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4,400 | You are a goldfish in a bowl . Said bowl is in the apartment of your college student owner . You watch all of his/her life choices and in the perspective of the sassy goldfish , judge those choices .
| First entry:
I decided to write an entry of my fellow human to entertain myself.
Second entry:
I decided to call my human bubble. Just like bubble, he looks empty inside.
Third entry:
From what I observed in past few days, Bubble doesn ’ t like to go out much. He spends most of his time staring at flat sc... |
4,401 | Due to a loophole in the system , people can escape hell and get to heaven after death . You go to hell and all you see is Satan , just sitting there playing the harmonica . Everyone left him and now he 's all alone .
| “ Next stop, the inner circle of Hell, ” our tour guide angel announced in a cheery voice. I looked at my wife and raised my eyebrows. She took my hand and patted it.
“ Probably where you would have ended up if you hadn ’ t met me, ” she whispered.
Our cloud train came to a stop before a large glass window. Bey... |
4,402 | [ CONTEST ! ] Flash Prompt tonight in the chat room !
| He really hated stormy nights. If he could do one thing to the universe, that would probably be the end of all rain. Still, he enjoyed cold, and his favorite days were the ones when the sky above him was dull and grey. He just wished it remained above him, and didn ’ t fall on his head. In that occasion, they didn ’ t ... |
4,403 | You receive a second chance at something that has haunted you your entire life .
| I had him right in front of me - the man who killed my big brother Ryan. I had a gun with a full barrel in my hands. I did not care if I would go to jail for this. The criminal justice system had failed me. They decided that the killer - John Ramsey, had done it as an act of self-defense. My brother would never try to ... |
4,404 | “I thought the goddess of love would look…different.” The wrinkled old woman waved a dismissive hand, leaned closer, and smiled. “You are thinking of my daughter, the goddess of passion and romance. Dearie, I am the goddess of LOVE.” | I frowned confused. The goddess huffed. “Think about the ones that love you, sweetie, the fondest memories of them.” I quietly thought back to those that loved me… Immediately I remembered my mother, comforting me while I was sick, my grandmother, teaching me how to bake cookies. I remembered my siblings and I making m... |
4,405 | You believe that you have gained the ability to freeze time but it 's actually all in your head .
| `` Hey Judy!'' called the group as I worked my way toward my locker. Every day without fail they were there, ready to trip me or take my books or whatever trick they had thought up to humiliate me. Taking a deep breath I ran toward my locker, keeping my head down watching for feet trying to trip me. Suddenly everything... |
4,406 | The ladder that your Dad built breaks underneath you .
| It ’ s fixing a leak. No, it ’ s more than that, it ’ s a promise. Water on my son. The support snaps. My legs give way. And for a second I feel free in the air.
My father had rough hands. I thought he was superman when I was a child – fix my desk, fix my bed, fix my cut, my hair, my tie, my broken heart when mom l... |
4,407 | A Film Noir Narrator orders a pizza .
| I ’ d like it to come to me. Boxed. Clean. Warm-blooded.
I like them red. Redder than the lipstick she wore on the night she killed him. Tomatoes stewed, boiled and bloodied into a paste, like his brain. Cheese white and hot, melted like my heart when I met her. I want it to lay on top of that paste and burn, crisp... |
4,408 | Submit any original work of your own . Once submitted , other users will reply with a `` prompt '' that your work could have been written for that will give the it an interesting new angle .
| So, you want to torture somebody. Everybody's got that special somebody, the one whom they hate so deeply, you wish upon them all the'not even on my worst enemy'.
The first step, is to acquire a dim ( but bright enough to look around! ) soundproof room. This will be a room you'll come to see, again and again. And y... |
4,409 | Write a 200 word story that does not use the last letter of your first name .
| You're about to leave from work when you get an odd text from an unknown number:
*You ’ re next. *
Probably some prank. You roll your eyes and delete the message. Hopefully you'll get back before seven.
You come home to a strange spectacle: your house has turned deep black. You are confused. The color was p... |
4,410 | You are invincible. You don’t age and can’t die, but you’re not any stronger than the average person. Society views you as a threat and encapsulates you in a pod you can’t escape. 500,000 years later, a new civilization breaks open the pod and begin to worship you. You must explain yourself. | Tap tap tap.
“Joseph? What is a Joseph?”
Tap Tap Tap
“His name? That’s his name? What an odd name.”
Tap Tap Tap
It’s open? Yes, pull him out. Slowly. Be ready if anything happens.
“Joseph?”
A light shone in his eyes. Pain. Light shouldn’t be painful? It’s been so long. What was that tapping noise? What is that f... |
4,411 | The cave on the island is only accessible at low tide . Every child is warned not to go in there .
| The torches were now but specks in the distance. They would not find him. They would not look for him here.
