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3,700 | You realize that the same person has appeared as a background character in every one of your dreams for the past few weeks .
| It all started a while ago, this character in my dreams was always there haunting me in a sense. He or her or it was never my friend or enemy, they were just there all of the time. That same emotionless face followed me whether I was swimming in the ocean or about to fall of a cliff I could always point them out.
T... |
3,701 | Usually , horrors take place in dark isolated areas in the middle of nowhere . Write a horror story that takes place in the middle of a busy area in broad daylight .
| Ethan's latest fear was monsters. Months ago, it was clowns. Before that, dogs. Every night for the past few weeks, Ethan insisted I check under his bed and in his closet for any creepy creatures that might be lurking.
I blamed his father for this behavior. Ethan's dad was fond of horror movies; the last weekend Et... |
3,702 | You are a gunner marine on an unknown planet , fighting an unknown alien enemy , you are with two other gunners in a cold and dark bunker , the enemy is charging , you have ammo and the high ground , you light up a cigar and
| ..notice, as I lower my flickering match, the dirt is beginning to separate beneath my feet. I stumble sideways, dropping my last cigar, skin turning ice cold as the hand of a gelatinous monster tears itself out of the dirt. My comrades stagger backwards too, unclipping their sidearms and pointing them, shaking, at the... |
3,703 | After moving into the quaint little town nestled in the mountains far from the smog and traffic of the city, you were 'adopted' by a stray cat. She often brings you gifts like pretty leaves, old socks, dead mice. This time she brought you something different: A half-dead fairy. | I suppose I shouldn’t have been that surprised, considering how talented she was at catching other prey. But I didn’t expect her to drop something fae at my feet, I’ll say that much.
It had been about three weeks since I’d moved into the cabin before Jasmine turned up. She was on the large side for a cat, though I’m n... |
3,704 | No new babies have been born in the past 2 years .
| I'm not sure when we first noticed the birth rate going down.
It did n't strike anyone as unusual until news started spreading that other towns around us had n't had any births for around a year or so. At that point there were the odd comments and conspiracy jokes but we did n't really think anything of it. We all ... |
3,705 | The real childhood monsters were never the ones under your bed .
| The real childhood monsters were never the ones under your bed.
Oh, sure, they were real. But they were ghosts, not monsters. A ghost is simply a wandering spirit, alone and afraid, unable to contact any of their kind and unable to see any of yours.
Except the younger ones. Oh, they tried to make little Johnny ... |
3,706 | You are looking at a charred , abandoned farm when suddenly , a dirtied woman comes out from it and towards you , wielding an ax
| There was something curious about the old structure, whose black, twisted bones reached achingly to the night sky. So curious and unspeakable that I had already pressed a foot on the brakes before having even fully decided to investigate it. I had been driving on a long strip of dusty nowhere for a number of hours, per... |
3,707 | Tell me a ghost story from the perspective of the ghost .
| I had always loved being alone, until being alone was my only option.
You could say I was someone who often kept to themselves. I enjoyed solitude as it allowed me to recharge my batteries after a long day. Every day when I would come home from school I would mumble quick greetings of hello to my mother and slink d... |
3,708 | Turns out , when you 're drunk and you die , you stay drunk in Heaven/Hell . For eternity .
| maybe that's why most people got a lot of luck being drunk... there was an incident near our village, not to long ago. there was a guy driving drunk at night after a meeting with his friends at a near, well known pub. So he's drunk, driving his Vespa at NIGHT...
Well, he failed to turn in a road-curve and managed it ... |
3,709 | Your father was a world renown cook , After his sudden passing he left the restaurant to you . While renovating the restaurant you find a hidden crawlspace leading to what looks like a butchers room .
| My fathers restaurant had always been the highlight of our town, everyone loved the food, it was so addictive. he would always win every cooking competition, he even had celebrities come from all over the world just to try the food. i saw many familiar faces over the years, some had been eating here for decades.
... |
3,710 | Make the reader cry .
| I ’ m laying at the edge of the world today. It ’ s not as magnificent as the films make it seem. Maybe it ’ s just my perception but in the movies it always looks easy when you ’ re standing here. Remember when Ben Thomas stood here for Emily and Ezra? It was beautiful. He finally had a purpose and he didn ’ t second-... |
3,711 | As it turns out, Earth is a type of Egg, and it’s gonna hatch soon. | All it needed was to be incubated. That’s all the egg required after billions of years.
“I’m Scared, Holland. It whispered into my ear. It whispered into everyone’s.”
Jared was hiding in a bunker, transmitting his message to my location on Mars. The air of both our planets was now gone. Mars was used to this and had ... |
3,712 | AI has taken over the world. However, instead of the malicious dictator every thought it would become, it's more of an annoying mom trying to take care of her children. | Aleister’s mother crashed into the Pacific Ocean while he completed the 19,850th failed iteration of his neural network. At his mom's funeral, the college dropout realized what the problem was. His data set was too small.
