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5,100 | You wake up on Christmas day, only to find that Santa stole all your presents. | I wake up to a brightening light coming from my window. It’s Christmas Day, so I throw on my pink panda slippers and run down the stairs. I see my brother, my parents, and my dog all sitting around the Christmas tree. I asked why they all looked so gloomy and depressed, only to realize that we had no presents under our... |
5,101 | You died today. Turns out you are the 100 Billionth person to do so. To commemorate the occasion, you are given the chance to undo a single decision. Any decision. | I died at the ripe old age of 14.
My last three years of life were a living hell, all because of one innocent mistake... and now I had an angel, in all it's crazy eye-winged glory, asking me which decision I would change in my life. The question was so ridiculous I didn't even balk at his terrifying figure. Besides, I... |
5,102 | For reasons left up to you , you are on death row as you relate your tale of how and why you slowly descended into madness [ possibly NSFW ]
| Have you ever heard the saying that if something is in great pain, you should help it along and relieve its suffering?
The first time I knew what that meant I was six years old, a bright eyed boy with no idea of how cruel the world could be. My favorite animal was a blue-jay. They were everywhere where I lived. One... |
5,103 | I 'm a super villain and you 're a hero , throughout our fights I 've realized I actually love you and now I 've kidnapped you because I have no idea how to flirt . Now what ?
| I have two secrets. The first secret is that I am the second fastest person in the world. The second secret is that I do n't care about the world.
I'm a fireman. I get in. I carry someone. We get out and then I go back in for the next person. It's my job.
Three straight nights, I've had to do this for this devi... |
5,104 | Just as your kidnapper is about to grab you , they look over your shoulder and their eyes widen . You live completely alone .
| It was a whirlwind of confusion. I was tossed to the floor and a knee immediately fell to my back. I tried to cry out but all the wind was out of my lungs. I could taste my crappy shampoo in the hair that stuck to my face and mouth. At this point I tried to turn my head. To catch a breath, to catch a glimpse. Anything ... |
5,105 | Try to create the most convoluted ( yet still understandable ) time travel short story ever !
| I truly am my uncle ’ s sister ’ s best friend ’ s former roommate, only she doesn ’ t know it, partially because she ’ s 96 and partially because I ’ m still 22, the same as I was more than 70 years ago when we shared an apartment. That ’ s the way it is with time travel. There ’ s no six degrees of separation for me,... |
5,106 | Instead of humans hiding from the zombies , zombies are hiding from the humans .
| There were countless movies about people driven to their baser instincts. Zombies were people who were only alive as feral creatures. I do n't know what we were even thinking. We're not a race of bipedal sharks or tigers.
Our undead stalk our gardens, overturn rocks and go Hakuna Matata style on the grubs underneat... |
5,107 | You 're attracted to the monster under your bed .
| The first time I heard `` him'' it was a windy February night. It was slightly past 2am when I heard the faint whistle come from under the bed. Yet, it was not a whistle a human would make, it was something far more beautiful and complex. I ca n't quite put it into words. I sat there for a moment, confused and a bit sc... |
5,108 | Humanity has long since died out. Alien archeologists have come to Earth to try and determine how humans lived their lives by examining the remaining ruins. The archeologists, as it turns out, really misunderstand how humans lived. | We have examined human remains throughout the ages, and observed a remarkable similarity through centuries, except for rapid changes prior to their decline and extinction. In the final century before humans perished, there is a sudden expansion in bone structure, indicating great physical stress or weight.
In addition... |
5,109 | As the new private eye in town , you 've seen a lot of cases that made you scratch your head . But never one as odd as this . 400 words or less .
| I remember I caught one down by the Sunflower Mall back in ’ 95. The bulls had already dragged their feet through the scene and came up empty. Normally I don ’ t do B & E ’ s, but this was an oddball case, and the cops couldn ’ t make heads or tails of it. So they called me in.
I knew the area well. Celebrities and p... |
5,110 | You 're in charge of assigning every child on Earth the monster under their bed . One child in particular has caused every monster assigned to him/her to quit . You decide to assign yourself .
| A voice came from under the covers.
`` I swear, it'd better not be another one. Do you know how long it took for the last one? He was good, but not as good as me.''
