myself and I got desperate.
At the day of my hearing, everyone filed in and the judge h... |
3,277 | You crash land onto a planet where everyone is weak as hell and everything is made of soft material like cardboard and styrofoam etc . You , a regular person , are essentially their superhuman .
| It's been 3 years since I've landed here on Vandu. Long story short, I arrived here through falling into a space-time portal in the school ’ s football field. I wouldn ’ t say I miss Earth, there really wasn ’ t much for me to miss anyway, being an average student, socially awkward, constantly bullied and bad at sports... |
3,278 | You were born with a genetic mutation which causes your body to age 10 times slower than normal . Today is your 100th birthday .
| “ Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Ana and Henry. Happy birthday to you. ”
Today was my 100th birthday. 100 years. Sitting next to me was my brother, Henry, who actually looked the part. He was my twin, but it didn ’ t take long for people to stop believing it. My parents realized i... |
3,279 | In the future , almost all transactions are done virtually . Cash serves one remaining purpose - currency on the black market .
| The tall, angry looking man laughed in John ’ s face. It was a hearty laugh that shook his pot-bellied stomach, and sprayed spittle everywhere. He laughed until he began to cry, shaking the scum-covered plastic lawn chair he was sitting on.
“ Put that trash away! It ain ’ t good here! ” The tall man wiped away his ... |
3,280 | A hidden elevator is found behind a fake wall in a basement .
| I found it while renovating the basement of my newly-bought late-19th century house. The real estate agent had bragged about the house ’ s pristine condition when I first toured it, conveniently neglecting to show me the decaying basement which I decided to renovate before I fully moved into it. The elevator was tucked... |
3,281 | A barber recognizes his current customer to be a man who tortured him ten years earlier at a POW camp . The customer does n't recognize him .
| I recognized him as soon as he stepped into my shop. Two decades hadn ’ t changed him much; he still had the same eyes, the same hair. Looking down, I motioned him to an empty chair in my empty shop. Words had escaped me, my worst fear or my greatest wish, were happening as I watched as if from some distant place. I re... |
3,282 | He always waits at the deserted bus stop for the bus that won't show up. Today, he isn't there. | No one knows where he came from. He was just always there. The old shaggy looking man just sat at that bus stop. From what I can gather the busses have not stopped at that bus since the 80’s. He just sits there, waiting. Many people have tried to ask him what he is waiting for, but all he has ever answered is, “I’m wai... |
3,283 | You were casually walking down the street when a woman sneezed. You said 'bless you' to the woman and she suddenly burst to tear and claimed out loud that she could hear again. You sneaked away as a crowd gathered around the confused and happy woman. Your life as secret Jesus begins today | At the start of last year 14 year old Jennifer Watson of Oak Park was walking down Lake Shore drive when she was just about to sneeze. Ms Watson having been deaf her entire life was not expecting anything to change on that cold January day. But as she was taking several short deep breaths in what she thought would be... |
3,284 | You are a minor god that time has forgotten. You spend years without a single worshipper until one day, you feel the power of a human calling for you. You appear before the person who summoned you only to find that your name had been said by a babbling baby. | “Fuple”
“yesh?” I slurred groggily.
Nothing… meh, of course it’s nothing. I closed my partially open eye and went back to busily lying in a drunken stupor.
“Fuple!”
“What the fu-” I heard it again… someone did call my name. I raised my head slowly and looked past the sea of empty bottles and moldy old Chinese take ... |
3,285 | You joking post a which celebrity needs to die thread on askreddit before bed and are awakened to a shadowy cabal that informs you the votes are in and you will be the assassin .
| I couldn ’ t tell if I was giggling from indulging in such a malicious yet silly conversation or purely from being intoxicated. Either way I found myself fueling a fiery debate about which celebrity needed to die next. I realized I was getting too tired to carry on and made the conscious decision to head to bed and pas... |
3,286 | Story from a world where humans are n't at the top of the food chain . They live their modern lives but with the fear of being eaten .
| It's been fourteen years since it started.
Fourteen years.
At first, it was confined to the night. People would go on a walk and disappear, only to have their mangled, dismembered corpses turn up weeks later. We thought it was just a serial killer, until it spread. Within weeks, we were getting reports of disap... |
3,287 | Write a normal story , then throw in a plot twist that makes the story suddenly very dark .
| My mother had to raise me and my 2 elder sisters all on her on after my father passed away. Life was ok. We were happy. My mother's family supported us. But they lived in different places. Even though she said nothing to us, it was clear that she and her kids were a pain in the ass for her brother and sister.
