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3,900 | You're a great demon that people can summon. In exchange for a percentage of their soul, you must perform any favor they ask. Usually they ask for wealth or forbidden love or for someone to be killed. This one guy, however, keeps summoning you just to clip his toenails for him. | 6/1/18
I need to talk about this in my diary so I don’t forget it later.
It’s not not often that I get a job like this.
Sure, you get the occasional fetishist whose one dream is to be vored. I once had someone who literally just wanted me to pat them on the head. I get offered jobs at schools. At retirement homes.
... |
3,901 | `` His left hand was stained with the blood of his mother , his right hand with the blood of her murderer ''
| Her eyes were glass. Glazed over and glossy like a fresh coat of wax on the wooden floorboards she was sprawled out on. Her mouth was parted oh so slightly, with words unspoken, lost on her dry grey tongue. She was so very pale, as if her body had melted away and left only a ghost. Several fresh puncture wounds rested ... |
3,902 | The earth is adapting to humans . Trees now fire their seeds outwards and they grow to full size instantly when they hit the ground .
| `` Honey! can you go pick some apples? My parents are coming over!''
`` Yeah...''
As i walk up to the tree i noticed all the apples have been picked on the bottom branches. I can see a few apple up top but that will involve getting the ladder. Not wanting to disappoint, i find a way to get some
apples.
La... |
3,903 | A father is driving his daughter to practice . Both their phones receive an Amber Alert . The daughter checks her phone and says `` Dad , mom burned us ''
| I've lived with my dad since I was six. My mother left and did n't bother to hire a lawyer when my father filed for sole custody. She had to figure things out on her own, she told him one night. She packed light and left on a plane to Paris the next day. I do n't think she even kissed me goodbye.
I never gave my mo... |
3,904 | `` Everything can have drama if it 's done right . Even a pancake . '' Julia Child
| “ Jennifer! NO! ” I screamed at I watched the beast devour my wife of ten minutes. Her syrupy hair dripping slowly into its mouth. The monster ’ s teeth crushing her slowly. As the beast swallowed her, retracting its spear from it ’ s mouth, it moved to grab Mr. Ovalteen.
“ Stay strong Pan! Stay strong for Jenn... |
3,905 | Story written from the point of view of hindsight .
| It ’ s damp out. The kind of dampness that seeps slowly into your bones and soaks you through until it permeates every part of who you are. It affects me more than it should. I ’ m not sure what depresses me more; the weather or the influence it has on me. Add it to the list.
Her mother always sits in the same chai... |
3,906 | A child purchases a pair of X-Ray glasses from an ad on the back of his comic book ! The child discovers they do a lot more than see through walls .
| When I saw the inside of my hand I freaked. I moved my fingers and the bones did too.
Then I saw sparky's insides, `` Golly jeepers that's creepy!''
I had to show Billy. I was out the door and on my scooter in a heartbeat.
`` Do n't be late for dinner Dale, `` I heard my mom yell behind me.
`` Gosh Dale... |
3,907 | A story with no point . Just the ramblings of someone committed to a mental institution .
| They do walk like trees! Trees don ’ t walk! They walk like things that don ’ t walk which means they don ’ t walk.
I often mistake things which don ’ t walk for trees. They walk just like trees, you see.
The man is trying to warn the fire about the killer trees. But the FIRE WILL NOT LISTEN!
If it looks like a d... |
3,908 | Write me a tragedy in less than 101 words .
| The coldest winter I ever lived through, was the one where your body couldn ’ t keep me warm. Maybe your heart stopped beating, and your blood no longer flowed. But all I remember feeling was ice forming on your skin, to which it stuck to mine. and I could not separate, no matter how much I wanted to seek warmth. So I ... |
3,909 | `` Burn them , '' a voice whispered from the darkness . `` Yesssss . Burn ! ''
| Her eyes jolted open to a black room. The child rolled over to look at her digital clock on her bedside table. 2:37 A.M. It would still be about 6 hours until the school day began. She hated the feeling of waking up in the middle of the night. She'd been told a child her age should be able to sleep a full night, but it... |
3,910 | You take LSD and what you think is just weird trip is actually a real bank robbery. | It started with a Leprechaun.
Or maybe it was a midget wearing green. It doesn’t really matter. What does matter, is that from out of nowhere a stranger appeared in my living room, threatening to call the cops if I didn’t swear to help him. Oh, and he was waving a gun in my face too.
I would’ve laughed if I wasn’t sc... |
3,911 | Make a story ( 1000 word limit ) where a certain phrase/punch line of a joke is said multiple times throughout the story , and the story ends with this phrase , but it makes the reader really sad .
| When I was a kid I would always ask my parents questions.
