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4,700 | Satan faces the issues of being a single parent to the babies and children sacrificed to him
| Finding good help around here is nearly impossible.
Do you think the kind of people willing to sacrifice babies and children to a supposedly bloodthirsty entity make good babysitters? Spoiler alert: they don ’ t. They really, really don ’ t.
So that leaves me, Satan, with—what is it now, like 250,000? —babies t... |
4,701 | You are being sacrificed to an elder god by a cult. They place you on the altar, and they tell you to close your eyes. As you do, you see the gods face. The expression it wears shows empathy and compassion, as well as anger. | I'm playing in the Mcdonald's play area, but I'm struck with a moment of fear. I think, "I will die if I don't get out of here." I'm only 7 years old. But I know these group of 3 girls are trying to kill me. I hear them atop the race cars in the Mcdonald's play park. There's the blue car and the red car. I don't know w... |
4,702 | You just found a door that should not be there . Everyone else seems to be oblivious of its existence . Or so it appears .
| It ’ s been 19 days since I first noticed the door standing in the middle of Times Square. People walked aimlessly past, as if only I could see this door.
The first time, I walked past the door. In a hurry to get to work, I hardly noticed it. The door was merely another oddity in New York City.
On day five, I r... |
4,703 | You’ve been elected to officially investigate claims about UFOs and a Non-Human Body by the US Gov’t. As you visit each black site location and see the evidence, it’s all real but uncool, lame, and not like the cool stuff in Hollywood. | I watch him reach up to his lapel radio, “Echo Actual, Index C19 west.”
A moment passes, I don’t know what to do other than to stare at the way the stainless steel wall is riveted together. My mind begins to race at all of the possibilities and I think back to Independence Day and the scene where the alien breaks free... |
4,704 | The villain wins. He is not secretly kind, he is not an anti-hero persona, he is not troubled and misunderstood and he doesn't pursue goofy goals. He is a Villain. | Fairytales were supposed to have good endings, weren’t they?
The axe swung in a blur, a shiny red trail echoing its actions. Those in its path fell, unable to fight back in any way. Their muted cries were cut off immediately, leaving behind haunted silence for just a fleeting moment. A peaceful, fleeting moment.
So h... |
4,705 | You are the first zombie to walk the earth , the only problem is you are extremely clumsy , and have trouble infecting anyone , recount the story of how you infected your first human . ( Preferably by luck )
| Being alone sucks, especially if you're a zombie. Got any idea what it's like to entertain the thought that you could n't even begin an outbreak? That you failed your species because you could n't chase someone to bite them without falling over your broken ankle?
Could've been late October now, I was too depressed ... |
4,706 | Write a story where an inanimate object comes to life at an inappropriate time
| Naked, in bed with a beautiful girl. Perfect right up until...
`` Are you cheating on me?!'' came the scream from behind the door.
I had never told my girlfriend. How could I have broken that kind of news. This wasn ’ t the way I wanted her to find out. But it was too late now. The cat was out of the bag.
“... |
4,707 | You wake up one morning in an almost identical universe where the only significant difference is that nothing has names , and things instead are described at the time literally by their function . Walk us through your first few hours !
| I woke up and slapped the screaming time-tracker to give myself another nine minutes of sleep. It screamed again, and I slapped it's stop screaming spot, then rolled out of the soft feather-filled place. I threw my soft sleeping clothes into the corner of the place where I rest and stepped into the boiling water fallin... |
4,708 | Make me terrified of something completely harmless. | Every night for the last week, I swear to God, my pillows have almost killed me. I'd say they were trying to kill me, if that didn't sound completely insane.
I used to love big, fluffy pillows, the kind your head sinks right down into. But, one night, I sank too far. It engulfed my head on both sides, and I woke up wi... |
4,709 | You find a ship in a desert .
| The desert breathes in fits, in torrents, in gasps and wails. She sobs softly during the night as her cacti are kissed with ice. She dies, for a while, when the sun is at its zenith and most unforgiving, the two sisters cruel co-conspirators. It is like the ocean, in that respect, though I have never seen the ocean – o... |
4,710 | Tomorrow , everyone will become whatever their worst fear is . Arachnophobes will turn into massive spiders , people afraid of flying will become planes , homophobes will be gay . You fear is more peculiar .
| It was a day like any day to me as I slowly got up out of bed and got ready. I did n't dare look at the magazine my wife left on the counter before she went to work, because if I did I might be presented with my greatest fear.
I ate my cereal fast and headed out the door, stopping only for a second to look in the mir... |
4,711 | One day you find $ 10m in your bank account with only the memo `` Sorry '' attached to it .
| Part 3
“ Wow, it seems someone must ’ ve felt awful about something, ” she tried to lighten the mood.
She had her screen opened to my saving account, the 10 million still sitting there.
“ Miss, please tell me I ’ m not getting scammed, ” I almost pleaded.
