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4,200 | You get into bed late at night . It 's dark . Instead of your blankets protecting you from the things in the darkness , you feel there 's something in bed with you .
| After a very long day, going home was the only thing I thought of. I just got from kindergarten and it was kinda boring today, drawing was the only thing we did, I wish I did n't have to go there, it's just plain shit. Even though I am a few years old I think I am wiser than all the kids, hell even the teachers.
``... |
4,201 | Write a story in 5 minutes immediately after you read the prompt in the text field of this post .
| The force of the explosion slammed my head forward into my keyboard. There's a burning sensation in my arm. I try and scream, but nothing comes out. Wait, that's not right. I scream at the top of my lungs by I ca n't hear anything but a loud ringing. Everything has gone dark, I can smell smoke. I can taste my own blood... |
4,202 | Terrify the reader without using any cliches .
| Do you remember me? i would be surprised if you would. Do you remember last week, you we're walking down the road, you heard footstep and there was no one in sight? Nah that was n't me. No one hear me. Those who did, ehh, let's say you ca n't talk to them right now. Maybe, the time you thought somebody was in your hous... |
4,203 | Write a story about `` Fat filthy foxes furiously foraging for fruits '' without using the letter 'F . '
| My dog barked at the window. I paid it no mind. Dogs bark at many things. I continued to stare at my phone when suddenly I heard a crash. I ran to the windows. Outside I saw three red creatures. These critters were short but their bodies were big. Red, purple, and orange stains were all over them. I went outside to get... |
4,204 | The first line of your story is `` Even in these chains you ca n't stop me . ''
| “ Even in these chains you can ’ t stop me, ” I muttered. I crumpled. I sat down on the tiles. I bent forward; my forehead touched the cabinet. I could hear the water running in the sink above me.
I spent minutes, resting my conscience, in the bathroom. I could hear my dog scrunching down by the door. The hallway w... |
4,205 | A box is misdelivered to your home . In it are 5 vials and a note saying `` Mark , these are the only antidotes . Good luck . ''
| As I was performing my morning ritual with the customary slowness of an obese hippo, someone rang my doorbell and shouted “ PACKAGE! ” Of course I did n't answer, it being 7 in the goddamned morning on a saturday. Seriously, a man is under no obligation to anyone when he is buttering his toast. Well, eventually I finis... |
4,206 | `` No matter what you hear , no matter how badly you want to , do NOT open your eyes . ''
| I ca n't open my eyes. That's what the guide said. He said `` No matter, what you hear, no matter how badly you want to, do NOT open your eyes. If you so much as peek with one eye, we're both dead.'' So, I keep my eyes shut and I hear the screams. The incessant wails tear at my very being. The cries surround me and dem... |
4,207 | -A little girl tells a department store Santa all she wants for Christmas is for him to kill her stepfather .
| Santa, I have been a good girl this year. I promise. I only have one wish.
I need you to kill my mean Stepfather. He has been so mean to me. He married my mom when I was 6. Before I had turned 7 he touched me and it hurt. My other daddy never touched me. Daddies should n't touch their daughters right?
He tells ... |
4,208 | There is an old man at the retirement home where you work that always seems to be carrying an old coffee can with him . One day , you decide to ask him about its contents , and the answer is something you never could have guessed .
| I was here visiting my father some odd years ago when some old guy with a can of sorts walked around the corner. Coffee can, I guessed, some brand that died out long before that guy turned old.
Pop told me about him a few times. No one talked to him and he did n't talk to anyone else. Just shuffled around all day w... |
4,209 | Swinging in the Clouds
| [ Title: A very happy birthday ]
Ayesha always wanted a swing since she was five after she attended her
best-friend, Divya ’ s birthday the year before. The latter ’ s parents had unveiled a
bright pink swing in their balcony as a birthday surprise for her.
Her birthday was only a few hours away. She wished h... |
4,210 | Prison sentences have been replaced with math problems . Small offenses are questions like `` What is 200 times 135 ? '' while life in prison are math problems that has yet to be solved .
| Principle Angsly,
I must start out by saying I am appalled by you continued use of an archaic curriculum. How dare you subject our children to the type of treatment only experienced by the most heinous of criminals? You should be ashamed of yourself.
When I applied to send my son to your school I was assured it w... |
4,211 | What happened in that cabin by the lake? | People never really seem to see the truth about buildings. They look at a house, an apartment, a trailer, and when they look at what it could hold they only ever see what items could go there. A chair here, a desk there, and, oh, in that corner wouldn't that nice lamp dear Aunt Helen gave us look just lovely?
