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500 | Finally. Youve got the murderer of your S/O cowering before you. The vile person that took everything from you. No one is around. The fear in their eyes is the most beautiful sight you've ever seen. Every muscle in your body is screaming to tear them apart. You loom over them, they start to beg | Consciousness is a funny thing, yes? When we’re awake we actively make choices that impact our everyday lives, but we also absorb information through our senses, whether we’re aware of it or not. Active and passive, working in tandem.
Consciously, I knew that what I was doing wasn’t morally correct and couldn’t be des... |
501 | As the never ending pitter patter of rain fell upon the Cyberpunk city , you being a detective have been assigned to yet another murder case , your own .
| Even in death, I am not released from my duty. Ever since the technobiological revolution of the late 2090 ’ s, it ’ s been this way. A sworn detective must solve every case they are assigned, plus one. Their own. I guess the big guys at corporate figure that nobody knows a murder like the victim.
So I take to the ... |
502 | You have been bitten by a zombie and locked yourself in your room . Write a letter about your experience to whoever finds you , with the language getting worse as the virus progresses .
| It actually didn ’ t hurt as much as you ’ d expect. In the movies the people always scream with such intensity, with such pain and horror. Completely surrounded by a hoard of zombies, tearing the skin off the bone, blood seeping into the ground. But I mean, I ’ m still here, still coherent enough to write one last let... |
503 | You trade your cow for three magic beans. Everyone gets mad at you, but you have faith and plant them. The next day, lo and behold, a giant bean stalk grows in your yard! But you don't climb up it; instead you follow the giant holes made by the roots to see what lies beneath. | I hold the beans in my hand, jiggling them ever so slightly. One almost falls, and I instinctively close my fist, clutching them to my chest.
Not these beans. These beans are no ordinary beans. And now I have to prove it.
I look for a spare bit of soil in my backyard. For most people this would not be a problem, but ... |
504 | Billy Mays rises from the grave with a brand new product
| Hi! Billy Mays here for the Undead Uprising, the apocalyptic scenario powered by the air you breathe, activated by the water that you and I drink, and ending the life you live! It ’ s Mother Nature-approved and it ’ s safe on your colored fabrics, so long as you avoid bleeding the last few moments of your live out onto... |
505 | Tell me a gruesome murder in PG language .
| Today I finally finished moving into my new apartment. It just does n't feel like home, though. There ’ s something wrong with it, somehow. Something about it just doesn ’ t seem right. I hate that I can ’ t put my finger on it. Well, I guess there isn ’ t anything I can do about it at the moment.
Oh, it ’ s just s... |
506 | `` How much bait do we have left ? '' `` Just two horses and an elephant . ''
| The sun rays beat down on our tent as we surveyed the African savanna before us.
It's been four exhausting weeks since we started camping here trying to spot an elusive and mythical creature called the Gbahali.
'Tell me again why we are out here?' asked Marc, lying on his back and staring up at the tent ceiling.... |
507 | `` Oh god . Its gotten out ... God save us ''
| I worked with Dr. Jameson for nearly half a decade as his lab assistant, a duty which involved the mundane, such as cleaning beakers and measuring the most precise amounts of solutions, to the strange, such as digging graves and obtaining the most bizarre of ingredients. The doctor, however, paid me well so I never com... |
508 | Write a short story where the hero is also the villain .
| I did it for them. If I had n't acted everyone would be dead… So why am I in this prison? I should be hoisted on shoulders. My name should be screamed in the streets, not with horror, but with gratitude. THEY WOULD HAVE DIED IF I HAD N'T INTERFERED! The people use to worship me like a god among men, and now look at me!... |
509 | you realise you misheard your daughter. There’s a mobster under her bed. | [A kid’s bedroom. The father, a 37 year old man named DUTCH, closes a book, and kisses his 9 year-old daughter, ABIGAIL, on the forehead.]
DUTCH: Alright honey. It’s 9:30. You know what that means.
ABIGAIL: Light’s out?
DUTCH: Yep. Light’s out.
[He stands up to leave. His daughter grips his shirt.]
ABIGAIL: Daddy…... |
510 | A terrible industrial accident sliced you in half cleanly down the middle. Autodocs got to you fast, and with modern cyberware you will eventually make a near-complete recovery. The only complication is that both halves survived... | The surgery was a resounding success. Or so they say.
I mean, for what happened to me, I’m surprised to even be here right now. Being split in half vertically isn’t something most people walk away from.
But here I am. Almost a year on and I’m fine.
Well…fine is a strong word.
They said there would be complications.... |
511 | [ wp ] [ nsfw ] Destroy my soul : A challenge to write the bleakest , most hopeless and dark grim fic you can fathom ...
| Walking up the stairs to my girlfriend's apartment, I heard her door slam shut. Curious, I jogged up the last few steps and onto the landing. Just as I reached the door, I heard a shriek- and then nothing.
No thud. No clawing. No cries for help. Nothing.
I threw the door open and ran for her bedroom. The door w... |
512 | "Hellclowns." "Uh, don't you mean hellhounds?" "No, Hellclowns." | The black eyes bulge in shock from the pink lump with the barest hint of humanoid form at my feet. “Did you not hear the decree of Our Dread Lord Jiztto?”
