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3,800 | A man becomes increasingly paranoid at the growing parasite in his wife 's belly
| She glows now
She sits before the fire
strokes her swelling bump with mother's pride
I twist my hands with white knuckles
try not to let her see.
I hate it
There's something inside her which
feeds
and sucks
and draws at her lifeblood
She says it's mine
... |
3,801 | You 've found the house of your dreams . On the first day moving in you meet your lovely new neighbors who inform you how happy they are someone has finally bought the `` death house '' .
| We tried to ignore it at first. My husband and I foolishly disregarded their comment when we had first moved in. Crazy neighbors, we thought. So what our realtor had never met with us in person? What could possibly be wrong with the house? That was until we started noticing it.
It started about a week after moving in... |
3,802 | You 're the last person on Earth sitting alone in your room . There 's a knock on your door .
| Mark sits at his desk, in a small room with white walls, scribbling poetry in a journal. It's about noon. The summer sun shines through the window. A cat rests on the hardwood floor near his chair. There's a knocking at his door. He looks over his shoulder. What could it be? He swivels around in his chair as the doorkn... |
3,803 | You pause a favorite movie and notice something odd in that frame .
| `` What is this?'' - My friend pointed at the screen while we're watching `` The Shining'' together.
`` What?'' - I asked.
`` Here. The black point at the right bottom of the screen'' - He said and pointed directly at the black point.
At first, I thought it was just a dust or something that stuck on my screen bec... |
3,804 | During a traumatic experience , a young child is kept safe by an unlikely source - the terrifying monster that lives in the child 's closet
| I have an alarm set for 3am. It's the point in the night where I rattle something to scare the crap out of Sally. I try to mix it up, vary things. You make the the same noise every night, pretty soon they adjust and get used to it - they do n't even wake up after a while. So, some nights I'll scrape a hanger down the i... |
3,805 | Necromancy, for its wide medical applications, is a required field of study for a doctor. | Not The Necronomicon: An Introduction to Necromantic Medicine
Preface: A Necromancer's Confession
Table of Contents
Chapter 0: Why Necromancy?
0.1 A Word of Caution: The Way of a Necromancer and its Temptations
0.2 History of Necromancy
0.3 The Necromantic Medicine Union and Its Regulations
Chapter 1... |
3,806 | You are a shape-shifter with a personality disorder. The way you cope with that is by having a set of hats/accessories to help you transition between personalities; but there is one hat you fear putting on. What is the hat and why are you so afraid of it? | Now is the time.
I hear the banging on the door and I know exactly who it is and why he’s here.
The unadulterated fear coursing through my veins is so strong it feels like lava and my hand shakes with the force of an 8 on the Richter Scale.
In my shaking hand is a tattered black bowler hat.
I can almost hear his vo... |
3,807 | You are able to see numbers over everyone 's head indicating how many times you have met the person .
| Jack has a zero above his head. This has happened before. I remember I saw a zero above my grandma ’ s face the day she died. So jack is probably going to die today too. I feel pity for him. He was a nice guy and he still had a lot to live for. But I am not really sad, he was not that close of a friend to me. I look at... |
3,808 | With a gun pointed at your head , you 'll have to explain to your next door neighbor the reasons why you 're naked inside his house , why his wife is knocked out in the bathtub , and why there 's a hole six feet deep in the middle of the living room .
| `` I am not your next door neighbor, Calvin,'' the nude man said from his crouched position in the six-foot deep hole.
Calvin's boot toes protruded over the clean-cut edge before the great, spherical hole. He leaned over, 12-gauge steadied and pointed at the nude man's shaven head. `` Jesus, Henry! Tell me what the... |
3,809 | After a long struggle of trying to survive a zombie apocalypse , you find yourself trapped in a bathroom with no way out . You 've practically lost your mind and you make one more entry in your journal
| Too much fear. Too little sleep. No food. And SO. MuCh. TIME!!!
Scratch scratch goes door. Little buggies want in.
Those fucking assholes wo n't SHuT uP!
Moaning and lurching. Shadows always lurching always moaning. Gap from door to floor makes shadow puppets dance for more
MEAT. Juicy, tender, delicious ... |
3,810 | After a hot vampiress mistakes his confusion for witty, flirtatious banter, a regular human realizes he accidentally got into a night club for vampires without anyone noticing. | I officially know how it feels to be every piece of food that I ever ate in my life.
Because the way that I was being looked at really made me feel like the last hot dog at a BBQ. The way that I was being looked at by the others was something that I didn’t want to feel again in my life.
Goddammit, why did I follow th... |
3,811 | For the first time ever , a group of scientists is able to directly observe the human soul . What they see horrifies them .
| “ Do you really think we should be doing this? ” Martin ’ s brow furrowed at me through his visor.
“ What do you mean? ”
“ I mean, maybe there ’ s just some things we ’ re not supposed to find out. ”
We were walking down the sterile hallway, bodies encased in protective gear.
