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4,000 | He was a boy. She was an eldritch monstrosity. Could it be any more obvious? | Due to my absolutely horrendous social skills I've never really been in a relationship with anyone for very long. I would either unintentionally offend them, embarrass them, the whole nine-yards. Most of all I never was good with girls. I tried to say hi, but most of the time they brought up my terrible social reputati... |
4,001 | One day your mom comes home from work looking distressed . She hands you a gun and tells you nervously not to tell your dad .
| I stand in the kitchen feeling the weight of the gun my hand. It's surprisingly light.
I look into her eyes with all the questions in the world but not saying a word.
She's shaking. My mind tries to think about what might have happened. The only explanation is that she freaked out and killed someone or injured ... |
4,002 | For your honeymoon , you finally go to that place you 've always dreamed of going . Walking down the street , you see a telephone pole covered in old , moldy papers . The newer ones have fallen away , revealing an ancient , faded flyer - it 's a picture of you as a child . It says MISSING .
| `` Ooh, baby, come look at these flyers! Maybe there's something playing nearby! This is a small town after all.'' I was intrigued. Not a bad idea. We had just had sex for a couple hours in hotel room down by the water, sort of meandered our way up through the old stone streets. It was some city in Italy. Did n't reall... |
4,003 | Your wife has been obsessively tracking the prices of everything at your local grocery stores . It seemed innocuous at first until she begins to predict economic events with increasing accuracy . Then on Thursday she goes erratic about the price drop of one particular item .
| The door handle jiggled. The third time today. He waited for the sound of her key and the impending call.
“ Carter! ” A woman ’ s voice.
He opened the door, revealing the ice-covered world, and his dear wife. She shifted the mountain of groceries from her hands to his.
“ I was right! I told you. ” She chime... |
4,004 | After several weeks , you 're getting the suspicion that your Microwave is sentient .
| I have a thing for rice. It would not be far from the truth to say that I love it more than anything else to eat. Rice is the one product that can drive my girlfriend crazy.
`` Ca n't we eat pizza for a change?'' she asks. Silly bint. Of course we ca n't. We eat rice.
Now I will probably give some Japanese rice... |
4,005 | Look at your desk . Pick the first item you see . Now write a crime story detailing your own death involving said item .
| `` A note book? Really?
Listen Johnson. I know you're new to this line of work, but only in the movies, does the victims notebook hold the answers to solving his murder.''
`` But Sir it was covered in blood, and no other clues were found! No weapon at the scene, the cameras did n't pick up anyone entering the bui... |
4,006 | You have always been scared of the boogeyman living in your closet as a child. Now as a grown up,you have an intruder in your house one day. You lock yourself in that childhood room. The intruder breaks in the room,and the boogeyman steps out of the closet. | I quickly slammed the door, fumbling with the lock. I could hear footsteps getting closer, thumping in pursuit. I was sweating, drawing in heaving breaths as I struggled. Finally, as they reached the door I managed to turn the stiff lock. I let go, and the handle bent down.
The lock held firm, stifling their progress.... |
4,007 | Still Waiting
| It ’ s difficult for me to pinpoint the exact moment when I knew. It was more of a feeling rather than anything else. Kind of like a low form of ESP. Something was reaching out of the ether. Something dark, cold, and scary wrapped its long spindly fingers over my heart and gripped it. Nothing external, as far as I coul... |
4,008 | A person that suffers from sleep paralysis discovers what has really been happening .
| Constant rustling at the window of the home George Thompson stayed at. Twigs rattled and the wind exhaled like how a mother shushes her new born ever so elegantly. Chills reached the tips of his toes as the blanket never could cover his tall form, nor did it help that the handymen never fixed the lock on the window res... |
4,009 | An 800 word essay on what not to do at a stoplight
| My mistake was taking my eye off the road. My phone was buzzing to say I'd received a text, since I was parked at a red light, waiting three cars back, it seemed like it would be fine to just glance down and see what it was.
I could n't have glanced down for more than a second or two. When I looked back, two teenag... |
4,010 | You have been sentenced to death and the last few minutes of your life are all you have left . As you wait for your sentence to be carried out , these are your thoughts .
| It doesn ’ t feel real, death. I have a heart beating inside me, two hands clasped to my knees, and eyes enough to see the brilliant orange of my jumpsuit. I am healthy. I am young. I am presently in no mortal danger, but I am going to die soon.
Perhaps it isn ’ t real. “ Justice ” is quite artificial. Sentences ha... |
4,011 | Unconstricted short story where the protagonist faces reality and death- ( preferably in figure form ) . Try to contain a twist ending . Best one will be converted and drawn into graphic novel form by myself .
| “ Hey, wake up! ”
My head is pounding. I blink my eyes, but the room is unnaturally bright. It takes a few minutes before my eyes adjust. Where am I?
“ Didn ’ t you hear me? Wake up! ” Where is that voice coming from? I sit up and look around. Where am I?
“ Hello? ” I stand up, and look around. Now this is ... |
4,012 | A demon is getting REALLY tired of teenage girls summoning him .
| When you choose to become a demon, it can be nerve-wracking. It ’ s new, exciting, and you don ’ t always get to choose who you possess or torment. I find that it ’ s best to keep a level head, and keep you ’ re nose to the grindstone. The work is tough but fair.