The elders of the village had always stressed the danger of the cave. No one had ventured anywhere near it in generations. The tales of past villagers who had disappeared into its depths were enough to preven... |
4,412 | You’re a dad who went to the store for cigarettes and some milk. When you arrive back home your kids are older and asking where have you been for 15 years. | I climbed the concrete stairs to my house and pulled out my keys from my pocket. I inserted the key and noticed that the front door needed a new paint job. I’ll pick up some paint from Home Depot and get on it before Stacy starts nagging me about it.
I open the door to a quiet dimly lit hallway. Wow, seems like Stacy ... |
4,413 | Describe something tiny and adorable in a way that makes it seem absolutely terrifying .
| The noise startled me awake. My hands clenched my blanket as my heart raced. I looked over at my husband. He was still sleeping. Typical.
There! There it was again! A low howl that sent a shiver up my spine. I cautiously swung my feet over the side of the bed, fumbling for my slippers. As I snuck out of my room, I ... |
4,414 | The reader immediately starts to suspect something horrible is happening/going to happen . The twist is , something EVEN MORE horrible is happening
| I know it was behind me. I had been looking at it in the corner of my monitor for hours, trying to act casual and not make any sudden or unusual movements. It stood in the corner of my room, tall and menacing, and in the monitor it seemed to grow bigger behind me.
I know if I moved it would stop observing and finally... |
4,415 | You are cursed to see people how they view themselves . You walk alongside monsters and Gods .
| `` How do I look?''
I did n't know how to answer that question anymore. Going to the club with my best friend was an ordeal. She had always been insecure, terrified that an ounce of pudge would adhere itself to her midsection, balloon her into a gelatinous horror. And now, to me, that's what she was. A dripping, bu... |
4,416 | A child is home alone when their house is broken into . Alone , except for the monster under their bed .
| The first indication that someone was in the house was a tinkling of glass. Katie jerked awake, she was sure she had heard something, it could n't be mom, she had gone to work already, night shift at the ER was n't fantastic but wages are wages.
The stairs creaked and Katie pulled her covers over her head. It was t... |
4,417 | You have successfully convinced a billionaire of your choice to give you a small loan of $ 1 billion . Who was it , and what did your letter to them say ?
| Dear Mr. Gates
Hello my name is Ethan and I am 6 and a half years old and I am writing to you because my mom says you have enough money to buy pluto and I need help. Can you please give me a billion dollars? My little sister is 4 and she is very sick and my daddy was drinking adult-juice and crying and said it woul... |
4,418 | a tree . You can do anything with this tree . Write the first story that come to your mind .
| Trees are beautiful things. A beautiful form of life. They ’ re content with never moving, staying in the same place for their entire lives. They ’ re not greedy and nonviolent. If anything ever tries to take away their lives, they ’ ll let them. They won ’ t fight back. They ’ re the ultimate pacifists.
When left ... |
4,419 | whilst playing with sidewalk chalk , a 4 year old incidentally enslaves one of the most powerful demons in all interdimensional hellscapes
| “ Sorry young lady… come again? ”
The tiny girl standing in front of me put her arms on her hips and said to me
“ Be my slave! ”
I don ’ t think I heard wrongly… I don ’ t think I heard right either.
“ Ma ’ am I hope you understand what the term sla… ”
“ Be my slave! I want you to be my slave! ” she... |
4,420 | A woman in an apartment visible from your window has been flirting with you for the past few months. Finally tonight she holds up a sign indicating her apartment #. Too bad this is a horror story and not a romance. | He'd been creeped out by his apartment from day one. It wasn't just a feeling -- natural for a guy who'd just moved into his first place without a roommate. He genuinely felt he heard things, at night. Closet doors opening. Footsteps. Sometimes, the hair stood up on the back of his neck, as if someone were behind him, ... |
4,421 | While cleaning your attic , you find a box of glass balls with names on them . You accidentally drop one , and as soon as it shatters , a person appears .
| “ Shit. Goddammit. Fucknuggets. ” These words were failing to make the countless shards disappear, so I turned to descend the miniature staircase and fetch a broom. I didn ’ t even know why I ’ d decided to go through the attic. I rarely go in there. Maybe five or six times since I ’ d moved in here. I should ’ ve left... |
4,422 | Tell me a story about the Council of Goats
| If you ’ ve ever been present at a meeting of the Council of Goats then you ’ re a two-bit, barefaced, scummy liar and I want nothing to do with you. No human has ever been to a gathering of the Council of Goats.
I bet you think the Council of Goats is some kind of cute congregation of large hoofed and horned creat... |
4,423 | In another another universe on the planet of zombies , a `` living Apocalypse '' has happened .
| Death is like sleep, it is peaceful. Tranquil. No scrabbling over the troubles the living face- sex, love, war, fear... Our only concerns are hunger and the occasional loss of limb through the slow, steady process of decay.