“ Why is that man sleeping on the bench? Why doesn ’ t that lady have any hair? Why are there wars? ”
Like a small Edward R. Murrow I was always asking the hard hitting questions. The parents always had answers, but like most persistent children I al... |
3,912 | since you were a child you have had an uncanny super ability; when you reach into your pocket you find exactly what you need for any given situation. Even if it seems wildly unimaginable how this item may help, it always resolves the situation in the end. | I was 13 years old, and I was the last one at school. I figured my mom was just working late. Too late to pick me up from school. I waited ten minutes, 15, 30, an hour. By then the last teacher was starting to leave. She asked me if I needed a ride home, but I told her no.
“Mom will be here. She always has been.”
She... |
3,913 | In a different age , Aliens invaded and were defeated by Cavemen , as a result they prepared for a second battle thousands of years in the future , when they expected humanity to be the most fearsome beings in the universe , they return to find society as it is now
| First story I've written in about 4 years give me some leeway.
Xagos had not made the journey to Earth for the first war. He had only been 246 spins when it had happened. The Earth was dominated by what his mother had called man, but she spoke as if it was a monster. It hunted them down. They came to offer trade fo... |
3,914 | Jack the Ripper in custody speaking with a constable about the motivation for his crimes .
| `` For my entire life, I ’ ve felt it. I ’ ve walked amongst you. Studied amongst you. Traded, drank, and chatted with you. But I ’ m not one of you.
There ’ s a part of me. A part of me that I can ’ t quite put into words. This….thirst. An overwhelming, powerful urge to control. To destroy. To….dig my hands throug... |
3,915 | Write the scariest description of a clown . Make it terrifying .
| Gillian drove her daughter home from the carnival. Unexpected thunderstorms had gathered and ruined all the fun. Gillian munched popcorn from a bucket and navigated the country road. Her daughter, Michelle, sat in the backseat with a balloon animal.
`` Did Mr. Uh-Oh make you an octopus, Michelle? ”
`` He made m... |
3,916 | In the future , funerals are conducted in a somewhat different way ; the deceased actually speaks during the service , by means of a hologram derived from the analysis of that person 's genome .
| Grandma once told me that funerals in the old days were drab affairs. If you die, you would just be buried in a box, and your family and friends would cry and say nice things about you. To be honest, that sounds a lot nicer than what's in vogue these days. Everyone wants more drama, more astonishing revelations to talk... |
3,917 | You're evil stepmother has tried kill you by tricking you into going to the dark forest where the wicked witch is believed to live. You quickly realise the witch is real but is surprisingly nice. | This had to be the most bizarre trip into the dark forest that I had ever taken… Well, it was the only trip I had ever taken, but that’s not the point. Catalina had given me the wrong directions and I had ended up three miles away from where I was supposed to.
I had been wandering around, calling for help, when a blac... |
3,918 | you 're lost- After walking for three days with nothing in sight , you come across this house . ( xpost from r/evilbuildings )
| I didn ’ t realise places like this even existed in real life. Not these days, anyway. Land is discovered by corporations and houses like this, houses with history and character from tip to toe, are bulldozed and built over with identi-kit condominiums that paint a much more modern kind of nightmare onto the landscape.... |
3,919 | Everyone is gifted a skill by the gods, your skill is stealing, you can steal everything, you don't even need to touch it. You decided to use your skill for the amusement of others and made a show where you stole things in front of an crowed. One time someone requested you to steal their heart. | "Oh God! Oh God!" the woman shrieked, blood gushing out of her open chest cavity.
"Oh! Oh, no!" I said. "Sorry, sorry, sorry!"
Without thinking, I'd started awkwardly trying to stuff her heart back in. It wasn't a great move, but when you accidentally rip a woman's heart out of her chest cavity, adrenaline sort of ki... |
3,920 | ( WP ) Poetic description of a haunting .
| It began when I was six years old
Grunts and growls and roars.
It ’ s just your imagination I was told.
There is nothing behind your closet doors.
I always knew that they were wrong
Because they thought that I was scared,
I knew this monster did not belong
My subconscious saw it was ensnared... |
3,921 | You hear a knock at the door . You open it only to find that The Devil ( or God ) is standing there . He says `` I would like to apologise for something ''
| If it were not for the red horns jutting out of his forehead, I would not have guessed who was standing before me as I opened the door. The knock was slightly louder than I was accustomed to, and I thought this strange as the scrawny figure who presented himself did not look the type to knock with such force. I thought... |
3,922 | `` Do n't bother , '' she hissed .
| We were running up the stairs as fast as we could. The elevator seemed to have been stuck. Running up twelve flights of stairs was difficult even if you are in good shape. By the time we got to eight, the four of us were sweating and huffing and puffing.
By the time we got to the twelfth floor, we were gassed. We h... |
3,923 | `` Those eyes stared at me , accusing me . I thought what I did was right . ''
| When I was a child, my obsession was stuffed bears. It started with my first blanket. A gift for me by my crazy Aunt Margo, it was a contorted combination of blanket and bear; with the head and arms of a stuffed bear that abruptly changed to a flat, linen, lower half which I could only assume had been crushed by the si... |
3,924 | We finally have the technology to record and watch our dreams . However , we never expected the ramifications of watching our own nightmares .
| I have n't slept proper in days.
