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4,500 | A man 's slow descent into madness .
| Chris was an average guy. He worked an 8-5 at a decent sized company based out of a suburb of Minneapolis. He was unmarried and his parents had died in a car accident a few years back. He was alone, but was normal. He had friends here and there, but spent most of his nights reading and writing. It was February. Chris g... |
4,501 | You are a respected vampire , But you are 240 years old and stagnating . Feeding has become a chore . The thrill of the hunt has all but died . As you stalk two teen girls they are abducted by a serial killer . You follow and observe his rituals with facination before feasting . A new hobby is born
| I must thank this man someday. There is something in the blood, a flavor that comes out when they are scared, when they panic. His methods are unlike mines, his motives a mystery, but the results are undeniable.
The years had wilted by so fast before I met him. He calls himself Retribution, an outcast as it were.... |
4,502 | You fell asleep in class and wake up to find everyone else is missing but their belongings are all left behind. You initially think it's a prank until you realize that class ended 3 hours ago. | I was slouched on my uncomfortable plastic chair in English class, expected to silently read Great Expectations just like everyone else. I found the book rather mundane, what little of it I could understand through Dickens’ esoteric writing style. We were to be tested on what we’ve read the following day, but I didn’t ... |
4,503 | You are a Ritz cracker that some how ended up in a microwave popcorn bag . Explain your experience in the bag .
| It all started when I heard a loud `` POP'', startled, I woke up and found myself trapped inside of a giant bag.
I began hearing more popping noises, it came to the point where I could n't hear myself think. `` Where am I!?'' I screamed at the top of my lungs, large yellow and white blobs flew all over the area, th... |
4,504 | You are a very successful vampire hunter, but you have a secret. Your spouse is actually a vampire, you just couldn't bring yourself to kill them. | “Are you ever going to tell your friends about me?” Felix, my boyfriend, asked me. He was so sweet and innocent, it was sometimes hard to believe that he is a vampire. And yet, here i am yet again confronted with the reality that I will someday have to tell the people I work with that my boyfriend is one of the things ... |
4,505 | A normal trip to the supermarket from the perspective of a paranoid schizophrenic
| I'm walking quickly now. With each step the sidewalk threatens to greet me. Lurching forwards, rising and falling.
I feel like I'm adrift in a sea of grey. I feel queasy.
New World is in sight now. A tether, but an unwelcome one.
The walls are high and yellow. People, faces vacant and eyes downcast, crowd through... |
4,506 | For sale : Baby shoes , never worn .
| I bought them a couple months ago, they were my wife's favorite brand and color. She loved that shade of blue. It seems an awful waste to toss them and I would like to see the people they go home with instead of just donating them away. I do n't know why but giving them to the local thrift store seems cold to me right ... |
4,507 | The first manned mission to Mars discovers an ancient spacecraft, buried atop what was once a mountain peak. Its dimensions correspond to those of Noah's Ark. On board is what appears to be a DNA repository. | Arkady's legs ached, but it was a good ache. He hadn't walked that much for a while now. Always in a car — spoiled, complacent. But no car would get him there, to the edge of the forest, and now he enjoyed the hike, the fresh air, pinecones and needles beneath his feet.
As he reached the hilltop he saw it, and forgot ... |
4,508 | The monster under your bed is of the firm belief that he is protecting you from your teddy bear .
| He rubbed his hand over his face and sighed deeply, “ not again. ”
The boy had only been for gone a couple of minutes to grab a drink of water before bed. There laying on the floor, ripped to shreds, was his newest teddy bear. Sitting beside it with a look of triumph on his face was Roosevelt, the monster from unde... |
4,509 | A demon inhabits you, intending to wreck your life, but when it meets your boyfriend/girlfriend, it falls in love and wants to be the most perfect lover. | Great premise! I’ve got my a good one:
It started with a seance. I was skeptical, I’ll admit until I met...
𝑰𝒕.
It wasn’t apparent for the first few months, but maybe that’s just because I’m an idiot. First a ghostly chill and drafts in the house, but was understandably so because I hadn’t payed my power bills in ... |
4,510 | You are one of VERY few people who did not get the gene for stopping time . As a result you are spiteful and try to get others to waste as much time pausing while you outlive generations . They begin to notice .
| At first it was rough-
After I was made aware of my inability to control time as the other kids did when I was entering kindergarten, I had to look at things the bright way. My parents always knew, but what good was it to tell a kid that he was going to be different. I guess they didn ’ t want to ruin my fun because ... |
4,511 | Create a description about a random , everyday sort of object that turns it into something completely terrifying , and the rest of us will attempt to guess what it is .
| There ’ s a silver contraption that sucks my life away. Every day, it calls and screams to me until I come to it. And I can ’ t resist. I can never resist anymore. It ’ s as much a part of me as I am of it by this point. It tears at me when I can not go to it. It eats me up and spits me out each time. It takes my life,... |
4,512 | Death hasn't had free time in a long time, but now... | The Reaper walked slowly down the empty streets, the steady clacking of skeletal feet upon broken asphalt was the only noise to be heard. Weaving it’s way between abandoned cars and topled lamp posts the cloaked figure looked up at the neglected buildings in silence. An onlooker might wonder what lay behind those empty... |
4,513 | `` I 'm coughing up blood and it ai n't mine ''
| I'm coughing up blood that is n't mine,
A finger of fear shivers down my spine,
Just a week ago I'd been feeling fine,
But, now there's blood that is not mine.