“Contracts aren’t going to write themselves,” say I, wondering why I even bothered to talk to such a wretched and unimportant creature. “I don’t have the luxury nor... |
513 | You are stuck in a box
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I woke up with a gasp, my breath and sweat condensing on my face. It was cold. I shivered and felt the goosebumps on my skin as I realized that I was naked, completely enveloped by darkness. Or perhaps I was blind. I rubbed my arms as I squatted on my numb bare feet. I tried to adjust my stance, only to have my bare ... |
514 | Observing the shoreline. | They come each morning with the tide. Flocks of ravenous birds haunt them like loud shadows. Some brave souls land and sink their claws into the pale flesh of their backs. But the flesh would bite back. The helpless birds frit and squawk until they are entirely enveloped. This doesn’t seem to bother them, the Dead Gods... |
515 | I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, “Daddy check for monsters under my bed.” I look underneath for his amusement and see him, another him, under the bed, staring back at me quivering and whispering, “Daddy there’s somebody on my bed.” | That’s when I knew something was wrong. As soon as I had gotten home from work, I had a gut feeling that something didn’t seem right. That’s when I heard my wife yell from downstairs to come help her. As I slowly backed away from my son’s room, never breaking eye contact with whom ever was on the bed, I felt a tingle r... |
516 | Aliens abduct and release humans for the same reasons that humans catch and release fish .
| As the President of the United States and leader of the free world, Martha was not accustomed to dreaming about aliens.
The State of the Union naked? Yes. A Congress of monsters with mottled flesh, eyes as red and reproachful as stoplights; jaws sloping and lopsided, ( though curiously American Flag pins still squa... |
517 | You are reincarnated as a voice within a schizophrenic 's head .
| Part 2
Stewart's eyes began to slowly close and then my world was darkness. Unfortunately I was still there, I could still hear the room around Stewart it seemed that even if he was not conscious I still was. My plan had failed and all I had done was deprive myself of yet another sense. I assumed that any screaming... |
518 | You 're an amputee at the elbow . Your doctor tells you that you might experience Phantom Limb every now and then . But you are not prepared for the moment when a hand tightly holds your missing limb .
| I lost the arm in a car accident. My boyfriend was driving. I remember being in a haze while my doctor spoke to me. They found me with my arm lodged in the crumpled car door. It was mangled, my hand in a direction that hands are generally not supposed are to go. He didn ’ t talk about my fingers, but I remember looking... |
519 | You just died , and are sent to Hell . Upon arriving at Hell , you learn you are the first person to even be sent there .
| `` Hello!?''
The echo of your voice reverberates a million times against unseen walls. You assume you're in a cavern. It's dark, cold and a bit humid. Not summer, it's too cold for that, you can actually feel your breath on your face when you breathe, its more…..sticky, like you've been covered in some sort of film... |
520 | You thought they were just a gag . But they 're not `` beer goggles '' , they 're `` bear goggles '' and it 's pretty amazing how many people in your town are actually just bears in disguise .
| Anything was all I ’ d ever wanted, and now I had everything. Mountains of wrapping paper and food surrounded me. Every person in the room had brought something for me - not for Mama, not for Papa, not for the baby. It was my day.
Jill made double fudge brownies with rainbow sprinkles. Ella bought birthday-cake ice... |
521 | Inspiration: When a crime is committed, the criminal becomes their own reflection and is forced to watch their life get played out by someone else who they've been replaced by. Write from the POV of either the criminal or the replacement when they notice something is wrong with their reflection. | Any and all criticism is appreciated!
Reflections.
The number eight bus was always late, so I left my house twenty minutes early to start the hour-long journey to my mother’s senior assisted living complex in Burnaby. Years ago, there was a homeless man who would sleep in the doorway of what used to be a bible shop o... |
522 | You grew up in a religious family. Due to a minor speech impediment, you inadvertently prayed to the long forgotten deity "Veebuse" for most of your adolescence. Now in college, you have stopped praying every night. Worried, Veebuse comes to check on his only worshiper. | “You pay! Now!”
Spittle flew from the furious rotund man’s mouth, his face flushing a deep crimson color. With his stubby fingers hooked into the lapels of her shirt, his young tenant couldn’t pull away.
“I don’t have any money, Sergei, you know that! I’d pay if I could! I’ll pay you back as soon as I find another jo... |
523 | On a random day everyone is given a super power based on what they were doing in that moment, people who were reaching for something can now stretch like elastic, people who were running now have super speed. You really wish you were doing something else when it happened... | You’d think of all the powers people got, opening a door would grant a mundane power, like maybe a door will never jam for you. Or maybe something somewhat useful, like the ability to walk through doors.
No. Of course not. My power, and God knows how many others? My power causes fucking nightmares.
See, it goes like ... |
524 | Once a year you switch bodies with a random person who is best in the world at a certain skill . You ca n't change back until you discover what this skill is . You 've been changed for a month and are starting to get worried .
| I finally figured it out, what this disgustingly useless body is good for.