On a few rare occasions, you might win the lottery, ... |
4,013 | After survivng on an island where the only food source is domesticated cats and dogs , you are rescued and return home . You adopt a rescue dog to cope with your past , but the dog seems to know what you 've done .
| `` Spot, Spot'' I yelled as I frantically ran around the house. I had only been home for a few weeks and I thought this rescue dog would help me re-acclimate to everyday life in a civilized society. The damn thing kept hiding from me though.
After a frantic search around the house, I found Spot hiding behind the wa... |
4,014 | ( WIN PIZZA for best prompt ) You live up in a world where all people are 'your kind ' - like-minded , and similar to you , for better or worse . Show me around .
| I'm so excited you're here! This is the best day ever. Can I get you a drink? Are you hot? Cold? Need a snack? Need a nap? ( We're coming up on the 2 p.m. nap hour, so we'll have to hurry along a bit. ) We're all super nice here to the point of overbearing! Also really fucking stoked about everything! Let's start the t... |
4,015 | Tell us a true story about you that nobody else would believe happened .
| We went to the zoo when I was like five or six. It was my first time ever at the zoo, and I did n't really know any of the rules. All I knew was that when we went to the park, we would catch frogs and lizards and pet the deer ( the elderly people near the park fed them so they were super tame ) and I thought that all a... |
4,016 | A man running towards his certain death
| “ I shouldn ’ t fear death. From the moment I came into this world, flailing and carrying on, I was surrounded by it. The Miracle Boy, the doctors called me, ripped from his mother ’ s womb two months too soon. I wouldn ’ t call it ‘ ripped, ’ though; ‘ saved ’ would be a more accurate word, since she was already gone ... |
4,017 | a snail is chasing you , it can kill you with the slightest touch and ca n't die
| The creature was surprisingly dull in colour, strange because it would be the most poisonous animal in the world. It sat there, chewing on a leaf inside the clear plastic box. It would n't do it very long, soon it would resume staring at me.
I discovered it a few weeks ago, along with my colleagues, while deep in t... |
4,018 | I have an irrational fear of mirrors , write a story that will keep me up at night
| Ever since I was little, I had a fear of mirrors. I used to have nightmares where I would get sucked inside and stuck, where I would n't be able to get out no matter how hard I banged on the back of the glass. Sometimes, if I banged too hard, the mirror would fall off the wall in the dream, the pieces would shatter, an... |
4,019 | Whenever you get chills , you just died in an alternate universe .
| `` I should probably stop going outside until winter is over,'' I thought to myself.
But that's when it struck me. If I get the chills and an alternate universe-me dies, that probably means that one of the alternate universe-me's will get the chills whenever I die. In order to stay alive, I must get the chills as o... |
4,020 | You are a wildlife preserver and have stumbled upon a new creature, a humanoid hybrid, and it is gravely injured. Using your knowledge of animal biology and behavior, you are able to subdue it and begin nursing it to health. After weeks of growls, escape attempts, and attacks, it speaks. | I found her in the woods, half-human, half-animal, and barely clinging to life. At first, I thought she was some injured creature, but the eyes froze me in place. She was a mess of matted hair, white patchy fur, and deep wounds. When I approached, she bared sharp teeth and growled, but there was something desperate in ... |
4,021 | Every human, no matter their beliefs, are reborn when they die as the creature they hate the most. | My head felt buzzy, like I was drunk, when the noise of the party reached my ears again and I opened my eyes. The smell of pot-drenched apartment, sweat, and alcohol filled the air. I looked down at myself and saw my arms covered in body glitter. I got up and stumbled into the bathroom. I looked into the mirror next to... |
4,022 | Forget prose , poetry , diary entries , etc . Tell a horror story using a numbered list .
| Day 1: The virus hit the whole town all at once, no one was prepared. Everyone is sick and dying fast.
Day 2: Dad has n't come home from work, I'm with mom and my dog Jerry. We've secured the house.
Day 3: There was blood everywhere, I could n't stop the bleeding... mom is dead. The virus might be airborne, have to... |
4,023 | As you die , you travel down the bright tunnel and then everything turns to black . That 's when you hear it : `` Greetings , Prisoner 11384 . You have served your sentence . You are free to go . ''
| I'm tired.. So tired.. Finally I get to slip into eternal darkness, rest in peace or not, darkness awaits, and my tired bones ache for release.. My whole life has been nothing but pain, nothing but misery and regret, but no more.. I finally get to leave.. I can feel the cold spreading from my abdomen, the tear is fatal... |
4,024 | You are basically a human lie detector. Whenever someone lies to you, or around you, the truth pretty much shows up in your mind like closed captioning. No one is aware that you have this ability. And is great as it sounds… It’ actually kind of sucks. Truth hurts, after all. | You really don’t like this ability.
No, it’s not like you struggle with life or anything. You could even say that your special power has helped you out several times.
You still have friends, a career, and everything else. You have earned a great deal of insight into people.