The patient had been very sick,
The Ebola virus deadly quick,
I, the doctor they had picked,
To handle blood that was not mine.
Her eyes bla... |
4,514 | Every year on your birthday , instead of celebrating , your family always cowers in fear ...
| You see your friends celebrate their birthdays, they invite you over to their houses at times. Your friends ask you why you do n't invite them over for yours.
You tell them, as casually as you can, `` Oh. We do n't celebrate my birthday.''
They ask you why. You shrug timidly.
It's the 3rd of October, exactly ... |
4,515 | Scare me without mentioning ghosts, monsters or murderers | You have a form of cancer we call Burkitts Lymphoma.
All of the tests we did confirmed the diagnosis. It's why you've been feeling so unwell.
Unfortunately there's no option to operate and this particular cancer is one of the more aggressive types. It attacks the immune system and it's important we start treatment as... |
4,516 | Scare me without mentioning ghosts , monsters or murderers
| You have a form of cancer we call Burkitts Lymphoma.
All of the tests we did confirmed the diagnosis. It's why you've been feeling so unwell.
Unfortunately there's no option to operate and this particular cancer is one of the more aggressive types. It attacks the immune system and it's important we start treatm... |
4,517 | I looked upon what I had made , and I was wrong .
| “ Hey Doc, s-so is that your real name? ”
My patient asks me this while trying to contain his giggles. People think they ’ re so damn funny. So damn original.
I crack a fake smile, speaking through my teeth, “ Yessir Mr. Patterson, it is. Although mine ends ‘ -ine, ’ not ‘ -ein. ’ So rest assured, you have noth... |
4,518 | The End .
| They say that death comes in different forms. That depending on the person, it ’ s different.
When you ’ re dehydrated and the gash on your leg is looking horribly infected, any sort of death is good to see. It means that you ’ re not suffering any more. That your pain and agony are over with.
The figure is bar... |
4,519 | Blood . The smell of it fills your nostrils .
| I could n't see. I could n't see it. I could hear it crawling towards me and even more so I could smell the stench coming from this..thing. It smelled like blood and death and it was even more overwhelming than the general reek of the sewer.
I did n't know who put me here or how I came here. I could move but there ... |
4,520 | Write a story without using the words `` the '' , `` a '' , or `` an '' .
| These bones – these ancient, aching bones. Old age is cruel, even for those who are not alone. But I am alone. Deirdre died fifteen years ago. My children never visit. Meals on Wheels is my only company, and even its volunteers are brisk, busy – not unfriendly, but hardly friends. My neighbour smiles at me from time to... |
4,521 | Write a story that starts with "Suzy skipped into the woods to see her grandma" and ends with "Suzy wiped the blood from her blade, it was finally over." | Suzy skipped into the woods to see her grandma. Grandma had been sick for too long so Suzy decided that should would cook a wonderful dinner for her! Suzy had previously went to the market earlier and got all her grandmothers favorites. Grandma loves earthy foods, so Suzy was sure to get anything that came from the gro... |
4,522 | Write an overly supernatural reason behind all the people going around wearing clown masks
| So, there were people in my small town wearing clown masks. But there'd been rumors swirling around on Internet sites, from conspiracy theorists, that they were either ambiguously human, or the clown was n't their true form.
One individual wrote on the site:
I actually saw this creepy clown's true form. Just a ... |
4,523 | The last dream you had .
| I had a dream. It was n't a dream to spark revolutions, or build wonders, or inspire greatness. It was a small, fragile dream, too insubstantial to survive being grafted to the rigidity of our world without it losing all meaning and evaporating.
It went like this.
I was, as I am now, typing on my laptop. It was... |
4,524 | Defeat .
| Bricker awoke suddenly, hand automatically reaching out for the parang.
Clawing again, this time from the wall behind him as well as from the door.
He risked the lighter, flicking the wheel as the sounds grew louder. Christ, how many were there? He ’ d stuffed whatever he could into every crack he ’ d found, le... |
4,525 | Write a story with only Internet search history ...
| Wedding dresses
Wedding flowers
Bridesmaid dresses
Honeymoon destinations
Flights to hawaii
Romantic things to do in hawaii
Good suburb to raise a family
Houses to buy
How to make your husband happy
Best time to stop taking the pill
Ovulation kits
Will my husbands drink... |
4,526 | Sleep has come at last
| It's time, again, to lay my head
In bed, I think and yawn;
Tomorrow I'll do many things,
Today's already gone.
As I lay myself to sleep
and find the perfect spot,
I can not help but think about
what's better left forgot.