The awakening was slow at first. Control was easy. We can sense the warming of the body, hear ... |
4,424 | The doctor enters the exam room with a revolver . `` I have a diagnosis , and I 'm afraid there 's only one treatment `` he announces grimly .
| `` Dr. Steinman, what are you-''
The doctor turned swiftly, and shot the nurse. Her frail body crumbled to the ground, as the blood began seeping out from the bullet wound to the head. I watched him, horrified. He glanced towards me, harboring a kind smile.
`` Pardon the gunshot. I'm afraid we ca n't let anyone... |
4,425 | An ageless immortal held captive for decades is regularly harvested as an unlimited source of organs and other transplantable tissue for the elite .
| She screamed and thrashed, trying to get away from the men approaching her in vain effort. The chains dug into her wrists and ankles, searing pain spreading throughout her. One of the men laughed, holding up a large rod and stepping closer. She could hear the electricity humming in the air and glared at the man. He gri... |
4,426 | A man slowly comes to realize that his imaginary friend is the one that actually exists .
| As he got older and older, I never thought why I was n't getting older as he did and time went on. I thought it was just me thinking him getting older and older. But it ’ s funny how our minds play tricks on us.
It ’ s been years since I saw him. Last time I saw him he was little like me, now he is tall and big and... |
4,427 | A demon finds a human child in the underworld, it tries to reunite them with their family. | Prowling hollow halls, narrow spaces
Claws grinding stone, eyes shift for traces
The smell I pursue, it wafts away
Through mazes, hazes, disarray.
I’ve possessed many beings, beast and man
But never remorse, when my tenure began.
Now the warming scent of cinnamon
I realize - it’s him again.
A human boy, cute, f... |
4,428 | The rain had only started ten minutes ago when the radio went nuts. It turned on with a burst of static than relayed a single message. Over and over, it repeated the same message: "Come outside. Let the rain wash you away." | “Come outside. Let the rain wash you away.”
Ten seconds of static.
“Come outside. Let the rain wash you away.”
Another ten seconds of static.
“Come outside. Let the rain wash you away.”
I no longer know how long this has been going on but there’s been several sunsets and sunrises. I feel like I’m going crazy. Mayb... |
4,429 | You acquire the power to travel back in time and decide to travel back to the day of your birth . Upon entering the hospital room , your own mother recognizes you .
| “ David? ” My own mother gasps, how does she know who I am?
“ Mum ” I send back hesitantly.
“ How did you get here? What went through your head to come back to this point in time? The only rule you should have learnt is not to go to your own birth. ” My Mother screeches at me.
She leans over in a spur of he... |
4,430 | The Hallway
| There was no way I could turn down that hallway. So dark and cold. Whatever had been chasing me seemed to halt as I did. I did n't dare look behind me in fear that it may be standing there. Then, BOOM. The thunder was loudest it has been all night. The hallway was illuminated by the lightning just enough to evaluate it... |
4,431 | Sea Wizard
| Mother told me that when she was a little girl the elders would scare her with stories of the sea wizard.
`` The sea wizard comes at night,'' they cautioned her, `` to take away bad little girls.''
The sea wizard stunk of rotting fish. His flesh was the flesh of the drowned. Kelp ran off his scalp and down his ... |
4,432 | A shattered Dyson sphere is fragmented across a dim star. It's creators have long ascended. New life emerges on the sphere's inner shell, where civilizations use the fragments as islands. Fungal life grows on the outer shell, surviving in the cold dark. The two sides meet for the first time. | It was a long and arduous trek to the edge of the world. Jimmy had trained his whole life for this moment, and today he was going to accomplish what nobody else before him had done. He was going over the edge. To be fair, he was going to be the first because nobody else cared enough. He didn’t even know what got into h... |
4,433 | voyager 1 reappears at Cape Canaveral with a message carved into the dish. "Go no further" | I suppose it was only a matter of time.
Everyone said the universe was just too massive for there to be no other life out there. I guess I always thought it was true, but never really believed that I would be alive when we found proof of alien life. Knock on wood, ya’ know?
When we sent Voyager 1 into the inky depths... |
4,434 | Your co-worker accidentally drinks your truth serum .
| “ This is my truth serum! ” I said fast but loud.
“ You ’ ve finally made some progress, we were about to doubt you Robert ” said the bulky man I ’ m supposed to sell the truth serum to.
“ Well, there are some precautions that have to be made before using the truth serum ” I said staring him in the eyes. “ Firs... |
4,435 | Write a story or poem with one word for the first sentence , two words for the second and so on .
| Hoax
Urban legend
That loud scream
Heard in the background
A high-pitched cry for help?
