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5,000 | You are a kid 's imaginary friend . They 're growing up . You 're fading away .
| “ I ’ m real, ” he said to himself. He repeated the words like a prayer. They were not true, but they helped. Lucy sat and talked with her friends at the front of the classroom. Light flooded through the window illuminating her soft blonde hair. She was smiling, happy, like every other kid. She was finally one of the n... |
5,001 | End your story with `` We were just following orders ''
| I forget to count the bodies. I used to count by my fingers, but before I noticed my ten fingers were not enough. I tried to count in my head, but I would lose count. A lot of the bodies overlap one another. A lot of children ’ s corpses were beneath the adults. Normally the children ’ s parents would hide the them beh... |
5,002 | This just in ... the color green has disappeared ! Reports are coming in that ...
| It seems there is a viral plague that specifically infects the green receptor cones in the retina of your eyes. The resulting death of the cones causes a near total loss of the ability to perceive the color green. Scientists are working around the clock to fight the plague but there is no known way to restore the cones... |
5,003 | You have a near-death experience that reveals you have a Guardian Angel protecting you ... And you have the hots for her . You continue putting your life in danger in order to spend more time with her .
| I had been shot, yet somehow, I had survived. While I laid on the hospital bed in my weak state, she spoke. My gaurdian angel. Her voice was soft as she hugged me, leaving my life as soon as quick as she had entered. So many words had remained unsaid between myself and the angel. I just needed to thank her and see her ... |
5,004 | Your dreams have amazing continuity. It’s another life you return to when you fall asleep. Still, you’ve always known the difference between the dreams and reality, but things have been getting really odd in what you thought was the waking world, and you’re starting to wonder which is which. | I close my eyes, indulging in the intoxicating waves of sleep.
I open them again and it is morning, the rays of mechanical white light blinding me. My bed is hard stone and I squirm around on it, trying to find the sweet spot that I had gone to sleep with. Suddenly, the door swings open and I see a woman in a pristine... |
5,005 | You are a human that transformed into a snake. You developed phantom limb syndrome so strong that you now have telekinetic limbs. Using your telekinetic abilities you try to continue your life as a human. | It was just a tingle at first. I didn't think much of it and just brushed it off. But I quickly began to worry as it didn't go away no matter how much I scratched it. Wondering what was going on, I looked on the spot behind my shoulder to make sure it was alright.
It wasn't.
The sight was mesmerizing and horrifying a... |
5,006 | The world 's population incline over the past century has n't been occurring for the reasons we had believed it was . It 's actually because people are time-traveling from the future back to live among us . Those who are discovered to have come from the future are killed immediately .
| On one cold night in late December, my mother woke me up from where I slept on the floor with my two older brothers and told me to be very quiet. I couldn ’ t have known what was happening when she rushed me outside of our apartment building and into the back of a stolen police cruiser. The car hovered close to the gro... |
5,007 | You are 40 years old woman scientist who created a robot son out of loneliness. One day, your robot son brings an Alexa/Roomba/any kitchen appliance in front of you and tells you that this is his girlfriend. | “Mama.” Kades both human and robotic voice said from the doorway.
“Yes Kade.” I turned away from the sink and dried my hands, noticing the Alexa in his hand.
“Mama, I’d like you to meet my girlfriend, Alexa.” He held out his hand further.
“Girlfriend?”
“Yes, She’s my girlfriend.”
“Honey-“ I took the Alexa out of h... |
5,008 | He/she cradled the jar of peanut butter , gingerly rocking it back and forth between sobs
| REPORT: OFFICER KILLED DURING RAID OF CALIFORNIA MAN'S HOME
At 8:47 A.M. 911 was called from the neighbors of Victor Cappella, a twenty-five year old male in San Fransisco, CA. The neighbor, Thomas Carrera, reported hearing crying and shouting from the house next to him. Police arrived on scene and 9:12 A.M. expe... |
5,009 | You are a detective who has closed every case but one , a serial murderer who has taunted you all your career . After retiring you start to suspect your significant other .
| I stretched my legs out on the sofa, the cat purring contentedly on my lap. Retiring from detective work had n't been a easy choice, but moments of relaxation like this made it feel worth it.
`` Honey, I'm home!''
`` Hi, Mark!'' I got up and kissed him on the cheek. `` How was your day?''
`` Oh, the usual. ... |
5,010 | [ CW ? ] [ WP ] First and Last Line : `` I fell asleep as a child to the sounds of the last ships leaving the Earth . As unfair as it was , I feel it made me the person I am today . ''
| I fell asleep as a child to the sounds of the last ships leaving the Earth. As unfair as it was, I feel it made me the person I am today.
‘ Restorers ’ they called us. Tasked with the vital mission to restore the Earth so that, when they returned, humanity could thrive again. Everyone left behind knew it was a sugar ... |
5,011 | A necromancer has brought you back from the dead. One problem...you're an organ donor. | “Good morning sleepy head!”