I can feel it, any time I get close to the dream state, I snap back.
I remember watching my nightmare on the screen after agreeing to the sleep study where they were recording dreams... I did n't expect them to be this way, or for my first capture to be a nightmare.
The rese... |
3,925 | You watch the puppeteer make the puppets dance, their movements fluid and lifelike. You then notice one of the puppets blinking in what looks like morse code. "Help us, please help us..." it messages. | I watch the puppet intensely. Did I see that correctly? I look around the auditorium. No one is reacting. I’m just imagining that. I must be. I watch longer.
We make eye contact.
Her eyes rise when she realizes my attention is caught. She throws three fast blinks.
“S.” I say to myself.
Three slow blinks followed, “... |
3,926 | You look in the mirror but there is nothing there . [ WP ]
| I look in the mirror, but there is nothing there, nothing but the reflection of the wall behind me. The room is dark, the light unlit, yet I can still sense everything.
I listen for voices, for sounds, and they're everywhere, light chatter and a constant beeping, but none from this tiny room I'm in. I want to leave... |
3,927 | Monsters aren't born; they're made | I rage. All I want is some time to myself to play my Game Boy, but she keeps bothering me with her story books. I can’t get anymore than a few moments away from her before she gets up the courage to come over again. What does she want from me? Doesn’t she understand I don’t want her around? Her presence ruins my entire... |
3,928 | I have an irrational fear of mirrors , write a story that will keep me up at night
| You are right to fear mirrors. What I'm about to tell you transpired over the course of many years.
I knew an old man. There was n't much notable about him, other than his disease. He suffered from Alzheimers. His family had chosen to care for them in their home, rather than sending him to a care facility. After a ... |
3,929 | There is something outside the door that will say anything or sound like anyone to get you to open the door. | Audio recording, begin
My name is Jason Aritoza and I don't have a lot of time, so I'll make this brief. For the last couple of days I've been tracking a ... phenomenon, for lack of a better word. This ... phenomenon, it swallows people. They just end up missing without a trace. Now, I work for the missing person depa... |
3,930 | You are capable of shape-shifting into nearly any form, but then you're stuck with that form, because after every transformation, you must wait one year before you're able to transform again. | I hear it; he is approaching. The man who slaughtered my friends and family, coming to kill me as well. And I'm trapped in this damn room with nowhere to hide.
I can hear the horrible sound of his wrench clashing against metal. I'm running out of time. I'm going to have to do it– I need to transform. I look around the... |
3,931 | You have the power to read minds but you can't turn it off. You just get used to it until one day you met a girl. A girl whose mind you can't read. | I’m a recluse but I hate being alone.
Being with people is just so exhausting, though. Knowing when they are lying, peeping into their secret traumas, getting distracting but their intrusive thoughts, answering questions that they didn’t ask out loud…
Knowing what they really thought of me…
I’ve grown accustomed to ... |
3,932 | You are a pilot. You lost contact with the ground hours ago, after some sort of commotion in the control tower. Nobody has tried to contact you since. Running low on fuel and with nowhere else to go, you abandon protocol and land the plane, only to find the airport completely empty. | Deciding to land the plane was a tough decision to make. All pilots are strongly advised against landing without the all-clear of the control tower. Of course there are a few exceptions to this rule but generally that’s the way it goes. This was definitely not the way that it should go though.
Ever since the initial t... |
3,933 | All around the world , people begin to disappear in droves , reducing our population to a scant and sparse few . 500 years later , we discover where they went .
| They left in groups of thousands, or one at a time, dissolving into the air as completely as sugar into coffee. They left their clothes laying in the street, like the evidence of some tragic crime.
It was n't the only way people left us. Once society began to collapse, anarchy took more. Then there were the suicide... |
3,934 | Your friend just died right in front of you . But that was only the *second* weirdest thing that ever happened to you .
| He died on a normal school day. Second period history, down the hall from the assistant principal. A class I would be happy having all day if teen me had a choice. There was this girl, Brittney, who was probably the hottest girl in the school. Well, to my lab partner Marco she was only second hottest - a girl named Rac... |
3,935 | Global warming worsens . Human populations keeps rising . The next World War is fought not over oil or ideologies , but in a desperate bid for fresh water . Describe living in this thirsty world .
| Every night we would wait until the gunfire had stopped and darkness had fallen.
Then we would creep out with our low-slung wheelbarrows, the axles thick with oil to keep them silent. We'd sniff out the bodies then haul them onto our stained barrows and cart them away, one by one, to where the wagon waited to collect... |
3,936 | Someone is murdered on the cruise you 're on . Passengers are told to lock themselves in their cabins and await instructions . The captain speaks from the ship 's PA system , `` The first contestant has fallen , only 5,132 remain . '' With that , the doors all click and swing open .
| “ We could die! Why don ’ t you act a little more concerned? ” His sister shrieked as she had been shrieking since they were both locked in their room. He pressed his fingers against the bridge of his nose, a headache beginning to form.