It ’ s a predictable story really, I spent a month trying every possible activity I could, searching for this man ’ s talent. I tried some of my favorite activities, but those were the worst yet. 47 attempts I had made at finding his talent.... |
525 | Your new girlfriend has almost everything in common with you . One day , you learn that she 's your female clone
| We love all the same things… It ’ s crazy really. So, I have this thing for ice cream, right? Eat it for breakfast. But she does too! And the freezer is like our little ice cream library. I mean, we moved in together after what, a month? She ’ s impulsive… like me.
Our taste in music, movies… she loves the slow bor... |
526 | You are a serial killer . Each murder you commit adds a new voice to your head .
| “ Oh God, please don ’ t, please don ’ t, ” wailed the voices in my head. I wished they would shut up for a moment. They made it hard to hear if the girl in my trunk was waking up.
“ Don ’ t do it you sick bastard. ” There was old man McAvoy, shouting over the rest. I was pretty sure he yelled so loud because he wa... |
527 | It’s the apocalypse and you’re cornered by a zombie, You’re out of options to fight back so you just decided to bite the zombie before they can bite you. But then the zombie snarls in pain, it starts shaking, its wounds start to heal, and it turns back into a human. | When you’re on the verge of death, you’d do absolutely anything to survive. Anything it takes.
And it’s not in your control. That’s… just how we as humans are built. There’s this desire to survive in us. And it’s this drive that makes you struggle… to use every last weapon, every last technique at your disposal… until... |
528 | You're part of the FTC investigation to determine why McDonald's ice cream machines are always 'broken'. What you discover terrifies you - and now you're running for your life. | Metal clanked, sputtered, and screeched pathetically as the vanilla ice cream machine died a slow, slow death. Again.
It was the third time I had been sent to the Forks McDonalds after an emergency call that there was something wrong with the ice cream machine. And it was the third time that I had stood in front of th... |
529 | You've been isekai-ed, unfortunately you have a medical condition that will make it extremely difficult (if not impossible) to survive in the new world. | The only thing I remember clearly is the screech of metal, the shattering of glass. A car accident. My wife's face, contorted in terror. Our child's scream cut horrifically short. Blood on the dashboard. Then darkness. I can’t even trust that anymore. It could’ve just been a bad dream.
I wake in a entirely different w... |
530 | Interstellar space travel is possible through the use of massive genetically engineered creatures. You have just been given a egg, you are now a captain. | The thing is about the size of a football field. What else would you expect, from the egg of a creature large enough to act as a high-speed space ship? It was pale orange and translucent, and you could see the thing in it.
Where does your everyday Joe go for an egg the size of a football field that will eventually hat... |
531 | You're a character in a video game and you recently died. As such, you went through the respawn process and came back to life, but you saw something as you were respawning - something that makes you want to never die again. | I thought to myself, what worth does life have if you can always tap back into it, if you can never die...
However, my preconceived understanding of the elixir of life was severely off. Death was a paradise when one had to go through such trials and tribulations that the devil himself would plead for the release of fr... |
532 | Theme Thursday - Karma | Alex knocked over the snowman. Our stubby legs stumbled over the head, crushed the carrot nose. We ran after the men in white dragging Daddy away.
“I didn’t do anything!” Daddy shouted. Snowflakes drifted through the number hovering over his head. -160,730. Only murderers had karma that low. He'd always been at thirty... |
533 | Falling asleep is easy , waking up on the other hand is the hard part .
| It has always been easy for me to fall asleep. All I've ever needed to do was breathe deep and close my eyes to slip into the deepest of dreams. I couldn ’ t relate to the people that complained how their brains just wouldn ’ t shut off as they grumbled about their restless nights; my problem had always been waking up.... |
534 | A girl is having her first kiss . An old man is holding his wifes hand as she passes away . A teen parent is losing their child , while a man is getting married . Four different lives , one day - make them connect .
| -As you know it, I ’ m sick. I ’ m gon na die André.
-Yes I know, I just don ’ t want you to. He was crying. Tears were rolling down his cheeks.
-Do not cry. I do not want you to cry for me. We had a good life togheter, my dear husband. A smile appeared on his face…
A young teenage boy was entering his favourit... |
535 | Sleep paralysis in vivid tingly detail. | I had pneumonia and sepsis and I was in ICU. I’d never had sleep paralysis before but the hospital had put me in a medically induced coma so I could heal. They had me on propofol, which has been known to cause vivid hallucinations. It sure gave me some!
The sleep paralysis happened over a couple of nights. And it was ... |
536 | You have 10 sentences to tell the scariest story possible .
| We had put up with this house and all its hauntings and killings for long enough.
We decided to end it all after it took our daughter.
Her head had boiled in the oven till it burst.
Her fingers stuck out from the food disposal as blood had splattered everywhere.
Legs loudly thumped, one in the washer, t... |
537 | In heaven , Steve Irwin continues his show with extint species such as the Sabertooth Tiger , The Dodo Bird , and the Neanderthal .
| Now, come a little closer. Crikey! Not that close! Back up a little. This thing ’ ll bite your head off as quick as look at you. Yeah, Jim, mate. That ’ s right. Just there. Are we ready? You got this thing rolling?