I was rudely awaken from a very deep sleep. Immediately I felt pain throughout my whole body. My bones were brittle and my mouth had never been so dry before. My eyes began to tear up from a bright light above me. I could see a figure beside me but couldn’t make out who it was. I leaned ove... |
5,012 | You can freeze the world and time around you including people . You can choose which people are n't frozen .
| I have to take someone with me when I go, that ’ s the rule. Whenever I stop time, I need a companion. It ’ s a weird rule, and one I don ’ t really see that much of a point in, but it makes for an interesting time.
I tried taking people I knew first, friends, family, classmates, girlfriends, but the trouble was th... |
5,013 | `` I 'm crying at your funeral , but it 's not because I loved you ... ''
| It ’ s because you never loved me. Yes, I may have loved you once in my life, long ago. But how have you repaid me? Nothing. Only selling me to those horrible men. If I had n't escaped, I would most definitely be ash by now. Now, I ’ m back before you. I always wanted revenge. But it was n't revenge on those men. It wa... |
5,014 | It's 1862, you buy a candle to carry with you in case you have to walk around at night. After using it, you try to turn it off, but it won't go out. You decide to leave it covered until the morning, but when you uncover it it's still burning. Days, weeks, months pass, it's still burning. | It burns.
This forsaken candle just won’t go out! I’ve tried everything! Exorcism, pouring water on it, begging it, covering it for weeks on end yet it doesn’t seem close to burning out! I’ve destroyed all the wax on it as well so it’s just a burning wick! Yet it never goes out.
Winter came early as well and I’ve not... |
5,015 | `` Rise and shine ! '' booms a loud voice . You open your eyes and find yourself deep in a dark forest . Hundreds of other people lie around you and they 're all starting to wake up..
| You look around, trying to focus on the sea of people around you. What happened last night? You try to remember but the last thing you remember is going to the party. What happened?
Without warning, you spit a pool of blood onto the floor. You reach a finger into your mouth and realise that your tongue has been cut... |
5,016 | Creepy / Scary Emergency Broadcasts
| Amber Alert: ER:422318.63L9
Missing child. Last seen with a man in a costume. 7'0'' or about. No hair. Black skin. Eye color undetermined. Last seen heading north into the city on a horse carrying a weapon. He is considered armed and very dangerous. Please call 911 with any information.
Witnesses have described h... |
5,017 | After you leave here , remember that you must never look back .
| She opened her eyes. She couldn ’ t understand the world around her. Everything was lit up by this strange glow with no source. Red her favorite color. She seemed to be in a cave. It echoed like one. She got up unsteadily. Her tiny black dress shoes were not fit for such rocky terrain.
The further down the tunnel s... |
5,018 | A character reads an obituary , and is forced to decide whether or not to attend the funeral .
| Every morning, he gets up, makes a pot of coffee, and reads the paper. It ’ s been his routine for nearly 40 years, and at 79 years old, he ’ s not planning to change it now. He starts with the sports section, sadly noting that the Cardinals have lost once again. When he gets to the obituaries, he sighs. There are many... |
5,019 | The longer it takes for one's power to manifest, the stronger that power is. However, there are some who never manifest their power, falsely hoping they will be strong. You were considered to be one of these people, just living your mundane life, and accepted that until... | Fragile things they be, these “laggards”. They can barely take a punch! We must always be careful around them. Careful not to touch them. Careful not to bump into them. Careful not to look at them. A short peek with our X-ray vision could kill give them that weird growth thing. What was it, cancel? No, cancer. Year! Bu... |
5,020 | Write a story about saying goodbye to someone or something you love .
| This country was also once great—or, at least better than now. It had industries and commerce. It had jobs.
It had promise, yes; but its promise was piecrust. The politicians started caring more about maintaining power than using it to help people. They started to tell the people whatever they wanted to hear—even i... |
5,021 | `` After that night , Jerry always slept with the lights on . ''
| He felt a presence in the room. Living in a major metropolitan area, you always feel that somebody is nearby, you're all packed on top of each other. This one was different, it was like a spirit, nothing physical. That's what disturbed him the most.
He got out of bed to check everything was locked. He usually kept hi... |
5,022 | One day, it is found that the phrase “only the good die young” has suddenly become truth; the more selfish and hateful you are, the longer you live. …That was millennia ago, and the world is now nearly exclusively inhabited by ancient, truly horrible people. | I saw my dad help a poor lady once. I don't know what happened but I snapped and killed him.
I couldn't let a selfless weakling like him exist. The worse thing is, I don't feel bad. In fact I feel good. I feel powerful. I feel like I'm the god of this world.
This strange feeling stayed with me. I am not addicted to i... |
5,023 | You are a modern villain , write your opening sppech or soliloquy
| Do you know why black is my favorite color? Well let me explain, ya see, black is the color of birth, we are born in darkness, screaming, your mother looks down on you and you do n't even know it. It is the color of death, fade to black as they say in the movies, it's the last thing you see and the first thing you see ... |
5,024 | Everyone gains an animal that represents their soul when they 're 16 . Those who have done bad things become monsters or demons . Tell us about what you see daily .
| I laid in bed staring at the ceiling, 3:12am - I could n't sleep I would be exactly 16 in a few hours and have to meet my soul beast. What will my parents say when they see it, when they find out what I did?