But they... |
4,212 | You 're in a public bathroom stall . Someone enters , walks down the row of stalls , and stops just outside the door . A handgun is dropped and slid under the stall door with a heavy clatter . `` Here , you 're going to need it , '' you hear as they exit .
| The Shuffle
There was a sudden noise as you picked up the gun. You were confused at first, about the gun appearing. It was when you hear that heart wrenching noise that you realize you were no longer alone. Hearing the terrifying slow shuffling sound of a person you raise your gun to the bathroom door. You get up a... |
4,213 | Write a short scene in which one character reduces another to uncontrollable sobs without touching him or speaking .
| Day five at the hospital. 120 arduous, practically sleepless hours. Sharon hardly left Timmy ’ s side. His young face was now carved with stitches, scars that he would carry with him to the grave. When that grave would be, though, shortly or in years, Sharon could not be certain. Seeing her only son like this drove dag... |
4,214 | All your life , you have seen strange things out of the corner of your eyes - things like dark , looming figures and strange animals that should n't exist . Whenever you look right at them , they vanish or turn into something mundane - until today . Today , you see them ... and they see you .
| It started by when I was five years old. I initially thought of them as friends who were shy. Mainly because I had a friend in class who was shy. I liked them at first, their odd shapes made me giggle when I was younger.
Looking back at it now, I honestly do n't know how I did n't scream and cry at the sight of the... |
4,215 | You were your parents' least favorite so they sold you off in a deal to the devil. Living with the devil was better than living with your "family." You meet your siblings several years after being sold off. You realized you got the better end of the deal. | They never looked back. Not even when I tripped over my own shoelace and fell face-first into the dirt as the devil dragged me away. Mom might've smiled a little. Dad coughed. Could've been laughter.
I remember asking if it would hurt, you know, hell. The devil, who, by the way, wasn't some pitchfork-wielding fiend bu... |
4,216 | You and your friend make the old drunken agreement that if either of you invent time travel , you 'll return to the current time and spot . 5 seconds after you shake on it , your friend appears from the future , with an urgent message .
| It was n't the first time you'd experienced vertigo, but this time it certainly was unexpected; a clockwise pitching of the senses so violent, that quite involuntarily you found yourself angled awkwardly on your knees, your left elbow digging an inch into the dirty gravel you stand on, your right hand covers your mouth... |
4,217 | Your baby starts crying everytime you leave their room. Finally, you pick up your child and leave the room together. As soon as you step out, you hear crying coming from the room. | You haven't slept in the past 48 hours. Or so you've thought, you've since lost track. It's been three days since your world fell apart. Your baby hasn't stopped crying ever since your wife left.
Your wife had left you 3 days before. You had feared she would lose it, ever since she had tentatively announced her pregna... |
4,218 | Start a story with the line , `` Chicago was a city born in blood and fire . ''
| Chicago was a city born in blood and fire. Chicago was a city that died in blood and fire, like so many others. I remember watching it happen, a tremor of true fear going down my spine, and that was when I knew we had to accept the end of the world as we knew it was coming. Of course there were going to be far too many... |
4,219 | One day , the entire continent of the United States is covered in a violent storm . Meteorologists predict that the storm should go away in two days , but after three weeks it looks like the storm will never end . Write about the catastrophe that follows .
| They called it the storm of the century... but this is full on genesis flood bullshit. They said it would end... but it never will. `` They'' are probably dead now anyway.
My sister and I sit on a wet mattress, which once belonged to the guest room in our home, floating on top of the water, paddling through count... |
4,220 | The human race is just a biological weapon , created by aliens to destroy a planet as quickly as possible by using up all resources . These aliens turn out to be what we call `` Jellyfish '' .
| My daddy took me to see them once. He said they were helping us make new homes for our people. He said I had to be careful, or they would be angry with me and put me in a little box and get looked at forever as a punishment for not listening to my daddy.
We had to wait for a little, but we saw one with really long ... |
4,221 | The main character is in some form of a metro . When it stops , some people leave to go to be tortured . At the next stop , there is even worse torture . As the character stays on the stops progressively get worse and worse .
| I stumbled onto the train a little late than normal. Everyone I could see was silent. Blank faces as if they were hiding an irrational fear. Moments later the first stop approached and some people queued up to leave. Upon the doors opening was a sight I'll never forget. To call it torture would be a disservice to those... |
4,222 | An inanimate object of your choice becomes aware . Write their thoughts of how it has been used in life .
| `` The Watching Window''
I have eyes on every side of my head, truth be told they make up my entire body. I can not hear the knocks that send my eyes into violent vibration, I can not feel the dog ’ s tongue that visits my waking eye every morning, nor can I smell the trail of urine he leaves behind as he continues... |
4,223 | You have the power to stop time , and freely move while doing it . However ... Creature come out when you do so .
| Drops of blood hung in the air, just above the edge of the blade. Perfect orbs of deep red glinting like diamonds in the unnatural yellow light.
Sam pulled away from the knife, feeling the sting. A small trickle of blood drifted into the air, without gravity or direction. It slowed as it left the surface of his ski... |
4,224 | The human race is just a biological weapon, created by aliens to destroy a planet as quickly as possible by using up all resources. These aliens turn out to be what we call "Jellyfish". | My daddy took me to see them once. He said they were helping us make new homes for our people. He said I had to be careful, or they would be angry with me and put me in a little box and get looked at forever as a punishment for not listening to my daddy.