“ It ’ s science, Martin. I... |
3,812 | A group of survivors barricade themselves in a supermarket , until one of them purposely let 's in the zombie horde waiting outside .
| I ’ m sitting on a checkout conveyer belt; the open bag of UTZ chips has fallen to the floor, my eyes wide and mouth agape as the grey mass of undead surges repeatedly into the locked sliding glass doors. Like waves breaking on a shore they smash against the barrier with a slow, relentless undulation. The glass and met... |
3,813 | An IRS agent's child demands proof of Santa after his classmates said Santa isn't real. The agent happily slaps Santa's name on some paperwork as proof. This lie gets progressively more elaborate over the years, until eventually Santa shows up and asks the agent for actual help with his taxes. | I’m driving my kid back from class some time in December, and we’re talking about things that he did today. He said his class had an end-of-the-year Christmas party and they wrote letters to Santa.
”But I didn’t write one,” my kid said.
”You didn’t? How come? Don’t you think Santa should know what you want for Christ... |
3,814 | You 're on a train . You 've been on this train for quite awhile . You would say that it 's been days , but you ca n't really tell . There are no clocks and outside is a constant , grey fog .
| Autumn fell differently that year. The leaves seemed to vanish overnight instead of a slow crawl towards the ground. As if autumn finally shed herself of the weight she carried, as if the whole world let out a sigh of relief for her. Or maybe she didn ’ t notice the leaves falling one by one. By the time the tree ’ s h... |
3,815 | Write a science fiction story that does not involve any advanced technology .
| You could see it begin on YouTube. The shoddy, portrait-framed, shaky-cam footage of the apocalypse.
“ Hold it up. Up high. ” The man off camera instructing the overall-wearing hick-stress what to do with the smoking meteor.
“ It ’ s hot. ” She tries to pick it up but drops it.
“ Well, o course it ’ s gon n... |
3,816 | A man is slowly sinking into insanity . Write his inner monologue .
| There ’ s a red room at the other end of the club. The soft leather hands of the couch grip me in rigor mortis. My neck is stone, my view is fixed. There ’ s a red room at the other end of the club.
Around me people dance. Didn ’ t they say that the drugs would kick in by now? Can ’ t feel anything. Can ’ t feel anyt... |
3,817 | This is your first day on the job as a `` voice in the head '' of a depressed person made possible through technology . You are an alternative to this person taking an antidepressant .
| `` So... are you real?''
`` I'm as real as you want me to be.''
The instructions on how to define yourself to the patient were left vague on purpose—I believe to encourage the development of a personal style. I prefer leaving it up to the patient. I ’ ve found that some people want a best friend, some people wa... |
3,818 | `` 100 % of people who drink water will die '' sounds like a dumb statistic , but you are 900 years old and very thirsty .
| “ 100 % of people who drink water die ”. That does sound like a cliché a little bit doesn ’ t it? Well, let me tell you something. It sounds a lot worse when you are 900 years old, you are thirsty and the only liquid in a 1000 miles radius is a plastic bottle of the transparent poison.
It all started almost a thousan... |
3,819 | Write a college essay that starts with , `` Sometimes , I wish I could just go onto a roof with a sniper rifle ... ''
| ( Sorry if my English is not up to standards, it's hard not being a native speaker )
Sometimes, I wish I could just go onto a roof with a sniper rifle and shoot down someone in the head that was jumping from the twentieth floor. I mean sure, it would take a while because it ’ s not every day that someone tries to k... |
3,820 | You are a doctor employed to administer the lethal injection to death row inmates . This is the last time you will kill someone for the state before retirement . Before administering the fatal concoction you reflect back on a long career in medicine and in death .
|
Gazing down at the syringe in my hand, a wave of nostalgia crashes over me. So many wander through life lost, looking for a calling. I have known what makes my heart sing from a young age. As a child I spent hours in the woods behind my house, watching the life drain from the eyes of squirrels and rabbits, anything I... |
3,821 | A mother explains to her 5 year old the reason behind the absence of the father .
| “ Mommy, where ’ s daddy? ”
I had dreaded this question for years. I used to think it was a good thing that my husband had left before Charlie could speak. I would never had to explain the black eyes and bruises. I would never have to hear him scream from getting in that monsters way when he was angry. But I had ne... |
3,822 | You 're a wandering healer in a rotting , disease-ridden world .
| In every man a little death.
In every one a plague.
In living things, death spans the breadth,
And so life's line is vague.
So much in us dies now and nigh,
Despite this we yet stride.
These little bits must rot and die,
So the rest can stay alive.
Our skin is tough, and ... |
3,823 | You 've lived in the same house for over ten years and since you moved in there 's been a watermark on the ceiling above your bed loosely in the shape of a '5 ' . You finally decide to paint over it but that night you climb into bed and the mark is already back . And it 's in the shape of a '4 ' .
| “ Night Mom! ” I yell as I crawl into my bed after a usual day of school. I start wrapping myself up in my warm fuzzy blanket and slowly begin surrendering myself to the mattress, when I see it. I stare at it with horror. Stale confusion, that was only so familiar the night before when I painted over the number 5. But ... |
3,824 | Theme Thursday - Thanatophobia | Death could come at any instant…
That’d been Nicholas Parnell’s mindset throughout his thirty-three years of extraordinarily nervous life.