My head swam with thoughts, anxiety, fear, I got up to vomit again for the third time, somewhere in my delir... |
5,025 | Hell actually exists - in the deepest depths of the ocean . You are seeing it for the first time . Describe the horror .
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Water rushed into my mouth quickly and fiercely. I need to breath, badly. However when I tried, more water poured into my lungs. The cool water burns intensely in my throat and lungs. I feel myself sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss.
Darkness completely covers me and I see nothing, but I feel like i'm sur... |
5,026 | Demons, monsters, everything that goes bump in the night: they're real, and they're everywhere. The only reason you know is that they are all absolutely terrified of you, and you don't know why. | I tucked my son in and read him a Seuss,
Then stared at his monster: a closet recluse.
It sat in the dark, with nowhere to flee,
Large, dark, black eyes staring back out at me.
My son clutched his bedsheets,
A silk-cotton shield.
And pointed to the window,
The glass panes revealed
A wildish figure, coupled w... |
5,027 | I love watching her cry .
| The waiting was the hardest. Waiting for the doctors to tell me what to do, to tell me what to think, to explain what ’ s going on. Waiting for her fluttering vitals to make sense and stabilize. Stick thin limbs and tissue paper thin skin looking so delicate and fragile, as though a breath of wind would make her crumpl... |
5,028 | Death is not some all powerful being . Rather , she 's a socially awkward outcast . Somehow , you 've managed to befriend her and things have started getting weird ...
| There is a slight noise at the door and I sigh, it's past nine o'clock and the neighbors have probably seen this one already. The man's body is propped against my porch. A slight trickle of blood seeps out of his ear, one eyelid is open but the flicker of life is long gone. He's dead as shit and... yup she's crouched i... |
5,029 | You are the owner of a large garbage company by day , world 's greatest blackmail artist by night .
| My dad left me everything. His death was not unexpected, but the transfer of power was. His guys don ’ t know what to make of this, and honestly, neither do I. Walking around his office I pick up the invoices and files on his desk. I look intently at a few, tracing my fingers over the dollar amounts. Extra lawn clippin... |
5,030 | A crime scene photographer is bored in a sleepy town when he suddenly gets his wish of gruesome deaths to document. In looking through the photographs one night, he learns that the murders are for his enjoyment. | Matt turned into the motel parking lot, turned off the engine, and sat looking out the windshield. It was just after sundown and the sky had changed from orange to blue giving the side of the motel that distressed look. The parking lot was empty except for his rental car and a single black Mercedes parked just off cent... |
5,031 | You were given only one instruction: "Here is a shotgun. Kill everything that moves!" | The piece of paper in my hands was easy enough to understand. The note on it was written plainly and left little to interpretation. I read it to myself several times and, once satisfied that I understood it completely, crumpled it up and stuffed it in my pocket.
How I had gotten here was a far more interesting mystery... |
5,032 | And that was the moment I was forced to grow up .
| I was 19, a sophomore at university, fresh out of my first year, barely. I sat there and stared as the woman asked me the same question twice. She was indifferent at first, though the indifference had not faded by much, now. I ’ d like to think that the welling tears gave away how I felt, but now I ’ ve realized that m... |
5,033 | The difference between you and me is that I can still sleep at night .
| The soil was almost as cold as her corpse, the day we buried her in earth around back: in the abandoned playground, where we used to play. No one goes around there anymore, not even when we had been children, but I still remember the scraping sound of the swings, the way our tiny feet hit the dirt as we swung, reaching... |
5,034 | `` I never said she stole my money '' - This sentence has 7 different meanings depending on the stressed word . How much of them can be put in a story ?
| Dinner was cold and the wine was making my head spin. I was unemployed and had all day to think, she was checking her cell phone for emails about work. Our conversation is like a stagnant pool of water where the source had been cut off somewhere. She was fidgeting. I didn ’ t notice at first but her foot was tapping on... |
5,035 | You're a foodie with a special ability: you always know exactly what you ate. You didn't want to spend your life hunting serial killers, but people just won't stop serving you human meat. | Garlic.
Lemon.
Butter.
Ok, off to a good start.
Sauvignon Blanc.
Flour.
Capers.
Hm. Lovely. Now just the veal left.
Damn. I was really pulling for you, Charlie. I thought you might actually serve me a decent meal.