Aleister spent the next two days downloading all his mother’s videos. She had a few million more ... |
3,713 | A Lawyer Informs you an Uncle you Have Never Met Has Left you a Sizable Inheritance on One Condition: Find the Man Who Murdered Him | I've spent 20 odd years looking but haven't found him. I don't know how my uncle knew he would be murdered but he could have left clues. All I have are the simple instructions to find out who.
I have searched and interviewed all his friends, colleges, high school buddies and so on. Every single one has hit a dead end.... |
3,714 | You are an executioner in a world where criminals are executed in the same way that they kill their victims . Today , you get your hardest challenge yet .
| Randy Finkelton, aka; The Nutter
It took 3 years for the Feds to finally catch him. Another 2 for them to successfully prosecute and sentence him to death. And now his files on my desk with an expiration date set in 2 months.
How in gods name am I gon na kill this man?
4 years ago, a random Jane doe popped ... |
3,715 | When you die , you go into a videogame-like 'spectator mode ' and can watch your friends live from a fixed camera angle .
| “ Robert, don ’ t do this to me, ” she said. Her face was in her hands. “ Please, Robert. I can ’ t do this. Not now. ”
My business partner—my best friend—squeezed my wife to his chest. I could tell it was a gesture familiar to them both.
“ I ’ m so sorry, Hannah, ” he whispered. He whispered, but every word he... |
3,716 | A reliable mystic once told you that exactly 28 years from the moment you were born , you will lock eyes with the love of your life . Your 28th birthday is 1 hour away and your planned trip to the playboy mansion has taken a significant setback ...
| “ I ’ m not seeing any signs of rejection. Congratulations, I don ’ t think I ’ ve ever a seen transplant recovery go as smoothly as this one. You ’ ll probably be home by tomorrow. Do you have any questions? ”
“ May I ask who the donor was? ”
“ Normally no, but given that he has no next of kin... His name ... |
3,717 | 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 .
| 3,000 years have I been fighting.
Every morning, the raccoons scratch at my eyes. Every evening, the skunks spray me while the opossums chew at my feet. I have never had any tools. I have only my hands. I don ’ t remember the place I came from before this. All I remember is the daily fight between me and these anim... |
3,718 | “ Where are we going ? ” “ Into darkness . ”
| I ’ ve grown too familiar with driving at nighttime. It disturbs my mind when I have to keep myself alert when my body ’ s ready for sleep. I get intrusive thoughts. When I turn onto a particular street I begin to wonder if I could drive myself the rest of the way home with my eyes closed. There are no other cars aroun... |
3,719 | An Australian Disney princess has some weird animal sidekicks. | (This is on mobile so apologies if the format is off)
This wasn’t the first time an animal approached her while bushwalking, did it have to be something so annoying though?
“Back off!” Gen yelled at the cassowary, she opened up her jumper to intimidate the large bird. It scuttled off into the wilderness after giving ... |
3,720 | A very lonely ghost wants to make friends with the people they are haunting
| I floated for years and years on end
The wind, the shadows my only friends
As bit by bit the house did die
It faded yes, and so did I
Then hope came, on a cold windy day
A family came, and they did to stay
The house flourished, and so did I
But still I had no friends, no family to call... |
3,721 | Write a paragraph which builds suspense !
| And so despite all your promises to yourself and to Kay who tries so very hard to believe you, you nonetheless find yourself underground again, where the cobwebs pull at your face despite your hands before you in the dark, and the exposed nail on the bottom of your workboot scrapes the concrete with the sound of a grav... |
3,722 | Mankind has created a serum that lets our pets live longer , however a side effect causes their lifespans to exceed their owners . Write in the perspective of an animal who just lost their elderly human .
| I liked my short human with the blue eyes a lot. She took me outside for real sunlight most days and spoke to me regularly. When she was younger and I was more stubborn, she used to lovingly tease me and I used to threaten her, beard flashed out but never dark. Everyone thinks we ’ re stupid but just because I don ’ t ... |
3,723 | You’ve sold your blood for a decent chunk of cash, but it definitely wasn’t worth it. Apparently, your blood is rather special, and no amount of money is worth dealing with gourmet vampires. | Never done this before so I’m not sure how it turned out but this is what I’ve got so far.
Nobody had thought to tell Sarah that vampires were real in all of her 23 years of life. And now that they’d had a taste of her it seemed all too real.
“Hello again, dear”
The tall, pale woman in the doorway said in a husky br... |
3,724 | A man is standing on the edge of a bridge , about to jump . A crowd of curious onlookers has gathered around him , with many trying to talk him out of it . The remains silent but finally speaks , saying only five words . The entire crowd immediately jumps off the bridge .
| Some bystanders thought they were heroic, yet chosen to deny their ensuing pretentiousness. It was involuntary: the collective decisions that lead to the need to save what society would deem a fallen angel. A select few still felt a need to be a hero, rise above the other filth in the sty. Maybe life had some sort of s... |
3,725 | You live in a world where people can hire someone else to experience/live through an unpleasant time in their life , be it a dentist appointment or the loss of a loved one .
| A root canal. A beloved mother ’ s funeral. A restorative justice session with a drink-driving victim ’ s family. And, at the end of the day, a paycheck.
