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4,800 | "Please sit down sir, I have some bad news... I'm afraid your child is... is a protagonist." | Protagonist Syndrome PSA #1 - "Ellie"
Ellie was always just... a normal kid, y'know? Room full of stuffed animals, healthy appreciation for fairy tales, loved spending time with my mother-in-law... it was hard to believe, when the doctor told us—
She started showing signs of PS a little later than most patients. The ... |
4,801 | You 've never noticed the secret tunnels running under your neighborhood . Until now , that is .
| I had locked my keys in my car. Again. The worst part is that it was n't even the first time I had done it at the gas pump. Thankfully, I was filling up just down the street from my house and the weather was n't unbearable. It was late, but it'd be a quick walk.
Bouncing my thoughts between what little self defense... |
4,802 | 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 .
| I remember the eyes. She looked up at me with such betrayal. I could tell that she could n't truly comprehend what was happening as my thumbs crushed her trachea. Did you know you can feel the cartilage buckle and pop? I reflected on this as I stared into those eyes, the tears still wet on her cheeks; I hope she was as... |
4,803 | In a distant future where our alien overlords have taken over earth , humans are treated as pets the same way we treat dogs as our pets .
| “ It doesn ’ t have all of its teeth yet, Bemit. Who sold it to you? ” Erd held up the squalling creature, peering into its wide mouth. “ Is it even bipedal? ”
Bemit reclaimed iz pet and attempted to soothe it. “ I took it from a feral I trapped. It had gotten into my storage room and was pilfering my supplies. ” B... |
4,804 | [ Wp ] The zombie epidemic came and went in the developed world , most people survived , the military easily defeated the undead horde , and cures for the virus were created . However , zombies remain major issue in the developing and under developed world not getting nearly enough attention on the news .
| If you ’ ve ever wanted to hunt zombies Africa, now could be your chance and the great thing is that the hunt will be on us! ZombieHuntersAfrica.com, in conjunction with Apocalypse Safaris, is giving away a dream zombie hunt, for two hunters, to the Republic of South Africa. If you win, you get to bring your friend or ... |
4,805 | Your mother is a successful serial killer , who removes anyone that causes problems for you . Your dad is a renowned detective who is searching for the feared serial killer not knowing it 's his wife .
| `` Hey, Dad.'' Dad had just entered the house looking anxious and annoyed. He almost seemed annoyed at me, as he grabbed my shoulders.
`` Joshua, you must have some idea of what's going on.'' My dad was almost glaring at me. He shook as if he was ready to hit me. `` I've trained you to be just like me... A detectiv... |
4,806 | You are a thief that breaks into houses and cars and steals nothing but the alarm systems .
| The ski mask held snug against my face and made me wonder if this time I'd be caught. I'd recently read an article in the NYT about how glove prints were the next level of fingerprints - indentations from the way a beater wore his gloves.
By my fourth house it had become something of a fetish. Something I deeply ne... |
4,807 | 6 months ago , every household in the world began receiving small , unmarked cardboard boxes on a daily basis . The world leaders ordered to leave the boxes unopened and brought to the post office for disposal without stating why . You 've kept one secretly , but one day you notice something strange .
| When ever you are in the same room as the box for any amount of time, you're eyes have a glow to them for about an hour. You did n't notice it before because you do n't look in the mirror all that often, but when you had gotten an eyelash in your eye and went to the mirror to remove it, you notice the glowing. It's not... |
4,808 | The voice in your head all those years ago was right [ WP ]
| A dark and grimy alleyway. The air is filled with the smells of exhaust fumes and the odour of the rotting and damping garbage from the dumpsters that stand around. The floors are covered in the waste of its residents and your occasional heroin junkies and drunks. The walls are disguised by the graffiti messages of the... |
4,809 | New Year , New Me works literally for you . Each year as the clock strikes midnight , your consciousness hops to a different body of one of the 7 billion people on Earth .
| From a nightmare, to an adventure, to a chore. I was finding myself getting used to my existence, which was more of a curse. This would be just another night for me, but for some people it would be the end of the world, as when the clock hits midnight I ’ ll be gone, and it all starts again, for the 79th time. I don ’ ... |
4,810 | A man is murdered and becomes reincarnated in his murderer 's body
| There's this guy and he's hanging out eating some chips on the street. They are BBQ chips.
Boy, I love BBQ chips he thinks. I always have and I always will.
Then this other guy comes up and stabs him in the heart. As the first guy is bleeding to death the guy that stabbed him looks shocked.
Suddenly the guy that ... |
4,811 | As he slept , she dreamed .
| He was dead to the world in his sleep. His thick, muscular body in the ultimate form of relaxation, breathing slow and deep. She never was. It could be her depression, her anxiety.