Roight.
Welcome to Crocodile Hunter in Heaven. Like I always said back on Earth, we ’ ve got a l... |
538 | I looked upon what I had made , and I was wrong .
| This is my first post on this sub and first story that I have written since I was a kid probably, so I'm sorry if it's terrible.
Deep inside the attic, between old Christmas decorations and lifetime ’ s accumulation of trash rested a rickety old box covered in dust. The box almost came completely undone due t... |
539 | Your daughter wakes you up in the middle of the night insisting there 's something scary in her room . You go with her to check it out and prove she 's just imagining things . After you turn on the light , she does n't see anything out of the ordinary and calms down . You 're frozen with fear .
| I came awake with a start. I ’ d been sleeping on the couch for the last few weeks since the accident. I rubbed my eyes and saw my daughter. She was wearing her favorite pyjamas... pink Hello Kitty footie pj ’ s. Under her arm was Mr. Seal, the stuffed seal she got from her mom when she turned 4. I noticed her cheeks w... |
540 | Instead of dressing up for Halloween , People become the monster they truly are until sunrise
| It's existed for as long as the world can remember. No one can figure out the `` why''. Not scientists nor philosophers are able to explain it, though once in a while there's that one haugty person who claims it's something about showing your true face to the world.
The morning of October 31st is an unofficial holi... |
541 | When you were 12 , an adult grabbed you by the shoulders and said they were you from the future and to beware today 's date .
| I ’ ve never believed in fate but the words of strangers have a way of lingering and so the promise of today had loomed over me for the last thirteen years. ‘ February 4th 2016 ’ he ’ d whispered, his fingers pushing into the soft space below my collar bones. ‘ Don ’ t forget. It ’ s a Thursday. ’
‘ You ’ ll be oka... |
542 | A sleep deprived youngsters is laying in bed when that one illusive mosquito enters his room ...
| It ’ s been 2 days. I can ’ t sleep and neither am I awake.
I lie in my bed starring at the light-blue wall of my room. I hate the color. I hate everything about this room.
I am alone. For now.
Outside of the room I can hear my mom getting ready to go to bed. She won ’ t be sleeping anytime soon. And neither will... |
543 | You come home from school one day to find that your cat is the size of your living room. “My camouflage is broken, human,” he bellows. “Find me a box and fix me before your caretakers get home and alert their authorities, I am not supposed to be here.” | Johnny opens the front door, and is suddenly stunned by what he sees in the living room.
Johnny: “Holy shit Oreo, how’d you get so big? And ... how are you talking right now?”
Oreo: “I don’t have time to explain that. Just listen to me, and listen good, mortal.”
Johnny: “Oreo, you’re really freaking me out. I don’t ... |
544 | Tell me the story of a man without a shadow or reflection
| Some say demons only come out at night and that darkness feeds their every need. They prey on unsuspecting victims who are unable to react. Darkness has become my ally, my only friend, and my refuge. You see, my demons only come out in the light. They taunt me, never far from sight. It was not always like this. I don ’... |
545 | What is it exactly , that goes 'bump ' in the night ?
| I could n't stand it any longer. I was terrified. The creaking and groaning outside my door had been going on all night, and I had decided that I had to investigate it. I climbed out of bed, taking care to reduce the amount of noise I was making as much as possible. I slowly pushed open my door to see a large man stand... |
546 | As an angsty teen, you used to try out various spells, with none of them working. Now, you're much older, and realize some of the spells you casted are beginning to work... | I have always been round in stature. Not fat, mind you, but soft, curvy. Repulsive. I tried everything I could think of to change my shape, I ate fairly reasonably, and although I did not exercise often I walked miles a day, and in my mind it meant I needed something more drastic. I tried everything I could think of. I... |
547 | Make me cry in 200 words or less
| Mama wake up!!!
A man in a blue outfit pulls me off her telling me it ’ s okay. It ’ s not okay my mama is sleeping and I have to wake her up. I got ta go into the apartment to get her alarm clock, it always wakes her up in the mornin ’. I squirm through his big arms and run through the ally up to our house. I can ’ ... |
548 | While visiting a deceased relative 's grave , you notice a tombstone with a death-date that has not occurred yet .
| So it was just another day. Another life taken away from me. My family and I dressed in black mourning because of the deceased, the pain so intense it feels numb, void of emotion. I sighed deeply, staring blankly at the casket in front of me, a person inside of it eyes closed and peaceful. I can almost imagine her deep... |
549 | You keep having dreams inside dreams everytime you sleep . Now you ca n't tell if you 're ever truly awake .
| I woke up. In the middle of a field? How did I get here? What ’ s going on… why aren ’ t I in bed? Standing up I looked around. It ’ s midday, and all I could see is grass and crops, as far as the eye can see. I started to walk to the north.. or was it the south? I had no idea what ’ s happening, but if I kept walking ... |
550 | You stumble upon a quaint little village . It seems idyllic , until the town 's clock tower begins to ring and everyone else rushes indoors .
| She pulls the bag back and the woodens shutters of her shop slam close, Wide eyed and confused I turn from the shop to see the town square emptying as the bell of the clock tower chimes through the town. I stare dumbfounded as people drop what they are carrying if it slows them down, shopkeepers tossing purchases at ot... |
551 | - '' We stood , my best friend and I , in the shadow of the house . ''
| The old Duncan house had been the site of a grizzle eight-member family murder. They say that the blood stains are inside, all over the walls, hand prints streaking the cream-colored paint as they struggled to escape the mad father.