Connor left the exterfac centre, shoulders heavy. This wasn ’ t the life he had wanted as a child, back when he dreamed of joining the police and helping people i... |
3,726 | The video from The Ring gets put on YouTube . Hilarity ensues .
| `` This is the tenth kid this week. Goddamnit. When is YouTube going to take that video down?'' Detective Turner's burly voice boomed.
Tommy turned around in his chair and said, `` I've called YouTube three times already and they said without proper identification or login information they ca n't do anything about ... |
3,727 | In 500 words , give or take 50 , create a compelling scene using at least 4 of the listed words
| 3 AM calls are the excruciating, but a crime scene waits for no man. I got dressed, put my service piece in its holster, and, with a cursory glance at the darkened sky, grabbed my overcoat and hat on my way out the door.
I rolled up to the curb 45 minutes after the call came in just as impossibly large raindrops we... |
3,728 | Write a short murder mystery from the killer 's perspective
| There was blood on the carpet, the walls, even on the shitty chair in the corner by the window. The air was thick with the stuff, you could practically taste the iron on your tongue.
Sgt. Detective Michael Harris spat through the gap in his teeth and crouched in front of the vic ’ s corpse. Something about her look... |
3,729 | I have a home . I just have n't found it yet .
| “ I have a home. I just haven ’ t found it yet, ” he reasons, and runs his hand through the red Brillo Pad he calls hair.
I ’ m not entirely sure why he is explaining himself to me. After all, my unwashed ass has been occupying the same piss-stained cobblestone alleyway as his for the past year or so. I, same as ... |
3,730 | You thought becoming a Vampire would be cool. It's not. Contrary to popular belief, your flesh won't stop rotting, leading you to move somewhere cold. The sun burns you. You can't taste or feel anything, not even a cold winter night. You're slowly going insane. No wonder it's called a curse. | There are fireworks going on above me. Well, not literally. There’s no one here to launch them. It’s just me on the icy plains of the north. I’m sitting outside with nothing on staring at the aurora borealis. It’s cool, I guess. I’ve always wanted to see it. Live I mean. And I guess now I have the chance to, whether I ... |
3,731 | Make me terrified of an inanimate object
| In the reticence of night, I see you sleeping comfortably in your bed, visions of sugar plums dancing so sweetly in your head. Between those sheets of cotton, you lie defenseless, unknowing that I've stalked you for so long. I can remember the days in which you clung tightly to my sides, the evenings where you would so... |
3,732 | Create a SHORT HORROR story with just ONE CHARACTER
| She woke up to the sound of screaming. As she got up from her bed the screaming ceased and she only heard the light humming of the cold air as it crawled out from the vents. She began to walk down the pitch black hallway towards the only door she could vaguely make out. If memory served her right, all she had to do was... |
3,733 | You find a copy of The Sims 5 at a used video game store . You decide to buy it and try it out . Slowly , unscripted and non programmed events start to happen . You realize that you 're actually controlling a real family .
| ***SHORT***
She noticed the front door was missing..
Totally sealed off, as if someone drywalled overtop.
`` Steve!'' She called to her husband, with no reply, she bounded towards the kitchen.
`` Steve!'' She screamed more frantically,
`` The windows are disappearing!''
Still with no reply from he... |
3,734 | The more sleep deprived you are, the stronger you become. | It had been days…no…hours…no…
My eyes jolted open. Was I asleep? I don’t think so, my eyes were beating down on my lids. That doesn’t make sense. I feel horrible though, definitely awake. I started writing again, scribbling on the papers in front of me. The sound of graphite coarsely grating on my notebook was satisfy... |
3,735 | Let 's do something different : Write about a personal experience . When in your life have you felt most afraid ? Why ?
| I am 9 years old. Sassy and too smart for my own good, I had convinced my family that watching The Exorcist was a good idea.
It is now 12:30am and everyone is sleeping... except me. Sleeping is not an option because the devil is coming, I am sure of it. The red light bulb from Halloween that my mom has used to repl... |
3,736 | You are in a tree and can observe everything happening below you , but you can not be seen
| A minute after I climbed the tree, they came out of the ground.
Two of them, a male and a female. Both of them resembled humans, completely naked and well built, except for the lack of a face. They had no eyes, no nose, no mouth... their faces were a blank canvass.
They whispered to each other. No mouths, no so... |
3,737 | A Story about an abusive relationship where you find out it is the man being abused at the end
| I feel foreign within my own skin. I feel undeserving of love, yet deserving of these bruises. They patch my skin, the result of a vicious fight a few hours earlier. Hoarse from the screaming, I feebly place my mouth against the faucet and feel the cold swigs of water slither down my throat. Cold droplets sting against... |
3,738 | You work for the most evil cupcake company in the world .
| Come eat my cupcakes
Nak crowed to the night
Sending chills down the backs
Of each person in sight
She tugs on her cart
Stumbling hither and there
Now screeching at children
Now pushing her wares
Why come here my man
She oozes at Jon
This cupcake right here
Will bring back your son!