“ Someone died. Big whoop, Jessie. Worst case scenario, they don ’ t find the p... |
3,937 | `` Sir ? Can you hear me ? You were in an accident . ''
| `` Sir? Can you hear me? You were in an accident.'' A mysterious lady points the flashlight in my face. I open my eyes and notice that I'm in a hospital bed. The room is different types of blue and I do n't remember anything. No friends around me. No family. Nothing. Who was I? I asked `` How did I get here?'' I asked ... |
3,938 | A teenage boy caught between his parents brutal and bitter divorce must choose which parent to live with. | The judge stared at fifteen-year-old Tony, who only stared back at the judge. The silence that filled the courtroom was maddening to the young boy’s parents, as they waited, on the edges of their seats, not wanting to miss the boy’s response. The boy and judge continued to stare, minutes crawling by, neither speaking.
... |
3,939 | A monster is raised by humans never knowing it is a monster till one day ... .
| “ Get over here batman. ” the man called to his masked boy. The boy ran and with tremendous force leaped into the arms of his father. “ 6 years old today Batman. Do you know why today is a special day? ”
“ It's my day of janging! ”
“ That's right, it is your day of changing. ”
“ When can I jange daddy? Am I... |
3,940 | A couple is told of a great deal on a house by their realtor , who says that the catch is it 's haunted . The couple buys the house anyway .
| Peter had just put down the last box, his father's old things, on the floor of the basement when he heard his wife Claire.
`` Peter?!'' There was an annoyance in her voice she found his pack of cigarettes? Peter was sure.
Peter jr. started up the stairs. `` Yeah Honey?!''
`` Come here'', Peter started think... |
3,941 | A body is found under a bridge , and can not be identified . The only possible lead is a date tattooed on the body 's ankle .
| Shrugging my hood over my head, I slowly walked down by the marsh. I enjoyed nature, even if it was only just by the city. Each step of my trudge made a satisfying sound, in the shallow mud. I reached a park bench, and sat down. A loud thump and the sound of something being dragged through the thick grass startled me. ... |
3,942 | Write a story where the narrator is actively misdirecting you on what the story really is about
| Millie has an imaginary friend. He is the Headless Horseman, and he came to Millie in the dark of night, silently offering his protection.
Millie knew why he came. It was because she was afraid of the dark. And what's scarier than the Headless Horseman? Nothing. She was sure.
They would spend nights tucked agai... |
3,943 | 100 years ago scientists discovered magic, then buried their discovery. Before them others discovered it as well. Always they hid their discovery. You have just discovered magic. Unfortunately, you have not yet discovered why they hid it. | In the cellar under my rusty home the bottles, which looked to be ancient, containing bones and sludge glowed purple and hummed an unrecognizable tune in words unknown. Covered in slime and what tastes like strawberry jam, I slowly stood up to my feet and removed the cloth that was covering the bottles. The bottles wer... |
3,944 | Write a short adventure story about start of the zombie apocalypse as if it were happening to you right now in this very moment .
| Fffffffffff......... thump thump...... Ffffffffff...... thump thump
I stopped peeing so I could listen closer, sure that what I had just heard was more than my recycled stream of southern comfort hitting the toilet bowl.
Fffffffff...... thump thump.....Ffffffffffff....thump thump
`` it's happening!'' I whis... |
3,945 | A blind man discovers that he 's been dating Medusa .
| She never let me touch her hair.
I could n't complain. Being blind, I never really saw my own looks, but I figured they were n't that great since I could n't get a girlfriend growing up. So I went with it, happy to have a girlfriend.
I first got suspicious when I asked her to meet my mom.
`` It's way too so... |
3,946 | 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 fuck yo... |
3,947 | Its the zombie apocalypse . You are completely oblivious to everything about it , although its been going on for 2 years now . Your routine the past 2 years has not changed at all .
| “ Mornin ’ Stacey. ”
I say that every day to her as I walk by, but honestly it ’ s nothing more than a habit at this point. I don ’ t even look up anymore. I hear her grunt at me. That ’ s more than I get from most people these days.
Whatever.
Stacey is our Security Post Manager for the back entrance where ... |
3,948 | You're the first explorer of the world's deepest cave. When you turn on your flashlight, you see dinosaur bones... and a concrete sidewalk. | I stepped down the path, glancing around me and taking notice of the bones strewn around me. "Aaron, I think you might want to see this." I called behind me. Aaron started walking up behind me and glanced down. The path, sure enough, was solid concrete. "This is impossible, nobody's ever been down here!" Aaron exclaime... |
3,949 | The moment you knew you were no longer a child .
| Ma trembling shoulders proclaimed the tears she fought, however the silent navy spots that blossomed on her cornflower blue skirts showed her loss. She was shaking in the kitchen chair, trying to stifle the sound of her gasps into her shirtsleeves.