Did I leave the door unlocked?
This house is awfully creaky.
Maybe I could ... |
4,527 | You live in a world where the zombie apocalypse has occurred . Everyone is infected . However , these are not normal zombies . During the day life is normal , but at night people randomly turn into zombies and change back when the sun rises . You live in constant fear of the night .
| I ca n't believe they had the stones to do it, but they did. They sent out Protocol: Night Terror a few days ago, and already I'm seeing a pattern. They're fine in the day, but at night, they go all Werewolf and turn into undead flesh eaters. Multiple sanctuaries have opened, but no sanctuary is safe. The people who tu... |
4,528 | Some residents in a small town start complaining about a constant nauseating low-pitched noise wherever they go . Others do n't seem to notice it . The source of the noise is unclear and recording devices pick up nothing . This is an ( inaccurate ) reproduction of what they claim to hear .
| The first time I really, truly noticed the noise when it was pointed out to me. When I thought about it, I ( and everyone else who could hear it ) had trouble remembering when it even started. Was it weeks ago? Years ago? Every so often I would think it had stopped, only to realise that I had simply gotten used to it a... |
4,529 | You've died 17 times this week alone, and it's starting to get irritating. | I feel so used.
My owner has put me down far to many times to count. After I wake up again, they seem to feel the same way about me. I’m forced to keep going. It’s like dying doesn’t faze them anymore. Every chance I get, I have to spy on them, keeping a close eye on what they are doing. I really shouldn’t refer to hi... |
4,530 | Just for fun you respond to a `` What color is your soul ? '' personality quiz . Once you have answered all the questions it responds , `` Your soul is pitch black . You are a heartless psychopath , incapable of compassion or remorse . The police have been called . Do not resist . ''
| `` Huh?'' I stared at the screen blankly. I hit the refresh button to no avail. I crossed the room and closed the blinds, all of sudden the whitish material started to turn red and blue. I peeked in between the drapes, there were about three black cars outside, sitting silently. I almost fell back in my chair, I can go... |
4,531 | Strange footprints in the snow lead into a dark shed ... and you decide to follow them in .
| I walked with confidence, albeit with mild trepidation, aware of all the noises that filled my small terrace garden; crickets; the hum of our overpowered electric light that illuminates the entire garden; all of them seeming louder and more pronounced. The reason? Well, footprints in the snow, they must have been size ... |
4,532 | In a zombie apocalypse , you are turned in to a zombie with your mind intact but no way to control your actions ( stuck in your body )
| `` Her face is so beautiful,'' I think. `` I should have told her how I really felt...''
My feet are heavy. Is one of my legs broken? It's dragging.
`` God... she looks so pretty. I just wish I could touch her...''
My hand extends, the fingers bloody and bent. She's screaming now. Her face is soaked in swea... |
4,533 | You are cursed with giving life to every inanimate object you touch .
| Blood. More than I thought there would be. Little red pearls speckle the walls and the floor.
The blood in itself does n't phase me. I work with sharp tools every day. I've had accidents before, like anyone who works with wood. I'm just surprised there would be so much.
Warm droplets are hitting my shoulder. I ... |
4,534 | In a world where you gain the power of the object you were previously killed with . You were killed by a falling coconut
| Usually, the day your power finally reveals itself is one of the greatest days in someone ’ s life. For me, not so much. You see, most people discover their gift pretty early. My dad always told me how he found out he was run over by a tank during the second world war when he ran headfirst through a wall. Mom must have... |
4,535 | Your daughter wakes you up in the middle of the night insisting there 's something scary in her room . You go with her to check it out and prove she 's just imagining things . After you turn on the light , she does n't see anything out of the ordinary and calms down . You 're frozen with fear .
| `` She's probably just a little uneasy... you know it must be strange for a 5-year old to cope with the idea of a funeral. Seeing her uncle at the wake was really her first time experiencing the idea of death,'' my wife said in that tone she uses when she knows she's saying something logical enough so that I am incapab... |
4,536 | `` For the dead travel fast . ''
| Now listen closely, for this story is true. Many years ago, my grandparents immigrated from Austria with their baby girl. That baby was my mother. It was hard growing up in Canada, as she could only speak German until she started school, but eventually she learned, and her parents did too. But it was a long time before... |
4,537 | A child is born with a condition that doctors describe not as a deformity , but as a form of evolution .
| We decided on a home birth. It would be safer for everyone involved. The ultrasounds had shown... anomalies. It was n't an extra limb or our baby missing a head or anything. No this was different. My wife insisted on a home birth. She said she did n't want the doctors and nurses taking her baby away because he was `` d... |
4,538 | You pull over to the side of the road in heavy snow to pick up a hitchhiker . Through the window you see it ’ s a friend you last saw 10 years ago , three weeks before she died .
| I was driving home from work, the office closed at noon due to how severe the weather was, with two feet of snow already on the ground since around six in the morning. My daughter Sarah sat in the back seat of the car, in the corner opposite me so it was easier to check on her. Due to the weather, her school had begun ... |
4,539 | Two call center employees , who only know each other as '12 ' and '77 , ' develop a relationship through their call record case notes .