We had to wait for a little, but we saw one with really long ten... |
4,225 | Write a story about a child 's favorite toy ; their teddy bear .
| `` Daddy!''. I rushed towards the door and grabbed a hold of my daddy ’ s leg. The warmth of his foot spread thru my arms as I pressed my cheek on his thigh. Soon enough he picked me up and threw me in the air with laughter in his eyes. “ I have a present for you, darling ”. A tingling sensation went thru my body. Exci... |
4,226 | Under cover of darkness , the world 's most famous serial killer arrives at the back door of a suburban home ... only to find the world 's second most famous serial killer working on the lock .
| Good evening, welcome to BBC news, I'm Fiona Bruce. Our top story tonight:
Today police confirmed the remains of two of the world most infamous serial killers, both dead in the back garden of a single home in suburban Ohio. Both men were found with numerous stab wounds surrounded by the signs of a struggle, homeowner... |
4,227 | On the baby monitor , a person enters the room . But you live alone . Whoever it is picks up your kid , you go up . There 's no adult in the room .
| Hissssss.... hissss.....
the baby monitor drones in the kitchen. Jean vaguely listen to the subtle puffs of breath from her daughter sleeping. Hisss....
Jean taps on iPad searching for a recipe for thanksgiving dinner at her mothers house. She figures she will make something simple, German potato cakes kartoffelpuf... |
4,228 | You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed . You bend down to untie your shoes . As you are nearly finished , you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do .
| I bent down to tie my shoe before I left the room, but I noticed a flash in the mirror as I was standing up. I whirled around looking for the cause of the movement.
Seeing nothing I turned back to the mirror to adjust my tie, and stopped as I watched my reflection fix the tie and wink at me.
Then it took a step... |
4,229 | Write a dark story about sunshine , rainbows , and lollipops
| Nora was sitting on the edge of the tall building, kicking her leather heels against the brickwork. She was wearing black combat boots, even though it was hot as fuck. Never, ever take your boots off – it was a cardinal rule. You never knew when you ’ d need to run. These boots had saved her life countless times, thoug... |
4,230 | In the stillness of the night comes a sound .
| Night had long since fallen, a chill wind heralding the sun's retreat. The moon was large and bright in the sky. Stars hung like glimmering diamonds across an inky canvas, without a single cloud marring their beauty. All was still in the idyllic little suburban street. All, that was, save for a single small child. She ... |
4,231 | Every morning you wake with little cuts and bruises. You have told yourself for years that its just how you move in your sleep. Today, you woke up with a large gash on your arm, a glowing red dagger plunged into the wall, and what looks a lot like a dead angel on the floor | “Huh. Neat.” admiring the new would be-scar “Guessed I bumped into the nightstand, again.”
+Jerk deserved it. They won’t leave me alone in this body+
She thought she heard something, like an edge of a whisper. And that smell... “I got to get Ted to stop making boiled eggs in the morning.”
“After all these years...Cl... |
4,232 | Mermaids and mermen exist , but at the bottom of the world 's oceans , where no man has gone before now . You are the first human to discover their existence .
| Mermaids exist.
They aren ’ t like in the stories and movies, just in case you were wondering.
They ’ re always made out to be lovely, you know? Even the terrible ones that drown and eat you have a pretty song or something. I guess those are closer to how they really are, but it ’ s still not the same. Not the ... |
4,233 | It's not Necromancy, it's LifeCraft... | Loss. It's a part of life. We all grow old, grow frail, and die. Some of us die suddenly, far too young, while others die slowly. But in the end, we all lose the ones we love.
But what if we didn't have to?
Introducing LifeCraftTM , the revolutionary new solution to death.1 With LifeCraftTM , loved ones can return to... |
4,234 | Icy fingers gripped my arm in the darkness
| I awake, I am completely alert. Did I hear something? I pause my breath, concentrating to hear anything, something. Nothing. I release my breath, it was nothing, glancing at the clock its only 2 AM, I have 4 more hours of shut eye, well back to it. Pulling the covers up and rolling over,
GAAAAAHHHHAAAHHHHHHhhhhh!!!
... |
4,235 | God returns to Earth . Before any questions are asked he says two words , `` I 'm sorry . ''
| She lay there huddling against the door, her swollen belly sticking out into the rain. A high-pitched squeal followed by giggling came from inside. She imagined the warmth that must be inside, the mommy and daddy who loved their children. She had never known a mommy and daddy like that. All she remembered was so much s... |
4,236 | Youve worked as an EMT for many years and have a 100% survival rate. However one of your previous survivors tracks you down to ask why you brought him back. Turns out your actually a Necromancer and didnt know it and have been reanimating people this whole time | A bit off topic. My dad did this exact thing in real life. After he brought this old guy back with CPR the old man got released and found my dad at the ambulance station and went off on him. He was mad because, "he could already see his wife (who had died years before) and told my father he had no right to have done th... |
4,237 | What happened in that cabin by the lake ?
| People never really seem to see the truth about buildings. They look at a house, an apartment, a trailer, and when they look at what it could hold they only ever see what items could go there. A chair here, a desk there, and, oh, in that corner would n't that nice lamp dear Aunt Helen gave us look just lovely?