Ethel stood in her old nightgown, watching her mother in the early ... |
3,950 | 75-150 words -- The sound of faint tapping at your window , four floors up .
| The tapping wakes her up again. She tries to ignore it like the other nights, knowing it's just another figment of her imagination, since nothing can be seen through the window. She sighs as she lies there, trying to get back to sleep. She turns her back to the tapping and covers her ears.
Eventually she realizes s... |
3,951 | Every time you close your eyes for longer than a blink, someone you’ve met dies. | It was so hard to stay awake. You had tried everything. Caffeine only delayed it, propping your eyelids open only hurt, you had even taken to trying anything at this point but you couldn’t stop it.
This had been going on for years. Death practically followed you since even so much as a wince killed someone you met. Th... |
3,952 | After being shot multiple times, you are horrified at the sight of your blood as you bleed red... and blue, and yellow, and green, and- | The blast echoed in the hallway as I felt the sudden shooting pain in my stomach. I was on my knees a moment later, gasping for breath. “Alex?!” My wife appeared behind me, white faced in terror, dropping to her knees. A vacation stay in a mansion beyond our pay grade, as reward for thirty years of successful safety an... |
3,953 | Your superpower is your can smell mosquitoes from 90 miles away so you move to Antarctica to escape the smell and live alone in peace . One day, you smell mosquito. The smell keeps getting stronger every day. | Yeah, yeah get your Spider-Man jokes out now.
No, I wasn’t bit by some radioactive mosquito, but at some point, something changed.
I don’t think I’ll ever figure out exactly what caused that change, but it’s part of my life now and I deal with it.
What I have figured out is that the smell of mosquitos is unbearable,... |
3,954 | Everyone in the world has an Aura , a shell of light that can be anything . People can summon these into view at will , but you are one with the power to see even dormant auras . One day , you come across an unassuming person , with the most ridiculously powerful aura you have ever seen .
| I read once that before you even realize you are making a choice there are already chemical reactions firing off in your head that lead to it. Even before you decided to smile or scream or fight or run, your body made the choice for you. Some people would say this meant the future was already written; that we had no co... |
3,955 | As one of the most clever of demons, you hatched a plan to pose as a teacher at a highschool and steal the souls of the students while they were still innocent, instead you realized you have a love of teaching. You go above and beyond. Now there's something new in town targeting your kids. | Sometimes demons are not all evil, at least that’s what I like to think. I like to think that I was put here because I just so happened to be on the wrong side of history. I truly believed the war I fought in, the war I led was right and just. But alas the only way for me to survive now is to feast on souls. Innocent o... |
3,956 | A man in a forest sits near his campfire , as watchful eyes glow in the dark behind him .
| Shawn sat in the glow of his campfire that was dying down. He pushed the last of his tinder into the flames with his foot. All this wood, he thought, and I can ’ t get any more to burn. But, if this fire goes out, that ’ s the end of old Shawn. The flames seemed to be keeping them at bay. He knew the fire wouldn ’ t la... |
3,957 | You are death row 's last meal chef . Today 's condemned prisoner killed your daughter .
| If they would let me I would gently line his hamburger with crushed up glass and watch him eat it with no sympathy. No pain of his could ever bring back my daughter, but I would like to cause him what suffering I can before he dies. I would add generous amounts of milk to that lactose intolerant bastard ’ s mashed pota... |
3,958 | Reincarnation is real but it only works if one dies a specific way .
| We first noticed them coming back in May.
The first one to register himself was Michael O'Malley. He'd arrived at the police station, covered in blood, saying `` I think my family is looking for me.''
The first Michael O'Malley had died four years before in a rather... peculiar way. The local police found his bod... |
3,959 | You are in a group in the zombie apocalypse and you find out that you are immune .
| Arielle had no idea I had been bitten. She assumed my taciturn demeanor the last few days had been my usual, grumpy self. I hid everything from her, slipping away in the middle of the night to weep where no one could hear me, trying to imagine a place where I knew she and our son would be safe.
Despite my secretive... |
3,960 | You've just discovered your immortality by being killed and coming back to life. However, your 'death' was in public and the world is now coming to terms with your existence. |
Ian is pushed down from a Tall Building.
Traffic Jams, People gather , an ambulance arrives, media arrives.
" A Gangster named Ian has been spot died , which appears to be suicide," said T.V reporter
People, media have gathered at his funeral, and as he is about to be buried.
Ian wakes up, and shouts " Coffee"
... |
3,961 | Give me a bit of that story you 've always wanted to write .
| A little girl, no more than ten, was walking down the side of a lonely road. She had a dirty and torn frilly white dress, and was clutching an old, small worn-out teddy with all her might.