Madeline Cromley disappeared from a rowdy high school party in the woods last week. Now I’m being served h... |
5,036 | Thank you and good night, folks, and please, remember to spay or neuter your humans... | “Thank you all for coming to this trapping session and folks and remember to spay and neuter your humans.” Kojo yawned, rubbing his eyes, feeling exhausted from staying up late, capturing this young human girl, shivering from the cold dark forest. ‘Can’t wait to get out of here the It’s always creepy finding someone we... |
5,037 | [ ip ] rusted jewelry hung at cemetery
| Although it always brought up painful emotions, Jennie loved walking past the cemetery on her way home from school. The painful emotions were a small price to pay for all of the wonderful memories that would come flooding back as she approached the reddish colored gravestone that marked her mother ’ s final resting pla... |
5,038 | Write the best prolouge you can . Make me drool for more !
| Shut it.
He heard the screaming right when he woke up. It shuddered the mall every time it echoed. It was a terrible scream, one that made his blood churn and turn into butter inside his body. He got up, tired from his long slumber and started progressing through the mall; it was strangely quiet and dark out. He foll... |
5,039 | A lone vampire struggling to survive a zombie apocalypse stumbles upon a human family who invite him/her to seek shelter with them .
| May 24, 2016
The zombie apocalypse has made it not only difficult for humans, but even more so for vampires. It was hard enough to find blood to quench our thirst, but now it's even worse. Humans are either dead, sick, or infected with the virus. Surviving off of cattle blood only goes so far. I'm dying. The only b... |
5,040 | As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly . Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult ?
| “ Alyssa, please, leave me alone. I ’ m sorry. ” I plead. I ’ m massaging my temples, trying to force the pain out.
I ’ ve never been able to get over the death of my twin sister. Because she ’ s been with me, for sixteen years.
“ Ava! ” She whispers in her childish squeal. “ Play with me, Ava! ”
I ’ m sitt... |
5,041 | The witch that buys firstborns really just runs an orphanage , and wants to get children away from terrible people that sell their kids .
| Asha had another beating from her mother again. This time, for eating too much of the vegetables at the dinner table. She had been hungry and hoped that her parents would n't notice. But they did.
`` You are not leaving enough for Bram!'' Her mother hissed, and slapped her face, sending her metal bowl flying. She f... |
5,042 | [ wp ] Your girlfriend is flying home , laying over in another city . She calls you before going to bed . After hanging up you notice , that the flight tracker left open in your browser shows that the flight had an incident and did n't arrive .
| It was a rainy night, which wasn ’ t unexpected considering it was the beginning of December. I was sitting alone in my study with my preoccupations regarding the future.
My phone suddenly vibrated, jolting me out of my thoughts. It was Jade, my girlfriend of five years.
“ How ’ s It going? ” she asked.
... |
5,043 | Reincarnation is real , with people recalling much of their prior lives by the time they reach adulthood . When the first fully-grown human clone opened their eyes nobody was prepared for what happened next .
| That I selected a brick from the mouth of a nearby alley is a fact. That I swung it at the head of a man whom I met in passing on one of my downtown outings is also a fact. That he fell and bled out across the pavement, his skull partially concave where I connected with it is a fact. Finally, that I was able to continu... |
5,044 | Stairs , you move into a hold haunted house , to find the stairs doing something suspiciously odd ...
| It ate my dog.
I have not been down my stairs in a week. They are the most terrifying aspect of my house. Every night, every dreary night in my upstairs prison, I will glance down to the bottom portion of my home. A portion I had missed, a portion I had n't seen in days. I sometimes hear things down there. I sometime... |
5,045 | An abomination of magic and dead flesh
| One small thing, one tiny event or action, can completely turn the world upside down. They didn ’ t know it yet -- how could they? -- but by simply following their own impulses and curiosities they had doomed themselves and others. What would happen if those two seekers had followed the rules of their order and had dis... |
5,046 | Write a short adventure story about start of the zombie apocalypse as if it were happening to you right now in this very moment .
| Three deer chew the grass outside my bedroom window. They seem young, adolescents at most, perhaps the bow-hunter working our property has been managing to thin their overpopulation. Still pretty cute. I tap on the glass, and they ignore me. Do deer understand the concept of glass? Why are n't they worried about me sta... |
5,047 | The wolf and the lamb
| Their was a Farmer who spent all day and working in his fields day after day, month after month, year after year. he worked hard to support his family, his wife and his two sons, he would work the field with his two sons but as they days when on he could work less and less. one day the youngest son ran to the Farmer te... |
5,048 | `` Breathe in , then breathe it all out . Every bit . You are n't going to want air in your lungs for this . ''
| Rain fell in great sluggish drops from the iron sky to pool greedily on the muddy ground. From the West a wretched wind blustered angrily through the soggy congregation that had gathered, buzzing with nervous anticipation, by the sullen pool.
As a crowd they possessed an arrogant energy, a purposeful insect determi... |
5,049 | You wake up in someone else 's bedroom and a body that does not belong to you . Your hands are covered in dried blood . A small piece of paper on the nightstand reads `` Do n't get yourself killed . I need that body back ! ''
| `` What the FUCK?''