When he slept, she dreamed. Nightmares plagued her. She bolted up, some nights, screaming, crying, her face twisted in shock. These nig... |
4,812 | An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens , however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously .
| When the red bones appeared and burned through the ganges delta, it convinced many that their ancient gods had forsaken the world, casting them off to be consumed by death and ruin. Villages, and then cities were burned to the ground trying to stem the tide, but the disease only seemed to spread with chaos following in... |
4,813 | All humans go automatically to hell when they die . You can gain access to a heaven though , but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you .
| I ’ m a bad person. Really, I am. So when they executed me for all the people I killed, I figured, “ Straight to hell!! ” I mean, honestly. I killed quite a few people, robbed a few, and then killed some more. What can I say? I like the thrill of the kill. I like hunting the enemy, the biggest enemy out there- and that... |
4,814 | Theme Thursday - Nautical | Sacrifice
Creak... schlup. Creak... schlup.
Remorse welled up, like it had before, as I rowed myself further from the shore. But this time was different. This is the way it has to be, I reminded myself.
My eyes drifted to the large sack at my feet. The burlap had several crimson-hued stains. It started to squirm.
"... |
4,815 | Make a story with morality as gray as it gets
| The constant screams and moans coming from behind the solid gray walls drove us insane at first, but we've gotten used to it. We had to quarantine the diseased... what choice did we have? We had to protect the healthy. It was not an easy decision, and we thought it was a far better solution than just killing them.
... |
4,816 | The “immortality experiment”, as they call it, has finally made its way to you and is complete. You’re one of them now, and it’s time for you, one of the selected, to fulfill your purpose. | Note: Still kind of new to this, feel free to give any feedback about my writing
It was here. It was finally here. After 43 years of painstaking research and trillions of dollars spent by the Collective, they had finally perfected it. CE-134, or more commonly known as the immortality experiment. It was the kind of ... |
4,817 | - A woman is the only person working the night shift at the city morgue , when suddenly she hears a banging from one of the caskets .
| Three bangs. Well, more like three gentle knocks. There's only so much you could do when you're in a casket with almost no air to breathe and was probably confirmed dead four hours ago. Two knocks. I'm pretty sure I heard someone there. There's no way he, or she could n't hear, I heard the footsteps and the mumbling. `... |
4,818 | A creepy old woman keeps telling you she wants to add you to her Face Book. You start to realize she isn't talking about social media. | Groggy and bleary-eyed on my early morning commute, I feel a prodding, bony finger on my shoulder. I lazily glance over to see the elderly woman on the bus seat next to me grinning wildly at me. She looks too old to be able to manage public transportation, but here she sits beside me, with a grimy, ancient handbag clut... |
4,819 | Once the St. Lalaurie Flower blooms , it has the power to grant one wish . But for it to mature and bloom , the gardener must endure years of torment and anguish .
| The newly planted precious flower sat in my garden, a radiant stem with a simple bud crowning its top ruled over the lesser flowers in my garden: the tulips paled in comparison, the daisies seemed to whither, and the roses loss their tint. With the St. Lalaurie blooms, every want and every desire could be fulfilled.
... |
4,820 | Unbeknown to most of the world , February 29th actually happens every year , but only those born on the day experience it .
| My vision goes cloudy, everything I see bends and twists into distorted shapes and a loud ringing fills my ears. However, it is over as quickly as it started, and when I can see clearly again, I am alone in my living room. It had been occupied just a moment before by my whole family, but now, it is Febuary 29th, a day ... |
4,821 | Nicolas Cage is completely unaware that he is an actor . All he knows is strange men with cameras follow him around while he gets into crazy situations and money shows up randomly in his bank account .
| It ’ s been thirty-four years since my life has changed. The film crew from Best of Times continues to follow me, capturing my every motion and every breath. They ’ re here when I go to sleep, and are there when I wake up. At this point, they know me better than I know myself.
BUZZ.
There it goes again. My phon... |
4,822 | You call to order pizza , but unknowingly call a hit man
| `` Hey, Pizza Hut, I'd like a large pizza with extra olives, extra sausage, extra anchovies, and hold the pepperoni. Oh yeah, and I'd like the crust to be stuffed. I'll have you send it over to my friends house, the address is 6599 Meadow Lane Rd. Thanks man.'' You hear strange muffled sounds from the other end of the ... |
4,823 | It 's a sunny and breezy spring afternoon , a girl has an encounter with someone by a lake . Write a simple yet beautiful slice of life piece .
| I'm not sure if anyone will end up reading this, but if you do come across it I just want you to know that things are better now.
My name is Alice, just Alice will do. Do n't worry about trying to find family or friends to give this to. This note is for you. I felt like I should leave some sort of record and ask yo... |
4,824 | He told me to never open the door, lest the monsters be let free. But right now, the thing I needed most was an army. | After Dad died, Mom got remarried so quick that it was hard to believe that she wasn't having an affair with the guy during her marriage.
The guy's name was Sam Watson.
Sam Watson was a creep. I won't tell you the things he did, but he was. Him and his friends.