It was scary at first, seeing how it was the middle of the night and had been raining since this afternoon. But in the rain, the ... |
3,962 | A small shop opens up in your town that bottles and sells dreams . For a small price you can guarantee what you 'll see when you close your eyes that night , or record and donate a dream of your own to be sold .
| I first heard of the place at work. Johnny brought it up and described it as `` magic'', and how `` it'll rob me broke''. Then this other girl, Marissa, said that she finally got rid of a recurring nightmare by selling it. And Clary Snowe is always adventurous, so I had to check it out.
The said store had a strong ... |
3,963 | I had never seen so many butterflies until then . Did you know they like to eat flesh ?
| She walked through the grassy glade. It was a beautiful summer day and she put on her best summers dress this morning and headed out across the glade to James' house.
She walked slowly, feeling the grass beneath her bare feet, plucking flowers and smelling their fresh natural scent. This was a perfect day. Days lik... |
3,964 | A new sign was put up in a public place , and it 's prohibiting/restricting something impossible . What does it say , and what happened to lead up to it ?
| Please refrain from vampire slaying on this beach.
The sign may seem unusual, but it wouldn ’ t be there if there wasn ’ t a good reason. I put down my stake, leaving it just outside the boundary of holy water. I ’ m no longer sure why I want to go to the beach; I only came to hunt vampires. That was a bit of a stu... |
3,965 | Incorporate the sentence anywhere : `` Even though you ca n't find what 's inside ... ''
| It ’ s been nearly 3 years since I have started working at this thrift store. I have grown fond of this place. Living in a small town of 80 in Ohio and being raised in a poor family, I never had the luxury to fancy possessions. Who knows how old this building is; the paint near worn off, barely masking the bleak walls ... |
3,966 | The chef who always prepares death row 's last meals always asks himself if he should help any prisoner escape before injection . Today , he 's found someone worthy .
| I usually woke up at 5:30 sharp, brushed my teeth and put on my work clothes, started the car, and headed to the local iHop. I would come home at 6:00 pm after a full day of cooking half-assed pancakes, fixing hasbrowns that had “ too much potato, and redoing burgers until the were just right—but then again why come to... |
3,967 | `` I Found the Key to 33 ''
| The key hung loosely off my thumb as I stared into his eyes. They were wild, and flashed with a mad brilliance that illuminated the dark cell. He peered through the narrow slot with nervous anticipation. Above the opening, “ 33 ” was imprinted in the door in hard iron numbers. They seemed to look down at me, staring wi... |
3,968 | The Lich Queen
| The second thing you notice is that she's beautiful.
The first thing is that she's horrifying. You see the rotting flesh peeling back from ancient bones. You see the one working eye, ghastly bright in the ruin of her face. You see the tips of skeletal fingers clasped around the black sceptre, poking out from pale, ... |
3,969 | You wake up in an ice bath , large stitches down your torso . After the ER and subsequent MRI , you learn no organs are missing , in fact , you have a new one .
| Tick Tick Tick Tick
Tick.
The inescapable sound echoing as to the likes of a steal drum beaten in the deepest of caverns, Ripped shreds through my head. What once a subtle and innocent vibrate in my chest, a quiet tap upon my spine, had finally awoken me from my sleep. How could I have been sleeping through this,... |
3,970 | You hear a polite knock on the door . The closet door .
| I was sitting in my room, finishing off my last big essay of the year, when I heard a knock on my closet door. I was a nervous child growing up, always convinced that there were monsters in my closet - and under my bed and in the basement and the attic and in the radio and the TV and... well, pretty much everywhere. I ... |
3,971 | The world is an infinite flat plane. The furthest known points of this realm take days to contact by telegraph. Slowly communication ceases from the far west, and slowly the silence pushes closer and closer to home... | There's electricity in my blood. I’m a lineman, like my dad, like his dad, like his. You go back far enough and maybe my great great great grandpa was an old-fashioned Pioneer, trekking without purpose, but as far back as I know, my lineage is tethered by power lines.
When the Pioneers of today went silent, they said ... |
3,972 | whilst playing with sidewalk chalk , a 4 year old incidentally enslaves one of the most powerful demons in all interdimensional hellscapes
| My mama died making me. My name is Damien. I'm four years old. When my mama died, my papa made a special home for her right in our backyard. He told me to never touch the circle that he put her under. The circle is a big piece of rock with pretty shiny words on it. Someday I can read them. I learn a little sometimes. A... |
3,973 | You 've just realized every time you blink or close your eyes , time stops .
| I am a passenger in a car being driven by an unfamiliar female person who is in some way a friend or at least an acquaintance, traveling along route 101 by the coast, near where my parents used to live. As we drive, ( it is dark, or near-dark dusk ), I look up to see fantastic lights in the sky, rising above the horizo... |
3,974 | Describe, in detail, a monkey fighting a shark. | Leaping for the low hanging tree the ape screeched as the serrated jaws tore through the end of his tail, his thumbless fingers found hold just in time, pulling himself up out of immediate danger, he reeled in pain, checking his tail. Two inches. That fucking bastard fish stole two inches. Not only would this disable h... |
3,975 | Despite your struggles , you are unable to get off a toilet .