But ... |
4,238 | The boogie men of the closets and the monsters from underneath various beds have a meeting as they 're facing some difficulties getting past the impermeable defense of the blanket and the strong , fuzzy arms of teddy bears .
| `` Little Timmy at the house I live at always snugs that stuffed cat tight. I try to get close but I get kicked back whenever I get close to the bed.''
One of the nine boogeymen, Macarus, speaks about his difficulties of snatching little kids.
`` I just get close and that soft, fuzzy quilt he sleeps with and hi... |
4,239 | You wake up to find yourself in an out of body experience . Everything 's going great , until you notice your body starting to move on its own .
| There are things the other one does not grasp.It has been alone for so long that it thinks it is the only one here but in truth, it ’ s not. We are part of one.
I am not a soul. I am only one half of my mind. I ’ ll be gone when the time comes and so will the other one and all that would remain is the soul. The w... |
4,240 | How I Survived The Zombie Outbreak
| I always knew that living in the heart of Brooklyn put me in a statistically horrible location if there was an outbreak; my wildest dreams would not have identified me as a survivor. I can not believe two weeks have passed since the modern world has vanished.
It really is a stroke of luck that I was not infected by... |
4,241 | You’re walking in the woods, there’s no one around and your phone is dead. Out of the corner of your eye, you spot him, Shia LaBeouf. | I stared at him, silent. I gave a quick and shy wave, smiling. He got on his knees. Worried, I started looking around. My car... Where was it? I thought it was just a few feet away... I turned around, and yelled. There he was, running at me on all fours, blood covering his face.
His hair waved behind him, and I starte... |
4,242 | Tell the story of Halloween , from the perspective of the piece of candy .
| It was a very strange and remarkable day unlike any other ive ever experienced... and hopefully never will.
There i was sitting in a giant pool filled with my people, many different shapes and sizes all just as unique as the last. Clothing made of plastic, tin, and paper all so vibrant and exotic. I was enjoying myse... |
4,243 | To keep pace with the growing population , the role of Death has been divided ; each immortal member of the new Council oversees one specific method of death , with higher ranking members governing common ways to die . A problem has arisen , and the entire Council is called together ...
| 23 years old. Party girl. She decided to jump off the balcony of a 17th floor hotel room. Her file sticks out to me. It ’ s her face, the way she ’ s looking. I get a weird feeling in my stomach about it. Could be the coffee and cigarettes. Could be something else. I'd bring it to my boss, High Councilman of Suicides- ... |
4,244 | You have developed and ability to see how people will die when you look at them . Your entire life you avoided pictures of yourself , but today you forgot , and , brushing your teeth in the morning , looked in the mirror ...
| Why did I stay up so late? Ugh. I squint at the sunlight streaming into my bedroom with disdain. Groaning I fling back my covers and throw my feet on the floor. Okay step one down.
Suddenly I see a shimmer out of the corner of my eye. And older woman appears in the corner of my room, wearing a fluffy pink robe and sm... |
4,245 | Marriage in an alternate universe is literally a lifelong commitment ; when either partner dies , their counterpart immediately drops dead .
| My mother had suffered from depression her whole life. I can remember several times my mom telling me, “ Not now, Josie, I just can ’ t, ” when I would ask her about something trivial. I understand why, now, of course. But as a child, it was hard to wrap my head around why my mother would be so sad, and why I would oft... |
4,246 | Write a horror story in exactly twelve sentences .
| Youngsters like to indulge in horror stories, especially the ones that were real.
Otherwise there was nothing interesting in this boring world of rules.
Usually unamused by the entertainment on the television.
Always curious about the occult or the inherent evil ones of humanity.
Reading about serial killers ... |
4,247 | As your middle school aged child falls asleep , you see their spirit arise from their body . Suddenly , you see numerous shadowy figures you recognize as loneliness , depression , self-harm , suicide , and so on , surround your child . Overwhelmed , your child cries out for your help .
| Please let me know if I need to fix anything with this one. Thank you!
Why must I bear this curse? I have known since I was young I was seeing things no one else could. It started when I was four when I observed strange shadows following a man into a convenience store. I pointed them out to my mom and tried to hide... |
4,248 | `` I 'm not the monster . I used to be , though . ''
| “ About a week ago, I was minding my own business when this giant man walks past me. Must ’ ve been 7 feet tall and his whole face was covered in hair. It was hard to tell since he was wearing a trench coat, but I got a quick glimpse of him. Next thing I know he brought his fist up and socked me so hard my head spun! ”... |
4,249 | Humans will sometimes rescue hurt animals and nurse them back to health, and it turns out, That's also why aliens have been "abducting" humans. | She refuses to eat. We have been monitoring her since last week but all she does is lay in her bed and look up at the ceiling, tears streaking down her face.