| Investigation Log for 2015-06-21
Suspect: Mr. Quin
Charge: Possession and trafficking of a controlled substance ( cocaine )
-- --
Call Start Time 18:05h. Duration 0:37
Employee ID: 12
Wiretap Notes: Outbound call to call from Mr. Quin to Angelo ’ s pizza, at the corner of First Ave and Queen St.... |
4,540 | You woke up , and to your suprise you found out you were the most powerful person in the world , how did you get here ?
| When I open my eyes in the morning, the first thing I notice is the amount of dew that has accumulated on my nose. There ’ s enough there to form an entire drop. I reach my left hand up – no wait that ’ s my right hand – and wipe it off.
I turn my head to the side to see if Fren ’ s awake yet. She isn ’ t.
My m... |
4,541 | Humanity receives a message, originating from the Moon. It reads "Why did you surrender to us? We were never at war with you?" and attached to it is a picture of the US flag, by now bleached white by the Sun. | My grandfather always told us the stories. He would always tell us that in his younger days, he saw the voyagers visit our world. We were always taught to keep out of the light. The light was too dangerous for our kind. Our world is split into two. One side is always exposed to the great star, the other is hidden in sa... |
4,542 | You are a doomsday prepper . A running joke between you and your friends is that they 're all welcome to come to your bunker when the Apocalypse strikes . After a week of serious , worldwide natural disasters , you hear a pounding on your door ...
| Their knocks echoed through the concrete walls though nearly drowned out by their screams and calls. His family cowered in fear among the walls stocked with several hundred gallons of fresh water and thousands of cans of food. The last his family had seen the light of day, an earthquake struck Sans Francisco with unpre... |
4,543 | A knife flashes toward your heart . The last thing you see is the clock reading 12:07 . You wake up from your nightmare , looking at your clock . It 's 12:06 .
| That thing what they put in your arm do n't do anything good. They says the reason they do it is so we do n't feel nothing when it happens but they aint telling the truth. If we knew what was coming we'd have tried harder to do it ourselves before they bring us here.
I wonder how many people are in on it. I reckon ... |
4,544 | "Sir you can't be here, the whole town is quarantined!" "What is it, Smallpox? Tuberculosis?" "Worse, disco fever." | “Disco fever? Pfft, that’s ridiculous. That ended like 3 decades ago.” “Oh, no. I think you misunderstood, sir.” The guard pursed her lips, looked left and right, then looked back at me. “You know what? I think it’ll be good for you to see it for yourself.”
We walk to a patrol car where two other guards were sitting a... |
4,545 | You have never won a game of hide and seek against your toddler because you could not find him/her until you gave up. That bothered you so much, that you straped an actioncam on the head of your toddler. What you see on the recording makes you speechless. | Ever since we started playing hide and seek, I've never been able to find my toddler. He always finds some way to completely evade me during our games. Curiosity eventually got to me, so I strapped a camera to my son to see where on Earth he ended up. Reclining in my chair, I watch the camera light up, and the video sk... |
4,546 | `` You murdered me for five bucks ? ! ''
| ( First WP. Here goes. )
So that was it. The muffled shots bled out into the night sky, slowly mixing and blending with the city ambience until it was too distant to read. Finally, I ’ d done it. I ’ d killed my former boss. My teacher. My rival. The man who ’ d got me into this shitty line of work and then left me... |
4,547 | You can influence mosquitos if they bite you, with your blood, and can cause them to fly near a bird to be eaten and then influence that bird, to fly near a predatory bird like an eagle, which allows you to influence where an eagle goes. | “Come here, mosquito!” Lacey would say when she was little. Everyone laughed. Even then, people could tell she was a strange girl. But sometimes the mosquitos did come, and eventually she figured out why.
Lacey was ten when she figured out the trick with the birds. She hated the annual trips to Florida. Instead of goi... |
4,548 | Write a beautiful story where literally nothing happens .
| He is unaware of himself, the position of his body, how he looks to the outsider – to us, for example. Because we can see him, alone in a small room. We can see him even though we are very far away. Through a window. Through his window. We can see him in perfect detail: the tufts of hair between his fingers, the pull o... |
4,549 | Write a story about a heist on your new neighbours
| It was a quite day in the suburbs, the old house next to mine has been empty for nearly two months after the old family moved down south. Today, however, it was n't empty. I sat on my porch with a cup of coffee watching the movers transfer cardboard boxes and furniture into the house. After a while I decided to go insi... |
4,550 | You live in a dystopian world where for ever child you have , you can kill one person of the same gender .
| ( ( Possible trigger warning for sexual abuse. Not graphic, just mentioned ) )
It started off normal, for every 10 births there was 10 deaths, it was life. It was normal.