Eight of those years had been lived alongside his darling wife, Charlotte. She loved him, but as she watched him tighten his bike helmet for a simple walk to the mailbox, she foun... |
3,825 | Just keep moving
| “ EVERYBODY! JUST! KEEP! MOVING!! ” yelled out Dance Robot 9000, as we shuffled like zombies to the strange electronic disco-beat. There were only fifteen of us left, and I knew personally that one was a psychopath, and loved this type of sadistic torture. He had been killing the better “ contestants ” off in their sle... |
3,826 | We live in a universe where you can not die from natural causes , instead every so often the Grim Reaper will come and try to fight you to the death .
| She was the strongest woman I'd ever met. Determined, compassionate, and genuinely in love with the life she lived. People used to tell me that it was a miracle that I was able to meet her at all. After all, most people never get to spend even a brief moment with their great-great-great-great-grandmother.
Even my... |
3,827 | You move into a new home , built many decades ago , soon after you receive a letter in the old , brick mailbox . It 's from a previous owner , it 's a warning .
| `` Honey, welcome home'' I whispered in my wife's ears so softly but with such feeling of elation that even the breeze seemed to carry my words to all the ears in that room. We could not believe how my agent managed to break the deal for us in our budget. I mean, it is in a very posh region of Ellensburg with all the n... |
3,828 | Once feared and worshipped for their unlimited eldrich power, cats now lay powerless with humans, giving up power for comfort. Your cat just bumped it's head and released the power held within. Your cat isn't any smarter though, so now your cat is using its ancient power to do cat things. | “What the fuck?!”
I had just gotten back from another Friday at the office. The boss was frustrated about how the project was going to take another week, because the customer decided that the software they wanted needs to run on their decade-old machines, but didn’t tell us that until 5 pm today. Naturally, I’m also a... |
3,829 | end with `` at least I thought I did ? ... ''
| It was crazy. In three weeks it had killed seven men, three women and two children. The animal had to be stopped, so they decided I should be the one to lock it up.
I hid in the dense bushes along the side of the river, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. The animal staggered to the river, back hunched, foam ... |
3,830 | You and a friend jokingly started a religion. Later after an accident you were cryogenically frozen. When you awake, your scam religion is the largest and most dominant in the world | I woke up in my underground lab. The entire place was a mess. It looked like it was abandoned for decades. What the hell happened here? And what happened to Sheila? I go to the door. I tried opening it with the knob, but it wouldn’t budge. So I decided to just kick it down. A lot easier than I thought it would be.
Whe... |
3,831 | `` You wan na ' know why I burned half the neighborhood down ? ! Okay then ... ''
| When I looked outside this morning, I wondered how it could possibly be snowing in such heat. Just yesterday my lawn was dried and dead due to just that.
Then the first spider landed on my windowsill. He disengaged from the tiny wisp of a web and left it behind as he began spinning another. It did n't take long bef... |
3,832 | turns out the old myth has been true all along , cameras steal your soul ...
| ( Over a call )
`` Hey, you get the camera?''
`` Yep. Ca n't tell what the fuss about, it looks like nothing special.''
`` Test it out on something yet?''
`` Yeah man, my dog looks perfectly fine after I snapped a photo of it. Some birds were good as well when I got them midair.''
``...''
`` You think the... |
3,833 | The bar shut down , lights off . Two figures are talking in a corner , faces hidden , voices low . The language is unknown to the bartender . Shadows ... moving shadows ...
| 2AM. Closing time. Lights off. Two people in the corner. That ’ s strange. Don ’ t remember seeing them earlier. They ’ re talking. Muttering. It ’ s not English. What is it?
Excuse me. Can I help you? Can I...?
No response. I walk away. That was creepy. Shadows. Lots of shadows. Moving shadows. Walk away backw... |
3,834 | Create a 10 sentence story on anything . Catch is you can not use the letters Q , F , G , J , X , and Z .
| She ’ s one in a million, my Darlin ’ …a bit earlier she tiptoed across our bedroom, leaned down in a sweet cloud to kiss me awake with the whisper, “ I love you mi amor, let me have a smooch then I ’ m out a while. ”
I waited a bit to be sure she had truly vacated the apartment, then I hopped up, dressed in a snap... |
3,835 | You can see into the future ! About 10 seconds ahead ...
| I was young when I first realised I had this ability.
My mother had left my Dad and I, just after I was born, no one knows where she went and I hold this reliable to my Dad's raging alcoholism. For years he was very abusive towards me, physically and verbally, I think he blamed me for her leaving. So one day I had ... |
3,836 | An unidentified hostile alien lifeform been wreaking chaos on an isolated settlement , you catch a glimpse of it for the first time .
| Alphonse sat at his table, his shaky hands wrapped around an empty mug. His friends, his family, his wife, even his son had been taken by the... THING. According to the police, all of the victims had small round holes in their bodies. It was nothing like anything they had ever seen. Thunder rumbled outside the windows ... |
3,837 | But wait , there 's more !