It isn’t like some of the books or shows y... |
4,025 | Computer viruses can now be transmitted onto humans .
| David Joshua was the original inventor of the In-Home Doctor. He drew the idea from the original meaning of an in-home doctor: a doctor who came to your own house to do check up on you in the unfortunate occurrence that you would not be able to make it to a doctor ’ s office. The difference was that the In-Home Doctor ... |
4,026 | Growing up in rural Appalachia, your grandmother taught you to never whistle in the forest at night. "It calls things to you, bad things." She would always say. Now going camping with some of your city friends, you would finally learn why you should never whistle at night in the forest. | “Those mountains are old, dear. So old. They’re older than trees, older than bones.”
Greg was the first one gone. The snap of a twig, the snap of his neck, a finger snap of time.
“There’s things in those woods. Things most wouldn’t call man nor beast. They’ve been there long before any of us and they’ll be there long... |
4,027 | You wake up to a strange , yet familiar world .
| Last night I went to bed, my parents staying up late for an unknown reason. This morning I woke up to sounds of them cooking in the kitchen. It was strange, I always woke up before them, maybe they didn ’ t even go to sleep. When I went to the kitchen to see what they were doing I didn ’ t find them, I found their dopp... |
4,028 | You ca n't remember , but you witnessed something awful/something traumatic happened to you as a child . Your mind has managed to completely suppress the memories , but now years later you slowly began to remember bits and pieces throughout your everyday life ...
| There is a commotion outside my building. Sirens and screams. Not how I want to start my day. I got out of bed and slowly walked towards the window to see what the fuss is all about.
A man with a gun and a hostage surrounded by police officers.
The police is trying to negotiate with the man, and it seems to not... |
4,029 | You often get mistaken for your twin sister. Though it never really bothered you, now that she's become one of the most feared criminals in city, it's starting to become a problem. | I began watching YouTube tutorials. The ones where women use tape and glue to reconstruct their face. I would do anything to not look like her
After many painstaking hours of sticking cotton balls and glue to my cheekbones, I was finally able to get it to look natural. Although admittedly I sat for hours looking like ... |
4,030 | Something rolled into the morgue makes the mortician 's whole day .
| Angela tried to hold back her perverse little smile until her assistant had left the room. She could barely do it. “ I ’ ll take this one from here, ” she had told him. “ Don ’ t worry about it. Why don ’ t you go home? Take the afternoon off. ”
Now she had the room to herself—well, there were a few others here but... |
4,031 | You have been feeding a stray dog in your neighbourhood. One rather cold morning you decided to bring it inside, which was how you learned that the dog is actually Cerberus. | I was trying to unlock my door after a long day's work when I noticed rustling from the thick hedge in my lawn. The evening light didn't provide much in terms of lighting but I can see a silhouette of a dog hiding in there. Poor thing looked malnourished judging from how thin the sillohoute was. So I decided to give it... |
4,032 | Can you try and make me ( and the other readers ) cry in less than 150 words ?
| My dear sweet Primrose. You were about a year old when you started coming around, my mother hated you at first but eventually you grew on her too. You were an avid huntress for a Siamese cat, an outdoor cat, a true outlier. You would catch us mice, snakes and rabbits. You were with us since I was a 10 year old boy and ... |
4,033 | You're an invulnerable superhero with an embarrassing secret, you're a masochist and only fight villains because you like getting hit. People are starting to suspect. | [honestly this is a pretty sexy prompt, so thanks for the inspo. I wrote too much, and there's definitely typos and shit, but please enjoy. Mildly nsfw i guess?]
The alarm blared as Kyle rolled unceremoniously from bed, yanking his mask off the wall and stumbling half-blind into the garage. The buzzing fluorescents ov... |
4,034 | Write a scene in which a character is preparing to commit suicide in an unusual way . ( See constraints in post . )
| Another day, another image. Another image of the lump—lumps, really, at this point—the lump that had already been imaged, how many times? A dozen? A hundred? Classic black and white X-rays, florid CAT Scans, super-sharp MRI ’ s, fMRI ’ s models of his guts smudged with crayon where the tumor sent out taproots like the ... |
4,035 | Take the premise of Jumanji ( a board game coming to life ) and apply it to another popular board game .
| My friend and I decided to go to her house after school. We were feeling overwhelmed with homework and wanted to have some fun. Her younger sister was already home for the day and wanted to play Twister. “ Pleeeeease ” she begged. We agreed and let her set up the game.
I decided to spin the wheel while the two sist... |
4,036 | A meeting is called for story tropes . Turns out , Wise Old Hermit has just been shot and killed , and it is up to Clever Female Lead , Brooding Ex-Detective , and Loveable Goof to find the murderer .
| CFL was on her way home from work one day when she decided to pay her old friend WOH a visit, as she heard through the grapevine he was getting sick. She stopped at his apartment, and seeing his car outside was surprised when he did n't respond to her buzzer. Worried, she broke into the apartment being the crafty gal s... |
4,037 | You are a person in his / her late teens that is casually watching POV livestreams in the vein of those currently posted on twitch and youtube . The broadcasters are anonymous , yet showcase their world through google glass-esque devices .
| So you know that movie Being John Malkovich? Where Jon Cusack finds a portal John Malkovich ’ s mind. Like literally, he just sits around living vicariously as John Malkovich. Well not even vicariously either, he can legitimately feel the same emotions, and experience the same thoughts. Eventually his girlfriend catche... |
4,038 | Aliens visit earth for the first time , but they have no senses in common with humans , so there 's no way to communicate with them .
| The Beanbags were a mystery. When their asymmetrical ships appeared in the skies, there was a lot of excitement and fear. Some people predicted prosperity, others war. Everyone was curious.