“ Sir, this is not a scam, I can assure you. Let me see ... |
4,712 | Typically, when a child has a fairy godparent, they’re a minor fae; rarely, they’re a fae noble. You, on the other hand, are an unprecedented case; it takes a very special someone to have both King Oberon and Queen Titania of the Summer Court as fairy godparents. | You are a child of great fortune. This is what the doctors said when you survived birth against statistical odds, and what your mother whispered into your ear when she laid you down in the crib that first night, and what the shadows in the nursery murmured just before two very large, very radiant, and utterly unfathoma... |
4,713 | It 's 2070 , you are 90 years old . Kids these days have implants which allow them perfect memory . Tell your grandkids what the world was like when people could forget .
| Kids. Do n't get the implant.
I know it's the new fad -yes, yes, grandma uses oudated slang like `` fad'' and `` slang'' - but forgetting is a crucial part of letting go, of healing. And sometimes - you need to let go of a memory, lest it consume you.
Your mother never understood. She got the implant.
Kids ... |
4,714 | In Defense Against the Dark Arts class , it 's your turn to take on the Boggart . However , your greatest fear is a bit more ... existential than that of the rest of the students .
| I stood in line quivering, holding my wand with a death grip and trying desperately not to soil my robes. I was terrified. We were facing a boggart today. Enormous spiders, terrifying clowns, and visions of being at the top of a skyscraper constantly in the room. I wasn ’ t really scared of anything that showed up. Tha... |
4,715 | What is in the hole at the bottom of the Sea? | There’s no hole. Who told you there was a hole? Did they offer proof?
Come on, you’re smarter than that. Look, anyone can fake a picture. Unfortunately, some people in this world are just bored. They use their unproductive time to come up with little things they like to tell themselves. Being creative is fine, my prob... |
4,716 | A haunted man is abducted by aliens , his ghost does n't like it .
| The first thing to appear was a trio of dazzling lights, which slowly coalesced into a single light as Randy's vision returned. A sense of unfamiliarity overwhelmed him, and he glanced around frantically, trying to make sense of his new surroundings. The room he was in was sterile and austere, and the smell of zinc hun... |
4,717 | Human and Android develop friendship/romance .
| Lola had always liked machines.
She liked the moving parts, the gears and wires and circuit boards. She liked the way that the pieces fit together and became something more than a puzzle; how something so mechanical could gasp to life and birth a creature self-sustaining.
But real flesh is different. The parts ... |
4,718 | You 're a jar of mayonnaise . You 're almost out
| I knew these days would come, but for so long I have put off thinking about them. I remember my youth: brimming, fresh, and new. In middle age, I was a fixture. I have made memories in this house. When Mother prepared her renowned potato salad, I was the star. When Father squeezed the life out of every hamburger on the... |
4,719 | You wake up with no memories , floating in a glass tube , which is then cracked open by people claiming to be there to rescue you .
| THUMP THUMP
I hear a pounding.
Rhythmic and constant it pulls me out of sleep.
THUMP THUMP
First my ears come back to reality, only the muffled sounds of that constant pounding are reaching me. I want to go back to sleep. Let me sleep!
THUMP THUMP THUMP
Something throws a switch in my body and my ... |
4,720 | Halloween is just around the corner, so let's get in the spirit. Create a monster and set it loose! | If a man loses his leg, he is given an artificial one and reminded of how inferior it is to his old, god-given limb. Do you think machines would envy our flesh if they were to know how much more fluid we are, how much more compact and graceful muscle is compared to what they are given?
Al had come home from his desk j... |
4,721 | Due to a typo , your local store/mall/etc . put out a request for an appearance by Satan instead of Santa . He follows through with the request .
| When my manager opened “ Stuff n Stuff ” ten years ago, he didn ’ t expect to put the Walmart in our little town out of business. But with a combination of pun-tastic advertising, local charm, and a convenient months-long air conditioning malfunction at Walmart that turned the whole place into an arctic tundra, Stuff n... |
4,722 | You hear people, you hear vehicles, you hear noises of people around you. They arent invisible, and everyone seems to be around the corner. You aren't crazy, but for the past 2 years you have not seen a single human. | Listen, every drunk-off-their-ass blind man you see on the street isn’t fucking crazy, okay? I hear things, I hear you, I hear what you say. So what if I’m walking in the middle of the road with a mostly-empty bagged 40 in my hands? So what? I’m blind, motherfucker, don’t you see? It’s late anyway and there aren’t goin... |
4,723 | Due to a teleporter accident a copy of you was made , the Supreme Court is now hearing You v You .
| It was supposed to be a straightforward trip. Get to the city, hop in a cab, pay the transport dues, hop in the machine, then arrive in San Francisco. Easy, nothing that hundreds of commuters per day hadn ’ t done for years. Then something went wrong. When I was woken on the other side someone immediately approached me... |
4,724 | You know that a stranger has been living in your house for the past few months , and still thinks you 're none the wiser . You come up with petty ways to annoy him .