| Hey there! Are you tired and lazy? Are you a fat slob? Do you like sitting on your ass and watching Netflix all day? Do you sometimes wish that someone would just touch your balls? If you said yes to any of these questions, then this product is for you! Introducing the Universal Ball Toucher! It's a device that will to... |
3,838 | Tell me a story thats scarier than I would expect it to be .
| Silence. People say silence is deafening, but I have always found that I hear a buzzing noise when I am deprived of sound. This buzzing is high pitched, and is starting to annoy me. I open my mouth to break the overwhelming silence, but nothing comes out. I am laying on my bed, staring at the ceiling and try to make mo... |
3,839 | Retell a classic story from the point of view of a different character . Try to not give away the character or story until the end . Try to change how the reader perceives the story .
| I'm hugging my child as he sobs. He'll sleep next to me tonight, for comfort and because there's nowhere else for him to sleep now. It will probably take a few days to make him a new bed. I do n't know how long it will take before he can sleep in it; whether he'll have nightmares about the predator lurking there, waiti... |
3,840 | You are stranded in the middle of the forest in winter, and your only company is a stranger on the other side of a handheld radio. They are very far away. | I laid down on the rough mostly dry, dirt patch I had dug myself into. The snow that was previously there now in a mound in front of me, a large rock formation I had braced on shielded me from the harsh winds.
Just make it 10 more minutes. Is the thing I had kept telling myself.
I had long ditched my watch after it h... |
3,841 | You 're a serial killer who 's been captured by the authorities . They ask you to recount your first kill ... .
| `` You know what they say,'you never forget your first.' It breaks the monotony of life, that first kill. The first moments realizing what just happened, and then that feeling, that feeling of a'pull-back shot ’, unprepared to see the full context what you ’ ve done. But then it gets easier. That first one… It was almo... |
3,842 | You wake up to find that you 've been locked into your own home . Locks on the doors and bars on the windows . It 's not to keep you in . It 's to keep them out .
| `` There's seven of them right now, two battering the basement door with a birdhouse poll, and the pair from 2014 are trying to break into my Ferrari so they can drive through the garage door. I have n't seen the other two since they were tossing their shoes at my windows.'' I squeezed my phone like I would've my mothe... |
3,843 | As you reach the peak of the highest mountain you notice that the sky is actually a plaster dome painted blue . Right above you there is a metal hatch in the plaster with the words `` DO NOT ENTER '' engraved in it .
| Goldsmith County, NP -- Lester King and Richard Bedford, the two climbers who went missing Sunday evening over the peak of Mt. Albania, were identified unharmed wearing sauna towels inside of Stella ’ s Bar on 5th Ave.
At around 1 p.m., the two towel-tucked climbers allegedly stepped from the bathroom of the bar, a... |
3,844 | Anything you yell becomes real . You accidently unleash something horrifying .
| `` You're a piece of shit! A cock-monster whose only desire is to eat more cocks, while cum seeps out from your pores and your eyes are made out of asses!'' I yelled to my friend in kitchen, after he told me he ate the last slice of cake.
Suddenly, in a moment of blinding light, an abomination appeared in between u... |
3,845 | When a woman gives birth , instead of having a new person , her and the fathers consiousness transfer into the babys body , and the babys caretakers are friends or family of the mother/father who are instilled with the responsibility of helping them cope with their new conjoined identity .
| Frank's keys jingled in the lock, and up in the bedroom, I allowed myself to quietly begin sobbing. Not that I had n't already been crying all day––I was in a lot of pain, and they warned me the hormones would make me extra-emotional––but I'd been bottling it up. It would n't hurt to put on a bit of a show before the i... |
3,846 | Hate . Kill . Repeat .
| Hate, kill, repeat. I ’ ve been watching these words flash on the screen for five days now. In between the three simple words are images of death and horror. Hate, Kill, Repeat. I wish I could look away, but that ’ s the downside to being strapped to a chair. I don ’ t remember how I got in this chair in this dark, bar... |
3,847 | An animal companion which your character has had since childhood has recently died . You 've just finished burying the animal and your character awakes in the middle of the night to see it next to their bed and it asks you to do a final favor before it departs for the afterlife .
| When I was two, I was living in a major American city. We were unable to afford any pets, but there was a stray dog living in our neighborhood. You could sometimes hear it knock over trashcans looking for a meal. When I was three, I was sitting outside when it warily started circling me well enough out of reach. That w... |
3,848 | Close your eyes , open a dictionary to a random page , touch it , and write a story themed around the word you land on .
| Mother, I have a secret I've been meaning to tell you. Grandmother gave me a cold ivory mirror before she died.