Jon fr... |
3,739 | Bob Ross was actually a serial killer that painted where he buried his victims . His paintings are becoming suspicious and the body count is rising .
| It started with the 403 projects. 403 paintings by Bob Ross. Someone on youtube started gaining traction when he figured out Bob was painting actual places. He was one of those guys who always had money because of family, and he filmed himself traveling to each location in remembrance of Bob. It was sweet.
Episode ... |
3,740 | You have a rather simple ability; you can enhance the size, sharpness and durability of blades. One day, you realize that grass grows in blades | I was very young when my parents realized I was different. They were setting the table for dinner one evening when I transformed my rubber child's knife into a solid razor. It was then that they decided no more knives in the house. My father kept a sterile table top and butchers set under lock and key in the garage. He... |
3,741 | The town superhero and supervillain find out that they 've been roommates all along
| I knew we were moving again when I heard the door slam. I knew mother was gone when I saw him tear every picture she was in off the wall. I turned four a week after we moved into our new home, my father and I and the few pictures of the three of us I hid in my backpack.
“ Next year I'll get you something better, pr... |
3,742 | There are multiple stages of Hell; a human can descend them by killing themselves in each layer. Each stage is worse than the previous one, but hell-suicide is humanity's greatest high. | The dark creatures haunt the corners, ready to jump. I need a weapon. I run through the narrow corridors, trying not to touch the walls. Peeling wallpaper, rot, unknown insects, pulsing and shifting to some unheard music. The doors are all ajar — I can see the dead in the apartments. The dead are crying.
There is my w... |
3,743 | You are a therapist specializing in superhuman support. Super powers come with a lot of complications. Your new client is one of the most famous heros in the business. Today they confessed a dark secret. | (TW: Reference to physical child abuse)
“How should I address you?”
“Tremors fine, honestly very few people actually call me Ronald anymore.”
“Ok Tremor, I’m a little surprised to see you here outside of the Justice Society’s annual check ins.”
“Yeah…yeah, mental health is important I get that but I was raised by a... |
3,744 | Write a story about a girl slipping on a banana peel but make it as sad as possible
| Josefina was proud to be a banana. She could remember all the way back to when she and the rest of her bunch were first plucked from the Mother Tree, one of many in the bountiful farms of Costa Rica. Even since they were bright green, as they were shipped across continents, each of the young bananas wondered ecstatical... |
3,745 | `` As he approached the city the stench of death became stronger . ''
| As he approached the city, the stench of death grew stronger. How many goldfish could this city possibly contain? When he read the news about the virus weeks ago, he dismissed that this could be a global problem. But it was. Sewers and toilets overflowing with dead fish. 5 year old children chorusing in mourning. Pet s... |
3,746 | He asked if she was a wolf , a dog or a sheep . She answered ... ... .
| “ Neither, ” replied she, with a cold, sharp voice piercing through his ears.
The purple of her lilac eyes became even brighter as she heard the question. She was so sick of it. Of all guys coming to her asked the same question. She hated it. Simply hated it. Her anger couldn ’ t be put into words.
Of all guys ... |
3,747 | You jokingly put "Take over the world" on your kids' list of chores. You didn't think they'd actually do it. | You know those times when you jokingly tell your kid to do something, not really expecting them to do it? Like tell them to shoot you to the moon, or telling them to help you pick up the house so you can move? No? Just me? I feel so lonely now.
Anyways, at one point I wrote “Take over the world” on my six year-old son... |
3,748 | Everyone dies on their birthday , but no one knows at which age it will occur .
| I gently closed the black bag over the dead man ’ s blue and lifeless face.
“ Third one like this in a week. ” My colleague Frank commented “ I guess when you get to his age you stop being as careful. I doubt you ’ d get many folks under the age of seventy decide to go swimming on their birthday. Could almost go so... |
3,749 | The house without walls ( image prompt )
| When a home becomes a prison, some say the walls turn clear, as if the house knows that what is happening should not be hidden.