I scramble to the dresser on the opposite end of the darkened room to squint at myself in the mirror. I'd always been self aware and immediately knew something was off. But this. This! I bring my hand to my face, to touch my thinned lips, my elongated nose, and discover my hand is painted with b... |
5,050 | A sentient building adopts and raises a child. | It is a sunny day and a young child walks to an old looking building. After knocking on the door a voice that bellowed through the halls of the sentient building says "come in".
The child walks in and sees the large lobby of the building. The front desk is empty and there is a spiral staircase in the lobby. It almost ... |
5,051 | Narrate the most unforgettable memory you have , whether it be the saddest , the happiest , scariest , etc . in 3rd Person POV
| Chaos reigned in the hallway the oldest child held her youngest brother, assuring him that everything would be alright through the tears. They ten year old boy is confused. He hugs his sister, who he is already starting to outgrow, but in his mind he is asking why he was n't at school. The middle child is on the coach ... |
5,052 | The arsonist who accidentally set himself on fire? Your work. The oil tycoon who fell off his ship and drowned in crude? That was you too. You work in Accounts Payable of the Karma division. You make sure everyone gets what's coming to them. | I sat at my desk, staring at my next client on the screen. He was eating a ham sandwich, oblivious that he was being watched. I knew that face, I’d seen it in my nightmares so many a night...his grotesque, sweaty, long fingered hands groping my innocence away, swallowing it whole... Ever since I had gotten this plush j... |
5,053 | One-Eyed Cat
| I woke up in a cold sweat. Breathing heavily I turned to my wife to make sure she was still next to me. Thank god she's here. I do my best to cuddle up against her to calm me down.
`` You OK baby?'' She says half asleep and not really expecting a conversation.
`` Yeah I'm fine just a bad dream I guess'' I reply. ... |
5,054 | You are a human real estate agent who helps demons, ghosts...etc. find the perfect house to haunt. | “Here we are!” I said, leading the couple through the door way. The ghost/demon duo shared a cautionary glance. “Is something wrong?”
Martin, the ghost, spoke up “No, not necessarily. It’s just that...this home seems like it’d be more suitable for a poltergeist, doesn’t it hun”?
The demon turned to the gaseous orb th... |
5,055 | After a world-wide cataclysm you 're the only human left alive . In your extreme loneliness you 've created an imaginary friend who follows you around and keeps you company . However , the other day they did something which made you think maybe they 're not imaginary after all .
| His name was Gabriel. He kept me company as I wandered.
Gabriel always knew what to say as I walked through the lonely world. He made me feel less guilty that I was immune. He said that God picked me for a reason, to leave a record so that the next people who came upon our world would know. And I always believed hi... |
5,056 | There was a light at the end of the tunnel. In your case, it turned out to be a flamethrower. | Syphus crossed the vast planes of marble, hugging the corners and the walls where the shadows protected him. He had watched so many others, running alongside him, their legs pumping furiously…
...only for the great hammers to fall upon them...
One moment, you were whole and full of life. The next, you were paste.
Bu... |
5,057 | ISIS gets more than they bargained for when the kidnap Daily Planet reporter , Clark Kent .
| They called him the “ magician ” for his ability to escape when bound. Yet they were curious that he wouldn ’ t flee. He would remove his ropes, cords, chains, and place them right next to where he was sleeping, a smile on his face.
They couldn ’ t terrify him. They threatened to murder him, cut off his head and ho... |
5,058 | Everyone at a party inexplicably realizes that if they blink three more times , they die .
| The clock struck nine as all the guests piled into the main hall.
Everyone was on their best behavior as the mayor was there and they were all looking for something to gain.
A man in his thirties, caught the gaze of a younger, red haired woman..
His heart started to flutter as he made his way through the crowd.
... |
5,059 | The same monster has been appearing in people 's dreams all around the world . It 's not coincidence , it 's first contact .
| It was very early on a Tuesday morning when the first dream was had. Google Analytics reveals that after the very first one, thousands of people in dozens of cities around the world had the same dream. Across the globe, people were waking from deep sleep, troubled by what they had just experienced, and searched the int... |
5,060 | Describe a character me twice , once from the perspective of someone who loves them once from the perspective of someone who is repulsed by them
| Every Bay Ridge Homeless Shelter resident rushed to greet our savior. Father Henry bore three stacked boxes of assorted foodstuffs and his trademark beaming grin. It was the highlight of my week. The other residents serenaded him with stories, both inane and sensible. Father heard them. Father cared. Anyone had his ear... |
5,061 | There 's a device that has been released which allows people to switch bodies . A 70-year-old man on his death bed and a 4-year-old girl have just switched bodies , write one of their POV .
| Could you blame me?
No, really, could you blame me?
It ’ s not like she was going to accomplish anything with her life. I know my son, and he was never fit for being a father – constantly spoiling his children rotten. That ’ s what happened to their first kid, James, brought into the world with the same levels ... |
5,062 | You are laying in bed in the dark and you glance over and see an odd shadow in the corner of your room . You 're about to reach for light to see what it is when you hear a voice in your head that says , `` Do n't move . They 're watching you . ''
| `` Do n't move. They're watching you.''