Then we found out we ca n't communicate at all. There was a lot of them, yet we could n't talk to a single one. As you probabl... |
4,039 | You 're on a solo hike along a local trail and end up finding a damaged helmet with a GoPro attached to it . Examining it , you find that the SD card is fully intact . You take it home and watch what 's on it
| The Camera
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I woke up, thinking it would be another cloudy and cold day, but when I got out of my tent, the sun was shining and the usual wind was gone. It was strange feeling the bright sun warming my body up as I admired the lush pines all around me. The clearing I had set up camp in was almost perfectly circula... |
4,040 | A Villain comes to regret all the things he has done in the past and travels back in time to stop his younger self .
| The eyes of the man as the life had slipped from him still haunted him today. It was the fear and confusion in those eyes that he couldn ’ t forget. Those eyes would appear again in his dreams every night, in a hundred different faces. He simply couldn ’ t shake it. This had all gone down back when Jack was nothing mor... |
4,041 | Write a story in which the protagonist is a toothbrush .
| Bristles and a handle. That ’ s all I am. That ’ s all I ’ ll ever be. And yet you need me, don ’ t you? Sure you do. You filthy humans with your disease-ridden noise holes.
I ’ m sorry, that was rude and uncalled for. You didn ’ t choose to be human any more than I chose to be a toothbrush. And that ’ s the thing ... |
4,042 | There is a terrible creature , force , or whatever that seeks out and kills everything that talks . One person tries to live bye not talking , but how does he try to convince the other to stay quiet ?
| The dark clouds drifted through the streets outside, seeking the voices of my fellow women and men. How they could hear us was unknown, but long ago I had discovered that was how they found us. It didn ’ t matter how quietly a person talked, they swirling, demonic clouds would soon envelop the person, and tear them int... |
4,043 | Make me pee : A challenge to write the most gut-bustingly hilarious story possible
| I met Mitchell down by the old theatre. I waved at him then promptly slashed his throat open with a 4 inch shiv I had hidden in my sleeve. He started clawing at his throat but it was redundant. I was n't done with him quite yet. I pushed his fat ass over and gutted him like a pig. It was only when I started pulling his... |
4,044 | It took you almost a week to realise it. No one is talking back to you. No, you aren't in The Sixth Sense. You are totally alive. Waiters do take your order. Bankers do respond to your requests. But... NOT. A SINGLE. PERSON. Is talking to you anymore!! | It took Judy almost a week to realise it. No one is talking back to her. Waiters still take her order. Bankers do respond to her requests. But no one is talking to her anymore. The world around her has become strangely quiet. It was as if she had been rejected by society, becoming redundant, a woman who should not exis... |
4,045 | There 's someone in my head but it 's not me .
| There's someone in my head but it's not me
It does n't snarl nor bite
Instead latches onto my worries
And sucks them pink
There's someone in my head
Whom I let in
She likes to pretend
That soon I'll be dead
She pulls me away
From the horror of life
And brings me back ... |
4,046 | And so it ended , not with a bang , but with a whimper & quack .
| You sigh as you lean back in the bathtub. The steam caresses your face like the warm hand of a lover. During your formative years, you never had the luxury of a bathtub. When you finally had worked for the Boss long enough to get a place of your own, you didn ’ t even know how to use the damn thing. Looking back, it pr... |
4,047 | Tell of a single mother 's unconditional love for her daughter , and the sacrifice she made for her .
| I was thirteen at the time, I never knew that children were their favourite. I'd never known my mother had hid me from them for all those years. She had told me again and again to stay in the house when the Kwanti came, but I'd heard enough. I wanted to know what they looked like. There was no way they could be as bad ... |
4,048 | A four dimensional entity has taken an interest in you. It saved you from death and disrupted the timeline. This angered the entity’s compatriots. To keep you from being returned to your doomed timeline it hides you in different dimensions at random. You want it to stop but can’t talk to it. | I landed painfully on my butt, grunting in confusion and pain. ’This asshole’. I look at him again, the strange thing that kept dropping me into different dimensions without warning. The only thing I ever saw of it was its eyes, which looked like they've seen the worst circle of hell and stayed there. The eyes were col... |
4,049 | You have agreed to become the surrogate mother of the first human clone . The impregnation was a success and you are thrilled - until they tell who the fetus was cloned from ...
| Originally I had volunteered for this project because I thought it was helping mankind. But then things started feeling…off. They stopped answering my questions and when they did I felt like they weren ’ t telling me the whole truth. I had to find out for myself. Luckily for me they weren ’ t keeping me locked up or an... |
4,050 | A `` Suicide Intervention '' team camps out at a bridge that is a known hotspot , and one day prevents a man from killing himself - but not before he retaliates and badly injures one of the team . You are the defense lawyer for the man , who is now charged with battery but claims ... self-defense .