| It took me a while to realize I'm not alone. There is another person who lives in my house. I can never find him... but I know he is here. It's the little things that give him away, an egg missing here, the laundry detergent being used, and even a wet dish. I called the police but when they came to my house, they said ... |
4,725 | You were adopted some years back and have begun to slowly realize that you 're a dog .
| I've always felt like an out cast in the family. Always being left behind while my siblings as well as my parents would go out on a car journey, leaving me behind locked in the kitchen unable to escape. They all get to go to school and get a good education while i just sit in the house looking out the window, waiting f... |
4,726 | The Apocalypse began six years ago . Nobody has noticed until now .
| I knocked on another of a long line of doors on my weekly assigned sales routes. This house like so many I had called on recently appeared a little run down with an over grown lawn, chipped paint, dirty windows and a pool filled with a black viscous liquid bubbling with what appeared to be a thousand silently screaming... |
4,727 | You are on the perfect date with your dream girl . You have meticulously planned the entire evening to perfect . And unknowingly , she keeps ruining everything you have planned .
| “ Sorry. So sorry, ” Alexis said. She ran up to me and gave me a kiss on the cheek. “ I ’ m sorry I ’ m late. My roommate ’ s cat threw up all over the floor, and I really didn ’ t want to leave it out all night. ”
I sighed. “ It ’ s okay. We ’ ll just get a cab. ” I had sent home the black car driver five minutes ... |
4,728 | Everybody is born with a bracelet that counts down the time until they meet their soul mate .
| Even at a young age Anna was concerned that her bracelet had a very short countdown. She did n't want to meet her soul mate at age 12. She had strong independent streak and wanted to see the world, not be tied down to a relationship so early in life like her sister and her mother before her. Neither of their relationsh... |
4,729 | A girl scout knocked on your door offering some weird looking cookies. She said that they were homemade and imbued with magic, so you smiled and gave the cheeky brat some money for one. As you watched TV, you mindlessly ate the cookie and found out the girl wasn't lying at all. | Girl Scouts. In the UK.
Now THAT was something I had never heard of.
The little snipe must have been ten, holding a basket filled with cookies in plastic-and-paper packs. To be fair, they looked a little odd at first glance, so I asked her who made them.
“Me and mum did!” She said brightly.
“Homemade?”
“Yup!” She ... |
4,730 | A species appears out of nowhere all around the world that is completely indestructible and it is out to kill as many people as possible . You 've figured out that somehow you 're the only one who is able to kill them .
| Screams reverberated through the city.
Paul was a deep sleeper. The screams did not wake him, but as his door splintered into hundreds of pieces he was shocked into consciousness, startled and blurry eyed.
He looked towards his door, and saw a recognisably shaped animal staring at him from the doorway. He rubbe... |
4,731 | By 2048 , the ability to copy a human brain and run it virtually on a computer arrived commercially . Almost immediately there were illegal copies .
| The messages started a week ago. I ignored them at first; they seemed innocent enough. I thought he must have had the wrong number.
`` hey baby''. `` i miss u''.
I'd gotten wrong numbers before, people demanding to talk to someone I'd never heard of. I would try to convince them that they had the wrong number, ... |
4,732 | Describe yourself in detail as you view yourself .
| I ’ m sat in my bedroom with my fingers on the keyboard of my laptop, and when I look up I can see my eyes peering over the top of the screen into the mirror opposite. If it was n't for those eyes, you ’ d have a hard time picking me out of a lineup with my brothers.
Their eyes match those of the rest of my family ... |
4,733 | You always had the ability to look at someone and see the exact date of their death.One day , you spot an old man with no death date.He walks towards you ... ...
| I was there when it started.
Science had progressed so far, we were now able to predict when people would die. Using advanced algorithms, the researchers had been able to calculate how long someone had left on this world; at least if a freak accident did n't kill them. Obviously it was n't full proof -- we were n't... |
4,734 | In 500 words or less write a short story with an anti-climax ...
| I gagged up the girl and shoved her in the safe in my shed. Hopefully the cops weren ’ t going to find her there. This all had to go perfectly, or else I was in some deep shit. As the cops arrived outside of the house, they parked on the street and all scrambled out of their cars. They all started pointing guns at me a... |
4,735 | 10 years after the initial zombie outbreak, zombies start to die off due to increased rotting and humanity is left to slowly rebuild. | I almost missed it at first.
The ever-present moans, the stench of rotted flesh, the scrape of their shuffling feet in the dirt... those things had become a fixture in the world. No matter where you went, what you did, they were always there. After a few years, your conscious mind stopped noticing them.
So when one d... |
4,736 | Your spouse have always had a sixth sense for what people are truly like. The people your spouse hate had always done crimes that mandated at LEAST one lifetime sentence. When your biological family tried to get in contact with you, your spouse downright hated them on sight. You side with spouse | The wind stirred at the end of our long driveway, kicking up dust like it knew what was coming. Simone and I stood side by side, waiting. My hand brushed hers, trying to offer comfort, but she didn't flinch, just stared into the distance like the storm had already begun.