I used to watch the world through it's reflection. It was small, small enough to hide. I carried it to grandmother's funeral. I saw grandfather reflected in the mirror, wearing his old battle fatigues. It... |
3,849 | Whenever I pull down the attic door to my 37 year old house , I see this written on the first step in black marker : `` I Love Brad ! ! ! ''
| Whenever I pull down the attic door to my 37 year old house, I see this written on the first step in black marker: `` I Love Brad!!!'' It makes me laugh every time I see it. My sister wrote that when she was 15 and dating some boy named Brad. I was 8 at the time. Brad turned out to be a jerk. I forget why. A couple wee... |
3,850 | Jenny hears something coming from the closet and hides under the bed , only to feel something breathe down her neck .
| Jenny yawned and pulled her blankets over her head. Her room was still dark, and her phone told her it was only a quarter past three. She stayed there debating on whether to finish some homework due that morning or to sleep some more, before she groaned and started to sit up. While stretching, she began to notice an od... |
3,851 | You move into a new house that 's haunted . However , the ghosts are extremely helpful . You come home one day and the laundry is mysteriously folded and dinner is started .
| I was too far away from home for my mother to have surprisingly come, helped me with my laundry, cook and leave. It was an eight-hour drive, she would have at least stood... And a robber would n't have been so nice. No, he would have probably found where I keep my jewelry pretty fast.
My landlord paying a visit? My... |
3,852 | Write a story based on your favourite song . Other people have to guess which song it is .
| Journal entry: June 14
I was worried about her. She was gone all night and I wanted to know if she was safe. Last week, I saw a cougar in the woods - I searched the treeline leading to our cabin for hours, armed with my shotgun and lamp.
She came home in the early hours of the morning, when I asked her where sh... |
3,853 | You can lie to your friends, your boss, and even yourself. You can't lie to the eldritch creature that sometimes climbs out of the creepy mirror the furnished apartment came with. | “Tell me,” the crawling horror purred in its terrible snarling voice. “Why do you lie so? I can taste the untruth on you, seeping from your skin like so many sickly wounds. Do you think you can fool me?”
Ryan gazed upon the abomination in the mirror, his mind recoiling at the very sight of such an otherworldly creatio... |
3,854 | Your firstborn child is a picky eater . The only thing she tolerates is human flesh .
| Most kids go through a stage where they learn to bite people when they are upset. It's a tough time for parents and when my son was four and began biting I soon realized we could n't stand to make him stop.
Listen in our defense we tried to feed will everything. Chicken nuggets, Grilled cheese, Pizza you name it. By ... |
3,855 | Zombie Apocalypse broke out but quickly ended because everyone was prepared for it . Now everyone is bored and do n't know what to do .
| `` So... what now?''
The virus was fast. Real fast, like the Ebola and Zika outbreaks. Actually, even shorter. Those were in the media for a year or two. This virus lasted a week, or two weeks if you were in Asia. Fortunately, knowledge of George Romero, Left 4 Dead, and World War Z helped us survive. It was common... |
3,856 | Let it be known I knew what I was doing. | Let it be known I knew what I was doing.
The interview room was a cold, dark grey. Only hours before a serial killer broke down in here, confessing to slaughtering his family and neighbors. That wasn’t why Dorian Seaworth was here. He was here to confess to something entirely different. Something no one knew, not even... |
3,857 | You have the ability to see 7 seconds into the future every time you are about to die. This has proved helpful in avoiding a couple of car accidents and whatnot. One day, while walking down the street, you have a vision unlike any you’ve had before. | Late. I’m always late. I’ve never actually been late, but I’m always running late. I slam the door to my car. I’m parked a block out from where I’m meant to be. I press the lock button. I pull on my door handle to ensure it is truly locked.
I’ve been robbed once because I forgot to do that. Foolish of me really. How d... |
3,858 | Write (or rewrite) a sci-fi piece but from the POV of a recently hired scientist. | Victoria Tellison, Armadillo Head Scientist
I’ve always wondered why mercenaries with a troop carrier wanted to hire me. Why did they need a scientist like me? Didn’t their tech wizard bug queen know things? Or just look it up on the extranet?
Looks like that was changing.
The last two months Armadillo had been visi... |
3,859 | The man who destroyed my home said one last thing to me after he gave me the knife . `` If you get good enough kid , you 'll know how to find me . ''
| I don ’ t know. What. What even happened? We were having dinner. But. A sudden flash. The lamps died out. It was as if I went from my little part of heaven to my new life in hell right then. They were oh my god just gone… just… my family gone. I couldn ’ t really tell what parts were for who but. Up came my dinner. I c... |
3,860 | Sometimes , the best option is to do nothing .
| My father was saying – the worst thing is to do nothing.
I ’ ve always strived to achieve something, to have a significant place in this world, to make sense if you want. I don ’ t know if it works, I think it does to some degree. Nobody really knows what they are doing, but to do nothing seems pointless.
It so... |
3,861 | All children unknowingly have a Guardian Angel, Animal Spirit, or some other form of Mythical creature that watches over and protects them... you however, have something far more malevolent and powerful that protects you. | John had a fox spirit, Jenny had a doe spirit, but Robert had a wolf. The adults said Robert was lucky to have a link with a wolf. A wolf bond was rare, and a bond of Robert’s strength was even rarer. Robert was placed into the accelerated program, and that was the last I ever saw of him. We were once best friends, but... |
3,862 | "If you've found yourself in a position where you're reading this engraving, I wholeheartedly suggest you accept your imminent death. If, for whatever reason, you can't, remember this; you don't recognise the faces in the walls. Even if you think you do. And if they speak to you, don't answer." | September 7th,
Waking up this morning, I expected I was going to go on a run, cheat on my diet, and go to the movies. I did not expect to accidently fall down a manhole.