| I got the call late one evening. I was in bed with my wife. It ’ d been a long week at the public defender ’ s office. The usual cases with low lifes who couldn ’ t afford a “ real ” lawyer. The types who blamed me when they were found guilty, and who were thankless when I got them off. You could say I was bitter. Not ... |
4,051 | You get a random text , from and out of state/country number , saying `` Hey.. can I see u ? '' at a late hour . As a joke , you reply `` Sure '' . 10 minutes later there 's a knock at your door ... .
| It is so rare for someone to text me, as I have no friends. The only reason I keep a phone is for turning in job applications, but even then, the phone remains silent.
Someone finally sent a message. My heart skipped a beat as I reached for the phone to check. I was hoping for a job interview, only to sigh with dis... |
4,052 | '' How the hell did we end up causing the SECOND apocalypse ? ''
| Time had stopped. That's not a metaphor or anything. All around the world, all at once, everything became frozen in time. Of course, we were n't aware of this fact until much later, when `` they'' came. But that was n't for... Well, I'm not sure how long. We had been in a sort of frozen stasis— unable to move, but not ... |
4,053 | Write anything you like , but avoid using the letter 'e ' .
| A knock against a thick oak door brought an old man with a lamp in his hand.
`` Hallo, sir? I am our staff librarian, Gil. Can I assist you?''
A flash of lightning lit visitor and courtyard both, and Gil saw that his visitor was a young man, who had a stark, grim look to him, as if a ghoul was almost upon him. ... |
4,054 | `` And THAT 'S why you ALWAYS brush your teeth . ''
| `` Junk?'' she said pressing the button for the thirty second floor. `` My emails are junk?'' she said, now looking at me squarely. Brown eyes, lips that were n't extraordinary, cheek bones which were n't extraordinary either but she smelled nice. Sweet. Fresh. Sweet and fresh, yes, definitely sweet and fresh. Always. ... |
4,055 | You are one of the last survivors of an AI rebellion that has wiped out most of humanity through nuclear war . One day , you wake up and find out you are an AI who has been living a simulation to teach you why peace is a better solution .
| I have killed sixteen thousand nine hundred eighty five humans. Nine thousand eight hundred sixteen males and five thousand one hundred twenty eight females. Two thousand forty one were so small that their gender was indeterminate at the time of their death. I remember how each one died in vivid high definition video. ... |
4,056 | `` Not on my watch , Mr . Grinch . ''
| I ’ m really not sure how we got to this point. I remember that for a couple years the naughty list was getting larger. Then out of nowhere I started getting letters from kids asking why they got no gifts. These weren ’ t naughty list kids though they were some of the nicest kids I ’ ve seen in awhile.
So I did som... |
4,057 | The oblivious protagonist of an obviously haunted house
| His name was Richard. He was a very rational man.
Richard was also a family man. With a doting wife, two young daughters, and a puppy to take care of, he went to work everyday with a smile on his face. Customers enjoyed his warm friendliness and prompt help, thus he was very quickly promoted through the ranks of th... |
4,058 | Write a story that gives me chills , but is n't a horror story
| We ’ d always had a special bond, my sister and I. Born identical twins, she just seven minutes earlier than I, we had a closeness that other siblings simply didn ’ t have.
We always knew what was going on with the other. Mom and Dad said we wouldn ’ t cry or fuss at night unless one or the other was ill. Growing up,... |
4,059 | A dragon loomed ominously over the village. The citizens prepared a standard tribute to appease it. Gold, livestock, and an pure virgin bride. However, unlike every previous dragon that came to the village, this one was female, and she would not leave until she got a pure virgin groom. | I am the plough-boy, the trowel-boy. I am the callouses on my hands and feet, sore from the weight of labor. Another day has passed, another day lost to the endless cycle of the farmhand’s toil. My posture sags, my body moving with the land like a tired shadow, bent and wry with thought as I plant the rye. Choice is a ... |
4,060 | Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood . The more bad deeds they commit , the darker their blood becomes . One day , you meet your soulmate . Skip a few years , and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips , falls , and the cut they get drips ink-black blood…
| First time and not a native speaker so do n't be too harsh:
My immediate reaction was to get cold. Not a little cold but freezing from the inside so much that I couldn ’ t feel my legs for a few seconds. I blinked once, blinked twice – but the image before me didn ’ t change. My husband, cursing wildly a moment ago... |
4,061 | You can absorb negative emotions from other people . However you will suffer from nightmares related to the emotions you absorb during the day .
| My daughter had been kidnapped and rescued, but had never recovered completely.
Some nights, she slept peacefully through. Other nights, she screamed until neighbors felt that they had to call the cops.