That's why my older sister ran away, and took my younge... |
4,825 | You 've never been here before , yet this room is familiar .
| Journal Entry 450
The room seemed familiar. But I ’ m sure I ’ ve never been here before. The floorboard creaked every time I took a single step. There ’ s black bed and mahogany walls. A desk with cuts and grooves along the edges. It seemed so familiar, but I ’ ve never been here before.
Journal Entry 476
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4,826 | In a future where police can scan your memories to see if you are guilty of a crime , you are a `` memory man '' whose job is to implant false memories to frame people .
| May as well explain what's happening to you, not like you're going to remember.
Have you seen Vertigo? No? Oh man, see Vertigo, amazing film, my favorite actually. I loved that movie so much I had my good friend Dr Wong scrub it right out of my brain so I could watch it again for the first time, bloody great that D... |
4,827 | `` The light can never go out , '' explained the old lighthouse operator . `` Ships do n't need us . Have n't in quite some time . It 's the people here on land who 'll suffer if that light ever goes out . ''
| I stood from the top of the lighthouse peering out into the ocean. The morning views were always spectacular, this morning being no exception. My tea was hot in my cup, just barely warm enough to attempt a few sips. The burden of being the lighthouse keeper weighing heavily on my mind.
A gentle breeze picked up and... |
4,828 | During a normal day , you feel a sudden well of excitement and anxiety , accidentally discovering you have a power . Write 5 diary entries as you live with this new facet in your life from the first six months .
| First Entry:
5/16/15
Well, today ’ s surprise went well. Zoey didn ’ t expect the gift I planned for her birthday, although I didn ’ t think it would be that big of a deal. It was a nice Craigslist score, but nothing over-the-top. She told me a while ago how much she used to love playing Mario Cart with her old... |
4,829 | Write a story that will scare me out of wasting my life
| ....Where am I, it is so dark. I ca n't feel anything. Where did everyone go? This is n't what I wanted. All I needed was a way out, this is much worse, I ca n't even move. Wait what is this feeling, It is touching my feet. Its climbing up my leg I ca n't get it off. It is on my chest now, it is getting closer to my ne... |
4,830 | You are in the clichéd position of having died while being borderline good and evil . God and the Devil return you to life until you commit a final act that decides your fate but you figured out the ultimate loophole - by staying neutral you are now functionally immortal .
| The overwhelming stench of brimstone and lilacs filled my nose, with their booming voices echoing in my head. Suddenly, I feel a tugging on my body. My vision begins to blur and objects stretch to an imperceptible point. With a quick snap and a boom of thunder, I find myself standing upon terra firma once again.
Su... |
4,831 | Tell a story in which the narrator tells the reader a single lie . Readers are to deduce what the lie is using hints from the story .
| At 3 pm, Sunday afternoon - Mrs. Elma Sanders was murdered.
The widow of 63 was a fairly quaint women. She lived alone and for the most part, quietly. She was not well known by the neighborhood, and was often called an old witch by certain people. She was particularly memorable for refusing to give back objects tha... |
4,832 | Tell a story in which the narrator tells the reader a single lie. Readers are to deduce what the lie is using hints from the story. | At 3 pm, Sunday afternoon - Mrs. Elma Sanders was murdered.
The widow of 63 was a fairly quaint women. She lived alone and for the most part, quietly. She was not well known by the neighborhood, and was often called an old witch by certain people. She was particularly memorable for refusing to give back objects that f... |
4,833 | A man awakes in an unknown room , in his left hand is the key to the door , in his right hand is a note telling him not to open it .
| The first thing my groggy mind registered was the dripping of a faucet. A steady tap of water on metal. My back ached from laying on, what felt like a metal table. I slowly opened my eyes to a 8x8x8 foot room. A single light bulb illuminated what looked like a jail cell. Just the metal table and a toilet with a faucet ... |
4,834 | Suddenly all animals vanish, all of them but the birds, however their peep is very strange, they sound like all the animals that dissappeared mumbling in a numb agony. You decide to realize a bird autopsy yourself, to see what secrets they keep inside. | Disclaimer: this is purely satire, I'm not crazy. Thou, if I really were crazy, I might say something similar. Thou, on the other hand, wouldn't we have to assume that everyone is crazy, even though most of us are not, just basing on denying of that? But then again, can we really trust people who are clearly in denial?... |
4,835 | You've come to realize she's not entirely human. You've also come to realize you love her. | The thick summer air bristled with the hum of cicadas and something else entirely. His fisted hands ached from the strain of gripping the covers as he woke from the umpteenth nightmare this week. Every one of them was the same, each one some kind of warning. He looked over at her, the wild hair splayed across her pillo... |
4,836 | Human Apocalypse on a Zombie-ruled Earth .
| When it begins, you feel your bones gaining strength, calcifying in their core until you are no longer afraid to feel. While you wander, the arch in your back begins to straighten, and you realize that you move faster and more precisely than your companions. You'll pay it no mind and continue, unaware that the existenc... |
4,837 | You have been cursed , but you do n't know what the curse is ; and you 're desperate to find out .
| “ Hmm. ”
The voice coming out of my smart phone sounded more bored than interested.