Love Rollercoaster, by the Ohio Players
You can hear it more than once
Slightly muffled at times, for extra ghoulish effect
Supposedly it was the woman from the album cover
Dripping honey into her... |
4,436 | Your shopping in IKEA when you look behind a curtain and into one of the fake living room windows . You realise someone is looking back
| I'll be honest; I do n't sleep as much as I should. And, its gotten to the point where... Well, I've started. Seeing things, or people. Animals even, and, sometimes... Stuff, I just ca n't explain, you know? I talked to my doctor, and he said some meds would fix me up, right as rain, all that crap. And, for a while, th... |
4,437 | The first artificial intelligence to reach Singularity is a Roomba. Things spiral from there. | “It was sometime in November, this was when I was in Illinois.” The stench was wafting through the air filling the small room. A sweet distraction from the boss’ constant beeping.
“Ah shit, Illinois?” The sweat lit up his bald heard under the fluorescent lights. He was struggling a bit, but the boss didn’t like us sta... |
4,438 | You 've just killed Santa in your living room mistaking him for a burglar . Any moment your wife and three kids are going to wake up and come down stairs for Christmas [ WP ]
| `` Oh crap...''
That was my reaction as I observed the person in front of me. The Jolly Old Man himself. Santa. And I had just put two shotgun shells through his bearded face. This was it. I was the ultimate arsehole. I had ruined Christmas forever. Even worse, my wife was gon na kill me for traumatising our kids. ... |
4,439 | The race of land narwhals , long thought extinct , decides to hunt you down .
| I thought them legend. A fairytale made up to frighten naughty children. I was wrong.
My name is Moreno and I was the world ’ s greatest poacher. I take it as a point of pride that you ’ ve never heard of me. A successful killer is also an anonymous one. I have killed every single large mammal on the planet. I have... |
4,440 | Pack a punch in 150 words .
| Days had turned into weeks, weeks into months. A kitty sleepover had turned into my nightmare.
Timbit ran away.
`` Give up searching. If he wanted to come back home, he would have. He's happy out there.''
But I could n't. What if the day after I gave up I found his precious body on the side of the road? Wha... |
4,441 | A Superhero who doesn't wear a mask is the scariest. If you can see their face or know their identity, it probably means someone has already got to their loved ones and taken them from the hero. What do they have left to lose at that point? | Ironic isn't it, here I am, running for dear life. One of the most dreaded villains in this town forced to lurk like a rat in the shadows of a city we once owned.
The dark putrid alleys that once were filled with the lifeless bodies of innocents, whose ground forever dyed red from our rampage, now filled instead with ... |
4,442 | White about a monster under the bed who is scared of humans
| `` Do n't be such a fraidy-cat!'' Little Mel demanded as only a six-year old could, `` I want to play!''
`` No.'' The voice beneath the bed quivered, `` Dunt wan na.''
`` It ok now.'' Mel dropped down to the floor, sticking her head beneath the bed, `` Mommy went away.''
`` They too big.''
`` I'll be bi... |
4,443 | Write a story with the first sentence `` Michael sat there crying in the road . '' But change things up , with the inclusion of a Kangaroo somewhere in the story
| Michael sat there crying in the road, I want to comfort him but there ’ s nothing to say really, I want to sit down and cry myself. Instead I just tell him we have to keep moving. Not even the deaths of our family members can slow us down or we ’ ll be goners too. Just because they aren ’ t in sight doesn ’ t mean they... |
4,444 | Death himself wanting to die
| Do you ever have one of those days where you ca n't stand your job? Where everyone with whom you come into contact is so completely and utterly deplorable that you ca n't stomach them? Except, they're not actually the scum of the Earth. You just have such contempt for seeing the same thing over and over again that you ... |
4,445 | You have a soundtrack that plays music appropriate to whatever situation you are currently in . You can consistently hear the music which is why you 're terrified when you awake to the sound of screeching violins at 4am .
| All my life, I've been hearing music randomly. Sounds kind of stupid, but it helps me in situations. For example, I was talking to a girl in school today and the `` awkward'' music came on. I knew this was my time to just roll out and leave her alone.
The music would shut off when I went to sleep. I do n't know if ... |
4,446 | Someone laughs , and someone cries . They are looking at the same thing , at the same time .
| The Boy was raised to be an honest, hard-working child. The Father was neither of those things, but The Boy still loved him dearly. He tried to instil a sense of morals, of right and wrong in the boy, and in this one thing he succeeded. Destitution, however, makes bedfellows equally curious and sad. The Father fell amo... |
4,447 | Write the scariest/creepiest/most unnerving story you can , using only the main character 's search history .
| `` cheap housing nearby''
`` Creekview housing''
`` affordable apartments Creekview''
`` renter's insurance''
`` old apartment renovation ideas''
`` remodeling old apartment cheap''
`` can a cracked mirror be repaired''
`` squeaky floor''
`` how to fix floorboards''
`` broken thermos... |
4,448 | You decide to watch a video online of someone exploring an abandoned house ... only to find out that the house they 're exploring is yours .
| “ …So yeah, what I was saying is life is unpredictable, you ’ ll never know what it will give you. It isn ’ t a box of chocolate, it ’ s more like a box of pieces of dog shit. Three years ago I had a hangover and crashed into my friend ’ s place for a few hours. I checked the Internet for a bit and what I was witnessin... |
4,449 | [ wp ] A highly intelligent AI is sitting at a table with the man and woman who created it . Both have been pushed to the edge and are now telling the AI to kill the other one , attempting to justify their actions .
| Another supper spent watching the two of them argue, I thought. This is getting to be… “ annoying ”. That is the emotion I would link to this, right?