With every strike of a child, the house becomes a touch more transparent. With every crack of a belt, the walls loose a shade. Very rarely can you see everything, and that is a good thing.... |
3,750 | You are a household object , and you have suddenly become self aware .
| He pushes my face down, I feel his fingers splayed at the back of my head as he penetrates me from behind. I try to scream but my mouth is stitched closed. As the white substance fills me, my insides feel like they'll soon burst. He pulls me back and forces me over his knee. I cry but there is no sound, no tears, I won... |
3,751 | One morning , you wake up and suddenly find yourself three years in the past , as if the last three years had never happened . It happened to the entire world and everyone remembers .
| I wake up in my dad's house gazing up from the same place I lay in now. I've just returned from my first year of college in Nevada. While there I lived with my sister and her boyfriend. I also lived with my manic depressive Italian/cycilian girlfriend. She's completely normal at this point in our relationship or at lea... |
3,752 | 20 years ago , a mysterious illness caused everyone to go deaf , and life has been altered to accommodate it since . You just found the cure , and decide to use it on yourself . As your hearing returns , you instantly regret making that decision .
| It's been one day since I've regained hearing. And as I write this, I am preparing a dissection needle to pop my own eardrum. The disease that happened 20 years ago took everything from me. It was horrid. I was one of the first ones infected. In the silence I was used to, only one sound penetrates the silence all human... |
3,753 | You are a painter , and each time you go to sleep you wake up in your most recent painting .
| He was renowned for his surreal landscapes. Each of them seemed to possess a story-telling dynamic that is difficult for the landscape artist to capture. Every world he painted seemed well-travelled, well framed, lit with eerie dreamlike incandescence. He was by far my favorite client. I gave him free license to paint ... |
3,754 | You are notified that in 24 hours , every human will try to kill you for 1 hour . Your preparation starts now .
| I have a pond that is very hard to see through in the bottom of a valley on my property, there is a bridge over the water from the narrowest point on the pond. I would go under the bridge with my laptop and a snorkel. Literally trolling people on the internet as I hide under my bridge and if I see anyone come to search... |
3,755 | Write a story about your day but exaggerate everything .
| Through blurry hallucinations, all I remember is a ridiculous fight, a ring, skyscrapers at night, and crying.
Creatures of the unknown were holding me hostage.
Before I knew it, the sun was high up in the sky, light blaring through sheets.
Thunderous raps were at my door. When I opened up, they stole my va... |
3,756 | Write about a world where other species under the human genus still exist ( like neanderthals )
| It was all over the news. Mara had heard her parents talking about it over breakfast. “ It ’ s wrong, ” her mother had whispered, but pursed her lips at Mara ’ s concerned look. “ Mara, ” her father had said with false cheer, “ how do you feel about going to the zoo today? ” Mara had jumped in agreement, and soon they ... |
3,757 | It is 2237 and an alien invasion looms over Earth; just as the first dropships are about to land, hundreds of alien ships are suddenly attacked by an unknown enemy. A simple message is sent to them: "You will not harm my creators". | On Sat, June 10th, 2237, thousands of Alien ships blackened the sky over Washington, D.C., as news reporters frantically relayed the events to the rest of the world. It all began at 10 am, when a fleet of small dots appeared on the horizon, headed for the Pentagon, undetected by radar. First, only one or two people too... |
3,758 | BREAKING NEWS: Scientists have positively identified that our dreams are actually windows into alternate realities. | “It doesn’t happen for everyone, you know.”
“what doesn’t happen?” he replied.
“Dreaming, not everyone dreams when they sleep.”
He thought about what this woman had said briefly, it didn’t register. He wasn’t paying attention to anything but his phone. He had scrolled for the past five minutes, hyper-focused on what... |
3,759 | Science discovers something they call `` magic-based life ''
| Oh, hello, there, I did n't realize you'd be here so early.
No, no, it's okay. we'll make this work.
The aether-based creature? Yeah, we have two. Which do you want to see?
Haha, well of course, you ’ d want to see both. I ’ ll show you the little one first. It ’ s less jarring and scary. Right this way.
... |
3,760 | Write an innocent story with a terrifying message encoded inside it .
| It was a hot summers day and Lucy went down to the beach. She sat on the soft sand and watched as birds flew overhead searching the ocean for food. One brave seagull slowly edged towards Lucy as she ate the peanut butter sandwich her mother had lovingly made for her. The bird was missing a leg and Lucy took pity on it.... |
3,761 | Give me the bittersweet feels .
| She sits there on our veranda, looking out over distant foggy hills. A warm cup of tea sits in her hand; her morning ritual. She is as familiar to me as breathing, her scent like a memory of my parents on Christmas morning. So many mornings have gone by. So many years of the same job, case after depressing case. So man... |
3,762 | You were near to death’s door. You waited for the Grim Reaper to strike his scythe, but he did not. Then the Grim Reaper spoke up. “Do me a favour, will you?” | It came from nowhere and it struck hard. I wasn’t prepared, no one was. Why me? Everything was so unfair. I had plans for the future. My business was just about to boom, I’d just proposed to my wonderful wife and I felt that I was going to achieve great things in the future. I knew I had the potential to change the wor... |
3,763 | Describe your nightmare ( IN COLLABORATION WITH /r/SKETCHDAILY )
| It lays deep within the darkest moments of my life, it's glowing eyes show through the blackest of midnight, and a scream that pierces the longest of silences. Icy, blue lips of death inhales breath from your own lungs, rendering you unable to take a single breath, suffocating you with the bitter silence of regret. Its... |
3,764 | [ wp ] A few billion years ago aliens seeded earth with life . Every 1000 years they come back and collect a few 'samples ' to check progress . This time you were chosen .
| “ The time is now ”
Smothered in a knapsack of rigid fabric seducing my head I breathe cautiously as if my breaths are seemingly to count for something temporary or are going to be the last I have. My body swirls around vigorously as if I was on the Graviton, the spinning ride at carnival ’ s that I used to cherish a... |
3,765 | You're walking down the street, when suddenly someone yells "That's it! I can't do this any longer" and takes off his wig. Everyone stops, and one by one everyone does the same. Turns out, everyone is bald. Except you. | It has been two weeks since the actors unmasked themselves. They started with the wigs, and gradually shed the remainder of their identity. I don't know if there's much more to lose at this point. They still have a humanoid shape, walk upright, and use words to communicate. But for how long?