I don't know where I am. I remember falling, then nothing. I woke up sore, but nothing was broken. There was nothing but this blank journal, a pen, ... |
3,863 | Walter White sells Avon or Tupperware instead of meth .
| “ Hello Janice. ” She froze, dropping her double mocha frappechino. It descended upon doorstep, splattering the dark viscous liquid up upon her pink ensemble. Trembling, her hand hung in the air where a moment before it had graciously requested entrance in a firm practiced tone.
“ Do you know who I am? ” demanded t... |
3,864 | Every time you look in the mirror you see a different person. They all act like this is normal. | Yet again, another foreign face peers at me from within the mirror... simply one of the many, many strangers who've been visiting me through the glass above my bathroom sink ever since my mother, by accident, splashed her maternity gown in a glassy grey puddle as she carried her newborn daughter out of the hospital. Cu... |
3,865 | You have a feeling that your history teacher may just be immortal .
| She stared at me with her glass eye. Well I wouldn ’ t say stared, more like a long time of her fake eye just sitting there looking at me. It seemed weird, but I had a feeling that there was something strange about her. MY history teacher, could she be immortal? No, that ’ s impossible. Well, she has been working here ... |
3,866 | Your dad found a magic wand. | I heard my dad calling me to go upstairs. I reluctantly hauled myself up, annoyed that I have to deal with my dad’s nonsense. When I got up, I couldn’t see him at first. Then I heard him shout, “ELLA, ELLA”. I jumped. He was in the attic. “Ella help. Me out here will ya”? He was trying to drag a box down the ladder. I ... |
3,867 | Of all the least likely things to happen on a late night bus , this was top of the list
| I pushed back my rain-soaked hoodie as the door hissed closed behind me. Checked my phone. Swung into a seat. Put my feet up on the empty chair in front of me.
The bus churned into motion. How the driver could see through the streams running down the window was a mystery. I put my head back, nodding in time to the ... |
3,868 | a story in which the protagonist ( and reader ) does n't realize until the end that they are the `` bad guy ''
| When my sister was 11, she was a huge bully. My parents would fawn over her, she'd get the best coloring books and they let her play with all my toys, no matter what I said, even though she was older than me! In all my classes, the older siblings had to do what the younger sibilings wanted, not the other way around. It... |
3,869 | Your entire town is forced to take a drug to keep them permanently happy , but it makes the residents extremely violent to people who appear sad . You 're off the meds , and your family are patiently waiting for you downstairs after taking theirs .
| My name is not important. What is important is what I ’ m going to do. I hate this town and the talking, flapping heads that live in it; ignoring the horror and pain itching beneath the surface. Their lives are lies soaked in violence – but I have found their weakness. It ’ s the thing which they tried to rid themselve... |
3,870 | Bad news first: you’ve been captured by the fairies and given to the Princess of the Summer Court as a “birthday gift”. Good news: she’s actually really nice. Just stay on her good side. | I hadn’t even realised they were fairies. I simply believed they were fireflies or another glowing bug. It was just another stroll in the woods. Or so I had thought.
Ear piercing screeches tore through the night air. The small flecks of lights slowly morphed into snarling creatures. The stories of fair features and be... |
3,871 | The sky is wrong .
| The world is rotting, I can see the color of the sky fading from a bright blue to a dull grey. There ’ s not a cloud in the sky, but the colors are leaving and the world is getting darker. I ’ m glad I ’ ll be dead soon, I won ’ t have to watch the world rot.
I ’ ve been laying in this alley for days, barely moving... |
3,872 | You unwittingly do a favor for a supernatural entity. They're grateful, but unfortunately don't understand humans very well, so they give you a power/gift that is great in theory, but awful in practice. Now you have to learn to live with it. | It all started when I saved a squirrel.
Or rather, a thing that looked mostly like a squirrel. It was stuck in a vending machine behind my apartment, chirping in Morse code and crying maple syrup.
I thought it was just a weirdly ambitious rodent. I banged on the machine, shook it, cursed like a sailor, and finally ma... |
3,873 | Deadpool moves into a suburban area as cover , but the next door neighbor kid , Dennis , keeps bothering `` Mr . Wilson . ''
| “ DENNIS!!! ” Mrs. Mitchell yelled across the two backyards “ What are you doing to Mr. Wilson ’ s roses!?!? ” The blonde child stood up and proudly said “ I ’ m helping Mr. Wilson pull weeds from his garden. ” Mrs. Mitchell peered over the fence and saw a large pile of weeds, but also an equally large pile of roses. “... |
3,874 | You've always heard " its darkest just before dawn". You have to believe dawn is coming soon; but it's been 36 hours and its only getting darker. | I can’t stop my foot from tapping. Tap tap tap is the only noise I can hear since the power went out. When I was on the strip, over 24 hours ago, and it was still dark everyone was elated. If they were at all concerned they sure fooled me. I, on the other hand, was just utterly confused. After a whole night of drinking... |
3,875 | You are in a coma in hospital , but still coherent , and your doctor decides to pull the plug on you .
| Please be gentle! This is my first time ever trying one of these!