"They're late," I said, almost hopefully.
She ... |
4,737 | Slowly start to realize that you have a roommate .
| The skull's right where I left it, I think. I look at it again. Yes, it's still there.
I go back to where the plant is. I investigate it carefully. Yes, it's a plant. Right where I left it, back when I went to see the skull. The skull! Is it still there?
I go back to where the skull is. Ah yes, there it is. Som... |
4,738 | You’d always wanted to be a rocket scientist, but oddly nobody hired you and so you worked alone. You launch your first prototype only for it to crash against the sky, darkening one of the many lcd screens that compose it. | I’ve always been the rebellious type. If someone tells me I can’t do something—it makes me want to do it that much more. I always felt like people were trying to push me in one direction or another growing up, and the one thing it seemed they /specifically/ never wanted me to do was rocket science.
“Mom, I think I wan... |
4,739 | You are the overseer of Vault 99 . The vault is staffed and populated with the clinically insane . You are the only sane person in the Vault .
| Part 2
`` Carmichael,'' I said over the loudspeaker. `` You know who this is. I want to speak with you. Is that okay?''
He said nothing.
`` Have you seen Ms. Lindsey lately, Carmichael? She did n't report for work today. I was wondering if you might know where I could find her?''
Again, nothing.
`` ... |
4,740 | You 're waiting for an elevator on your way home from work . The doors open to reveal a pile of bloodied corpses , but no culprit in sight .
| The small chiming of the lights counting down in sequential order is always refreshing, it always means i'm a step closer out of this building. It's been quite humid since the last snowstorm, what with all the heaters on, means that working here is killing us. The metal gratings open with a deathly creak, the same old ... |
4,741 | Write a story about a home invasion where nobody commits a crime
| At first I had a good life. The peoples living here were nice and all.
But then he came in. he spread like a virus in just one moment. he took my garden, my living room, my bathroom... even my pool! Boy what he did to my pool was awful! at least as bad as what he did to my garden. I could n't do anything... The smell... |
4,742 | Write a story about Bees , without using the letter B .
| You really don ’ t want one of these things to sting you. They ’ re not the fuzzy little honey makers on your grandma ’ s wallpaper. They ’ re not even from your grandma ’ s planet.
The “ swarm ” arrived in 2021, hitching a ride on a couple rich-girl space tourists too hopped up on champagne and zero-G to notice th... |
4,743 | There is a secret second Olympics for dangerous and illegal sports
| USA gripped the shoulders of Kenya on their right and Zimbabwe on their left. Kenya and Russia locked arms while Russia prepared to give Georgia the one good shove. Zimbabwe, with China on their left, had a change of heart and secured The Daisy Chain between them. The sprinters then leaped, mostly unbroken, over their ... |
4,744 | Everyone in prison thought I was insane because I always wore a smile. They gave me nicknames and made rumors about what I had done to locked up. Truth was, I was just a really happy guy who wanted to look friendly. | -I just want to warn you guys this is kinda dark. If that’ll bother you then please don’t read-
I sat by myself in the crowded cafeteria, as per usual. No one approached me unless they were new or really curious. Which was a true shame, but couldn’t really be helped. I understood. Sort of.
One of the new prisoners sl... |
4,745 | Then suddenly the steel felt so cold in my hands
| But my knife was very sharp indeed. It had taken a lot of practice to get the best results with the butchers steel but now I had it down to a fine art. And edge.
Using the boning knife with its slim curved shape I sliced under the rib bones carefully, the flesh was still warm but the worst of the blood had drained ... |
4,746 | A man 's body has been found . The cause of death : impalement by an uprooted traffic sign . Reconstruct the scene of the crime and explain how it happened .
| I do n't really write much, but I got the urge to do some creative writing this morning so I figured I'd go for it. This is my first time sharing anything I've written online. Hope you enjoy: )
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It was early in the evening, yet Dale had already downed his twelfth beer. His wife Beverly had locked herself... |
4,747 | A tedious , daily chore , done for the last time .
| The hide stretched on the rack before her. She had cut in the darkness before the morning, pulling it from the antelope like the cloak from a visiting guest. As light first spilled into the canyon, all of the meat and fat had been scraped away, and when the sun rose high above the canyon, as if angry to find her hiding... |
4,748 | "The bones show evidence of a modern diet, and are riddled with microplastics." 'So what's the problem?' "Well, this person died 2200 years ago." | “Let me see this.” Dr. Romanoff snatched the papers and shuffled through them, darting his eyes over the words. He shook his head. “Run the tests again, I don’t believe it.”
“That’s the thing, doctor, we ran the tests again—then three more times after that to be sure. There was no mistake.”
The doctor narrowed his ey... |
4,749 | Our nightmares are the last memories of our alternative selves dying in their universes .
| The pharmacy was closed. Again. I mean, it is n't that terrible but I only have the one dose left, and this is the third time this week I've tried to get my prescription filled. I have a really hard time functioning without it. Dammit all, I'll have to call out of work if I ca n't get it tomorrow.