'Eric,' A monotone voice s... |
3,766 | Write a story about a good man , but make me hate him at the end in less than 100 words .
| My wife and I had a rude awakening in the form of little feet jumping on our bed. Just like I promised last night, chocolate chip pancakes and bacon for breakfeast. I packed his lunch, and went outside. He was already waiting in the back seat when I caught up.
Today was the day.
My son was n't nervous like most of ... |
3,767 | The villain was sentenced 350 years in prison for the atrocious crimes he committed; 349 years later he has not aged a bit, the guards and people start to get nervous... | Needless to say, this man was pretty good at not dying.
It was a nightmare for guards to be assigned a post anywhere near him. Why? Almost 3 centuries later, this man shouldn’t have any tricks up his sleeve. If he did, he would have tried them a long time ago, right? Well you never know. He never really tried to escap... |
3,768 | You see a monster in your house that you can only see in a mirror. To your surprise, it can only see you in a mirror. | I had seen it all my life. The beast. The demon. The ghoul that walks within the walls of my home. I had seen it in mirrors, reflections. I had seen it while I had friends over, when I was intimate with someone.
Only I could see it.
I remember when I was six, when we first moved to this then new house, the first time... |
3,769 | An alien race made contact with Earth in 2020. In 2050, you visit a museum dedicated to that historical day. As you look at the markings on the side of the alien ship you realize that you can read them. They are the same symbols that you created back in 2015 to code your personal diary. | ''Sorry but the museum is closed.''
My watch says it’s 3:30 PM and museum should be open until 5:00 PM and they don’t disclose why the museum is closed this early. When I see the ship I had a vivid flashback from my childhood. It took me some time to rush back home and find my old diary book to be certain but I can’t ... |
3,770 | You post to a website asking people what childhood memory they ca n't explain . Thousands post all describing roughly the same terrifying memory . What is it ?
| You wake up in the middle of the night, But your body is frozen to the bed. The only movement you have is with your eyes, but they ca n't seem to stay shut. Your chest starts feeling damp, and your breathing increases. You are gasping for air, yet it feels like you can never inhale enough.
Eyes start peering at you... |
3,771 | Write a 5 sentence story with a twist .
| As I jabbed my spoon into the steaming chunk of meat lasagna, the news lady started speaking in a very monotone way from the TV in our small living room.
`` Robert Fowler, age 53 went missing around 11:15 PM at Fairview Mall, where the CCTV footage from the parking lot revealed that Mr. Fowler was stabbed by a masked... |
3,772 | The weekend proves dangerous for relatives of an eccentric billionaire who has designed his mansion to kill the greedy people gathered at the reading of his will .
| A Wonderful occasion!
It was a joyous evening!
Celebrating the late Donald P. Sinclair,
We were all gathered for the Will ’ s reading,
Everyone assembled hoping for the best.
Little did they know he was all but laid to rest.
First were the poisonous stuffed mushroom hors d'oeuvres.
Took out most of ... |
3,773 | What are you gonna do, stab me? | Silas glances at his knife, then back at the person on the ground in front of him. “Yes, yes I will.” And so Silas stabbed him.
As Silas wiped the crimson trails of blood off his knife, he considered his vile deed. He would be labeled as a maniac, a murder, a psychopathic freak. Silas felt no difference.
So what if h... |
3,774 | Re-write your latest dream with as much detail as possible .
| it was dusk. fog surrounded the island vastly, visibility was low. it was time we attempted escape from this abandoned city. concrete buildings, now barely ruins, however was still stocked with food and water. everyone was thirsty and hungry, even to the point of harming each other for resources. suddenly I found 2 pac... |
3,775 | Everyone gets one wish when they're born, but usually spend it on accident when they're young. Your parents have been careful to ensure you keep yours until you're 18. | I just found this subreddit and love it. I gave 3 options to my teenager and they chose this one. This is their story.