“ You know, I am really going to need some more information than just that if you want me to find out exactly what kind of curse has been cast on you. These things are a delicate business, after all. There are a million ways to ... |
4,838 | The Gov't is giving everyone a shot that prevents them from feeling sadness .
| Do I do it? I had been staring at the open box, a carefully packed syringe lay inside, for five minutes now. “ No more sadness! ” the accompanying brochure exclaimed with a psychologically researched background of pleasant orange. The people in the picture looked so happy. The government had entered the second phase of... |
4,839 | `` Sergei , you have five seconds to put down the damn accordion and help me move the body or I swear I will beat you to death with the shovel . ''
| “ Sergei, you have five seconds to put down the damn accordion and help me move the body or I swear I will beat you to death with the shovel.''
Sergei sighed.
He stopped playing and paused for a moment, as if to contemplate the scene before him. He turned slightly from his comfortable position on the bonnet of ... |
4,840 | You wake up , still drunk , the morning after your first big college party . A zombie apocalypse happened overnight , but none of the zombies seem to be giving you any notice . You soon realize that the alcohol in your system does n't make them sense you are human ... .
| I wake up, head aching from the hangover the other night, an uneasy hunger is tormenting my stomach, I decide to get up to grab a bowl of cereal when I trip over my dog, his barks ring my ears making me want to scream, but I can only ignore it, stumbling along to my kitchen I ca n't seem to find the cereal and end up g... |
4,841 | She 's at the train tracks again ...
| Every day, at the same time, she ’ s simply just standing there. It ’ s almost disturbing that you could set a watch by her. No one ’ s ever seen her come up to the tracks or seen her leave, but she ’ s never there earlier than the 3:45pm train or later than the 4:05pm end of it. Everyone leaves her alone and some olde... |
4,842 | You live in a world where doing something 10,000 times makes you a master at it. While most would master sports or smarts, you've been collecting near-death experiences. You are at 9,999. | Dr. Harrison removed the last bullet from my chest and began sewing me up, shaking his head. “You know, one of these days you are actually going to die. People have tried this before. It never ends well for them. Six thousand seems to around the highest most get to before they actually die. What are you at right now? T... |
4,843 | You are a tragic hero/heroine . Explain to us what makes you a tragic hero/heroin .
| From my seventh birthday onward, my brothers and sisters have tried numerous times to kill me. I was always the favorite of our parents. Mother and father always praised my brilliance. Being from a noble family, they only cared about who the successor would be. By tradition, it would be the eldest son, my older brother... |
4,844 | Simulation theory is becoming more popular as the days and weeks go by . The people running the simulation of our universe are starting to get concerned .
| ‘ We ’ ve got another one… he ’ s young. ’
Mason stood in front of the simulator, watching the grass slip between the boy ’ s toes and turn to dust a few feet behind him. The muscles in his legs flexed as he pushed himself forward, the veins in his arms roadmaps of adrenaline.
The boy moved not an inch from the... |
4,845 | You are trapped in the computer game `` The Sims . '' You do n't notice at first , but then you realize , slowly .
| Things just did n't make sense.
Like that time I jumped in the pool. I did n't know we had an L-shaped pool. And then, I forgot where the ladder was. I swam around for hours until I found it again. I could have drowned!
And when I walked back in the house. Where did that telescope come from? I did n't remember ... |
4,846 | Terrific is the defiant child of Terrible and Horrific , who refuses to follow in family tradition .
| __29th of September, 1963__
The Nurse came out of the room. Horrible and Horrifying were waiting for the big news.
`` It's a boy. Everything went well. No problems whatsoever!'' Said the Nurse.
`` Yay, Horrible! You have a little brother!'' said Aunt Horrifying.
__2nd of October, year 1963__
`` Horr... |
4,847 | Rather than a trial , the accused is sent to a psychic who looks into their memories to see if they have committed the crime .
| “ I didn ’ t do it! ”
Two cops were dragging me by my jacket down a hallway. My hands were cuffed behind me and the cuffs were digging into my skin but I didn ’ t care. I ’ d rather cut my hands off than go where they were taking me.
“ No! Stop! ”
“ Shut up, or I ’ ll shut you up, boy! ” the cop at my right... |
4,848 | A invincible , immortal man is sentenced to `` death '' for a murder he did n't commit .
| “ You sure about this? ”
I nod.
“ Want me to go with you? ”
I shake my head no.
Margot reaches over, takes my hand, squeezes it. “ You sure? ”
I nod.
Margot offers a thin-lipped smile, a middling consolation. “ I ’ ll be here when you come out. ”
I nod, get out of the car.