What was that I heard? Did it speak? Did it speak to me just now? Did the formless black shadow in my bedroom speak to me just now?
I had always noticed it. `` It'' was always in my bedroom, watching me. I could n't convince my parents that `` It'' was real. They sent me ... |
5,063 | You know that you have a superpower , and you know that whenever you use it you black out and forget what it is , so you acquired a GoPro camera in order to record yourself during the day . After your latest black out , you review the footage .
| Every night, I went to sleep terrified of how what condition I'd find myself in when I woke up.
At first, I told myself it was just a symptom of my anxiety. My brain's endless terror, drummed up again at the first sign of relaxation or stillness. I'd squeeze my eyes shut and try to drown out the thoughts with peace... |
5,064 | Pack a punch in 150 words .
| “ I hate digging them up, trying to overanalyze the bones of a book; you lose its beauty. A book is alive, a being walking in your mind, sitting in your thoughts, pulling grass, hiding under leaves, climbing trees. Analyzing a book is trying to catch it, pin it down, skin it and put it into sections, see, there ’ s the... |
5,065 | You're a Muggle who went to primary school with Harry Potter, you often wonder what happened to that skinny orphan that you were nice to while others teased, one day you marry a wizard and find out exactly what happened. | Growing up, I didn’t really have a lot of friends. My combination of awkwardness and debilitating shyness didn’t exactly make other children want to play with me. One boy, called Harry, however, was always kind to me. He too was alone. His cousin was the same age as us, but he was mean, entitled and seemed on a mission... |
5,066 | Write about the monsters under your bed .
| I recall, as a young child, running to take a leap to my pink canopied twin bed from about three feet away to make sure the monster under my bed would n't get me. I'm not sure if I thought it was a shark, swimming in the thick plush taupe colored carpet of my room, or a long, hairy armed monster just waiting to grab my... |
5,067 | Do n't . Not today . Not like this .
| “ Don ’ t. Not today. Not like this. ” And the line went blank filling the void in my mind with numbness. Had they gotten her? Are we compromised now? I kicked the door open and ran out like a champion racehorse pumping steroids as it raced. The dark lashes of rain on my face turned the lurid night visceral. My car was... |
5,068 | [ cw ] write about the strangest/scariest/saddest dream you 've ever had in less than 200 words .
| When I was a little kid I wanted to live at the library. Books were my passion and my escape from my less than stellar surroundings. I always looked forward to going with my Nana: she would browse downstairs in the grownups area and I would go up the stairs alone to read for hours.
When I was eight, I started dream... |
5,069 | You are dying. As you weightlessly float down towards the light at the end of the tunnel, it flickers and goes out. | Mrs. Jones couldn't find a coaster so she put her steaming mug of tea on the latest issue of ‘Cave Explorer'. She let out a long sigh. She and Mr. Jones were always going to worry about their boys' safety but it was their birthday after all so there was no turning back now. Their boys, Tom and George had spent months p... |
5,070 | You live in a building that houses 8 psychiatric patients , recently , a women suprisingly died and it has been considered foul play .
| I lean in the doorway, observing the young, confused looking figure who ’ s been working his way towards me for the last hour. Methodical, this youngster is. Knocking on every door. Three knocks, a little pause, three knocks again. I hear him mumbling to my fellow patients, asking questions, listening, more questions, ... |
5,071 | Sleep Paralysis
| I watch the moon fight the shadows across my ceiling.
Swallowing their kin and spitting them out, shifting shades of black blend into the deep corners of night and reemerge more terrible than before.
Small noises, almost beyond hearing. A sharp, shrill screech against the window; a harsh hiss, like nails diggin... |
5,072 | Parents can now put their loud children on vibrate .
| Now I love my son, But he's so damn loud sometimes so when I heard you put them them on vibrate now I took the opportunity. Now me and my wife Shirley Love little jack and have always cared for him. When I knocked her up in high school we immediately got married some people called me a freak for marrying an 18 year old... |
5,073 | Teleportation was invented in the mid-2000s and the first commercial teleportation took place in 2010 . It is marketed by airlines as an exclusive way to travel . In 2015 , terrorists attack America using teleportation .
| People laughed at first. Those silly terrorists with their backward morals and customs could scarcely even understand our technology, let alone copy it. It was a boon for CNN when the first “ attack ” happened. Dozens of reports from people in residential and office buildings came in: screaming walls, one disembodied n... |
5,074 | The last man on Earth sat alone in a room . There was a knock on the door ... ( 250 words )
| The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door. He tilted back the bottle, swallowed the last of the liquid. The windows were boarded. It was dark here. Musty. The floor was hard. It might have been wood. It was too dusty to tell.
The chittering outside the door became louder.