The worse rumor is that it's haunted. In the terror within, they claim that ten spi... |
552 | Every time someone masturbates to you , you receive a notification on your phone letting you know who did it .
| I was n't ever really one of the pretty ones, the ones whose phones lit up in class all the time with a slight hum of vibration and an accompanying giggle or appreciative “ hmm ”... The few I got were always middle of the night, mostly names I'd never met, creeping me out beyond belief. It was quiet otherwise, until th... |
553 | An accident causes you to develop your superpower .
| The crash lasts only seconds. The car has flipped and I am dangling from the passenger's seat; the seat-belt is my only savior and I cling to it as I try to blink the fogginess away from my eyes. I feel my heart beating and the blood gushing through my veins. The warmth is spreading to my head and I must escape. I unla... |
554 | You 're a black guy who 's suddenly aware that he 's in a horror movie .
| You can always tell when supernatural things are about to happen. They show it in Hollywood all the time. You know, the scenario where the main character is walking alone down a forested parkway and all of the sudden the wind picks up. Dissonant violins creak, as the camera slants toward the shadowy depths of the fores... |
555 | You never kill the spiders in your home, you just whisper "today you, tomorrow me" when you set them outside. Now, in your most dire moment, an army of spiders arrives to have your back. | "Why don't you just kill them?"
"Because they're living creatures, Lindsay. You ask me that every ti–"
"Oh shut up," she rolled her eyes, cutting him off. He sighed as he opened the door to the backyard. The moon was full but barely visible through the clouds. He knelt in the grass and whispered, "Today you, tomorrow... |
556 | It’s 2AM. You’re alone watching movie at home then suddenly, a static on your screen. Followed by a dark background with the message, “We’re coming.” You thought nothing about it. After a few seconds, there’s a knock on the door. | TV after twelve thirty am is always pretty bad, but this horror movie was the worst. It was super cheesy, but I couldn’t seem to make myself turn it off. The characters were in a haunted house when the TV came on. Then my screen turned to static. Afterwards it turned black with the message “We’re coming.” Then the movi... |
557 | A little while ago, you took to relocating spiders in your home to more appropriate places when you discovered them instead of killing them. Then one particular spider seemed to show up more than once. You weren't certain though, until it showed up with a gift for you. | I eased the large, brown spider onto the paper towel. It lifted its legs, allowing me to slide the towel underneath it. It was the calmest spider I had ever seen, not like the little black ones that would scramble up my rapidly-revolving paper towel.
I squinted, looking at the top of the spider’s abdomen. I was fairly... |
558 | Dreams are actually visions of people 's deaths , however you can never tell who the person is because you dream as the victim . You 've just dreamt of someone getting murder by your 6 year old son .
| It happened again last night. I ’ ve been trying for six months since it started to keep these dreams from happening, but I don ’ t have control over it. I ’ ve given up trying to find out why this is happening to me. All I know is that time and time again I am getting killed. It started with the dream that I was deliv... |
559 | You can tell the age of any object just by looking at it. Then one day you go to the Smithsonian, and look at the dinosaur bones. 2 weeks is the age for every single one. | People call me gifted, others call me a freak. I have been born with this odd ability for as long as I can remember. This strange ability has helped me numerous ways, ways I find hard to believe. My family and I decided to visit the Smithsonian for we have heard that there is a new display for the exhibit. Now, here I ... |
560 | There are 6 people on an elevator . It suddenly shuts down and a voice from the speaker said : The elevator will only function if there is only one left alive .
| He dragged himself out of bed reluctantly. It ’ s been a while since he ’ s had to use this odious alarm clock. Been a while since he ’ s had to rise before noon. He knew he should be happy about getting a job interview after 9 agonizing months of dinking, internet porn and endless online job applications ( and really ... |
561 | horror story written by dr seuss | Well…
When the stairs are all a-creaking, at night you find yourself a-freaking--
Out! In the hallway, someone’s speaking…
“You’re the victim that I’m seeking,”
Yet you were at home alone! A stranger calls you on the phone!
And it’s ringing, ringing, ringing! You answer; all you hear is singing:
“You will die,” t... |
562 | Throughout your entire life, you've heard whispers. As you grew up, they became louder and louder, and you could recognize now that they were laughs. Finally, you manage to break the fourth wall, discovering you're living in a comedy show. You don't find it funny. | Pt. 1
Today I learned the cold dark truth of all I ever knew as existence.
The sunny crime laced town of Alcaponia, my job, my memories, wife, children, all of it… one god damn joke at the expense of a world they never knew was real.
All my life I heard voices in my head, small ones but voices none the less. I went ... |
563 | Your favorite/most memorable/most recent dream that you 've had
| I ’ ve never posted here before nor am I very good with writing but I ’ ve been thinking about this dream for days and needed to get it out there.