However, a fifteen years ago, a woman was having a son, her husband in the room. And as soon as her son was born she looked right at her husb... |
4,551 | You've been shopping for a new house, and this realtor is willing to give you their house for free. The catch? You have to stay in the house for a month. Seems easy, until you find that, every day you wake up, the house has given you a new rule to follow. | Who knew sentient houses could be so weird. Gen looked up at the latest rule Obtain blood replenishing potions and store them in the stasis room in the basement and sighed. They really had no idea where to get those.
Luckily, they'd only have a couple more days of this, then the house would calm down once they owned ... |
4,552 | You are a happy , loving pet . Your Master gives you a comfortable , easy life . If only all those people he brought over would stop begging to go home or to be let out of the basement .
| Master is cooking something. I crawl up to him and poke him with my nose. “ No, not for you, ” he says, stirring something green in a pan. “ You wouldn ’ t like this even if I gave it to you. Shoo. ” I try and beg but he won ’ t look at me. “ I ’ ll have some meat for you later, okay boy? ” Resigned, I walk over to my ... |
4,553 | You're walking to work, then suddenly a person in a white suit appears and says "Uh yeah I've accidentally permanently stopped time and it'll take me 2 months to fix it, but somehow you're not frozen in time. But hey, whatever object you touch should still work, so uh good luck and have fun." | 5 minutes ago. It all happened 5 minutes ago, I lost my best friend, the love of my life.
We were having our Sunday walk around town, window shopping the various boutiques of this nice midsized city. Hands holding a little weirdly since I was a little too tall so when we held hands hers clung onto mine, I remember the... |
4,554 | A fly on the wall begins speaking with you . He understands he will pass away soon and wants to tell you everything about his life and feelings .
| He was on the very verge of soothing sleep when the irritating insect whispered weirdly in his ear.
A passing buzzing noise, loud with proximity, had startled him enough to delay the sweet closing of the lids after the long workday. Groggily wondering if he had really heard his name in-between the annoying buzzes, ... |
4,555 | A killer wakes in a room full of the bodies of people he has killed with amnesia , he has no memory of anything or any of the previous events .
| First of all please excuse my poor language and writing skills! English is my second language and I ’ ve never ever written a story so if someone can edit ( Audit ) what I wrote that would be great!: )
“ Arrrrgh, ” I screamed in pain. I can barely open my eyes. My head feels like it ’ s been crushed by a bulldozer.... |
4,556 | A man who knows no fear is visited by a demon ...
| When I looked up, it was standing there. It didn ’ t look quite as fierce as I imagined it would. No teeth. No claws. Just a shadow of a figure not more than five paces before me. I knew what this meant. A Bargain had been struck. A soul for a life, they say. A soul had been sold for the termination of my life.
I s... |
4,557 | 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 .
| Hi everybody!
My neighbor did an excellent job watching my house last week and I'd love to give them a great surprise as a reward. I'd need to hire a professional though, and they're pretty expensive especially when you want to keep it a surprise.
I already have someone in mind and have their rates for their ni... |
4,558 | At birth , everyone is given a cup . That 's the only cup they can ever use - for coffee , beer at a bar , water , soda , everything . When the cup breaks , it 's as impactful as a death of a family member . Yours broke today .
| It was as sudden as an unexpected hick-up. After tripping on the recently deceased body of his mother, Mark accidentally dropped his life cup on the floor while going to the kitchen to grab some coffee.
It was a monday afternoon. Mark had decided to put some clothes on after waking up at 12:30 because he knew, by e... |
4,559 | There is no cure for cooties . The CDC has ordered schools with reported cooties outbreaks to be quarantined for a full week .
| I did n't know what was wrong with her, that sixth grade girl. Everything was fine a minute ago, and then it was screaming. “ Everyone back to your chairs, now! ” the teacher squealed. We all went back inside our classrooms, slowly shutting the door all looking at Mrs. Carter; the sixth grade teacher, she looked extrem... |
4,560 | “Finally, I just bought the new RoboFridge! Problem is… it keeps giving me backshots. How is this happening?!” | 29 years later…
I’m tired. No, exhausted. I may have put an end to most of the world’s hunger, but at what cost. Today I turned fifty, and I didn’t spend my birthday with a loving partner or a family. I spent the day sending food out and getting bckshts from the fridge, just like every other day. There had to be anoth... |
4,561 | You 've successfully transferred your consciousness into an artificial brain , however the brain has been thrown into a drawer . [ WP ]
| Everyone had told me that donating my body to science would be a ridiculous endeavor. `` Why would you do something like that?'' my mother asked me, folding her arms across her chest. She stared at me inquisitively.
`` Because I want to be able to give my life some sort of meaning, even if I have to wait for death.... |
4,562 | You are in possession of a necklace that will glow if you are about to make a bad mistake or decision. You have used this to your advantage to always make good choices, but one day you wake up and no matter what you do the necklace does not stop glowing. | I stumbled out of bed, my hands making sure the necklace was still in its place. It was. As my hands brushed over the door knob I felt something against my chest begin to burn. I looked down and, sure enough, it was glowing like a star. No leaving the bedroom today. I moved towards the curtains instead, only for the th... |
4,563 | you work in hell, but one client poses a very tricky problem, as a psychopath with no family that got his nerves burnt off in the fire he died in you can't find a way to make him suffer. | “Hi, I’m Tedd, your caseworker. Welcome to Hell.” A man in skinny jeans and gold-framed glasses introduced himself. “Could you please tell me your name and date of birth?”