He s... |
5,075 | You see a shooting star before bed and wish you were the richest person alive. The next morning you check your bank app: Still only $328 balance. You turn on the TV and there's nothing broadcasting. You go on social media, everyone's saying half the people they knew died last night. | Breaking the chains of slumber Jason rolled out of bed and onto his feet. The noonday sun was slanting through his bedroom windows bathing the room in a bright warm glow. He arched his back and stretched his arms above his head letting out an exultant moan at having awoken and proceeded with his morning routine.
After... |
5,076 | You are the family monster , who hides in the youngest child 's closet due to crippling low self-esteem . One night you hear a knock on your door and a squeaky voice says , 'It 's me , Mr Monster . Do n't worry , I still believe in you . '
| `` Only cowards hide, monster. Nobody is afraid of you, but you are afraid of me, are n't you?''
How those words had burned. They went straight into my hearts and chilled my bones. He was n't wrong. I'd had so many heroes who would never dream of hiding. Some monsters had the nerve to actually sit on their people's... |
5,077 | You 're walking through the forest when you find a basketball sized hole that seemingly has no bottom . You put your ear in the hole to listen and you hear what sounds like a million people screaming .
| Sometimes I like to come out to the woods and clear my head. The silence is relaxing, but only for so long. Once you stop and listen for a few minutes, you realize just how loud nature is. Thousands of birds, insects, and animals all chittering and squawking away in the trees, which creak and sway in the wind. It's a r... |
5,078 | Everyone knows vampires need permission to enter a building, what's not so well known is they also need permission to leave. | Simon was not a fan of first dates, let alone blind dates. Her friend Ana had set her up with the man currently picking his nose across the tiny bistro table. His name was Scott or Ryan or Paul. One of those basic names you’d find on a box next to a Ken doll, labeled as one of Ken’s friends. He’d told her his name as t... |
5,079 | Redditors comment in this thread with their Zombie Apocalypse Plan . You write about how the plan plays out and eventually fails/backfires .
| The news channels are all telling the same story. The infection has spread like a wildfire, they're calling it a'zombie apocalypse', just like in the movies. It was only a matter of time, really. Some crazy zombie fanatic who also happened to be a chemist concocted a strange chemical that effects the brain in a way sim... |
5,080 | The story is leading up to a pun, and the characters will do anything to escape it. | The van came to a halt as the driver scratched his head in confusion. "Guys it looks like we're lost," Harry said sighing in defeat on the driver's wheel. Lilith looks over from the passenger seat at the front worried, "That can't be good, how will we find our way back?" she asked. Mark, sitting at the back, piped in, ... |
5,081 | Show me desperation .
| It should n't worry me.
It really should n't.
But hell if I'm worried sick about her.
Her last letter ended with this:
`` I ca n't take this anymore, please leave me in peace.''
I'm just... I ca n't deal with this amount of stress.
What happened to her? The letter was dated a month ago. I've sen... |
5,082 | Amazon has launched a new service: Amazon Time. Items are delivered to you exactly 24 hours before you realized you needed them. On many occasions, this leads people to be utterly confused until the next day. | Johnny answered the phone, “Thank you for calling Amazon suppor...”
“I need to report my account being hacked,” came the voice of an extremely frustrated woman who cut him off.
“I’d be happy to help, can I get your name?” he asked her calmly, though he rolled his eyes. It was always the same call.
“Martha Vance,” sh... |
5,083 | Skeletons are becoming sentient and bursting forth from their meatbag hosts . You feel your skeleton waking up , and try to stop it from happening ; or , failing that , to reason with it .
| `` Oh, oh, oh...''
You double up in pain as your rib cage flexes outward, testing its strength against your chest and threatening to poke through. It hurts so bad, it was never meant to bend quite like this.
Your bones, new to the world of sentience, are cranky and short-tempered, as the recently awakened often... |
5,084 | In an Orwellian update, wars are maintained for marketing reasons, adding urgency to purchases. You’re a new hire at Wendy’s writing an advertisement to convince America that the war with Iran comes down to eating hamburgers. | What’s so special about Wendy’s new Bacon Swiss Burger? Bacon. Special Sauce. Swiss cheese. Not going to war with Iran. More bacon. All on a toasted kaiser bun. How does that sound to you? Delicious? Absolutely. But, wait, something seemed a bit out of place, right? There was the crispy Bacon, the smooth swiss, the sec... |
5,085 | You sweat as you listen to the phone 's dial tone ring in your ear . Finally , you hear a response on the other end , `` 911 , what 's your emergency ? ''
| `` Nine-one-one, where is your emergency?'' The voice came through static.
`` I... I'm not sure where I am.'' My voice was shaky, and my throat scratched with every word.
`` Are you hurt? Are you currently in danger?''
`` My leg hurts... But I think I'm mostly alright. There were people in the road...'' My ... |
5,086 | Almost everything you write must be a dangling participle , and the true meaning of the post is revealed at the end with a brief moment of clarity .
| I woke up in the backyard, surprisingly with no chains on me. I have been chained for all my life, they are scared of me. All I want is love, but most just keep away. Maybe it ’ s the way I look or maybe because I am not one of them. I heard noises from inside the house, appearing like two people blabbering. I got up a... |
5,087 | You are paid $ 1B to sit in a house alone for 120 hours . After the third day , you find out why .
| It's eating at me...