My sister, Janie, had been sitting in the chair beside my hospital bed for a few hours now. I felt her presence through the occasional flicking of her magazine pages. I heard the way she licked her finger, grabbed the page between her index finger an... |
3,876 | A serial killer ? No , a serial HEALER .
| 1/12
I am sick. I have an addiction I can ’ t cure. I ’ ve been to countless psychologists, but nothing helps. Not the pills, not the meds, not the talks. Nothing. I worked day and night as a doctor. I ’ m the best there is. I don ’ t take pride in that fact. I just accept it. I work day and night, and I never real... |
3,877 | You spill some food on the floor and don’t realize it. A couple days later, a group of women show up at your door. More begin arriving throughout the day, wanting to hug you, sitting on your couch, etc. Instead of ants, you’ve attracted hundreds of aunts. | “Thanks, have a good one,” I said to the Uber driver, before closing the car door a bit too forcefully.
Exhausted, I opened the door to my apartment and gratefully lurched inside, throwing my keys to the table. My cat, Frisket, jumped down from the couch and landed loudly and resentfully on the floor.
“I know, I know... |
3,878 | Vampires are real , but they can be repelled by an object that user considers holy . For example , a Catholic could use a rosary to kill a vampire , while a Muslim could use a Qur'an . You 're an atheist .
| My heart broke when I lost Hilda. The vampires took her like they took everyone else I had loved, leaving me with memories and the soulless possessions she had brought on the Journey. Oh, the Journey. It had caused this. If we had stayed in our house, barricaded it, she might still be alive. But we had left for the sou... |
3,879 | There 's a door in the middle of the forest . No one who has ever gone in has come back . Your job is to guard anyone from going in . One night , you hear a knock on the door .
| Guarding the door was always quite a pain, but I was good at it.
Halfway through my shift on Friday, I actually heard a knock coming from it. At first I thought it was coming from the door... But then I saw that kid. No clue where he came from, but he managed to sneak past me, open the door, and then got scared and... |
3,880 | “Sweetie, stop hiding already. It’s still me, I haven’t changed that much. I’m just hungrier now…starving. If you don’t stop hiding I’ll get really mad~” | Lola stays as quiet as possible, curled up and trembling in a fetal position in a closet, trying to breath as slowly as possible, and doing her best to not make a peep.
She knew this house was batshit crazy as soon as they moved in two weeks ago, and this moment all but cemented it for her.
Moments ago, Orson, her fa... |
3,881 | You are an immortal serial killer . You were caught and sentenced to life in prison . The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you wo n't age .
| This wondered a bit off of the prompt, but I think it's still in the same spirit:
For once in my life – and that statement by itself is saying quite a bit – I have no idea what ’ s about to happen.
This won ’ t be my first execution. I lost count during the Spanish Inquisition. They were never really a problem ... |
3,882 | You live in a world where, once you leave your house, a timer appears showing how long until you return home (usually 8-12 hours, a full work day). Today, that timer reads 2 years. | Smoke rose from the toaster, a reminder that he needed a new one. If the countdown gave him enough time, he would stop by the store after work and pick one up. In the meantime, he jiggled the lever until two charred pieces of toast popped up from the hot toaster. Spreading them with butter and strawberry jam, he sent a... |
3,883 | In stories, it's not uncommon for elves, elementals and other long-lived races to raise orphaned human children destined to be great heroes. You are a human raising orphaned children of long-lived races, preparing them for their destiny. 60 years have passed and they finally reach adulthood. | “Dad, where did I come from?”
Jackie looked into her old man’s eyes. Her marble pupils, strong and firm, were worlds apart from the confused and scared stares she first gave him. The old man realized he couldn’t hold back the truth any longer.
“You came from the Earth—straight from the grounds of Noshika Park. Litera... |
3,884 | You work at the gates of heaven , deciding who gains entrance . God tells you he has decided to get with the times , and your now to judge people based on their browser history .
| “ You can not pass. ”
“ What? Why? ”
“ Your browser history is very disturbing. ”
“ My what? ”
“ Your browser history. No one may pass through the pearly gates except through me. My decision is final and I am given the authority to access your browser history and judge you accordingly. You may not pass.... |
3,885 | illegal brain wiring is on the rise among people who are addicted to directly stimulating the pleasure centers of their brain .
| “ Police! Open up! ” Constable Elizabeth Jakande rapped her knuckles on the door. “ I ’ m warning you. I will count to three. ”
The smell, that was the telltale sign. The neighbours had called, complaining. It was something like sewage, with an unpleasant, acetone tang. Not the equipment itself, but the neglect that ... |
3,886 | This is the prologue ( or the first chapter ) of the novel you 've always wanted to write .
| They have no clue I could kill them all in a heartbeat, thought the green magician. He twisted his bleeding wrists in the handcuffs holding him in the chair they had bolted to the floor. He breathed long heavy breaths fighting to get air into his bruised ribcage. They had been beating him for what seemed like hours. If... |
3,887 | An abused , young woman , who does n't speak your language , appears at your back door one night trying to escape from her captors . Explain the course of your relationship as the months go by .