Charlie gazed at the man with curiosity. He expected to be sent to Hell, but the present situation wasn’t quite… He looked around. He was sitting i... |
4,564 | Write me a story where the living haunt the dead. | I live in a quiet part of town. I like my privacy. Not many people visit me, probably because I scare them away if they got too close. I guess I would consider myself an average ghost in an above average haunted house. Frankly, the key to a good haunting is the setting. Do up the decorations nicely, and half the work i... |
4,565 | Deeply misunderstanding the term `` universal healthcare '' , aliens have begun arriving in Canada , seeking medical attention . Canadians , being Canadian , are too polite to correct them .
| “ Matthew Conner? ”
“ Yep, right here. ”
“ Right this way please, ” the nurse said with a smile, beckoning the man I presumed was Mr. Conner towards an open doorway. She shut it behind them with a soft click as they walked through.
I sighed. My head was killing me and I couldn ’ t wait until I was able to f... |
4,566 | Your wife calls you in to the bathroom to kill a spider . Write a horror story about it .
| I hear a shriek from the bathroom. `` EHAHHAHAHAHSHAHHEHEHEHSHSHSASASASASHAHAHSHASHAHSAHSHASHASHAHS HELLLLPPPP MEEEEE''. I run to the bathroom to see my wife trembling in fear of a spider. `` It's no big deal'' I say. I run to get my new electric bug zapper I recently bought to show off how great it works. `` See darli... |
4,567 | You die , and it 's exactly as you feared . You can still see everything .
| Okay, no lights. No sounds. It's cold. Why is it so cold? I ca n't move. What's that? I can hear mumbling as if underwater. Light starts to show. A rolling noise now. I can see light but something is over my eyes. Suddenly, someone pulls the sheet of my face. `` Jesus Christ!'' I see a woman scream as she jumps back fr... |
4,568 | You are a brain surgeon . Every time you perform a surgery , you have the ability to see memories of the patient you are operating on .
|
In front of me was a man I knew all too well. Not personally though. He was just the
man who killed my friend. To most his shot was justified, after all Frankie was a criminal.
That ’ s how things go down when the law has a gun. He might have been right to kill him, but
I didn ’ t really care about that.
... |
4,569 | You have dishonored your family and you must commit Sudoku .
| After I reenacted the Aristocrats on stage my family disowned me, telling me that I dishonored their good name. However, they also said that if I committed Sudoku they would let me back in. I was puzzled to what that meant. Were they talking about the number puzzle? I was sure they meant seppuku. You know, Japanese rit... |
4,570 | Theme Thursday - Nocturnal | Terrors of the Night
A treasured gift’s my writer’s mind,
although at times it’s most unkind.
It brings me terrors in the night,
unreal monsters causing fright.
He parks his van across the street,
wears muffled shoes upon his feet,
and looks up at the fire escape,
below a window left agape.
I sit in fear... |
4,571 | You are the young detective charged with bringing the cannibal serial killer Shia Labeouf to justice , who just received intel on his known whereabouts . You and your partner follow up on the lead , only to find out it is a trap .
| i woke up bound on a chair. In front of me was my partner.
The first thing i thought was asking myself if he is OK.
Then i saw he isnt bound to the chair. He is just sitting there looking stressed.
I whanted to ask him what happened when i realised that i had something in my mouth. In front of him layed a gun on ... |
4,572 | Your vacuuming has interrupted the dust bunnies rituals for the last time. The dust bunnies are preparing for war. | I don't recall the last time I cleaned my house. I've try and try but it always get's so messy again. I just not in the mood to maintain things. And I get lazy about putting things back where they belong. At some point point I can't move something onto the created junk pile, and have to create another one. At some poin... |
4,573 | - In the future , couples use surrogate robots to care , carry and deliver their child , this particular robot does not want to give up `` its '' child .
| At the start of the day, parents to-be lined up in the delivery room to witness the miracle of birth. They watched a dozen human machines, wire veins and steel skin, carefully and surgically expel crying pink babies. After the children were cleaned and checked, the parents came down to receive the products of their don... |
4,574 | The song that is currently playing on your computer is the title , the time is the total number of words . ( 3:30 = 330 words ; 1:43 = 143 words ) .
| `` Ode To Sleep'' Twenty-One Pilots
Oh how I have missed thee. Let me count how many times I have tried to fall into your loving embrace. To feel the cool pillow across my cheek, to close my eyes and not open them again for another 8 hours. How I miss the long kiss of night and how sassy she is. I miss being on a n... |
4,575 | Winter does n't stop this year . Mankind must learn to survive in a second Ice-Age .
| Nobody ever expected this. Our new apocalyptic reality only ever existed within the confines of Hollywood productions, religious extremists, and dystopian literature. Although, the general consensus was the world would end in fire, not ice.