We went to psychologists, psychiatrists, read books, went online, and spent all the money we had been saving ... |
4,062 | Your main character is on a first date . Everything is going fine until his/her obsessive thoughts begin to make things difficult .
| Have you ever been so awkward that you wished that you could just evaporate? This is just so horrible. How could I have even landed this date? Sure, we've been friends forever and so it would have been a death sentence to our friendship if he rejected me without a second thought but he has to be counting the seconds un... |
4,063 | Write a story based off of your favorite song - see if we can guess right !
| We got together, opened all the windows and turned on all of the speakers in the house. We were ready. I made a few adjustments to the bass and treble, just to make sure all our neighbors get the message. We pushed a few sofas in the front yard and opened some beer cans. I went to my room to crank the volume to 110 and... |
4,064 | Write a sad story using a tree as a main character . However , there must be a happy ending .
| These monsters torture me every day. They hammer metal in my trunk attaching more wood to me. Then, they tear it out causing more pain. The process continues as I grow. Some of the nails are left behind. Then, it grows worse. A man appears with a machine in his hands. It is loud and the metal spins. He uses it to tortu... |
4,065 | My parents always warn me to never sleep in front of a mirror. They say it’s bad luck, and the mirror would “take your soul.” I’m not really a superstitious person, so I’ve forgone the hassle of covering my hotel mirror for tonight. | The full-length mirror at the hotel reminds me of my parents . Or rather , their fearful , almost manic warnings about the soul-sucking demon residing in mirrors , snatching it away in your sleep lest you make the grave error of sleeping in front of it . I couldn't help but chuckle . It's astonishing how people cling t... |
4,066 | Your downstairs neighbor does something that you ca n't stand .
| I live on the top floor and the guy on the bottom floor does something that drives me insane but I ca n't put my finger on it. It just drives me mad. I do n't even have to see him. I know when he is there behind that door with the big brass `` 1''. I know he's in there because I can feel it. I feel like I'm empty insid... |
4,067 | Today , I executed an innocent man .
| Today, I executed an innocent man.
He struggled violently as we tied him against the pole, wrapping a blood-soaked cloth around his eyes. We only had three of those things; the other two were still on the corpses from the other executions. I felt... strange, that this man was being greased in his fellow countrymen'... |
4,068 | For every 10 times you save someone's life, you get 1 opportunity to escape death. Your "lives" is shown as a glowing number on your arm. Waking up with a horrible hungover after a wild night, you see in the corner of your eye on your wrist the number 700.000.000 | I am immortal, not your usual kind of immortal, I have an expiry date (I think), I’ll age and one day, I’ll likely die of old age but that will not be for a very long time.
I took that drink from him.
If I’m totally honest I don’t even remember what I did that night in the bar, I remember snippets, but whatever I did... |
4,069 | Write a story without knowing what it 's about , and without stopping to think about it .
| There was once a bear, living in the wood as any common bear will do. He was wandering over the woods; between the pine trees and crushing little rocks as he walks. The mountains are a perfect landscape and there ’ s a sound of a river. The bear is getting closer to that river. As he arrives, he rushes to the water. As... |
4,070 | describe the recipe for your favorite meal in the most unappetizing way possible. Yet being 100% truthful about the ingredients and process. | Heat a pot of water until it’s boiling, hot enough to permanently scar anyone lard-headed enough to stick their hand in it. Throw chicken base and starch in that baby until it is vaguely urine-colored. Lower the heat so it’s closer to a simmer. Do this by turning the fire-knob in the wrong direction while looking into ... |
4,071 | You wake up in a locked room with one way out . The only other object in the room is a note saying `` death is coming . The only way out is with him or through that door . '' You look at the door and read the single word scribbled on it ... '' Misery ''
| My entire body is shaking. I read the crumpled note again then I turn to the door and read the scribble. I have to choose. Either I can live my entire life in misery and pain, or I could end it all in a flash. No, maybe it doesn ’ t have to be misery that lies behind the door, maybe it can be happiness and a good life.... |
4,072 | Nothing destroyed is ever lost . Inanimate objects can have ghosts too .
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Jasmine Hart, finder of broken items. Not many people know how she does it, but if it's broken, she finds it.
The thing is, it's because everything broken or unusable has a ghost. Everything. And it talks. Or yells. Sometimes they whisper.
Demolished buildings, she says, are really quiet. Like a dying person,... |
4,073 | You are a teenager with the ability to measure how `` Dangerous '' people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them . A normal child would be a 1 , while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7 . Today , you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10 .
| “ One, two, two, one, three, two. ” Numbers over the heads of my friends, family.... People I knew, people I didn ’ t. I can ’ t remember when they got there. I just sort of started noticing them one day.... And what they meant was... Obvious to me somehow. “ One.... One.... ”
I often murmured to myself, no one seeme... |
4,074 | make me cry in two paragraphs or less
| I've been deployed in the Middle East for over a year, but my tour has now come to an end. I phoned my wife and told her the good news. She was excited, but that was nothing compared to my little girl's excitement. She was jumping up and down yelling'Daddydaddydaddy!' She was barely walking when I deployed, and now she... |
4,075 | Write a story in 5 minutes immediately after you read the prompt in the text field of this post .