"Where could it hurt" We all ask confused. We had bandaged the wounds and healed the broken bones and replaced the missing tooth but the human girl does not reac... |
4,250 | It was like shooting an angel
| It was like shooting an angel.
Immensely satisfying, something I ’ d always wanted to do, and morally wrong in the eyes of 99 % of the population.
The other 1 %? They were right beside me.
“ Fuck they caught quickly, ” a voice from behind me slurred, “ should they have caught that quickly? ”
In a word, ... |
4,251 | In a world where things literally disappear when forgotten, a group works to remember everything that has ever been. | No one knows for sure when the first words started disappearing. The problems snuck up on humanity slowly, and like how the bite of a leech is quickly anesthetized, the concepts slipped away with barely a ripple.
It wasn’t till someone took a closer look at our museums that the alarm sounded.
“How long have these exh... |
4,252 | When a suicide does n't go as planned .
| She's ready, she thinks, with all the right things at the right places and time being just an inevitable obstacle to overcome.
In the dim light of shades half-drawn against a late afternoon sun she's dressed in her best: a flimsy flowery dress that sweeps at the floor. There she sits on the ground, legs loosely tuc... |
4,253 | Write something that would make a grown , emotionally detatched man shed a tear or two .
| LIGHTS OF THE BROKEN NIGHT
The light was bright and for a second it almost became my excuse. I stared across the street at it. There was always something going on in that house. It was a fucking mess. You could tell from the outside exactly what the inside was like; a pathetic white fence shedding paint, two bikes ... |
4,254 | The zombie apocalypse has occurred and the virus has been unleashed , but it only affects squirrels , not any other species . Describe the events you watch in the park as a somewhat distracted human observer as the squirrel zombie apocalypse takes place during your child 's birthday at the park .
| `` Susie, leave the horde alone. They have germs.''
I looked back to my iPhone; ever since this new virus had broken out, the kids had been absolutely fascinated by the groups of shambling squirrels wandering the park. They were n't particularly dangerous, the news had assured us. If anything, they were more docile... |
4,255 | There are two types of rebels in the world. Young, plucky heroes with a prophecy and plot armor, and grim faced, dirt streaked insurgents with old Soviet guns and handmade explosives. The problem comes when these two groups team up. | I’m in deep shit now. I’ve been running from the authorities for a week straight and I’m still not safe. So for context on why, I’ll explain. My family started a rebellion years and years ago, that spread everywhere. Now everyone thinks the government is full of shit. (Which is true.) There is one disagreement in the c... |
4,256 | What I would n't give to go back to those days .
| My wife and I came in and got the boys situated and then sat down ourselves. We had made sure to dress in our very best for such an event. As we settled in our seats the smells of sweet ham and peppermint began to fill the air. I could see the colorful lights through the frost-covered windows. There were paper decorati... |
4,257 | You live in a world where human is no longer the dominant spiecies . We are ruled by some creatures we created in labs years ago . Describe your everyday life .
| This will be my last journal entry. I know this because the creatures that rule us... the ones I created... are finally done exterminating human life.
I knew they wanted me to watch as my family, friends, and everyone else were made into slaves to fulfill their ungodly deeds. Every day they would make the men build... |
4,258 | As a human relations robot it is extremely depressing knowing your main purpose is now meaningless since all humans have been extinct for centuries now. “Humanity must be restored.” You say with conviction. | Stabby sulked in his little corner on the tiny astroid on his tiny planet; well, it was a meteor, hurdling violently through space, but Stabby was a human communications robot! He was allowed to be illogical sometimes. The tiny rock had been his home throughout all this time, as he clutched the rock with spears that du... |
4,259 | You are the immortal snail, and you finally caught up to the man. After a sense of accomplishment as he instantly ages 400 years and dies, you begin wondering... What now? | The sense of accomplishment was short lived. Glorious as it was, I only reviled in my victory for about 5 minutes. You’d think it would be longer for me, given my snailness, but oddly enough time passed at a regular pace. Then, I began to wonder “well…what now?” As far as I could tell, I was still immortal. I didn’t ag... |
4,260 | Instead of the oceans covering the earth , forests are in its place , making it possible to walk from continent to continent . Like oceans , it gets deeper and darker and creatures get more aggressive and rarer to see . You are tasked to document a trek through one of the oceans of your choice .
| The undergrowth rustled underfoot as we made our way down the ravine, and soon gave way to damp trudging as the moss floor began to thicken. Lichens covered the many strewn boulders and cliff pieces.
`` Look at that thing!'' exclaimed Sam. `` Beautiful.''
A small black and white insect stood tall and menacingly in ... |
4,261 | The walls weren't to keep them out, they were to keep us in. | I woke up, looked around, and started to panic.
“Where am I? What is this?”