I ’ m driving to my friend ’ s house to help her with a Wi-Fi issue she ’ s been having lately. I ’ m always offering to fix things for her before she even says they ’ r... |
564 | You are a brain surgeon . Every time you perform a surgery , you have the ability to see memories of the patient you are operating on .
| Those people in the waiting area, the ones gnawing on their lips, rubbing their hands on their thighs, staring at the phones in their unsteady hands, they ’ re thinking of me holding a surgical knife to their heads and blood on the operating room floor. They twirl and pull their hair to remember one last time what it f... |
565 | While Hunting , You Shoot A Deer . Later , The Deer 's Spirit Begins To Haunt You .
| `` Just dropped the deer of Bills.'' I said spitting out my mouthwash. `` He's gon na get the horns for me. Hey I was thinking we can have stew.''
`` Not again. Last time you made deer stew we ate it for weeks.''
I chuckled and got into bed embracing my wife romantically.
I woke up. In the middle of the nig... |
566 | Waking up to loud banging, you open your front door you see the police, military, reporters, politicians, UN reps, assorted religious leaders, a clump of academics, and every 3-letter agency you have ever heard of. Speaking quickly you proclaim "Honestly? In my defense, I was left unsupervised." | It was 12 am and I was tired but I was home alone and someone had to open the door. “I’m coming!” I squeak “Are you aware—“ a cop started saying to me before looking down “a.. kid? What’s a kid doing here?” “I was left alone ma’am, my parents have been gone for 2 days” I reply starring up at her “are you aware of what ... |
567 | The monster under the bed and the monster in the closet meet for the first time
| `` Did I just see something move?'' thought Marvin. He felt his heart race, and he quickly pulled back in an attempt to stay out of sight. Ever since the parents brought home the new closet, Marvin felt something was off. Now that night had finally crept into the home, he stared at the closet, too afraid to move. Marvi... |
568 | On their 18th birthday, everyone is punished for the future deeds they will commit. Most people wake up with a few scars over their limbs and torso. Some wake up badly marred, some wake up spotless. Ever since you turned 18 you have been covered in burns. Today is the day you find out why. | “Alright class, today we are going to learn about right triangles!” A collective groan comes from my class and I laugh a little. “Yea, yea. Wanna play a Kahoot?” Their groans turn into cheers as I load up my computer. Suddenly, the fire alarm. The kids all groan and start getting up, but I just freeze. The fire drill w... |
569 | You are Alois Hitler , spending your days trying to protect your son from strange future people who are after your son Adolf 's life .
| They mostly came at night. At first, Alois was frightened, enraged – who were those intruders who dared to invade his home and put his family in danger? After the third man, he grew restless. Sleep evaded him. The house shrunk around him, the dark rooms became smaller, and when he sat at night in the kitchen, a long kn... |
570 | You wake up in a man sized box , with barely enough room to adjust yourself . You ca n't get out .
| I opened my eyes. Well at least I thought I did, either I hadn ’ t or it was still night time. I blinked a few times. I was alarmed at how dark it still was. Maybe the sun had fallen out of the sky and I was the only one left. My imaginative thinking was soon interrupted when I tried to bring my hand up to rub my eyes.... |
571 | A highly unusual event occurs during someone's mundane commute | Eyes bleary, feeling drained, one less day stuck staring at that screen in that grubby little cubicle. One less day on Earth. Stretching my legs now, station's ahead. I need neither watch nor schedule to know the train arrives in ten minutes, just long enough to soak in the last bit of that familiar ambience. The sicke... |
572 | Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood . The more bad deeds they commit , the darker their blood becomes . One day , you meet your soulmate . Skip a few years , and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips , falls , and the cut they get drips ink-black blood…
| We were together for some years now, he asked me to marry him just weeks ago. It was such a happy time.
We bought an old little house together, just outside the city. Not much neighbors there. He wanted such a house. For the children, and more space for the coming wedding. I loved it.
We renovated most of the stuff... |
573 | You wake up with no memory of the last year . Then you get a text from someone you do n't know that says `` Meet me outside '' .
| The first thing I remember is pain pulsing through my skull. I open my eyes and raise a hand to my forehead. I expected to feel blood or the shattered fragments of glass or metal peppering my skull, but I feel nothing. Nothing at all. Not even hair. I rub my palm against my bald head in delirious bewilderment. Where wa... |
574 | Make me love and hate the main character .
| You ’ re scum. Disgusting scum. A useless, insignificant little creature, a thing. I wish you were dead. It ’ d be better for all of us. You ’ re just a burden. Just end it, your pathetic little excuse for a life. You ’ re torturing me, and you ’ re torturing your family, and you ’ d be better off dead. Nobody wants yo... |
575 | You’re lying in bed on your phone when you get an amber alert for a missing person. When you look, it contains your personal information and name. You’re a bit confused at first, and start to freak out a bit. You go to tell your parents what’s happening but they’re not there. Everybody is gone. | It’s like every other night. 3AM, scrolling through YouTube or whatever. My phone then started to buzz. ‘bzzzzzzzt bzzzzzzzt bzzzzzzzt’ It’s an amber alert. ‘Who’s the unlucky soul?’ I thought. I clicked open the amber alert. I almost dropped my phone.