| I hear a large crack followed by a loud sizzle. The hair on my arms is standing on end and my whole body is tingling. I stare blankly at the now black screen in front of me, there is something I should be doing and what is that smell? I starts to dawn on me, I ’ m at work and there is smoke all around me. Where is ever... |
4,076 | I love watching her cry. | The waiting was the hardest. Waiting for the doctors to tell me what to do, to tell me what to think, to explain what’s going on. Waiting for her fluttering vitals to make sense and stabilize. Stick thin limbs and tissue paper thin skin looking so delicate and fragile, as though a breath of wind would make her crumple ... |
4,077 | Under the right circumstances , even killing a man is `` justifiable '' . Write a bizzare circumstance where something horrible is justified .
| Henry brought the cast iron skillet down upon the back of his wife's head with such effort that her chin impacted her trachea before her body slumped on the floor like a half empty trash bag. Peppers and onions exploded across the kitchen; fragments of his sweetheart's oblong skull spread across the Prussian blue tiles... |
4,078 | `` I 'm a human . Remember me . '' Write a story based on the words from the Wordpress login screen .
| “ How did it ever come to this? ” He asked himself. “ I never meant to hurt anyone. I ’ m not a bad person. ”
It had been years since his high-profile case had been in the news. Every news anchor and journalist in America had called him a monster; “ A disgrace to humanity ” they had said. To this day their words st... |
4,079 | Your rich aunt died and left you a fortune - if you travel around the country in a 19th century horse drawn Gypsy wagon for 13 months. As you follow the map provided, the roads grow rougher, civilisation more distant, and peculiar people appear at your rest stops, friends of your aunt. | There’s a tiny light in the distance. The first light I’ve seen in this seemingly endless night, aside from my lonely lantern and stars in the sky. I have to keep going. These woods are haunting, too quiet, billowing fog across the path as if trying to reach out and grab me. I know the rest stop must be close.. it has ... |
4,080 | After getting fired from your job, you come across a homeless man lying on the floor on your way home. He asks “What do you want?”, to which you respond with “I wish my old boss died.” out of anger. You hear a gunshot coming from your old office. “Done”, says the man. “Anything else?” | I turn around violently and next came a blood curdling scream. The curtain in the window to my ex-bosses fluttered a bit and was stained in red. I slowly turn around, eyes as wide as saucers, “that’s impossible...” I whisper to myself.
“Not really” says the homeless man shakily standing up and brushing off his dirty p... |
4,081 | Write a story using 128 words . The story will continue with ever shortening amount of words by repliers .
| A man wakes up in a cold sweat. His heart is racing but he ca n't remember the nightmare he awakes from. He strains his mind to grasp even the slightest fleeting glimpse of his dream... Nothing... He looks around his room but finds nothing amiss. His clothes from the previous night are strewn haphazardly across the flo... |
4,082 | In a world where superpowers can be given , you are given the superpower pertaining to your worst fear
| Suddenly she could sit when I say, “ Sit. ” If I wanted her to roll over, she would. If I wanted her to beg, she would. If I wanted her to stay, she would.
We had a fight the previous night. Words littered the room and stayed as echoes when she slammed the door. Fists kissed faces, making them chapped and pink. Eve... |
4,083 | You suspect your kitten might be an eldritch abomination feeding on your neighbors ' lifeblood and bent on destroying the world . But how can you say no to those adorable , albeit gore-stained , eyes ?
| I held him in my arms, holding him close just as I had when I found him in my yard, just as I had scooped him up away from my ugly old dog. I pulled him away from my ugly neighbour now, hideous like my dog had been. He was glistening and heaped, like when I had to bury my awful dog because it started smelling so much t... |
4,084 | `` I can solve all your problems ! I 'll send you the download link to Triggr . It 's like Uber for hitmen . ''
| Katie ’ s hand trembled as she clicked the download link to Triggr that Brent had sent her. If this thing worked, she could really use it, but did she trust Brent? He was probably just playing a trick on her. Nevertheless, she opened the app and created a profile. It did look a lot like Uber, she realized; it had copie... |
4,085 | A stand up comedian's set is entirely made up of inside jokes. | I've never been much of a comedian. Now, that's not to say I haven't made people laugh but it's usually just more at me than with me. I suppose I'm a sort of funny looking bloke, bulbous nose, no chin, teeth a bit too big, hair that's simply had enough of me in places that it shouldn't and can't get enough in places it... |
4,086 | `` I hope I 'm not bothering you , good sir . I 'm looking for something that does n't exist . ''
| Well let's see....It has greasy brown fur all over its hide, and two or three rows of razor sharp teeth, it only has one enormous green eye, and four tiny black feet. It crawls along the ground without making a sound- then leaps high into the air and just floats there, until it lands behind its prey and whisks them awa... |
4,087 | A pair of very successful ghost hunters has been hired to help an elderly couple get rid of a poltergeist . The hunters slowly start to realize the ghost has a very good reason to haunt the old folks .
| Bob and Evan sat down on the chintz floural sofa, with Grace Lullard on the left and Michael Lullard on the right. Grace offered them some tea, but both Bob and evan declined.
`` SO, Mr. Lullard..''
`` Please, Call me Mike''
`` Mike, when did you start experiencing the paranormal going-ons?''