| I had heard rumors of it happening, but had assumed it was just an urban legend. But here I am, trapped on the toilet seat. I thought a more secluded commode was a good idea at the time. I did n't want to subject others to the business that I had to do. But now as the tentacles wrapped tighter and tighter around my leg... |
3,976 | You die and find yourself a ghost , haunting a house that you are unable to leave . You instinctively know that to ascend to heaven you must possess an object in the house for one day without the inhabitant of the house touching said object . It has been 3 years since you became a ghost .
| Who would have thought? Pain isn ’ t only for the living. I ’ ve never been electrocuted by a flame while I lived, but I guess this is how it feels like. If only people knew how well being alive feels. It ’ s like a school boy ’ s life vs an adult having a career.
For us on the other side, existence is hard. When y... |
3,977 | `` The ghosts ? Oh , they 're frightening of course . But they 're victims too , of a much more eldritch power ... ''
| Breathe.
Do n't think. Just breathe.
They can not hurt you, even if they so desired.
Fear not their disturbing gaze. Fear not their desperate, clawing hands. Fear not their silent screams.
They can not bring you harm.
Breathe child. Do not think, for it will breed fear. Fear will make you as them.
... |
3,978 | You are about to die ; tell me one regret you have in 500 words or less .
| Growing up whenever I'd see my grandma we would always play Scrabble. She taught me to play and love that game, however as I got older it became `` uncool'' to hang out playing Scrabble with grandma so whenever she'd ask to play I acted like it was some big chore. She ended up having Alzheimer's and she got to the poin... |
3,979 | Humanity never became the top of the food chain . A different race with a different civilization dominates the planet and hunts humans . Human civilization has adapted accordingly .
| Atop my saurian steed I wait for the signal. A guttural, gut-wrenching sound that indicates the beginning of the hunt. It is the sound a human, most likely a youngling, being flushed from one of the many caves that surround our village. With the passing of that sound, we will ride towards our query with reckless abando... |
3,980 | Writing Workshop # 13 : Anger
| I love the tips section. It definitely helps!
***
I have so much. I have a roof over my head, I have a bed to sleep in. There ’ s A/C in the hot summer and heat in the winter. There ’ s always food in the fridge. There ’ s a television with cable, even Internet that ’ s quick. It ’ s comfortable and I ’ m thank... |
3,981 | You 're an animal encountering a human for the first time .
| I can smell dad, I know he's close.
As I passed a few trees, I noticed his fresh antler marks on the bark. He ca n't be too far away. I stopped for a moment to take a sip out of the stream. As I turned around, I felt like the trees were watching me.
All of a sudden, I saw the trees move and started to hurry to ... |
3,982 | Your personal guardian angel from heaven is very upset with you. It's not because you did something wrong. It's because you're an extremely boring person to watch over. | ‘I feel something tapping on my head. It’s like a droplet of water or something and it keeps repeating every few seconds or so. it’s annoying, so I get up to take a look where it’s coming from, but can’t find anything. After about half an hour of this shit and getting more and more annoyed and looking around my entire ... |
3,983 | Sunday Free Write : Boatswain Edition
| -Edited version-
Anxiety feels like you ’ re suffocating in a room full of people.
An elephant is standing on your chest and you're screaming, yet no one can hear you.
You are trapped in a silent world surrounded by loved ones, yet you feel so alone and isolated.
No one seems to understand the way a pan... |
3,984 | Four people enter a haunted house of nightmares , and have been trapped there for weeks . Problem is , the only one of them who knows where the exit is , does not want to leave .
| `` It's all my fault.''
The smell of charred flesh surrounded them, and Lisa tried hard not to gag. It was just like the first time.
`` Marcus, please,'' she begged. She gripped tightly on Ellen's small hands as they backed away from the bodies slowly seeping out of the floor boards, forming their blackened ski... |
3,985 | You are a wizard and your only job it to shout random things until you find a new spell .
| For years, I have tried everything I could think of: screaming, yelping, shouting, even yodeling. I am well known. I have discovered many, many spells. I even made a potion to grow Elon Musk ’ s brain power for him.
Things at work have been rough. I haven ’ t discovered any new spells in 3 months, and they are threat... |
3,986 | Explain to me , in as best detail as you can , the saddest day of your life .
| I was enjoying the company of my grandmother when I got the calls. It was the crazy woman, my father's wife.
Call one: She called to tell me that my father was suicidal and that he left the house with a gun. This was very out of character for my father, I was scared.
Call two: She called not too long after sayi... |
3,987 | You just watched your parent be bitten by a zombie
| I did it from the opposite perspective. I think both are very interesting!
http: //www.johncgreer.com/her-birthday-dress-a-zombie-short-story/
He didn ’ t want to do this. He couldn ’ t do this.