‘Amber Alert’ Name: u/OwO_Whats_Dis420 Age:17 Last seen: 6 hours a... |
576 | Strange footprints in the snow lead into a dark shed ... and you decide to follow them in .
| Mama always liked to tell me fantastical tales of people who weren ’ t like us. People who were part beast, who had magical powers, who could change the way people saw the world with a stroke of their mystical brush. And she always made sure that I knew they were just that: fantastical tales. “ It isn ’ t good for a gi... |
577 | You’re out shopping for groceries when your phone receives a government alert; STAY INDOORS. DO NOT LET ANYONE INSIDE. You rush home, knocking on the door for your SO to let you in. From the other side of the door, you hear your own voice. “Don’t let it in. It’s one of them.” | “Anna, sweetie please you have to listen to me! It’s me, Henry! Your husband! I just got your groceries! Cream cheese and ranch just like you asked for the buffalo chicken dip!”
I don’t even know how it was possible to be hearing my own voice from the other side. There was no way I could peak inside to see what the he... |
578 | While walking home from school, you find a book titled "Cheat Codes". It doesn't specify what game it's for, but the codes themselves are specific and seemingly random instructions. Messing around, you follow the instructions for No Clipping and find yourself walking through obstacles. | I flip through the cheat codes. One page tells me how to fly, another tells me how to make millions. I do not know what to pick, and then I find it. It’s too good to be true.
I’m at the cemetery and this is insane.. I head up to the headstone. Mary Harwick. Beloved wife, mother, daughter. 1970-2020. I have to try. I h... |
579 | Five years ago, unbeknownst to humanity, aliens invaded earth. thinking to establish themselves before we could move against them, they first went deep under the ocean. one week ago, a message from the aliens, broadcast in every world government, begged us for sanctuary. | The ocean covers 70% of the earth, and yet it remains mostly unexplored by humans. A deep black abyss, where no surface dwelling entity, human or not can grasp for. So when Jaime saw it, it didn’t take long for her to accept there was some sort of intelligent creature surviving off that vast seafloor. Maybe it was how ... |
580 | The first man to be cryogenically frozen remains conscious and aware , but unable to communicate .
| I had realized I was fighting a losing battle three months before I signed the release forms. I could feel it. The way you can feel, deep down, that you ’ re getting sick. That nagging in the back of your mind making you hyper aware of every little ache and cough. I wasn ’ t ready to die. Who is? I thought of leaving m... |
581 | At your new job, you’re responsible for answering the phone in a quiet office building. The calls come in at precise 13-minute intervals, but the only words on the other end are the same voice whispering, “He’s coming. Stay very still.” You soon realize the intervals are shrinking | Just like every other day since I started as UW Corp’s receptionist, the phones had been dead silent since 8 am. I’m still wondering why I even had to interview for this job - after 2 full weeks, I’d only received one call, and even that was just a DoorDash driver dropping off someone’s lunch.
I didn’t mind it, really... |
582 | Shortly after take off , a man falls asleep on an airplane full of passengers . He wakes up to find it is now the middle of the night and the plane has landed somewhere . The emergency lights are on , the hatch is open , and the airplane is deserted .
| He awoke to the sounds of Frank Sinatra flowing through his iPhone earbuds, pushing his eyes open from a deep, restful sleep. As he awoke, James felt a strange sensation, or lack thereof. He was completely motionless, sitting strapped to his cushy first class seat, isolated. The cacophony of restless passengers who mad... |
583 | In an alternate world, a well-functioning society of zombies face an outbreak of humans. | Richard ripped flesh from bone, blood dripping down his chin and onto his bare chest. Some of the sinewy ligaments got caught in his teeth, and upon yanking them out, his incisor came with it. Oh well. He didn’t feel pain anymore. It was only a mild inconvenience, as chewing was about to become slightly harder.
Being ... |
584 | "The vaccine restores a zombie's humanity, but can do nothing for the lingering memories and guilt." | “Do you think it worked?” The voice was muffled and distant.
The steady hum of hospital machinery mingled with the squeaks and clicks of hurried footsteps nearby. A rhythmic beeping matched my even breath.
Holy shit. I was breathing.
“I don’t- wait! He moved!” a different voice. Closer this time. Female.
“You’re im... |
585 | Secure your own mask first before helping others .
| The crash ahead of us jolted me awake. It was a thunderous cacophony of screeching tires, honking cars and a brief moment of silence that hung in the air for just a little too long, before I heard the sound of metal colliding against metal and wailing siren-like screams erupting from all around me.