It ’ s been over a year of winter now; spring, summer, and fall have taken ... |
4,576 | You are in your final seconds of your life , reminiscing about the happier times . Death approaches you , but gives you a chance to relive the happier times of your life . You take it , but the happier times you relive were not what you thought it would be .
| The first thing I felt was an intense but loving warmth that surrounded my body. I felt more loved and happy than I ever have in my entire life, is this heaven? No, it's too dark. In fact I ca n't see anything... where am I? Before I could begin to answer my own question, I began to feel tremors around me, the walls sq... |
4,577 | After a long struggle of trying to survive a zombie apocalypse , you find yourself trapped in a bathroom with no way out . You 've practically lost your mind and you make one more entry in your journal
| So his name is Bob. Whoever reads this, please take care of him. Feed him, give him water, take him for walks, talk to him. He's been my only buddy for days now. What ’ s that Bob? Ok ok, I ’ ll tell them. He likes brains, preferably fresh, like the body is still moving fresh. Just scoop ‘ em out through a little hole ... |
4,578 | In five sentences , tell a horror story .
| Leslie's first sensation upon regaining consciousness was a cold dampness on her throbbing forehead, which her right hand instinctively began rubbing as soon as she was coming to, slowly blinking in her dark surroundings. She was startled by how much faster her body, now hyperventilating in panic beneath her, had grasp... |
4,579 | A worldwide dream epidemic has struck the human race , causing everyone on earth to have such vivid and terrifying dreams that it drives them to insanity in a matter of days , blurring the line between reality and dreaming , a select group of humans are immune , you are one of those humans .
| I shuffle down main street, keeping my hands by my sides, my head low in my hood; trying not to make eye contact. I see homeless people lying in doorways convulsing on the floor - it's obvious they've been... struck. That's what we called it.'Struck', such an abstract name for something so terrifying that it can ruin y... |
4,580 | Write a horror story in exactly twelve sentences .
| You know when you are walking in a place you know is a dream? It feels uneasy though. Like the dream is going to become a nightmare if you stop begging it not to. So you walk around and wait for morning to be safe again.
There is a door. A tiny door to the side that looks safe but as soon as you walk in you realise... |
4,581 | Zombie apocalypse ! Some one discovers that Zombie meat is n't actually infectious when cooked and is also DAMNED tasty .
| Hnnnng..
Zombies again. They were always out there, staring through the holes in the reinforced fencing and moaning. It sounded vaguely human in a way, just enough to remind you that rotting lump of flesh used to be a somewhat more pleasant individual. They were sociable enough among their own kind though -- kind o... |
4,582 | The zombie apocalypse has arrived but apparently it only takes a day for them to decompose . Tell me your story .
| `` Hey man''
`` Yeah?''
`` Remember when there were zombies for like, a day, or something?''
`` Yeah''
`` That was crazy huh?''
`` Yeah, they all just like rotted and it was n't even a big deal''
`` Yeah man, I actually got bit by one and I was like scared but all the dude's teeth just like mush... |
4,583 | Your a content creator who gives people at airports a disposable camera and instructs them to mail it back to you for you to compile a collage. You give it to a group of tourist but when you get the camera back what's on the film has you fearing for your life and questioning everything. | In all the time I’d been selling my services as a professional Photo Collage Creator at the airport, I’d never run into such a weird family. I’d known something was off about them the moment I spotted the dad staring at me, his lips curled into a sneer.
Tall and lean, with dark hair, yellow teeth and an unkempt look, ... |
4,584 | As a minion of the devil charged with stealing souls, you're used to people being too holy, too strong, too smart, or even too fast to capture on first try. And then there's this guy... | “This is different, your excellency. He is—“
“I do not care! Try again!” The heat from his breath makes me uncomfortable. I flee the underworld to try again.
Subject Terry Peters, Age 45, Attempt 44. I write in my logs. Logging soul stealing was new to the underworld. After 2016 A.D. though, His Excellency demanded r... |
4,585 | A small meteorite hits earth , carrying the seed of a plant that will grow on anything , including living flesh , and will eventually grow to cover the entire planet and everything on it .
| “ Father, why is the world outside brown, but inside filled with colors? ” asked a little boy.
“ The glass keeps it away, for it can not climb it, son. ” Answered an old man.
“ But why is the world brown? ”
“ Let me tell you ”
As many a story of the past, this one starts with a meteor shower.