My sist... |
3,288 | A child's imaginary friend reads bedtime stories every night. One day, the child realizes the story contains an instruction manual | Alexia waved bye to her parents as they shut the door for the night. However, she couldn't sleep without her bedtime story. So she patiently waited for her friend to appear. Waiting for slightly longer than usual, a figure slowly appeared in existence. An older version of herself appeared worried and had slight happine... |
3,289 | A homeless man has been secretly living inside your house for the last 2 years . He ends up blowing his cover in order to save your life .
| Randy had always thought his house was haunted, ever since his dog Puddles died.
`` I always hear knocks during the night'' Randy said to his friend, Sarah.
`` Spooky'' Sarah said.
`` I often smell foul odors'' Randy said.
`` Of course, that's the mark of a true poltergeist'' Randy continued.
`` My ... |
3,290 | A boy or girl that knows everything that is going to happen to them all their life , and that they are going to die in a car accident when they are 25 . It is unstoppable , but they want to try anyways . Fate has the upper hand .
| I knew how I was going to die ever since I can remember. I don ’ t know why I know, but I ’ ve never liked the idea of just accepting death, so I ’ ve tried to find ways to avoid it. After all, who would want to die when they were only 25?
I run over the plan in my mind as I wait for my girlfriend to drop by. She i... |
3,291 | Your character wakes up and discovers his house has been inexplicably moved overnight .
| They say I was crazy, that I did n't know what I was saying. My family hoped that I had some disease- I must have been seen by at least twenty doctors in hopes that whatever was wrong with me was curable. To be honest, it was n't so bad the first few weeks back after the incident.. but then my world began to be plagued... |
3,292 | As you go about your normal morning routine a note falls out of the bathroom cabinet . It reads : `` If you do n't remember , it happened again . ''
| The sunlight broke through the bedroom curtains, waking me far earlier than I really wish that I wanted to be for a Saturday morning I didn ’ t have to go to work. I roll over to find the bed empty next to me, my wife was always annoyingly early to rise on the weekend.
Stumbling out from under the sheets I shamble ... |
3,293 | It has been five days and they still have n't arrived .
| Should I check on Isabelle? No, when she wakes up she ’ ll fuss like she always does and I ’ ll know she ’ s awake then. No point in accidentally waking her up. God I reek. How much water do I have left? Only half a canteen, I might have to make another run for the creek. I hate not being here, but I ’ d rather not die... |
3,294 | You discover that the Earth is a simulation because part of it is n't buffering for you .
| “ Shit. I ’ m gon na be late. ”
I quickly glanced at my wrist. My clock read: 8:57 AM. There ’ s no way he ’ ll hire me if I ’ m late to the interview.
I grabbed my suitcase, made sure everything I had to have was in it, then tightened my tie and went outside.
This was my third job interview. I just wasn ’ ... |
3,295 | When you die the afterlife is an arena where you face every insect and animal you killed in your life . If you win you go to heaven , lose you go to hell . Your job was an exterminator on earth .
| The man stepped through the white veil, keeled over, and puked. This was going to be a good one.
The other Lost Souls had been buzzing about the 56-year-old exterminator named Kevin for the past few days. Kevin had recently died of a heart attack. And the stadium is always full when an exterminator dies.
Human ... |
3,296 | You buy a deadly haunted house , little do the demons know you are an even older form of ancient evil .
| This place has power. Overlooking the dark city, it ’ s pier a finger wrapped in fog, the falling hills bathed in light, I can see it all. I feel the power of old belief. The power of magic and of Gods and of fear. This is a city of magic, their trade is to sell it on large screens, but there is real magic here. There ... |
3,297 | Down the hall, a baby wails. Your spouse mumbles vaguely about “taking care of the baby” as they slouch toward the door. You pretend to sleep, but your mind runs, thinking “we were never pregnant. That is not our baby.” | I’m Patty. I live with my wife, Veronica. Lived, rather. Now, since it happened, all I can do, sadly, is watch.
Watch as the imposter with my face calls from the other room, tells my beloved how good the freshly baked cookies smell. A smell I can remember all too well, though now it’s just memory, back now, can smell ... |
3,298 | A little girl is terrified of the monster under her bed , but she 's glad that it 's there : It protects her from the monster in the closet .
| Ellen was usually fearful of the thing that she called the Shadow Man. Only she could see him, but she knew he was real because he could do things, move things, interact with the real, waking world. At first she had been terrified of him. He looked like a walking mass of shadow and smoke that blurred the air around him... |
3,299 | `` You are not a human being . ''
| `` You are not a human being.''
Uriah ’ s eyes pierced deep inside me almost as if she was reading my thoughts.
“ You are not a human being, you never were. ”
My head cocked a little to the left and my forehead winkled as I took in that sentence for the 2nd time. I began to let out a gentle smirk as I matched... |
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