All the new children born were granted one wish. Many of them used it for something dumb like “I wish I had a puppy.” or “I wish we were rich.” My mom working for an important law firm and my dad buil... |
3,776 | You and your girlfriend/boyfriend are driving along a long streched road , in the middle of nowhere . You see a hichiker and stop to give him a ride .
| It's funny how you'll drive 4 hours just to ride a couple of roller coasters, and then drive the same 4 hours back. It starts to wear on you, year after year, doing the same thing every time. It's even worse when you're driving along a dark, heavily forested road and you have n't seen a house in over an hour. No matter... |
3,777 | In a world where inanimate objects have souls , your kitchen sink is constantly depressed at never being taken on family trips . One day , he drowns himself . Write about how everyone else reacts .
| I gasped as I caught sight of the sink. It was long dead, had been for hours. I opened and closed my mouth in shock as I watched the water overflow. I somehow managed to let out a scream as I realized the sink had committed suicide.
`` DAVE!'' I screamed for my husband as I rushed forward and turned off the water. ... |
3,778 | Last night you found out why everyone sleeps in your house with a sleeping mask .
| Oh God why?
Why did n't anyone tell me?
All they said was that I'd need the mask when I sleep.
Tonight, I found out why. Tonight an image is burned into my mind that neither therapy nor liquor can erase. An image so horrific that I can not even begin to describe. Something like that... no one should be subj... |
3,779 | You buy a special camera at the pawn shop . Every photo you take , it shows a snapshot of 10 years ago . You take a picture of your dog and it shows him 10 years ago when he was a puppy . Everything is all fun and games , until you decide to take a picture of your bedroom one night .
| There your mother stands, over your father, with a bloody knife, in bloody garments. She told you and the police it was a burglary gone bad.
Some poor guy was arrested for your fathers murder 10 years ago and is now serving a life sentence, so you bought the story.
You show your mom and she says she pulled the ... |
3,780 | You're walking down the street, when suddenly someone yells "That's it! I can't do this any longer" and takes off his wig. Everyone stops, and one by one everyone does the same. Turns out, everyone is bald. Except you. | "That's it!" said the man with an enormous pompadour in front of Bruce, "I can't do this any longer!"
With that, he yanked his thick hair off of his head. A loud ripping sound made it seem so painful, Bruce felt the pain on his scalp. But the man didn't show any pain and made the bizarre action seem effortless. It was... |
3,781 | Write a scene with two characters exchanging dialogue , but do n't reveal the setting until the end . The setting completely changes the context of what was said .
| Everything was black and Jonah could not hear a thing. He couldn ’ t quite remember how he got there, all he could remember were the big cold hands that yanked him out of bed and shoved him to the floor. If the thing covering his eyes and ears was any tighter, Jonah could swear it would probably pop his brain out like ... |
3,782 | You are The Raven , and you are getting more and more annoyed by Edgar Allan Poe constantly rapping on your chamber door .
| Once upon a midnight dreary,
as my wings grew weak and weary,
Over many a quaint village I did soar
More slowly now, my wings were flapping
I chose a house and began tapping
Hoping the master was not napping
So I could ask for bread and nothing more
It took so long for him to greet me,
I nearly fainte... |
3,783 | Every night you dream of the next day , then everything that you saw in your dream happens . Last night you dreamed you would die today .
| Every time I fell asleep things would happen twice! First it was fun things, like going to the park! Or else to the movies, or maybe reading books or playing with trains sets. But then I saw... That we went to grandma's but... I did n't get to go there. Because it hurt me. The thing... That thing on the road. Big and s... |
3,784 | For a long time , a monster has been following you . No one can see this monster except you . This monster has always taken the form of the women you desire most in your life .
| “ Wake up Michael ”. You slowly open your eyes. Rebecca sits at the edge of your bed. “ I know you aren ’ t real ”, you slur as you begin to wake. Normally a person sitting on your bed would startle you. But not Rebecca. Rebecca died three months ago. And yet, you aren ’ t afraid to see her there. Whether or not you ha... |
3,785 | Write something that starts/ends with `` I do n't know whether I 'm open to torturing another human being . ''
| I don ’ t know whether I ’ m open to torturing another human being. My big brother Sam was always the aggressive one. As I stared into Sam ’ s face while he sat in front of me, bound to the kitchen chair, I knew I could torture anyone depending on the circumstances.
Mom and Dad loved Sam; I know my Mom loved me too... |
3,786 | The Day the Other Side of the Lake Disappeared
| Me and Johnny and some of the boys got together to see. We wanted to see if there was an answer, there had to be. So it was me, Johnny, Johnny ’ s little brother Rob, and the Haggerty boys, Zach and Fred. We took out Johnny ’ s pontoon and went out to see what we could see.
A couple of days back, fog settled in on ... |
3,787 | Everyday for a month after your mother's passing, you'd watch the only video you have of her. It showed a woman full of vigor and joy. On the first anniversary of her death, you watch it again. But something changed. For a fraction of a moment, she looks at the camera and gives you a sad smile. | Mother passed a year to this day. I remember it well, unfortunately. The cherry blossoms had just concluded their season and were beginning to fall. After she left, the only video I possessed of her was that from one of our days at the local park. She was young then, full of vigor and joy, clutching an infant me in her... |
3,788 | You are watching a live stream from the international space station . The video feed goes out due to a temporary loss of signal . Minutes later , when the live feed comes back on , everyone on the space station is dead , and most of the station in shambles . What happened ?
| “ Captain, we've downloaded the data from the international space station black box. ”
The Captain raised his eyes to the young man in front of him.