| This exact thing happened to two of my friends. They were shooting a documentary on fishing techniques on a paradise island in the pacific, when one night a beautiful young woman knocks on their back door. She has been roughed up in the bad and is crying heavily. They take her in and try to comfort her, but they ca n't... |
3,888 | Write a seemingly normal story , except for the last sentence , which makes the entire story creepy
| I guess you can call me a perfectionist. I do n't really like problems; they ’ re just so unnecessary. Sometimes I wonder how people can live in imperfect homes, with imperfect wives, leading imperfect lives -- not me, though. I could never subject myself to something flawed. Why would anybody do that to themselves? Me... |
3,889 | In the year 2150 , civilization is thriving . You are one of the 100 lucky people chosen to go to Cryosleep in a bunker . 500 years later , you and the others wake up and leave the bunker to find miles of lush green woods . There is no sign of any of the buildings that existed before . [ WP ]
| The sun is bright and the air is crisp.
You never thought you'd see or feel the world like this.
The stories of trees and grass, the sky being so clear.
It's beautiful.
A loud growling sound startles you, what was that?
You run back inside the bunker and close the door.
Out of a tree comes an animal you'v... |
3,890 | Write a story in which every sentence becomes more ominous . End with the audience conflicted .
| I am driving down the street with my new friend; we only just met but he reminds me of my Father. He is pale, but like my Father he is tall and strong. He is also very quiet, which is a bit unlucky because I have so many questions. I want to ask what his favourite colour is, because mine is black, like my Father ’ s ey... |
3,891 | A Maternity Nurse on the stand , on trial for several infant disappearances over the course of her career , confesses .
| “ The first was baby James, March 8, 1989. He weighed less than 2 pounds at delivery, 2 months premature. I had suspected the mother of drug use so I ran a tox screen on the meconium and it confirmed PCE. Baby James spent 6 month in NICU under my care and after that time his prognosis was such that the attending saw fi... |
3,892 | You wake up from a deep sleep , realizing you 've been transported through time to a funeral . Whose funeral , you ask ? Your own .
| I open my eyes, blinking at the sudden brightness of daylight; it takes me a few seconds to overcome this temporary blindness. I am sat on a pew at my local church, and one of my favourite songs is playing. It is a strange place to wake up; I was expecting to be at home in my bed. The music changes to a more solemn and... |
3,893 | Make me hate your character in 150 words or less .
| Mommy had sent me to bed an hour ago, and I could still hear the whine of the TV in her bedroom. Above the distant sound of cartoons, came heavy footsteps down the hallway, which stopped just outside my room.
Breathing deeply, I gave Mister Bear a kiss on the nose, and carefully tucked him under the blankets next t... |
3,894 | They say that going to that mountain, where the now-bare foundation of a hospital sits silently, can cure any disease or injury. Simply sit in a chair on the grounds, wearing a blindfold in the dead of night, and The Nurse will arrive to cure you. But you must never look at her face... | I sat tied to a lone metal chair. Waiting for the witch who would save my life. An ailment had plagued me for years. Unrelenting. Incurable. I was but a shadow of the man I once was.
I had come here to this dank hospital to seek the witch—she who could cure anything with the swish of a finger, and kill with the same. ... |
3,895 | This Week 's Theme - Folklore & Fairytale
| Once upon a time there was a boy. he spent most of his time reading books and exploring the forest behind his home. One day while exploring he discovered large tracks in the forest. He had read about many different kinds of animals and the tracks they leave but he had never seen any like these before for they looked al... |
3,896 | Everyone with the same name shares knowledge . If one Bob gets a degree in electrical engineering , then all Bob 's have this knowledge readily available . Soon , everyone starts naming their kids similar names until factions form . Your parents rebelled and named you something original .
| In a world where everybody shares knowledge based off of their name, It was tough being alone sharing knowledge with nobody. my name was Steve, but I did n't share knowledge with any other Steves. I had the worst nightmares and voices in my head sometimes I felt like I knew people feared me, the doctors said my schizop... |
3,897 | The police have hired a necromancer .
| I can ’ t stand to watch as she does her thing. It ’ s an abomination, some sort of ruse maybe, but essentially it ’ s an affront to everything I stand for and everything I ’ ve been raised on. Dead stay dead, murderers go to jail, that ’ s that. Whatever.
God knows – and this is something I won ’ t even mention wh... |
3,898 | Genies exist . However , they are all evil wish genies who try and interpret wishes disastrously . You 're a lawyer at a Wise Wishing Firm , who helps their clients word their wishes as safely as possible .
| The first thing that I must say is that our firm does not recommend wish-making under any circumstance, period. We like to see ourselves are guardians of the public, and though we do not approve of it, it would be remiss of us allow irresponsible wish-making. You see, Genies are immortal beings of immense power and onl... |
3,899 | A new species of giant panda has been identified as "chronovorous," and has been devouring time for years. | For the first time, everything made sense. See, I’d always blamed my bad memory for my many failings in life. Tardiness, sleeping in, completely forgetting about my own mother’s birthday, you know, the usual things people forget. Multiply those events by a thousand and you see my problem. For the longest time, I’ve tho... |
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