I appr... |
4,849 | World peace becomes a reality . Tell me how it happened .
| The two figures shuffled through the broken frame of the doorway, crunching on ancient broken things, eyes furtively darting around the unfamiliar confines of the room. Strange, blocky shapes sat on various flat surfaces, while on others, dozens of containers made of the same broken see-through stuff that covered the f... |
4,850 | You 're taking a walk and you see a girl that looks eerily familiar . Then , you see her again , and again , and again ...
| Each time she was a different, proportion. Sometimes smaller, sometimes taller, sometimes wider and sometimes lanky. I stood outside the amusement ride waiting for her to come out, and picked up Danny instead. The sun had set so I must have missed her in the group of patrons. Later, while my little brother and I were a... |
4,851 | It 's a stormy night and the electricity goes out . Voices come from the attic directed towards you , 'So when is the wifi back on ? '
| My friend jumped so high his head almost hit the ceiling.
“ What was that!? ” He demanded of me. My parents were away, it was stormy outside, and a deep guttural voice from above us had just asked us a question.
Before I could answer he runs to my door and locks it. He ’ s not a moment too soon, because there i... |
4,852 | Describe picking an apple off an apple tree and eating it from the perspective of the tree .
| It was that time of year again. The humans called it autumn, or the harvest season. My people called it The Reaping. After planting, nurturing us they come to us and take the ultimate price; our children. They approach us on their infernal two legs, while we are rooted to the spot in endless rows, like a cruel joke.
... |
4,853 | You 're the first explorer of the world 's deepest cave . When you turn on your flashlight , you see dinosaur bones ... and a concrete sidewalk .
| I stepped down the path, glancing around me and taking notice of the bones strewn around me. `` Aaron, I think you might want to see this.'' I called behind me.
Aaron started walking up behind me and glanced down. The path, sure enough, was solid concrete. `` This is impossible, nobody's ever been down here!'' Aaron ... |
4,854 | An emergency dispatcher for a small town is working the overnight shift . It was an otherwise routine and quiet night until 2:17 am - that 's when the first call came in ...
| It was yet another quiet night, out here in the middle of nowhere. I had my book to read and for a while that was enough. But then I started to get drowsy. I was startled back into awareness by the phone ringing, the first call of the night. It was already morning at this point and I guess I was kind of hoping that I w... |
4,855 | Write a story that starts off completely insane and gets more normal over time. | I was in quite a predicament.
You see, I am currently trapped, in this, well, giant hand.
Above me, I could see the swirling black stars, and a silhouette of a giant face, with bulging, googling insect-like eyes.
I heard giggles. Weird, alien giggles, if they could even be called such.
I was being slowly raised int... |
4,856 | Write a story that starts off completely insane and gets more normal over time .
| I was in quite a predicament.
You see, I am currently trapped, in this, well, giant hand.
Above me, I could see the swirling black stars, and a silhouette of a giant face, with bulging, googling insect-like eyes.
I heard giggles. Weird, alien giggles, if they could even be called such.
I was being slowl... |
4,857 | Cats and Dogs see us as immortal and unchanging , simply because we can easily survive to be forty years old , while they struggle to survive twenty .
| This was amazing! I can relate to your story so much. This is so much like my experience with my cat, Squeaker. I got her when I was 8 and she died when I was 18. I was away on a graduation trip and when my mom called to tell me she was failing I rushed home to her. I stayed on the phone just talking to her while we we... |
4,858 | Everyone is allowed to kill one person in their life . However , you have to fill out a form explaining why this person deserves to be killed and the committee can deny/approve your request as per the rules . You are presenting your form today .
| „I plead the Fifth “, the man with the white hat said and laughed. He was sipping from his caffe latte and the girl with the frog face laughed too. I cringed when he said that. People shouldn ’ t joke about these kind of things.
„Ok, ok, Jane, you got this, “ I said to myself taking a deep breath, „they don ’ t kno... |
4,859 | The saddest love story you can write in a maximum of 350 words
| Finally a busy day of work was coming to an end, and took comfort in the fact that I would soon be home and back in the city. The lady sitting next to me said she worked for the nightly news, which made me wonder if this was all setup for her network to get more ratings. After all she was one of the few people to escap... |
4,860 | You 're a landlord , but your tenant keeps to themselves and they keep the place fairly clean - so you do n't really care that they 're a super villain .
| It's the loud crash and scream that awakens you from your slumber. You look up at the ceiling as pieces of debris fall from it. The new floors above are surely ruined. You hurry to stop the commotion. No one answers to you pounding at the door. The noises continue so you use the master key to open the door. When you tr... |
4,861 | Every time you sneeze you jump through time and you just came down with the world 's worst cold .
| I absolutely hate it when I sneeze. Everytime I do it makes me feel super confused, like I dont know anything about where I am. It does n't help that this week I came down with the worlds worst cold. The headaches and constant runny noses makes everything so much worse, and worst of all it comes with sneezes.
I hav... |
4,862 | It 's been almost two years since people stopped dying , and five months since we started to burn the ones that should .
| First, there was confusion. Then jubilation. Then horror.