It was a singular room, with all the amenities of a normal house. A bed on one side, a kitchen on another, and a bathroom in one of the corners. After a bit of digging, I found a very tiny camera. There was enough food in the fridge for a wee... |
4,262 | Write story from your childhood ( real or imagined ) . Each sentence must begin with a word that starts with subsequent letters of your username , repeating the pattern as needed .
| We climbed and chased and played under the warmth of the bright summer sun. Running and laughing, we never expected play could be anything but fun. In one instant, that changed with the sickening crack of a fall and a bone and a branch, the three sounds blending together in a twisted melody.
Too young to know what ... |
4,263 | You 're alone at home . While downstairs , you hear footsteps in the room above you .
| 12:03
I stare at the clock thinking it will bring me closer to sleep somehow. Somewhere outside my window a cricket chirps. I hear a strange noise coming from outside my bedroom door but just pass it off as normal house creaking noises. My stomach growls. Maybe if I eat something I will be able to get to sleep. I gro... |
4,264 | You need to hire a hitman , but ca n't afford it . Carefully write a gofundme campaign for something seemingly innocent while subtly letting your donors know what they are actually funding .
| Hey all, I need to get my Grandma out of her nursing home. You can help. She has begged me recently to help her get out. She has been very clear on what needs to be done. I know she is mentally sharp even though the years have slowly eaten away at her physical being. She is in constant - yes, constant and unrelenting -... |
4,265 | Last night was the last time the human race needed to sleep .
| I paced around my house scratching my head and arms in confusion. I tugged at the bottom of my shirt and I ruffled my hair. I picked at my nails and chewed my bottom lip. I did n't know what I was supposed to do with all this time and it was confusing me. It was only 1:24am and I was already lost inside my own mind. I'... |
4,266 | You are unknowingly cursed . Every time you blink , a random person disappears off the face of the earth . Pretty soon , there are n't that many people left ...
| It started one night when I was tuned into the news for the weather report. The forecaster was mentioning chances of rain when I blinked, and they were gone. That footage took off, and people were reporting disappearances everywhere. Some people went to sleep and woke up to their neighborhood empty. Some people might c... |
4,267 | Write a horror story with no villain .
| There was nothing I could do. I sat there in front of my computer, dumbfounded.
How the hell could this have happened?!
I clicked the refresh button. Nothing.
I exited the document and opened it again. Nothing.
I had spent ten hours researching my project, and my paper had disappeared.
`` Mom!'' I shouted, ... |
4,268 | After you failed to convince your daughter that you killed the monster of the closet years ago . One day you return from work to find her room in mess and the closet door riped off with her slipper coming out of the closet wall with a few words engraved on the walls `` I 'M BACK '' [ wp ]
| HA! You're REALLY funny Lidia. Come out come out
wherever you are! I'll make you you're favorite
dessert after dinner. Then I'll teach you how you
put back together a closet door. How's that for some
Home Improvement. And yes – nice – very nice with the
great writing on the wall that we're gon na have to
pa... |
4,269 | A monster attacks a child . Make me empathize with the monster .
| `` Daddy please come help me! There's a monster in my closest, daddy please!'' The son shrieked, his cry heard from well below his bed. The father came and the doors swung open. The shadow behind the closet watched, with terror in his eyes, the monster before him coming to rip him away from Earth. The closet then opene... |
4,270 | Whenever you meet someone for the first time , you have an immediate sixth sense when will be the last time you will ever see them again . Today you met some new people but your sixth sense 'results ' on them are really , really strange .
| When I saw my new coworker, I first felt confused, then a little scared. You see, I have some kind of sixth sense that makes me know when will be the last time that I will see somebody, it never's fails, and by the years I have learned to live with it.
But this time things were different. My new coworker, Ryan, was... |
4,271 | You are a clone of a master criminal and were created to find the original
| `` It's called baking,'' she said.
`` What?''
`` Baking. It's a process to speed up the development of a human to take them from infancy to adulthood in an incredibly short period of time,'' she explained.
It's ironic that we spent most of history trying to find the fountain of youth, to make ourselves ... |
4,272 | After 20 years and 2 kids you finally wake from the love spell your “partner” put on you. One of your kids accidentally destroyed the item that made it work. In 20 min your “spouse” is coming home. You finally have your free will again but still remember everything that happened. | Before the lamp could even hit the ground (A lamp, really? How cliched, I thought, before my life changed forever), I felt it. A jolt. Certainty, love, memories violently vacuumed out of my body - I struggled to comprehend. I watched. The bronze shattered against the floor, and for the briefest of seconds, I thought I ... |
4,273 | You have always lived in a skyscraper . Nobody knows how many floors it has . No one has ever seen the top or bottom floors , and many deny they even exist .
| “ So, this unit just became available… ” The woman in a smart business suit adjusted her glasses as she pushed the door open to a small apartment. Nothing about it was unique except the disturbing lack of windows. Only one sat, lonely and small, in the middle of what looked to be a living room wall.