I mean, I could t... |
4,750 | All your life whenever your life was in danger a masked stranger would appear and intervene. You quickly realized no one else could see them and when you were out of harms way they would disappear. You now stand in shock as the stranger stands between you and your bride at your wedding | Something was definitely out of place.
You were standing near the priest, ready to marry your soon-to-be-wife before you felt a glare burning through your neck. You slowly turned around to find “them”.
Their beady red eyes poked through the plain white mask that covered their entire face. The thing was, they only eve... |
4,751 | You 're in your favorite part of town and you come across a bar you 've never seen before . You enter and , unbeknownst to you , the patrons and bartenders are all ghosts .
| This was a place where departed spirits linger, that soft smell of spilt liquor ingrained into the floorboards. It was dimly light though the windows were bricked up, the air was heavy and cold like in a stone basement but it was peaceful and safe. Eyes slowly moved to watch as the darkened wood of the door opened inwa... |
4,752 | Tell me what you last dreamed about . Every detail .
| Last night I had a dream about being shot in the back of the head.
More specifically, I was was walking out of a boutique that had a glass door. The sun was gleaming off of it, and as I pushed open the door to leave, it exploded into a shower of glass. The explosion was so fierce that it blew me backwards and I tho... |
4,753 | You are an immortal tasked with maintaining goodness and order. Over the years you watch as humanity worsens; their greed growing as their good will dwindles. Finally, you've had enough. Coal isn't enough anymore. It's time for Saint Nick to take a more 'hands on' approach. | When I first learned they were calling me Saint Nick, I laughed out loud because I didn’t believe it. I’m no saint, it’s just that they hadn’t crossed a boundary where they saw my true nature. But now they’d gone too far, and tonight was the night they’d be met with consequences for their crimes.
The sleigh made landi... |
4,754 | You can turn invisible at will , however you become blind for the duration of your invisibility . One day you begin to question your abilities .
| My ability surfaced when I was five. The first time I turned invisible, it terrified me. Truly it wasn ’ t the turning invisible that scared me, it was the fact that I became blind too. One came with the other, there was no avoiding it. There was also no controlling it. It was usually preceded by a headache, and I coul... |
4,755 | Ashanti’s Gold Mine, South West of J-burg. 4 kilometres down Parker Bello swings a heavy pick at the remnants of the mine wall. As it drops away, a searing red beam of light plows from the hole. It’s temporarily blocked as a red sinewy arm slides through the gap accompanied by a guttural growl. | I wanted to hide. I wanted to run but I was stuck, frozen in time. My mind raced. What had I discovered? What was this place? Then my mouth dropped to the floor as I saw it’s face. Two eyes of pure evil, black and deep as space. Opaque orbs absorbing any light that bounced around the landscape. Surrounded by a sea of r... |
4,756 | As your daughter is about to be struck by a car while she is crossing the road, you yell “STOP!” Time freezes and you can easily manipulate any object. Your daughter is now safe, but after what seems like 2 weeks, you can’t figure out how to start time again. | Two weeks ago, my daughter was almost struck by a car. Two weeks ago, time froze. Now my daughter’s in our apartment, safe as can be—but time’s still frozen.
She’s in the living room, sitting on our couch. Her face is locked in horror, eyes wide, mouth stuck in a silent scream. In an hour, when this is fixed, she’ll w... |
4,757 | Write a story from the point of view of the protagonist 's phone .
| Half of the time we spend together I ’ m buried in the depths
of his pockets, crushed underneath his suffocating buttocks
as he shifts side to side. Haven ’ t you learned from my ancestors, the array of `` old models,'' you crushed, dropped and broke? Even the nerds at the Genius Bar told you to stop putting me in ... |
4,758 | You 've been in love with her for four years . It 's your senior year and you finally have the courage to tell her .
| People always say that thing about your first love being special. And I think that there are different kinds of love, but that's true for all of them. There's the first time you realize you love your friends, and that no one makes you as happy as they do, and when you realize that despite all the crazy nonsense that go... |
4,759 | You live by the sea and have noticed that lately , strange items have been washing up on the shore . Suddenly , you realize there is a pattern to what has been washing up .
| It started with some little things, things I wouldn ’ t normally have thought a lot about. A heart-shaped piece of glass, an old barbie doll, nothing that seemed totally out of the ordinary. I chose to live here because of how ordinary it was. How quiet and out of the way. Just the way I like it.