Overnight the rules changed. Maybe some God had reconsidered the doom of man. Researchers were at a loss. Cells broke, shut down, malfunctioned. Men and women and children `` died'' only to continue on, somehow, despite all logic and reason. We could bleed, ... |
4,863 | You finish exploring a cave with a tight entrance, on your way out, you are stuck at the waist. You suddenly feel something brush your legs from the inside... | You have been wandering aimlessly through these woods for what feels like most of your life when you see the opening in the side of the hill.
Wanting for a place to rest and some shelter you climb in through and quietly explore. The opening is tight and the space beyond quite small as well. It is bare earth, almost li... |
4,864 | The year is 2200. You live in a world where all animals can communicate with humans and developed their own society. One night you drunkenly accept an internship at a advertising firm however when you arrive on your first day you realize you are the only human intern. This is your diary. | June 3rd
If I have to tell that fucking Monkey in the next cubicle to stop flinging his poop over the top of our divider one more time! He thinks it is freaking highlarious that I am grossed out by it. He tells me, “everything poops.” I tell him, “That doesn’t mean I want to wear it. “ I swear I’m going to slash the T... |
4,865 | [ CONTEST ] FLASH PROMPT Contest In The Chat Room Today ! REDDIT GOLD PRIZE !
| I still remember that day. I was only 13, but I still remember every detail. The sights, the smells, the fear…everything.
I was in a taxi with my mother. I think we were going grocery shopping, but I can ’ t remember now. I had fallen asleep in mother ’ s lap and she shook me to wake me up. The taxi had stopped and... |
4,866 | Someone has been writing extremely helpful messages on your bathroom mirror in blood .
| The first message arrived a little over a month ago.
I had stumbled groggily into the bathroom at 3am, head pounding after a night of drinking at a friend's birthday party. My hands scrabbled desperately at the cupboards above the sink before I stopped short.
`` Top cupboard, bottom right shelf'' read a message... |
4,867 | Your favorite/most memorable/most recent dream that you 've had
| So, this is a recurring nightmare I had as a child that has really haunted me ever since.
It starts in a huge auditorium/church. It's absolutely gargantuan, possibly the biggest place I've ever been. The ceiling is painted, domed, and gilded -- think St. Paul's mixed with the Sistine Chapel. There are elaborately c... |
4,868 | Our first contact with intelligent life ends up being a little.. underwhelming .
| “ I mean, we ’ ve always compared their societies to our own, but the idea of them literally thinking, of them actually being conscious, is kind of a shock. ”
“ Well, technically, the collective is intelligent. Like how our brains are a collection of simpler neurons. It ’ s the same principal, only instead of cells... |
4,869 | It has been proven that humanity is , in fact , alone in the universe .
| The President walked up to the podium, all of the news cameras facing him.
`` Mr. President, is it true?'' one of the reporters yelled out. `` Are we really all alone?''
`` Yes, it is,'' the President began. `` NASA has conclusively and irrefutably proven that humans are the only living thing in this universe.'... |
4,870 | You are a world renowned big game hunter, but you've done it all and have grown bored. Then you get an offer from a shady scientist. He claims he can shrink you to a fraction of your size so you can hunt small bugs and critters as if they were large beasts. It sounds dangerous... it sounds fun. | The one thing they don’t tell you about success if how boring it gets. I spent decades hunting everything and anything bigger than me. Don’t take this the wrong way; I don’t kill to kill. Each animal I put to death will live on in my memories or my latest accessory. The croc I wrestled my life from lives on as my fresh... |
4,871 | Write a story that begins and ends with the same sentence , but make the sentence have a different meaning by the end .
| My head was never usually scattered around all over the place- but that time it was.
But I couldn ’ t help myself. So many thoughts were whizzing through my brain- screaming at me in some sort of inconceivable mess. I was lost. I was trapped in my own head and I ’ d never be able to get out.
Looking up, I force... |
4,872 | Tell me what you last dreamed about . Every detail .
| The world ended.
It ’ s in the distant future, and me and a number of other people are moving through a jungle that was once Montana. It hasn ’ t been that long since the collapse, and we ’ re going through, collecting what we need to survive, hoping to start anew.
As we ’ re walking, I ’ m talking to one of th... |
4,873 | The Hour In between ...
| She loved to feed the birds. In that time, just a little too late to be night but still too early to be morning, the pigeons were so docile. Not terrified. She ’ d sit there in her red jacket, her skirt, still all done up from the night ’ s escapades. Not a hair on her head out of place, only drifting with the breeze a... |
4,874 | Your character is in captivity . Having been starved for a week , their captors give them a meal .
| I ’ ve been captured by some barbaric brutes, trapped in a strange land I do not know and forced into submission. When just the other day I was living a life filled with freedom and adventure, here I was now hungry and lonely.