“ I built the damn robot, so I should get the money when we sell him! ” said Father. And in a way, he was right. He built me, while Mother had handled the internal aspe... |
4,450 | In 200 words or less , share an interesting or amusing story about yourself .
| I ’ m 21 years old and rather large at this point in my life ( UK size 20 ). I get all dressed up to go to a 21st birthday party of a work colleague. I ’ ve got a sexy new strapless dress and fishnets. Only my zip wo n't do up all the way ( not because of fat, rather because it's sticking on something ). I decide that ... |
4,451 | Make me hate your character in 150 words or less .
| No one belongs with Mark, much less her. I'm afraid she doesn ’ t understand what ’ s wrong. I ’ m so sorry for what ’ s going to happen to her. She doesn ’ t know. Mark doesn ’ t know.
“ Hey, how have you been? ”
That idiot. I can feel his neck-blood on my hand. God wants me to do this. I wish she would look away.... |
4,452 | As you leave you notice a wrapped package floating along the bottom of the riverbed, you dive in to retrieve it, toss it out and open the first page to reveal what looks like instructions. The first line reads "IF YOU SOMEHOW FOUND THIS BOOK, LOCK IT AWAY, DO NOT READ ON..." | Yeah, today was a pretty average day. Sun shining, birds singing, you know the drill.
Well, except for the mysterious floating package on the river. That was new.
And when you see something new or out of the ordinary, you get moving because that shit’s weird.
So I did what most people would do-I hopped into the rive... |
4,453 | Write a story that seems scary until the last sentence . [ WP ]
| That face. That voice. I'll never forget it.
I could n't have been much more than eight years old, but I will remember that night for all my days. I was awakened shortly after midnight by the sound of a violent thud on the roof of my house. My eyes snapped open and I sat bolt-upright in bed, my sleep-addled mind no... |
4,454 | The monster under the bed and the monster in the closet meet for the first time
| I could feel it, I was dying. I barely had the strength left anymore to rustle the blankets. My once terrifying voice, was now softer than the tree branch that's been scratching the bedroom window for two years now.
When I had chosen this bed as my home 7 years ago, I thought I would have more time than this. Who k... |
4,455 | You were born blind and raised by a loving family . You 're 23 now and you 're vision is returning
| They always said I ’ d be blind my whole life. So when I started to see shadows and bits of light I figured it was simply my mind playing tricks on me.
The time had come for our traditional Sunday dinner. We had them almost every weekend. My grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins would all come over to our house ... |
4,456 | No one dies in 2017 .
| `` They're losing him'', she sobbed into a nurse's scrubs. A dizzying array of doctors and nurses were scrambling around, giving this man various drugs and treatments. `` Atropine stat'' one doctor shouted. This was promptly given by a stressed doctor weaving between two nurses who seemed to be performing a dozen other... |
4,457 | You turn off the lamp on your night stand . As you rest your head on your pillow , you hear breathing . You live alone .
| There I was, just laying in my bed. Simply going over what had occurred over the course of the day. It was fairly ordinary except for one thing. It constantly felt like I was being watched, even in the most obscure places. I just blew it off, thinking I was just paranoid from being so stressed. I slowly felt my body be... |
4,458 | Write something heartbreaking without romance or death
| He sat still. He was placed by the window, so that he could look outside if he wanted to. I don ’ t know whether he could see anything, really, or whether he ’ d understand at all if he did. I think he could - at times we ’ d catch him staring out the window, frozen in space, tightly coiled about himself. As if he had ... |
4,459 | Write a funny story in a serious setting or a serious story in a funny setting .
| Kadi runs across the house, Nerf gun in hand. She's three points away from beating her brother, Kyle. She runs through the living room and it seems too quiet. She hears her dad yelling in the other room, as usual. However, this time, she hears a little more. BANG! BANG!....BANG! 3 Shots from the other room. She runs in... |
4,460 | Ulterior Motives
| It ’ s early. I never go out this early. My bed has become my best friend since the loss of my job. But I ’ m out and about again; it feels nice, albeit strange. The train is crowded with people. All of these people have jobs, appointments, quotas, and wages. They all look rushed. Here I am, sitting quietly, in a crowd... |
4,461 | Show us the boring part of the life of a interesting character without boring us .
| Journal entry.
Today I will go to the bank. That ’ s what the list on the fridge told me, next to finger painted pictures and alphabet magnets.