They put enough water to drink, enough food to eat, even a game console and a huge plasma to entertain me! It was impossible to get out of the house, so that was all I had. No water lines and just the single socket of electricity for the entertainment system. There was n't much furniture either... |
5,088 | It towered over the city , ominous and impressive . It was what brought him .
| People are screaming in the streets. Our story follows a young lost 6 year old boy, scared and alone in a large city.
`` Help!'' There was a huge UFO flying over the city, crashing and destroying towers and wrecking the city. `` Help!'' the young boy cried. A teenage boy ran up to the young child and asked `` Where... |
5,089 | One last time
| The last thing I ever saw was her sitting on the bed next to me. She was reading a book. I loved watching her face when she read, she always looked so interested and content and I wanted her to feel that way.
When I woke up my eyes hurt so I did n't want to open them. I could hear Sarah screaming in my ear to get u... |
5,090 | You 're on a train . You 've been on this train for quite awhile . You would say that it 's been days , but you ca n't really tell . There are no clocks and outside is a constant , grey fog .
| A dull hum penetrated my senses, there was a pressure behind my forehead, it felt like I was being jostled slightly. My eyelids began opening and my pupils contracted to compensate. I took in my surroundings as my vision began to focus, a dim lightbulb hanging above me, the back of a red cushioned seat presumably ident... |
5,091 | You are a human, living on a regular world, where everything is normal. | “Wake up, Mr. Curry. You have an important meeting today. Wake up and get ready.”
He woke up, fumbling at the side of the bed for something that wasn’t there.
He stretched, rolled out of bed, and walked to the kitchen. His wife was cooking something that smelled delicious. He kissed her, ate breakfast, chatted with h... |
5,092 | As the antarctic ice thaws , something beautiful yet terrifying is revealed to be under just a few feet of ice . And it 's still alive .
| The ground shakes. The ice cracks. Indescribable sounds echo around me.
Something crawls its way out of the ground, inhuman twitching constant, splashing mucus as it crawls up. It rises, indescribable, except for its eyes, so many of them so so many eyes. Despite the fact we want to run, we stand, hypnotized by it'... |
5,093 | You are a reflection .
| After you reach up your top, I look down on my belly
and hope to see what you see.
I need to know what it is that makes you cry,
what you hate about me.
As you pinch at the flesh of your stomach, I see my skin white as yours
and veins just as blue.
I see the ridge of hard bone jutting out like a knife
a... |
5,094 | Fun Trope Friday, Writing with Tropes: Not Quite Dead & Giallo! | A Crimson Butterfly Kisses a Thorn in the Garden of Life
“I’m sorry, Detective. I don’t know how this happened.” I pout an apology.
“It’s fine, Ms. Brooks,” Peter Hayes grunts from atop an old bookshelf in my basement, where he struggles to close a window.
One I’d purposefully jammed earlier that day. A deviant game... |
5,095 | A crazy neighbor accuses the family that just moved in to be aliens. | At the familiar, dreaded sight of the woman in the floral-print dress waving, the security officer dutifully angled her patrol car to the curb. “Good morning, Mrs. Van Ness,” the officer greeted.
“Oh, Nani, I’m so glad to see you!” gushed Mrs. Van Ness. “This time, I’ve really got it! Absolute proof!”
Nani repressed ... |
5,096 | With the appearance of magical artifacts hidden throughout the world that grant the bearer a unique superpower , all governments have devolved into chaos , devoting all resources to finding or recreating them first . You stumble upon one by accident .
| Paul awoke to the smell of brewing coffee, the taste of hangover lingering in his mouth. He was naked on top of a strange mattress. The sheets and comforter were in disarray on the floor, flung aside in passion. Her scent and the scent of their lovemaking lingered in the sheets. He automatically checked his wrist to ma... |
5,097 | Something is giving people the urge to tear their own head off | They looked on through the thin linen sheets into the padded room, where a tiny squirming rascal laid in his straight jacket, tied face down to the floor.
The general spoke first, his tone matched the dark bags under his eyes
“So, how is my son doing today Doctor Schmidt?”
The doctor took his glasses from his face, ... |
5,098 | Write a story that will make me cry .
| If I know anything now, it's to be careful what you wish for.
I was once best friends with a man named Johnny Ace. He was young and full of passion, especially for his lady. Every month my gal and I would go on a double-date with he and his lady, Beth. No matter how many women I went through over the years, those two... |
5,099 | All humans on the planet must sleep from exactly 10pm to 6am GMT , regardless of time zone .
| First time writing anything on-the-spot like this. Wish me luck.
I could n't feel my face. Blearily opening my eyes, I looked down at the floor and saw a pool of encrusted red-brown goop. I shifted my head to get a better look and suddenly the worst pain came across my face as I looked across my hardwood floor to f... |
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