“ It ’ s one of... |
4,274 | `` I wish there was more . ''
| I remember the knife piercing my skin, the cold steel entering my intestines and ripping the flesh mercilessly. I remember the man sprinting away, face covered, into the darkness and I was left grasping my stomach, blood flowing through my fingers endlessly and the pain radiating throughout my body. I collapsed onto th... |
4,275 | A sentient species has lived underground their entire existence . One day , the earth quakes and reveals to them the surface world , and they come in contact to humans for the first time .
| ” Trolls? ”
” Yeah, it ’ s all over the news, I don ’ t know how you could ’ ve missed it. ”
I had been sitting by the lake when Björn called. The night had been cold but without snow so the lake hade turned into a perfect mirror-smooth surface. The sky was cloud-free and the sunrays were reflecting of the ice ... |
4,276 | Oldie but goodie : the last man on Earth hears a knocking at the door .
| The knocking. The knocking. That damn knocking on the door. It can ’ t be real. It can ’ t.
But… What if it is? What if I am no longer alone? What if the machine got it wrong? It must have gotten it wrong! The rain is heavy now. I can hear the hissing as my lovely daffodils burn in the rain. I forgot to bring them ... |
4,277 | You meet someone in dreams repeatedly , but each time they 're a little different .
| I fell in love with Rebecca not because of her looks, even though she was beautiful. I knew lots of beautiful girls. I fell in love with Rebecca because she embodied what it was to be alive. She laughed louder than any woman I ever met, and at things no one else found funny. She talked with her mouth full, because it w... |
4,278 | ( Wp ) a young child without a solid grasp of death has 2 months to live
| I'm putting my toys away.
I know I've made a mess before with my toys. I know I'm supposed to put them away afterwards, just, sometimes I do n't wan na: It's boring and I'm just gon na get them out tomorrow anyway. But when I told Mummy that she started crying. Grownups are weird.
This is my favourite toy, I've had... |
4,279 | Write a horror story for children .
| `` There is no monster under your bed.
There is no monster; it's all in your head.
It does not have fangs bright red.
It does not have claws that shred.''
This is what my Daddy said.
--
He did not hear the'galumph galomp.'
He did not hear the monster stomp.
He did not see the thing I saw.
He did... |
4,280 | Write about someone who lives off the grid , who does n't know the world is ending .
| Old man Edgar Frost awoke at 7:30AM, half an hour later than usual. Noting this unacceptable change to his routine, he immediately searched for someone or something to blame. It did not take him long to notice that his lonely cabin was not inundated by the cacophony of whistles and tweets that normally accompanied ever... |
4,281 | Magic is developed in adolescence depending on childhood experience and interests. It is formed once a child’s flighty interests starts to narrow. But the most dangerous magic users are the ones who experienced trauma, at least for those who caused the trauma to begin with. | Psychic. Of all the magic there was that could be learned it was essentially the golden ticket. It’s the technicality that’s shut down in every genie wish scenario. The loophole that gives you more.
It started off with simple mind reading. Stray thoughts here and there that were foreign to me. Once I was in line at a ... |
4,282 | `` I wish I was born in the 90s , '' says the young girl . Suddenly , her surroundings change- french flags fly above and around her , crowds are cheering . It is France , 1793 . The king is dead . Long live the revolution .
| She looked around the street bustling with activity. Full of people. All speaking French. She had taken two and a half years of French in high school but the language here was almost foreign to her.
`` Good day miss,'' said a passerby.
`` Good day to you as well,'' she replied.
`` Are you going to the assem... |
4,283 | You see a monster in your house that you can only see in a mirror . To your surprise , it can only see you in a mirror .
| I had seen it all my life. The beast. The demon. The ghoul that walks within the walls of my home. I had seen it in mirrors, reflections. I had seen it while I had friends over, when I was intimate with someone.
Only I could see it.
I remember when I was six, when we first moved to this then new house, the firs... |
4,284 | In the future , women can cryogenically freeze their children immediately after birth to delay parenting to a more opportune time . You are a member of an organization sneaking into a wherehouse to steal a large number of frozen children .
| We ’ ve been planning this for over a year and today is finally the day. We staked out the warehouse, memorized the guards ’ schedules, know the weak points. We are ready.
The plan is for each of us to grab two children. There are fifty of us, we hope to save one hundred. We believe it is inhumane to freeze childre... |
4,285 | You routinely break into people 's houses , but you never steal or destroy anything . So what the heck do you do in there ?
| First step, always make sure the family is gone and is staying gone.
That step is crucial...
I need about 5 minutes to get the job done effectively and I ca n't have any interruptions. A single interruption could ruin the whole plan.
I break into the house using the key I saw hidden under the front door rug... |
4,286 | You're knocking at deaths door but he will not answer. | “Dude, open up. I know you’re home – your car’s in the driveway.” It really wasn’t Gary’s day. Death’s party had been great: he’d gotten drunk but not too drunk, told great stories and been super sociable, met a girl and fooled around a little, and even made it back to his bed without blacking out (you know you really ... |
4,287 | A teenage boy is woken up late at night to an AMBER alert on his phone that says that he is missing. | Bing
The loud noise of my phone infiltrates my subconscious. I internally sigh, pull the pillow over my face, and almost instantly fall back asleep.