“ I can ’ t. I can ’ t. ”
He was sobbing now. The tears were streaming down his face.
“ Please no. I can ’ ... |
3,988 | You are a hero with severe anger management and self control issues. Despite this, and because of immense effort on your part, you are mainly known for your calm and collected nature. But today a villain has finally to cross the line. | The rubble settled around me, the building, or what’s left of it, spread out over two city blocks. My right fist ached, but it was a good kind of pain, a vengeful kind of pain. Anger colored the edges of my vision. My pulse pounded in my ears. People were watching. I didn’t care. Let them watch. Let them see what happe... |
3,989 | A Zombie outbreak at a Walmart on Black Friday
| I was there. Thursday, November 28th, 2013. Thanksgiving Night. Lines started as Early as 4pm. Doors open at 6. Promises of 75 % Discounts and more made even the sickest of people roll out of bed.
It was the perfect storm. The absolute chaos prevented authorities to act as fast as they needed to. The choke of the c... |
3,990 | The planet goes dark , all electronic communication is lost , varying reports of military activity surface while dozens of newspapers come out with differing reports of communities be `` abandoned '' seemingly over night panic is setting in ... ...
| Large shadows slinked across the living room couch, cast dramatically by the moonlight. A small figure shifted in the darkness.
`` Let's play again, Charlie! You count this time!''
Charlie was reluctant to play yet another game of hide and seek with his little sister. Sure, it was fun the first few times, but a... |
3,991 | You and a team of researchers have just discovered a new type of star, made entirely of neurons. You attempt to communicate with it. It answers. | “Doctor! Are you aware of what this means?” Anna, my assistant, asked jubilantly as she looked up at me from the tablet in front of her; her fluffy black bangs bouncing happily. “The conjunction of these neurons have somehow come together to form a complete star cluster.” She finished, before I could answer her rhetori... |
3,992 | Every human has their soulmate 's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth .
| “ Oh, pardon me! Heh, my mom always tells me I need to pull my head out of the clouds. ”
He smiled at her; a sheepish sort of smile that – she noted – highlighted the crow ’ s feet at the outer corners of his eyes – pale, soft blue. They weren ’ t lines that her grandmother had warned her would come with all of her... |
3,993 | Write either poetry or prose under the following title : `` Dark Matters ''
| `` Dark Matters''
Because of this façade, the well-fitted mask I use to masquerade my face, you rarely see the truth. Everyday lies cover my face to protect me from this unjust world. I struggle to be strong, to bury my fears, but the inevitable truth is still there. Plain and simple, I ’ m scared. I ’ m just a sma... |
3,994 | Go listen to a favorite piece of music . Write down the imagery that came to mind .
| One night I was wandering in the everglades and I saw things I'll never forget. To this day when I remember this night I have chills all over my body. As I was walking on my usual path I heard weird noises. The noises quickly turned into a chant. I hid behind a tree and as I was about to peek a drunkard came staggering... |
3,995 | Scientists have located and measured the position of the soul in the body , even learning how to successfully remove it . This causes the body to cease ageing in any way , but there are side effects ...
| `` What is a soul?''
The words of the late Dr. Wilhelm Kevorkian echoed through the empty auditorium of my old high school. The projector sputtered at every other frame, and the damp wooden floors creaked at the scutter of a lone mouse. Dust had blanketed everything in sight, and a careless movement would have resu... |
3,996 | Make me fall in love with a girl , but only using words of negative connotation .
| She licked her lips and stole my soul
Seared me with eyes like glowing coals
Her frosty gaze; weak in the knees
She smiles with scorn, ignores my pleas.
A poison dart of a vicious tongue;
My skin is thin, and her touch stung.
Her face is cast with murky blue,
A fog too thick to see her thr... |
3,997 | A mother on a boat with her child . There 's something in the water . 350 words .
| The woman rowed, and the girl watched.
“ Eat, ” the woman said.
The girl reached into the leather sack by her feet and pulled out a cracker. She gnawed on it absently.
The going was slow through the dense fog, but the black river was calm. Mosquitoes and gnats fussed around the woman ’ s face. She couldn ’ ... |
3,998 | A photographer discovers that all the people he photographed in the past die one by one .
| For someone like me, death is normal. For someone like me, seeing people dying is daily. We have become friends, him and I but to think the grim reaper followed me to my peaceful times, away from the battlefield is abnormal.
`` Man, I was this close to getting an interview with her! Do you hate me oh lord?!''
My ... |
3,999 | In this world, the constellations are the astral forms of gods, and when a constellation vanishes, a god is walking on earth. Tonight, every star in the sky has vanished. | Suddenly, I felt a cold, stinging wind pass over my sleeping body. I awoke with a start, eyes pulled wide open, and jumped out of the cot. I raced outside my tent, and towards Sultan, my wolf dog who kept watch over me as I slept during the night.
These days, nights had been far more dangerous than in years past. Used... |
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