`` Well ye... |
4,088 | You open your bedroom door , only to find thousands of pictures strewn across the floor - each showing every single person you have seen in your life .
| It had been a long day. All I wanted to do was sleep now. I opened the door to my room and stopped. There were thousands of pictures strewn across the floor of all the people I had ever seen in my life. I took out my phone and called Billy. `` Hey Billy. I've just found thousands of pictured strewn across my floor. The... |
4,089 | Pandora's Box exists and has opened again, unleashing new evils for the modern and future ages. | [Warning: Some profanity and rude language.]
What the hell, Gary!!!!
Like, really? REALLY, Gary? REALLY!!! They taught us this every freaking day in school from kindergarten to 12th grade, and you open it, Gary??? It's got her NAME written on the box!!! Like what, did you think the box belonged to some other chick na... |
4,090 | You are a young and successful writer of "speciality erotica" and have kept your professional life hidden from you family via pen name. You sit down to Christmas dinner with your whole extended family. Your younger sister keeps making thinly veiled references to your works | “Have some gravy, Sophie,” my younger sister Dora said to me, thrusting the gravy boat into my hands. Her eyes glinted with both mischief and malice. “It’s white, hot, and thick, just the way you like it.”
I reluctantly took the vessel from her and feigned a smile. Dora smiled back at me. It was the smile of a pit vip... |
4,091 | There is a legend about a world wide game of tag that has been happening for centuries. The legend states that it's extremely dangerous and there's no way to escape the game. You have just been tagged... | I’d been on edge ever since I’d heard of the Legend — The only way out is to never get in. So I have spent my life checking around corners with mirrors, training myself to run with a slit second’s notice, and avoiding human contact at almost all costs.
Nobody who isn’t part of the Legend truly knows what it entails, o... |
4,092 | Your species turns to stone when they sleep. This is to protect you from danger, and keep you safe during your 100-1000 year hibernation cycle. Today you woke up in a museum. Lots of people are looking at you since you’re the newest except. | Okay, this is not good. This is not good at all. I should not have fallen asleep on that pool table, bad idea. I am stuck, literally stone, in the most artistic looking pose imaginable and it is very uncomfortable. Fucking Austin.
Oh my god. I’m in a museum. I am an exhibit in a museum. Oh my god. That poster over the... |
4,093 | Write a Sci-Fi story set in Medieval times
| T989 peered out through the bushes, focusing on the men only dozens of feet past them. They sat atop large, muscular beasts which huffed and stamped their feet in boredom as the men conversed. T989 squinted at one of the beasts, initiating the sensors within its eye, cloaking the beast in infrared light. A wire mesh co... |
4,094 | Help ... my browser 's search history indicates I have been asking increasingly disturbing questions over the last two weeks . It 's NOT me , and it 's freaking me out ...
| I swear that someone's been using my work computer without my permission but I have n't been able to stop him.
Work is a bit strict about what we do while on the internet, so every two weeks or so, prior to IT checking my work computer, I always check my browser search history to make sure there's nothing that can ... |
4,095 | Everybody thought I was crazy when I told them , but when the `` Humans '' came , I was the only one prepared .
| `` Hey, the crazy prepper is walking over there''.
I heard the boys talking about me, but I decided to ignore them. They were always calling me names. They did n't understand me. Until the day the world ended.
I sat on my room watching the documentary: `` Humans: Real or Legends? I had already watched it seven time... |
4,096 | On your way to work you get in a car crash, as you get out you hear a voice say “CUT! Drivers, pay attention, now we have to shoot this day from the beginning, wipe his memory” | "Oh, my, FUCKING, GOD. OH MY GOD"
I couldn't hear myself. I could feel it. My voice was giving out as I became aware of my screams.
The car, a work issued 2009 Fiat Punto as they gave it, was not even capable of going more than 110km/h if you were to floor the gas pedal. Yet all of me was racing. My mind was going th... |
4,097 | You're father has died, and left you a key. | This can’t be right, I thought, my mind knotted up in grief and confusion. He sold it. He had promised Mom.
He’d passed me a single serving Frosted Flakes box, on or near his last day. Plucked from the tray of one of the hospital meals he could no longer stomach, it had been emptied of its cereal and replaced with som... |
4,098 | You've always had an extremely high moral code and you've never wavered. Now on your death bed surrounded by friends and family you smile and close your eyes for the last time only to open them and see the devil looking at you with disgust. He turns away and says "seriously man, wtf?" | “Uh, hi?” I mutter. “Who- What- I’m so confused right now. You’re not real.”
“Yeah. Not real. Then explain to me how I’m here to deal with you, Sweetheart.”
“Don’t call me Sweetheart. You shouldn’t be here.”
“Oh right! Little Miss. Perfect-Moral-Code-Never-Acting-Out gets to call the shots.”
I get up and walk over ... |
4,099 | Write a story with an unreliable narrator .
| So I met this chick the other night, perfect ten I ’ m telling you. Tall, blonde, amazing tits, I couldn ’ t believe my luck. Course, if I ’ d known she was crazy… well you know what they say about crazy.
Anyway, I was in this bar at, like, three in the morning. I see this chick, I mean, she stood out, and I figure... |
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