My whole life I ’ ... |
4,760 | Your girlfriend is an alien whose species is only slightly different from human beings . What are those changes , and how do you find out ?
| I had put a cloth on Kendra's head to try and cool her down. She had been running a fever since yesterday, and I could tell she was in pain. I asked her, `` What's going on Kendra? Why wont you go to the doctor?'' She looked up at me as she was laying on the bed and said, `` It's not something they can help me with.'' ... |
4,761 | Revenge
| The air I breathed seemed to emanate holiness, though his voice only imitated sanctity. Besides me sat a little, old woman with too much perfume who took the time to tell me all her favorite bible verses, eager to make a new friend. Behind me, a bored child sat, occasionally kicking the back of my seat, unable to wait ... |
4,762 | You knew it was time to go when the plate smashed into the floor .
| I knew that it was time to go when the plate smashed into the floor. Sending fragile shards of childhood memories across the stained linoleum tiles, across my father ’ s hairy toes and my mother ’ s striped socks. The ceramic projectile forcing Tiger, who hasn ’ t reached proper running speed in at least three years, t... |
4,763 | Describe something tiny and adorable in a way that makes it seem absolutely terrifying .
| They do n't look that different from other animals that live around them. Until they open their mouths.
Those mouths... those horrible, godawful mouths. Right at the front, they're filled with sharp teeth, some larger than the jaws around them. Teeth that can chew through wood and bone and stone. And if these teeth... |
4,764 | One night, when you get up sleepless at 2 am, you hear your grandfather's piano. No one lives in the house except you, and the tune sounds familiar. | I decided to grab my gun and quietly crept downstairs, careful to avoid the creaky parts I know so well from a childhood spent in my grandparents home. I remember the tune being played but he is gone, there's no other person except my grandma who knows that tune and she's with my sister up north. I approach the piano r... |
4,765 | Write a poem wherein , when read forward it is from the perspective of a murder victim . Read backward , it is from the perspective of the killer .
| The night is quiet, the air stale and heavy underneath the thick trees.
My footsteps are rough against the forest floor;
Red and brown leaves tear and disintegrate beneath my feet.
Fall is turning to winter, everything has already decayed around me.
The weak moonlight reveals wilting branches and barren... |
4,766 | Write about someone 's experience as they witness the death of someone they just met .
| Surreal. I don ’ t know how else to describe it. It just seemed so… out of place. Numb. That ’ s how I feel. It was just such a change of… pace. Lost. My head is just completely disoriented. I was only visiting my favorite local museum and was leaving when two tourist newlyweds asked me to take their picture. They were... |
4,767 | You are homeless . After an hour of successful hiding in the supermarket , the store has closed and you are free to start eating .
| 3 Months ago I lost everything I owned and I was left on the street. Three months ago was also when I started planning, planning to sneak inside the grocery store as it was closed.
Today was the day I followed through on my plan, I entered through the main door and made my way to the back where I could find the way... |
4,768 | The first to fall asleep will be brutally killed .
| John sat there, staring at Jim.
They had been on this mountain, after their plane crash, for 25 days and after having nothing to eat they had come to the decision that the first to fall asleep would be food for the other.
That was decided two days ago, and Jim showed no signs of being sleepy.
The same could... |
4,769 | Write a story , any story , that does not begin with someone waking up and going through their morning routine .
| There is something inside me. I can feel it every time I breathe or speak and every time I walk or move. It is strange and hard, just in the center of myself, in my flesh.
Some nights, when I am laying in my bed, if I concentrate hard enough, if I do n't close my eyes and I do n't think of anything at all, I can he... |
4,770 | : An utterly despicable , awful person commits a disgusting act of evil , all written from the perspective of someone who loves them madly .
| My heart pounds wildly. This is the most exciting thing I have ever been a part of. It ’ s monumental. It will be part of history. And I will be part of it.
We stand in a long line facing him. Sixteen girls of sixteen years. He looks so majestic dressed in his golden robes. He shines, making everyone else in the ... |
4,771 | In an alternate timeline , man 's best friend is descended from a different social carnivore : the lion .
| They say they were domesticated over thousands of years following tribes of humans and scavenging our trash. The odd thing about it though, is we never left that much trash.
Native peoples were always known to have used every part of every animal and that holds true for Europe and Africa. So why were they domestica... |
4,772 | A centuries-old vampire , turned as a child , takes advantage of being perpetually stuck as a little girl to prey upon those who would harm and abuse children .
| It worked like a charm! She did n't even have to use her hypnosis this time. The man was too preoccupied with her to notice her smiling and licking her lips as she walked beside him holding his hand. Mortal flesh was always bothersome, it stinks something awful and when it comes to those preying on little girls you can... |
4,773 | `` My family has a long tradition of haunting our home . ''
| My family has a long tradition of haunting our home, but they just do n't seem to understand that an eternity confined within these walls doesn ’ t appeal to all of us, you know? I mean it sounds great and all getting to live for ever, after a fashion, having your family around you forever and the occasional family pet... |
4,774 | You 've just woken up in the body of Michael Scott . You now need to convince the rest of the office that you are n't actually Michael .
| I woke up in a daze to a familiar TV show intro blasting out loud on the nightstand to my left from a phone. The caller ID displayed `` PAM'' but the background image was a can of spam.