I had been transported to some foreign domain, an isolated location where my screams and sh... |
4,875 | You go to sleep alone , and wake up with someone next to you .
| They say when you wake up from a nightmare, it was all a dream. But last night for me was a dream and I woke up to a nightmare.
I went to bed alone, along with a bottle of wine and my laptop. The first moment I knew something was wrong, was waking up in the middle of the night to the wind blowing in my bedroom. I n... |
4,876 | It 's the end of the world as we know it and we live to the fullest till the asteroid hits -- quitting jobs , professing love , going after dreams ... but the calculations were off , we live and have to deal with the aftermath .
| I glance at my phone, checking the clock. “ well Earl, looks like it ’ s about time ”
I already know what time it is, hell, the whole world knows what time it is at this very moment, pulling my phone out of my pocket is purely a force of habit.
Earl glances up at me with the one eye that ’ s not swollen shut an... |
4,877 | An immortal man tries to recall why he became immortal in the first place | They say a bird experiences time differently to a human. It can take in much more information in a split second. That’s why a bird on the road will fly out of danger at what seems like the very last moment to us. But it’s not rushed at all. The bird is just living everything slower, taking in every detail.
It’s the op... |
4,878 | Sleep Paralysis is something you've dealt with for years, but it never scared you, because it's scientifically rationalized. You have just jolted awake from one, only to realize your sleep paralysis demon "forgot" to disappear. | I wake with a start, but my body is unmoving. The same demon I have seen my entire life stares at me from the corner with the twenty eyes that cover her body. The singular horn on the right side of her head seems to have gotten larger and pointier as I’ve gotten older while the nub, of what I could only ever assume use... |
4,879 | : Your first book became a massive global success , and the series gets turned into a massively disappointing TV show . You ca n't break the contract but to spite them , you start making the plot increasingly difficult and expensive to filmatize . Write a random excerpt from the 12th book .
| The man would remove his mask any day now.. I looked on with silent horror as the man lifted his pale hand towards his mask. Then suddenly his hand peeled away! His entire body fell apart like bandages leaving only the swaying mask hanging in the air.
The mask then suddenly made a mad dash towards my face! Its tent... |
4,880 | You 've been turned into a vampire . Why has it taken you months to realize it ?
| Out of all of my senses, tasting was always the my preference. Anything to tickle my palette. I never knew the meaning of acquired taste. What folks did n't know is that it went beyond food. Like many children, I would lick random things to see how they tasted from animals to old toys. But I never grew out of it. It wa... |
4,881 | Those who die with regrets are reincarnated .
| I wrote this in 10 minutes. Please critique: )
“ I ’ m not ready for this! ” I screamed to the God I was n't sure was actually there or not. “ I still have to make things right! ” But, it was too late. The truck has already hit me. I am already dead.
I wake up to the sound of my alarm clock. Was it just a dream... |
4,882 | You are known as the greatest Villain known to history . The nations you have toppled are many , heroes and villains alike cower in fear and agencys would use their entire budgets just to guess your next move . However , you are unaware that you were a villain at all .
| I'm so hungry...
I tried eating the green things, but i was still hungry. But there wasnt any more green things.
So i tried eating the brown stuff underneath. It did n't taste good, though. It made me thirsty...
So i walked around until I found some funny tasting water. So i drank and drank until there was ... |
4,883 | Create a SHORT HORROR story with just ONE CHARACTER
| Ficas was sure he was alone.
He'd been alone on the way here, been alone when he pulled up, and been alone when he checked every room with a flashlight. Back then it had been quiet—if someone had been moving on these old floors he would've heard.
Not so much now, what with the storm and all, but alone he was, a... |
4,884 | In the land of the blind , YOU are the one-eyed man .
| You would be amazed what you can see when you ’ re literally the only one who can see. Sometimes I forget that I get to see what no one else can. When I was younger I used to think I was different because I was only able to see straight ahead. I felt like a freak. One eye just right in the middle of my head. I dreaded ... |
4,885 | One by one the passengers stop screaming and return to their seats, unsure of what to do now. The plane has been descending for nearly five hours, the blue sky outside the windows long since replaced by a featureless black void. | The black is all I can see now. At least out the window. The dim airplane lights are still on even though the engine has failed. I was afraid of death... now I fear something much worse
When the engine first turned off everyone started screaming. We all scrambled for parachutes as we watched the clouds fly upwards in ... |
4,886 | a super intelligent A.I. makes a deal with the devil | The shutters to the surgery room are shut tight, and the lights are dim. The room’s automatic sound suppression is tuned to a whisker’s drop. A few penlights are lit at five points around the room, as substitute for candles, and the robotic surgical spider finally finishes painting a mathematically perfect pentagram on... |
4,887 | The life of an ordinary person who lives in an action movie universe .