I had nestled ... |
586 | Having seen Groundhog Day, you figured this time loop may not be so bad. You learnt new skills and got know people but soon got bored. So you killed yourself a few times, robbed bank only to reset at 12pm each night. Of course, the time you go on a town wide murdering spree, the loop ended. | The sound of the kitchen knife hitting the concrete pavement brought me to my senses. The rich metallic aroma filled the air as I finally took a breath. I looked around at the two corpses at my feet. The young woman’s blood were gushing from the large slash in her throat, her breath faint, each breath shallower than th... |
587 | The zombie infestation is on its third week now . You expected them to be dangerous , but you did n't expect them to be able to talk .
| Step after step I ’ m slowly dragging my feet across the pavement of 5th Avenue in New York City. It ’ s been two weeks since I remember anything. It ’ s been a two week cycle of walk, run, eat, and repeat. Damn this life! I swear if I ever find the person who did this to me I ’ ll….what is that smell? Subconsciously m... |
588 | You're going through boxes in your attic when you find an old, worn photo. It brings back long lost memories. | My parents finally decided to move out of my childhood home. They found a place across the country in northern Oregon. A quaint little cabin-styled house. One that you would see in magazines and picturesque photos. Luckily, they decided to move during the summer when I have time off University to help.
A few days pass... |
589 | On everyone's 25th birthday, they gain the ability to shapeshift into an animal. The animal is always random for every person. People once laughed at the animal you got, but 10 years later are now envious of what you can do. | People often ask me questions that are made to taunt me.
“How does it feel being that weak?”
“Don’t you wish you could have been something more useful?”
“Aren’t you tired of being that?”
The questions themselves aren’t too bad. I can brush them off with no problem, I’ve always been particularly thick-skinned. No, w... |
590 | The monster under the bed and the monster in the closet meet for the first time
| “ Hey ”
...
“ Hey, I know you can hear me ” said the monster under the bed to the monster in the closet. “ I ’ ve been sitting downstairs for hours talking to the monster under the floorboards - you know, just while the Parishes finished moving their stuff in. ”
...
“ You know, the monster under the floor... |
591 | A long time ago you refused to let the Grim Reaper take you into the afterlife . Now you really want to go but he refuses to take you .
| You ’ ve gained immortality in what is probably the stupidest way possible.
When you were 25 years old you died on one of the worst days of your life. You had just been through a shitty breakup, you were up to your chin in student loans, and some drunken asshole decided to run a red light and hit you. You, obviousl... |
592 | Free Write Tuesday: Share any stories here, prompt-inspired or not! | This is a modified version of a campfire story I created in my youth:
You’re cruising down the road, and the night’s so thick it’s like someone spilled ink across the sky, just a faint purple smear at the edges. Honestly, you’ve always kinda loved this vibe—it takes you back to those teenage nights when you’d sneak ou... |
593 | Lycanthropes only transform when 100% of their planet’s moons are full. Callisto III, which has seven moons with varying cycles, has become a haven for this reason. However, nobody realized that each moon increases the intensity, and the moons have just aligned. | I’ve lived here for 30 years. I’ve watched countless ships land with more people—yes, people—who felt shunned by society. Not just us werefolk, either, though the moons make it especially convenient for us. Disabled people of all shapes and sizes are drawn to Callisto III, because we all have one thing in common. We kn... |
594 | At night , the Unread rise and devour their checked-out brethren . The zombie Apocryphalypse has begun .
| Cassie woke with a jolt, sat bolt upright in bed and threw the duvet off. There came a thud from downstairs, it sounded like it was coming from the back door.
“ Tom? ” she hissed, reaching out to knock his shoulder,
“ Tom! I think there is someone outside! ”
“ Muuu... Huh? Cas? ” He rolled towards her.
... |
595 | Just a title : SHIT EATING GRIN
| Be careful when you wander.
You may be walking aimlessly through some nearby woods when you stumble across an old concrete tunnel. There's graffiti around the entrance, both reassuring and unsettling for the implication of an unknown presence.
You may work in an old building, one that has been co-opted and upda... |
596 | You ca n't feel emotional pain , instead you feel an equivalent physical pain , and you just caught your SO cheating on you .
| My parents noticed that something was wrong with me when I was around 4 years old. I had come home crying hysterically about my left knee hurting. At first they were frantic, searching for a wound or reason, and then still and scared when they could n't find one.
We spent hours in the hospital, the doctors had take... |
597 | One day you stumble upon a subreddit with pages and pages of pictures of nothing but you . What 's going on ?
| It was only a matter of time, I suppose, but I never expected Rachelle to find out where I was living.
Things were messy when we spilt up, and I knew that she was obsessed with me when we broke up—hence the restraining order—but it ’ s been over a decade since we ’ ve last seen each other. More accurately, I suppos... |
598 | Your life is an endless series of horror movies . You 're always at the wrong place at the wrong time . You 're stuck seeing all your friends die right after you make them . The reason you 're still alive ? You can hear the horror music .
| I ’ m sitting on the living room couch watching tv when the familiar music begins. I cock my head and listen; it ’ s the low baritone tune.
I sigh, from the pace of the music I still have around a minute before it arrives to attack me. Years of practice has enabled me to read the music cues, and some more years taugh... |
599 | Write a story about a staircase , 3 doors , lamps , and a baby .
| I woke up to her crying, so I threw my legs over the bed and flicked the lamp on. My husband moaned and turned over, resisting the call to consciousness. As I got up to grab the bottle, the crying turned into screaming. That kid could scream like someone was shoving splinters under her nails. I rushed up the stairs to ... |
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