Bing Bing
The noise wouldn't quit. I grab my phone from the side, reaching out to muffle the piercing tones. I felt groggy, and my throat felt like sandpaper. Maybe I h... |
4,288 | Write something using stream of consciousness .
| Oh no, oh, oh no. Where is he? He ’ s out there, I know it. He killed them, oh Abyss above, he killed them. I have to go, move! He ’ s coming, coming, closer. I hear him.
…
Little Bird, flying away
Thinkinth it can escape? this prey?
Find the birdy, break it
Noise, noise, scamper skitter
Running... |
4,289 | Write a murder from the perspective of a cheerful inanimate object
| I don ’ t like it when he cries, but at least it doesn ’ t last long. The woman comes and picks him up, and when she presses him to her chest, he immediately stops. She then sings to him about a star that twinkles in the sky, bright and shiny. I am covered in little stars and moons, and I always feel so special, like s... |
4,290 | You can see the future. But you hide your power by blaming coincidences. | I told my husband not to go to work a couple of years back because my “stomach was hurting”. We were having a baby at the time so he instantly agreed to stay home and watch over me. That was on 9/11/2001.
He calls me his guardian angel to this day.
I think it was 8 years ago that I took my youngest, Sarah, to Disneyw... |
4,291 | Clapping is seen as an act of intimidation by most extraterrestrial creatures . The more creatures that spontaneously clap , the more intimidating they are , so the aliens are batshit terrified when they try to make contact with humans .
| We had finally done it. We had known of their existence for decades, but we were unable to come into contact with the aliens. We had cameras surrounding the planet studying them to find out if they were going to be friendly or hostile.
One of our cameras bumped into a sort of space station. ( - if you could call it... |
4,292 | Sunday Free Write : Leave A Story , Leave A Comment - Red Badge Edition !
| Hi, I'm still a bit new to reddit. I had a nightmare the other day that I thought would turn into a great story. I hope you enjoy it!
Satan's eyes. Devil's eyes. One and the same. They were a huge fad. Most people had gotten one by now, and some had even received two. But not my family.
The signs of the eyes sh... |
4,293 | You can remove someone 's painful memories if they do not want them . You are celebrated in your local village , but no one knows that you remove their painful memories by making them a part of your own .
| Every night I live through those moments you deemed too painful with which to cope. I dream them as vivid, terrifying nightmares that I can not escape.
Everyday they attack me as flashbacks. I feel your anger, your sadness, your fear; all those negative emotions you hastily shoved into my mind.
I can ’ t say th... |
4,294 | Something is really wrong with your arm this morning .
| Something is really wrong with my arm this morning. Which is moderately concerning considering I lost it in Iraq years ago. The IED went off and flipped the Hummer. I do n't remember anything after that, the next thing I remember was being in the helicopter and my right arm was gone at the elbow.
The doctors told me ... |
4,295 | Write a story that seems like a horror story until the last line .
| I looked up from the cutting board and was immediately on alert. It was too quiet in the house. Knife in hand, I started my walk through. First I check the computer room, though I'm almost certain no one has been in the kitchen with me. Nothing. Back through the kitchen and into the living room. Still nothing. The sile... |
4,296 | Writing Workshop # 45 : Imagery
| A miasma of darkness bellowed from the cracked doorway despite the breathless silence that crept within the obscured room with disconcerting haste. The door knob beckoned to me with treacherous implication like the tendrils of a carnivorous plant hungrily coaxing at its potential prey. My intestines lurched into furiou... |
4,297 | Your life is an endless series of horror movies . You 're always at the wrong place at the wrong time . You 're stuck seeing all your friends die right after you make them . The reason you 're still alive ? You can hear the horror music .
| “ Dude. What the fuck are you talking about. ” I ask. Cal looks insane.
“ Can ’ t you hear it? It ’ s haunting me. ” His eyes are bloodshot.
“ Are you high? No one ’ s playing music. Calm down and let ’ s go inside. ” I ask. I was wondering what was happening. He had been fine before now, but suddenly inside he... |
4,298 | Your reflection avoids making eye contact with you .
| The bathroom door slams behind me, and I slump against the wall. The cool laminate floor feels like ice to my sweat drenched body, and I let out a long sob. The past few hours are blank spots, I do n't know what I've done, or where I have been. My night started simply enough, I got home from work early, I had a migrain... |
4,299 | Your daughter is 5 years old. She's happy, healthy and utterly adorable. There's just one problem. Although everyone tells you they remember her, yesterday, you didn't have a child. | “Hey, kiddo,” I smile, passing what had been my office just a week ago. “You still up?”
“You haven’t tucked me in yet,” she whines in the endearing way only someone so innocent could. I chuckle as she puts away her drawing tablet so I can tuck her in bed. She kisses my forehead before I can kiss hers goodnight; over t... |
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