Then it hit me. I do n't have any friends named Pam and that is n't my phone. Shuffling the blanket around my legs I began to beco... |
4,775 | An ambitious and goal oriented 20 yr old is in a car accident. He awakes from a coma 40 years later, he comes to the realization that everything he wanted to do in life he can no longer do. | I tried to picture my broken body splintered beneath the 3,000 pounds of metal I’d spent all of last year saving for. Well, I guess it wasn’t really last year. I wondered who had found me- which good samaritan had yelled to me, trying to elicit any response he could. “Stay with me man,” he’d probably said. Something li... |
4,776 | Write a horror story from the perspective of three year old .
| I call for daddy, but he not come. I am awake, and I always just call for him and he comes. He not today. I go to him instead. His and mommy's room is always dark, they keep the window covered and it scares me. I have a light in my room, and I never cover my window.
Mommy works at night, she saves people because sh... |
4,777 | ‘You know the deal, every 1000 years we swap jobs’. God sighed, why had he ever made that deal with Lucifer | Big daddy God was nearly done packing. He had chosen all his favorite mankinis, a bottle of chest hair oil, and picture of his beloved son, Jesus. He picked up his suitcase and began walking toward the door. Suddenly, Jesus tackled him, tears streaming down his cheeks.
“Daddy, no! You can’t leave me here! Who will gri... |
4,778 | Advancements in bioengineering and cybernetics have created `` after-market '' body parts and organs , giving rise to an underground modding culture akin to early 21st century street racing ...
| You had been blacklisted. Cuts in the public health system made it very hard to survive as a nurse, the private hospitals were even worse. So you started doing what everyone was doing: selling body parts. First of the recently deceased, then of people who were going to die anyway, eventually by engineering `` medical e... |
4,779 | An exorcism of a young girl , in the perspective of the demon .
| “ NO! ” I make my puppet scream, “ It ’ s MINE! THIS ONE IS MINE! ”
The priest looks tired and old. It has been nine hours now and he ’ s starting to win. I pull another string and my puppet lurches forward, laughing and pulling at the restraints. Her soul no longer fights me. It hides in the deepest recesses of he... |
4,780 | Write about the rain .
| It rained today.
That soft sort of rain,
Fine as fog but without the
Stifling stillness;
It rushes and tumbles
In quiet chaos.
The sort of rain that might
Cause leaves to shudder,
Now shining and fresh.
But the trees are naked,
Exposed branches like spindles clawing upwards
T... |
4,781 | Make me terrified of something completely harmless .
| Every night for the last week, I swear to God, my pillows have almost killed me. I'd say they were trying to kill me, if that did n't sound completely insane.
I used to love big, fluffy pillows, the kind your head sinks right down into. But, one night, I sank too far. It engulfed my head on both sides, and I woke u... |
4,782 | You 've been cursed by a leprechaun for saying it had a short temper . Everything that happens in your life is now a blatantly obvious joke .
| » What do you mean with ›you are fired‹? «
I noticed that I had jumped up but how could I sit still? I hadn ’ t done anything wrong as far as I could recall.
That wasn ’ t the first bad news that I got this month. Two weeks ago, my wife had left me out of the blue. When I asked her why, she told me she fell in lo... |
4,783 | Sarah, Jared, his twin sister Jenna, and Maurice have survived. They don't know if anyone else has. [WP] | “This will either be the bravest thing I ever do, or the last.” Jared thought, as he watched Maurice disappear into the elevator, that it would be both. This was the ground floor of the Bank of America building, located on the west end of downtown Dallas. The ragged quartet had reached their destination after three day... |
4,784 | Somewhere in some rural part of the world, a UFO lands in a town, and a group of aliens walk out. But instead of wielding laser blasters and whatnot, they come equipped with... Folding tables? Plastic cups? Paper plates? Food? | The boys are sweating worse than a typical race through the golden town of Izamal, Yucatán. They have never seen this before. Jaime saw it first. The cyan obelisk disk in the sky. Miguel claims it wasn’t cyan, that it was indigo. Manny says it didn’t have any color it was invisible. Sofia tells them that it probably ca... |
4,785 | You got lost in a forest as a child, and experienced something you keep secret to this day. | DEV AND RANI ARE ON A DATE.
THEY ARE DISCUSSING INTERESTING EXPERIENCES FROM CHILDHOOD.
RANI: So, you know the idols of God we keep at our houses right?
DEV NODS “YES".
RANI: So,one day I was praying and believe me when I say this, you probably won't believe this but fuck it. I legit saw the idol blink.
DEV DOES N... |
4,786 | Do your best to describe a color .
| Step on a lego piece
An upturned plug
A stranger takes the last seat on the bus
A kid yells and screams, he throws a tantrum and his parents dont care
Another sex offender grins on the front page as he walks free from jail
Politicians in scandals they wont get prosecuted for
A papercut
Your ... |
4,787 | Give me a martyr for a cause I can get behind in 500 words or less .
| Marbles winced at the yelping from behind the door, but she snapped her jaws when her cage mates started whimpering. The other dogs cowered but they were mostly silent. She hadn ’ t been part of a pack since she was taken from her litter, but if this was her pack she would be the alpha.