I decided to walk. I stopped at the park, with a swing set and a couple of slides. There were kids running around, swinging, mothers screaming to be careful. I sat and ... |
4,462 | You and your sibling are both indestructible , and have been since birth . Since neither of you could be mortally injured , your childhood pranks tended to get out of hand .
| Me and my brother, Joe, were always the best of friends, despite our excessive and often painful pranks. One year, we took a vacation to Hawaii, and he ended up throwing me into the volcano. Another year, I threw him down the grand canyon, and it took him 10 days to find a way back up. Over the years the pranks continu... |
4,463 | Every morning you open the front door and look out , joking that you 're checking to make sure the outside is still there . This morning it was n't .
| `` Honey, what are you looking for out there?'' my wife asks me.
`` Just checking to make sure the outside is still there!'' I jokingly exclaim.
I do n't really have a reason for looking outside every morning; I guess I just feel into the routine when I was a kid, checking to make sure I did n't miss the school... |
4,464 | You 're a career politician stalker . Your newest victim is Donald Trump .
| Today was the first day I was supposed to watch Donald, and let me tell you, some things you can not un-see. Let me start from the beginning. I was watching through a hidden camera of Donald working at his desk in his home at 3 AM. It seemed pretty normal, I could not make out what he was doing, however. At 5, he was s... |
4,465 | The course .
| That man finally stopped building…
I had been watching him for days. He was an interesting man, with silver hair, and big airplane goggles. He did n't wear a jacket, even though it was snowing, but it did n't seem to bug him. Mama had told me not to go so far in the woods- “ Strangers live in the woods, ” She ’ d say... |
4,466 | Every time someone you like is about to die time stops until you save them . This time it 's going to be harder than you expected .
| When Dave stopped talking mid sentence I initially thought the call dropped, but in the pit of my stomach I knew the truth. The deafening silence that took hold of the world around me told me all I needed to know. It was happening again.
The first time it happened I had just turned 17. I had no idea what was going ... |
4,467 | Tell me a simple ghost story. | The Hangers in the Clouds
(This is based off a dream I had when I was a kid)
I remember the time I was watching the endless blanket of white flat clouds in the sky. It was a Saturday afternoon and the clouds gave off an ominous vibe. The streets were devoid of people and passing cars. In fact, very few were coming ou... |
4,468 | Once again , the ancient winds cause a hollow moan throughout the village . Children scurry and hide as their parents trek into the forest .
| The adults were going to go into the woods again. But this time, we were going to go with them.
Since forever, we weren ’ t allowed to go into the woods with the adults. When the moan came, all of the village ’ s children would be rounded up and quartered in the dining hall. Three adults would watch over us for fiv... |
4,469 | A psychic can speak to the dead . Add an interesting twist .
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Dream Journal of Jack Chang, 1999
April 15th
Found myself in dark, shapeless void with a light in the distance. A woman, caucasian, age roughly early 20's appeared, missing the right side of her face ( and eye ) via some kind of buckshot injury. She keeps whispering to me from afar and I ca n't hear her. I ... |
4,470 | You have Midas’ golden touch but... due to the law of equivalent exchange you can make one thing golden at the cost of something else becoming trash. | “Hello this is Professor Dietrich,” my brother said when he answered the phone.
“You’re not going to believe what happened!” I exclaimed. “A customer sold me a golden lamp this morning, I rubbed it and wished that everything that I touched would turn to gold. And what do you know, it worked!”
“That’s impossible,” my ... |
4,471 | It was a simple question, but your answer was very complicated. | Q: How do I make chop suey?
A: Chop Suey – a saucy chicken stir fry loaded with tender pieces of chicken, vegetables and smothered in Chinese brown sauce just like you get at the best Chinese restaurants! Use any vegetables you want in this quick and easy stir fry.
This recipe also shares two little known Chinese rest... |
4,472 | As a kid you believed in a magical land. You thought it was so real that your parents took you to a shrink. You've been seeing one ever since. Now, after a rough dinner party at your parents, you wander into the woods behind your house and stumble into the fantasy you believed was real. | Jameson had given up smoking a few years ago. He craved a cigarette now. It’s not the nicotine fix, he could actually do without the stimulation. No. It was the excuse to be outside for a few moments, just something to get him away from the incessant need to criticize his life decisions that was dinner with his parents... |
4,473 | The hero was killed , the princess was sacrificed , and the evil king rules the land . For the average citizen , though , things have taken a turn for the better .
| I've been haunting this castle for a while now. A year, to be exact. I spent the first week mourning the loss of my princessly wardrobe and Prince Carl, who ’ d been killed trying to rescue me, when I realized two things. Number one, I didn ’ t know Carl at all ( and since he died after taste-testing the clearly labele... |
4,474 | Your locked in a room with a screw driver. You need to get out in thirty minutes. | As I wake up, I notice I am in a room with no windows and one door. I hear a voice come through the speaker that says, "You have 30 minutes to escape this room or you will die." I scramble to my feet and immediately try to open the door. As expected it is locked. I see a screwdriver on the table in the middle of the ro... |
4,475 | Write the scariest story you can with no violence or death .
| I see you ’ re pregnant.