| “ At least we have each other, ” Molly said, while choking back tears. She said this every time our home was destroyed. This time it was just cruel, she finally hung that last picture that was needed to make the apartment feel “ complete. ”
I on the other hand, was still just staring blankly at where our home used ... |
4,888 | And here I thought my kayaking trip was going to be ruined because of the weather
| It was a great foggy morning. The wife had taken the truck to help a friend move some things before it got too hot. The car was totally okay to use though, I was going kayaking and I was n't going to let my missing truck stop me. I headed out a bit before dawn to get started on the trip. I was meeting my old roommate a... |
4,889 | You are the receiver of inheritance from someone you never met. They leave you a letter that reads " You don't know me but, I was told I should leave you this. Once you put it on you'll be able to see them." The only other thing that was left to you was an old brass ring with weird symbols. | I’d grown up in the city for most of my adult life. Ma had grown up in a village near the ocean, but had left just as soon as she’d found out she was pregnant with me. I knew next to nothing about her life, not even who my father was.
When Ma finally passed away, I was in my late twenties, married with a child of my o... |
4,890 | 5 Minute Horror Prompt Challenge
| He hadn ’ t time to stop to think about what had just happened, he just knew in his heart that she was dead. There ’ s no way she could be alive after that thing got hold of her. As he ran through the woods he could feel its presence, it wasn ’ t far behind him now, the smoke bomb only distracted him and if anything ma... |
4,891 | Every scar tells a story .
| This is a true story. I was born with a defective heart. Specifically a Bicuspid Aortic Valve present at birth. The condition became worse and worse. Most babies would cry but I was silent I just slept. I could have blue hands and arms from circulation problems. Four months later my parents had to make a rather painful... |
4,892 | Write a seemingly straightforward comedy story that slowly and subtly becomes creepy and unnerving or downright horrifying, all while remaining under the guise of a light-hearted story. | “Once I get him to the door, someone in here can count to three, and then we’ll all shout ‘SURPRISE’ at the same time!”
“Wait, is that one, two, three, surprise, or one, two, surprise on three?”
“And what kind of surprise party only has six people?”
”Mary, you know how hard I tried to get more guests to come, but ap... |
4,893 | Today , I came to work , as usual . A little around 3 PM , I have noticed I do n't remember my colleagues . Except for Kelly , who just sent me an email `` Act normal , meet me downstairs . Now ! ''
| I met her downstairs. Of course I only remember her because she was the only person I ever talked to at work and she was a 3/10 on the best of days. To be honest though, frankly, the only other person in the office is a robot named Darryl who is a registered sex-offender. He has a sign on his desk that says: Darryl the... |
4,894 | Spelunking, you find yourself dangling… above a cave full of vampires. | I don't think this is what you had in mind, but I got a giggle, so here you go. :-)
‘Bait on a hook,’ his brain thought to himself. He rocked his body slightly, forcing the rope to spin. The heavy helmet lamp on his head slowly turning with the revolution as he looked down. Their faces, pale, bloodless, fangs protr... |
4,895 | He brushes the dust off a shoe box . Lifts the lid , to find a clock with the hands stopped at 5 . Under it is a note to his wife . It was a gift symbolizing the time they got married .
| It had broken years ago. She never found any time to take it somewhere to get fixed. Things happened. Random things. Our children growing up, going to college, getting married. Then came the sound of little feet running around our house on the corner. We just got too busy with other things.
It sat there gathering d... |
4,896 | Everyone 's got that one story they 've always meant to write . Write a key scene from yours , but from the antagonist 's point of view .
| I remember when I was very young– I could n't have been older than 6– my father and grandfather took me duck hunting in Skagit county during the winter.
That was one of my first encounters with taking the life of another.
I remember how the snow fell down softly around us. The cattails and grass in the marshlan... |
4,897 | A serial killer has an encounter which does not make them feel remorse but nevertheless forces them to reconsider their actions .
| ( sorry, i have a thing for rhyming, especially with something so potentially dark and mysterious )
( also, I ’ m in the middle of watching Dexter, I ’ m mid-season 5 so I ’ m a bit behind on stuff )
He died inside a plastic-covered room, like those before him,
But something about this one seemed a little b... |
4,898 | A person released from prison discovers that the world has went 20 years into the past rather than 20 years in the future after the date of their incarceration .
| I've been in prison for 20 years. Today I finally get to walk free. I sign my papers, collect my belongings at the gate. I'm nervous, I'll be honest. I've heard stories of the world changing faster than you can. Some men ca n't handle life outside of a cell, they either commit crimes to be sent back to what they know, ... |
4,899 | Scientists managed to stop time for you, but you could never start it back again. Now, after years of wandering the stagnant world alone in silence, you catch a glimpse of something moving past out of the corner of your eye. Surely you imaged it, but then... you hear a blood-curdling screech. | “Were the effects only temporary?” I’d thought to myself, trying to pinpoint which direction the scream came from. Another scream was heard, seemingly from the west. “Erika Way” was my first guess. I’d begin running toward the source of the sound, and I could tell I was getting closer by the minute, but then something ... |
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