It was... |
4,586 | You 're a ghost trying to scare someone who moved into your haunted house , however they have fallen madly in love with you , the ghost .
| Ever heard of Stockholm Syndrome? Maybe you've read about it, or even experienced it... But for me, I've induced it. It started out simple enough. In life I was never a mean or vindictive person, but now I figure what the heck? I'm a ghost. I do n't have anything stopping me. I was content in my home for awhile, did n'... |
4,587 | You find a lantern that will lead you to what every you want , but the closer you get , the heavier it becomes .
| I invited Karla to my house after school since she lived way too far away to walk in this rain. We dried ourselves off and just started watching some Netflix. All of a sudden the power goes out. I go to the attic to find some candles but all I could find was an old lantern my grandfather gave me. I head back down to go... |
4,588 | Make me empathize with a person 's decision to do a terrible act .
| I loved her. Correction, I do love her. I remember the day I met her. She was wearing blue jeans with five holes in them: three on the left and two on the right. Her black tank top hugged her body. And her face, oh, her face. It was breathtaking. So innocent, so pure, so beautiful. Surrounded by gorgeous, long, brown h... |
4,589 | Write a really great story that ends so anticlimatically that I hate you .
| Was was that. I jumped out of my bed as the shiny red eyes gleamed from the darkness. They were over in the left corner of my room. Red eyes in the dark. It was something evil, I could feel it. Something bad was going on. Whatever it was, it had eaten my guinea pig and it's cage. There was some shuffling and the eyes d... |
4,590 | 100 words to make me hate a character . 100 words to make me come to love them . 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them .
| Limb by limb I tore him asunder, the blood of my very father splashed against my clothes, my skin.
He was pleading for mercy, mercy that I would not give.
I dug my fingers into his eyes, his screams echoed endlessly in my ears, a guttural scream of rage and grief.
I never cared much for him, he was nothing to me,... |
4,591 | Story prompt: you're a time traveler and you arrive in 1936 Berlin, Germany for the Summer Olympics. Knowing better but messing around, you check your phone/gadget to look for a Wi-Fi signal. There are two access points. | I stared at my phone in astonishment, a WiFi access point? Here? In 1930s Germany?
I adjusted my fedora and glanced around the open square nervously. Clutching my inter-time-and-space-dimensional device close to my chest, I could feel my heart pounding. I took a deep breath and my fingers fluttered across the screen t... |
4,592 | You are a zombie struggling to survive in a world ravaged by a human apocalypse .
| January 23, 2473
I can hear them coming, and I don ’ t think I have much time left.
If you find this and you ’ re Original, please dispose of my body properly. It ’ s been a while since I ’ ve risen, but if you keep my parts close together I think I can manage.
I am scared of these New Ones, though — they ’... |
4,593 | Write erotica of hilariously bad quality .
| “ Uhhhh, khakis. ”
My wife slammed the phone into my chest.
“ Well she sounds hideous. ” She seethed.
“ Well she ’ s a man. ” I told her confused.
“ Uhhh, so, sir what can state farm do for you tonight? ” Jake spoke into my chest.
“ I ’ m sorry Jake, my wife thinks I ’ m sleeping around and talking ... |
4,594 | You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar 's body . The bigger the lie , the deeper and larger the mark . One day , you meet someone that only has one scar ; it is the biggest one you have ever seen .
| No one knew who he was. I certainly did not. We had all had several cuts on our bodies over our lifespans. My cuts went deep and had riddled my face ugly and my body full of scars.
But when we saw him... we were amazed.
Just one scar, one scar that ran his lips. It was like a laughing line, like he had cut it himse... |
4,595 | Someone with schizophrenia , who starts desending into madness .
| Ever since I could remember, I heard voices.
They were n't really too much of a problem, I managed to live life just fine; went to school, helped with family, graduated, no tragic backstory here. When they did speak, it was often gibberish, like a static background noise of sorts on repeat. Although there were time... |
4,596 | You are trapped on a deserted island . And I mean `` deserted , '' in the sense that it seems people used to be there but left for unknown reasons .
| Unfortunately I ’ ve lost track of time. I should have started collecting hashmarks on a piece of driftwood when I first got here, but at this point it seems pointless to start. Maybe that ’ s a mistake, and in few days I ’ ll be berating myself again about this very thing.
I ’ m not going to start the hash marks t... |
4,597 | Write a short story that ends with, “Anyways that’s how I lost my medical license.” | In the bar, an old man recounted the tale in an uncommonly grim, haunted tone. He was a surgeon who had begun to perform an operation on a man. As he was about to make the first incision, he heard a voice speak into his mind, saying something like, “Enjoy this, doc; I killed your son.” At first, he was disturbed, but h... |
4,598 | You wake up and you do n't know who you are . You see a news paper article with your face on it that says that your a serial child killer . You hear someone trying to break into your house . You 've got a handgun with six bullets and an open window behind you .
| Seeing the words “ Serial Child Killer ” linked to my name almost makes my knees give out. This could not be true. I quickly read the article and understanding creeps in. My memory of the past five years comes back along with a horrible pounding in my head that matches the pounding at the door. Finishing the newspaper ... |
4,599 | Freddy Krueger attempts to murder a seasoned lucid dreamer .
| A Nightmare's Nightmare
I wipe the grime from her face. I tell her that it will be okay.
The darkness will not touch her today.
I step from behind the ruined bulwark that once stood
a tall, noble, glass tower to the heavens.
The hateful wind burns my tender face
as I confront the demons.
The... |
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