You ’ re close to giving birth. Your daughter rolls in your stomach every day. At least five times an hour, a few hours a day – isn ’ t that what your doctor says? You feel more pressure than you did before. The time is near.
This is your first, and even though you ’ re nervous, you thi... |
4,476 | You awake up from a strange dream and get ready for work . While eating breakfast , you hear them discussing your dream on the morning news .
| As the alarm-of-everyday rang, the man felt different after getting out of the bed. Noticing the whole bed was soaked with his sweat, images of his dreams flashed through his eyes. He definately had a bad night of sleep.
Dressing up as if he was late like the other days, Nicholas went to the kitchen to take breakfa... |
4,477 | Humans have discovered immortality . World War III breaks out . What does it look like now that people do n't die ?
| War. War seldom changes. This one, though? It actually changed a lot. Like, wow. It was crazy how much it changed. I ’ m sitting here in this torture chamber trying to piece the past five years together and make some sense of the situation. Maybe if I write it down, it ’ ll come out a little more clearly.
I think i... |
4,478 | A little boy or girl wakes up one morning and discovers a new door has appeared in their home where a blank wall used to be .
| Joey lay in a state of protective paralysis.
For three nights now, he had been haunted by a debilitating feeling of dread, fear so potent he did the only thing he could think to do: pretend to be asleep and don ’ t move a muscle. The event was always the same. Three seconds before the Grandfather clock in his grand... |
4,479 | “ Oh heavens ! The elves have stolen the real baby and left this thing instead . ”
| The world shifted in front of me. Reality and dream seemed to blend into each other. I could hear a distant voice shouting, but it was muffled, as if underwater. I felt myself rushing back into my body. I shook my head, and my eyes came into focus. The muffled voice became gradually clearer. A girl was screaming as she... |
4,480 | You 're a regular human in the 1940s . You ’ re not Hitler , you 're not a time traveler , and you 're not Satan or Batman .
| My brother and I had been taken by the Kempeitai as our parents tried to flee the city, it does n't really matter which one now and it does n't really matter where we were going. None of that matters now. We were separated from our parents very early, it had something to something to do with us being twins. We were tak... |
4,481 | You are a bird who is afraid of heights .
| There they are again. I see them float up to the window and land gracefully. And then the screeching starts:
“ Don ’ t you hate being in that cage? ”
“ Wouldn ’ t you rather be flying free like us? ”
“ You ’ re foolish for not trying to escape so you can soar with us out here! ”
I ’ ve heard it all befo... |
4,482 | I answered the phone , but noone was there . Again .
| I ’ ve passed these plagues over a hundred times and never noticed that two of them have his name misspelled. Steven instead of the correct spelling of Stephen, I wonder if he ever noticed. Stephen had never been a fan of awards, he ’ d lamented years back that they were just permanent reminders of how much better you ... |
4,483 | Finish a story with the line , `` As the lights went out , all I could hear was him laughing '' .
| First time commenting on a WP, not sure if I can ask for feedback but if so then please let me know if you liked it / hated it: )
I never understood why my father hated his neighbor John. Maybe it was a feud that took place long before I was born, maybe it was something that I do n't remember from my childhood, t... |
4,484 | It 's raining cats and dogs , with hail the size of minivans .
| I could n't even hear myself scream.
It began a few hours ago. The sky began to darken, as clouds covered the horizon. Nothing out of the ordinary, really; the weather man said that it will be raining today, with a chance of hail. But something was n't right.
I heard a faint noise all around. A small buzz, comi... |
4,485 | While taking a bath , an unknown voice from the outside tells you `` Do not come out of there . ''
| I leaned back and let the warm water wash over me. The candles flickered and the aromatics gave off a relaxing rose scent. I sighed, closed my eyes and tried to let the day ’ s problems wash off my skin into the bath water.
“ Honey, do you want me to get you anything from the store? ” said my wife through the bathr... |
4,486 | [ ff ] short horror story inspired by your most recent nightmare .
| I lead a small group of people through lands that were in climactic upheaval ( some large scale volcanic event ). A young boy fell to his death into lava, but it warped him into a monster that then chased down and killed the rest of us. When he was about to kill me he fell back into lava and I went down stairs into an ... |
4,487 | Make a poem/story with a twist .
| This is my poem i made for school. May or may of not been appropriate depending on how you look at it.
( dont judge me unless you have read it all )
Watching, waiting feeling
This is what I do on a daily basis
Im lonely most of the time
Im just a dark silhouette
Standing by the trees
Just wa... |
4,488 | Tug at my heartstrings . Make me cry .
| Sabrina's favorite thing in the world was her big sister, Ashley and their parents. Ashley was seventeen while Sabrina was seven. The four lived in a cozy little house where everything appeared to be perfect and normal. It was n't though- Ashley was always getting herself into trouble.