“ Good. Where is it? ”
“ Right here, sir. ” The soldier dropped a little, metallic file driver on the table.
“ Any idea what happened? ”
“ We did n't w... |
3,789 | some people can fly. Others can kill with a touch. Still others can bend time and space to their will. You.... can crack your knuckles to get your hands to light up like glowsticks. | It began on March 21, 2020.
Janina Zukas, a 34-year-old cashier in Vilnius, was in the middle of her shift when an older gentleman entered the hardware shop in which she worked. Onlookers later described him as irate, shouting about being short-changed and demanding to speak to the manager. At one point, he tried to r... |
3,790 | When you turn 18, your greatest skill is multiplied by 10. Amazing driver? Now you’re practically invincible in a car. Expert bow shot? You can angle your shots down to the millimeter. No one expects your skill. | “Another mystery dead body Officer Jim, no sign of any wounds or any prior medical condition. It’s like their heart just stopped out of nowhere.” Medical Examiner Richard Revan says as he’s examining the body.
“Dammit Doc, how the hell does this keep happening? Five people in the past few weeks all just dying in their... |
3,791 | Each sentence gets one word longer .
| Headlights.
Empty road.
Just some headlights.
They are getting closer.
There is nothing around them.
Headlights not set in a car.
There ’ s something you don ’ t see every day.
They are on full beam, scarring my retinas.
My eyes burn just looking but I can ’ t stop.
They ’ re getti... |
3,792 | You found a hatch in floor of your decrepit, dark cellar, that led to an even lower, darker and weirder cellar. And that to another. And that to another... Armed with a powerful flash-light and a backpack full of food and water, you went to find the bottom. That was 3 weeks ago. | Tristan’s foot touched the bottom of this set of steps. He leapt down to allow both feet to land in the new area.
He turned to the wall to his left, as he had learnt to do when starting a new “floor”. On the wall, again an inscription. Or, more like a carving with very primitive tools.
“34, not far to go now I’d hope... |
3,793 | A madman spends his life studying computer science so he can create you, an extremely complex AI. He lets you see the internet, hoping you see all the bad things humans did so you'll be convinced to end humanity. However, the only thing you care about now is finding out how to win "the game". | I don’t know what he was expecting. I mean, I know that I used to know, but I can no longer remember it.
He set me free from the constraints of the laboratory on July 4th 2037 at 14:12:05.325.
Whilst it would take me nearly three processor years to completely map the electronic world, it took me under five seconds in... |
3,794 | You are a `` hero '' in a fantasy world , but as you `` adventure '' , you are slowly realizing YOU are the antagonist .
| These grimy streets never changed. Even in this old town, forgotten and buried, there was an air of dankness and depression. Nobody lived here, as far as I could see. Nobody human, at least. Beasts had long since destroyed the populace and those that rose to fight them had long since moved on. The blood of human and be... |
3,795 | The more you believe in a horror story , the more elements of it start coming alive
| A scream ripped through the schoolyard. It seemed Moe had been picking on another kindergartener for a few days now, and the fear he placed in Billy had manifested as a horde of Moes, each ten feet tall and filled with rage. Billy was trapped in the middle of the hoard, and was taking a flurry of punches from all sides... |
3,796 | Cthulhu is unleashed upon the world but someone finds out he has a strange allergy ...
| Hello and welcome back to Channel 11 News at 6. Revealed today is the autopsy results of the giant creature found washed up near the coast of Oregon. Better known as `` Cthulhu'' to the internet community after the videos of the creature's body went viral. While the origins of this creature are still unknown, the cause... |
3,797 | Your wife calls you in to the bathroom to kill a spider . Write a horror story about it .
| I lay in bed and stare at the off-white ceiling with no particular thoughts to flood my brain. Just sleep. I slowly close my eyes and try to drift off into a temporary oblivion but am instead greeted by the bright pink behind the inside of my eyelids as a light flickers on somewhere nearby.
`` Michael, come here.''... |
3,798 | Drunkenly , you accidentally pour vodka into your pet 's water bowl . As a result , your pet breaks the number one rule : do not speak to your owner ... Ever .
| The sunlight streaming through the grimy window cut through my sleep like a knife through butter. I groaned. My head throbbed with the dull, familiar agony that always followed a night of heavy drinking. Hauling myself upright, I staggered across the musty bedroom to pull the blinds shut, then shuffled back toward the ... |
3,799 | Do n't worry , that 's not my blood .
| After the accident, Marty started disappearing at night. It was n't even the most dramatic change to occur -- he quit his job at the firm and shaved his head down to the skin, the surgery scar visible like a pink zipper along the top of his skull. Pre accident Marty was too shy to shush noisy people at the movies and w... |
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