The noise from beyond the do... |
4,788 | While you were hiking you found a strange looking piece of electronic waste on the forest path. Being the environmentalist that you are you decided to pick it up. It decided you would be a great host. | Lacy loved the forest. Not only for its verdant vibrance, whispered sounds, and head-clearing melange of smells, but for what it wasn’t. Specifically, the forest wasn’t home. The forest didn’t shout, argue, or berate. Never had the forest punished Lacy for what she wasn’t: strong, agile, tough, alert to the slightest c... |
4,789 | Everyone gets a spirit animal when born, who will assist them during their life. They usually range from cats, all the way to bears. Your child got an ancient creature, from eons ago. | The day my daughter was born, the earth trembled. The lights in the hospital dimmed and my daughter came to me in complete darkness. As I held her, crying in my arms, the lights flared on. We waited for her animal to arrive, to snuggle up to my very own sheep, or even my husband’s Labrador. But, nothing came. The docto... |
4,790 | You have an imaginary friend . But your imaginary friend thinks you are its imaginary friend . Which one is real ?
| “ Imol shh, mom will find us! ” a child ’ s whispered voice “ If she catches us we lose the game ”
Imol looks over “ I know that Sam! Don ’ t forget it was your fault last time. ” Imol watches as Sam peeks out of the closet “ The coast is clear quick lets change hiding spots before she catches us ” The girls sneak ou... |
4,791 | You find a cave and decided to explore , what you find in it changes with your imagination
| Sheesh, what is this?
I found a cave yesterday and decided to explore it with my friend. Weird stuff is happening. My friend joked that the entrance would cave in. Three seconds later, it does. I thought that his talking caused the mini cave in. I yell at him and scream at him, that we are never leaving this place an... |
4,792 | A serial killer who kills hitchhikers picks up a serial killer who kills the people who pick him up .
| “ Hey, thanks for the ride. ”
“ No problem man. It ’ s cold out there tonight. Dark too. ”
“ Yeah it is. I ’ ve been out there forever. No one stops anymore, ya know? ”
“ Well, no one really hitchhikes anymore. ”
“ That ’ s because they ’ re all afraid of being murdered. ”
“ Probably the same reason... |
4,793 | Instead of the old saying `` Life is too short '' , write a story around the idea that `` Life is too long . ''
| I sat at the edge of the creek with my feet just beneath the surface of running water. I would say it felt cleansing, but really it was just comforting. I basked in the sunlight of a perfect day, my favorite kind of day. I thought back to when I came to the creek with her.
Her. Kris. My best friend at the time, a... |
4,794 | A bee goes undercover as a wasp in a sting operation .
| I jiggled my legs nervously and tried to prevent my body from making the distress dance. Relax, I told myself. It ’ s all under control. They don ’ t know you ’ re not one of them. They don ’ t know you ’ re here to bring down the wrath of the Queen upon these… these larva-murderers. I ’ ve seen what wasps can do. Para... |
4,795 | On the surface the school was one of the worst in the country. In reality, it was where children and teenagers with unique abilities harness their powers without the authorities breathing down their necks. | If I had I choice I wouldn’t have gone to the Wesleyville County School. Yet being cuffed and escorted by police gave me no choice but to enter the front gates.
It looked — well — like a school. It had a mown lawn and brick walls. It was the middle of winter so there were no kids out. Good I didn’t need an audience.
... |
4,796 | The world is experiencing a zombie outbreak , but the infected are only zombies during the night , and turn back human during daylight hours .
| She's cold.
Manual Espinoza holds his baby girl walking up the stairs. Passing frames of photos from phones he was able to salvage before the power went out.
`` Daddy,'' she whispers.
He knows the question is coming. He holds her tighter.
`` Daddy, do I have to go in there?''
He finishes the last of... |
4,797 | Abandoned Yellow Brick Road
| The children's park had been abandoned for several years now. The old swings were rusted and the slides were severely weathered. Still the yellow bricks were as bright as the day they were painted.
Teenagers sneak down to the park despite the fact it's been off limits for awhile. Mostly they go down there to smoke ... |
4,798 | Nights now last for 100 consecutive hours , days lasting only 8
| Nobody even asks why anymore. It used to be the big question on everyone's mind. In fact there was a world wide effort of scientists, religious organizations and even conspiracy theorists to find out what happened and how to reverse it. Now people just call it Armageddon or the Apocalypse and forget about the why. Now ... |
4,799 | Years ago, the 10 mile long creature fell from the sky. It never moved and was proclaimed dead. It never rots and regenerates when damaged. We found that people who eat its flesh... change. You place the pale cube of meat in your mouth. You are ready to leave your humanity behind. | One year. The doctor said I would live for one more year. I quit my job and we took a world tour. I saw the things I wanted to see. I crossed of every item on my bucket list.
That was five years ago. The last four years were agony. In a way the doctor was right. I lived for one more year. Then I survived. We went to s... |
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