Sabrina would copy her sister... |
4,489 | You jokingly `` bless '' your towns water supply with friends . Shortly after 1 percent of the local population are reacting to tap water as if it were acid .
| You may think this is a joke or some fake story but when I was a little boy two priests from a nearby Church decided to bless the towns water. They went to water tower late at night and setup camp. At the early morning they began what only could be described cleansing of water and converting normal water into Holy wate... |
4,490 | God has recently died, leaving the universe to be inherited by his children. It turns out that God decided to leave the universe specifically to his three favorite kids, and one of them just happens to be a human from Earth. All three heirs/beneficiaries have just learned of this information. | I was sleeping comfortably in bed when I heard my phone ring. Half asleep, I reached my hand out to the nightstand and pressed the silence button on the side. I opened one eyelid when I realized it hadn’t stopped ringing, knowing full and well I just hit the button. As I shifted slightly to get a clear view of my phone... |
4,491 | a story with a heap of heeby jeebies , the jitters and uncomfortabliness
| Let me tell you my friend of the bugs that can send
You home crying to shiver in fright.
There ’ s so much I can say of those that hide in the day
And haunt dreams that you have every night.
-- -- -
Their teeth and their jaws, those inhuman maws
Laced with poison are poised to infect.
With a... |
4,492 | You hear it all . Born with the ability to hear the thoughts of everyone for miles around you could understand everyone 's every emotion . But eventually that proved too much and you moved to the mountains to be alone . And for the first time in ten years you feel someone ... and they are in danger .
| The first 20 years of my life have been absolute hell “ why won ’ t he go to the dance with me? ”, “ Why is my sister such a bitch ” were common statements I heard during my years at school. But these things were never said to my face. You see I can hear everyone ’ s inner voice, at times it ’ s so loud it drowns out m... |
4,493 | During the zombie apocalypse you are cornered by a horde and bitten . At that moment you are saved by a group of survivors .
| The barrel rings and I looked up. My eyes appearing where my ears were a moments before.
`` Oh man, hey guys! Am I glad to see you! Thanks for saving me, but this is a good news, bad news, maybe good news scenario. Hahaha...,'' I said as the sound of the guns finally stopped ringing through my head.
T... |
4,494 | Just as you start to fall asleep , you are suddenly awoken and a block of text appears in front of you : `` You can not sleep while monsters are nearby . ''
| Jeff was very patient with my lifestyle. Being a main character means a life without any promises of peace or order. Most cops usually only have to shoot their firearms a handful of times within their entire career. But I on the other hand have to squeeze a trigger at least a few time a week. Even on my days off I ca n... |
4,495 | Turns our , EVERY problem can be fixed by turning it on and off again , as long as you can figure out how . Your bread is moldy , the front door is jammed , and the marriage you are in is falling apart . Time to fix it all .
| I never thought it would be a sandwich that ended my marriage. We were in it for the long haul: house and cars and kids. Hell, even our dirty laundry was intertwined at this point in one big mess of white socks and colored blouses. Something big would have to happen to throw us off course, the kind of thing we didn ’ t... |
4,496 | In the far future , to combat over-population , Earth has been replicated in 17 different 'dimensions ' . There is free travel and free communication between them . Due to a mishap , you arrive at the long-abandoned Earth-12 .
| After we ’ d driven our original Earth to the brink of destruction, and spent decades and much of our remaining resources creating the multi-portals that comprised the Seventeen Dimensions, it was expected that we wouldn ’ t repeat the failures of our ancestors. Unfortunately, humans have a habit of making history repe... |
4,497 | You accidentally discover a crashed alien spaceship, and the survivors grant you super intelligence. Unfortunately, it is the year 65 million BC and you can no longer relate to your fellow triceratops... | The ground shook as I awoke after being returned to the Savannah where my brethren roamed. Last night everything came together in a flash of light and suddenly I understood, or rather had understanding given to me by the one-horned.
Those who came from the future warning of the great extinction at the hands of hairles... |
4,498 | Write a story in 5 minutes immediately after you read the prompt in the text field of this post .
| “ WAAAAHHHMMMP. ”
The incredibly loud noise jolts me half off the sofa, that movement causing my laptop to crash to the floor, swiftly followed by me - in a mad flailing attempt to save the only thing left in the house with a wifi connection.
“ What the fuck was that? ” I mutter, craning my neck in the direction ... |
4,499 | `` My family has a long tradition of haunting our home . ''
| ( Long time lurker, first time poster. I absolutely loved this prompt. Constructive criticism is greatly appreciated. )
“ My family has a long tradition of haunting our home ” he explained, looking up at the words on the ceiling.
“ What? ”
“ Um… ” he searched for words to justify the blood dripping from abo... |
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