I paused. I was creeping up the sheets, to whisper in her ear, to scare her and to subvert her wildest dreams into her worst nightmares. She remove... |
5,111 | Have you ever met madness in the flesh ? She is beautiful .
| His husband was gorgeous, shock blond hair and velvet brown eyes that he couldn ’ t help but love. They met during a boating accident; solid steel screeched as it sailed straight into his arm. He made for an attractive sight, blood mingling in dusky brown hair, green eyes unfocused and hazed. Mattie was a doctor and tr... |
5,112 | Alone in my den, I forgot the meaning of peace. | Your terror is just a symptom of the greater disease of fear; fear of living, fear of dying, fear of leaving the dark to step into the light and have it illuminate your most damning flaws to the world around you. Your nightmares are simply premonitions of exposing the monstrosity that is the culmination of your failure... |
5,113 | There 's a saying that `` Nobody dies at Disney . '' You 're one of the people who makes sure that phrase stays true .
| “ Greg? Greg, baby, please wake up! Please! ” Rosalyn knelt on the hot ground next to her husband, her shocked children flanking her. They had just exited the Mars Simulator, eager for their lunch, when Greg had collapsed suddenly. “ GREG! ” she yelled again in a futile attempt to get a response out of him.
“ M... |
5,114 | Write about the world today as if it were sci-fi from the past .
| I had the dream again last night and it felt like recent memory, it gets more and more clear each time it plays through my sleeping mind like somebody focusing the lenses on a film projector. I see myself as a child, about 10 years of age, and there is an explosion in my home of Württemberg. I'm with my mother at the t... |
5,115 | In a world where super powers aren't entirely uncommon, you have what you think is the most useless power: un-toasting bread. You though it was useless, until you try to heal a burn on your friend's hand... | “wow, it turned into toast” I said to my friend who’s screaming in immense pain, not from the burn but from the fact his arm turned into toast.
Who would’ve that this would happen. You could say that this is just a nightmare but believe it or not they’re people out there who are just wishing for limbs so I told him.
... |
5,116 | You , a 10 year old child , have discovered the cure for cancer . But nobody is willing to listen to a kid
| Little Jamie was 10 years old when she was diagnosed with cancer, the doctors tried everything to save her but it was no use. Her mother sobbed on the drive home but Jamie was still just confused,
“ Mommy? ” she said, “ Am I going to die? ” this question killed her mother, like a dagger through the chest
“ No s... |
5,117 | The world of the future has been stripped of all natural lands in exchange for `` progress '' . People use time travel to go back and experience the nature that they no longer have .
| Cherry had friends who had travelled back, now and then. Holidays, work outings, romantic trysts. She ’ d never been, herself. Why bother? If she wanted to look at trees and waterfalls, all she had to do was change the channel on her view screen.
They gushed and oohed and ahhed but she was unconvinced. If nature wa... |
5,118 | You have a friend that you have known since childhood. When you were 25, he died of unknown causes. In his will, he gives you a mysterious box. On it, it says "Don't open until you are 40 years old". Today is your 40th birthday | March 18, 2020
Dear Beth,
Please forgive me.
Remember that box that Mike had given me when he died after college? I told you how all of us guys were told he died from drugs, but we knew it wasn’t like him. Mike was out there, eclectic, but drugs weren’t his thing. Ever. You told me to forget about it, everyone did. ... |
5,119 | Humans find alien life after millenia of believing we are alone . It turns out aliens are everywhere , but they 're hiding . From us .
| `` Yes, Dana'' I say a little more annoyed than I mean to. Today went longer than it should and I could feel it soaking into my bones. Above me street lights flashed by as I made my way home. The little glow of the cell lights up the car as I hold it in one hand and steer with the other.
`` Rachel, all I'm saying i... |
5,120 | Spooky scary skeletons
| It's been dark for a while now. I have no concept of time. The dust on the floor of my coffin had accumulated to over 3 inches, however in my previous life I had never bothered to study the build up. I never timed how long it took before my wife had to pull out the duster again, and run it across the surfaces of our ho... |
5,121 | You are an artificially created teenage human* . The scientist who created you dies , you have nowhere to go .
| He was hungry.
The doctor had n't come by to feed him in a long while. He was n't supposed to, but he was very hungry, so he jinked the lock and slipped out of his cell.
The air smelled of rot.
He followed the scent, walking through the shabby, peeling corridor. At some point he found a thin steel girder ru... |
5,122 | Before you died , you agreed to donate your body for medical research . This morning , you woke up in an unfamiliar room and the last thing you remember is dying .
| 3 Years before: My Commanding officer looked me right in the eyes. `` Private, are you sure you're okay with this program? The government will have full control over your body if you're killed in action.'' I shook my head yes, it did n't matter to me as I had no next of kin still alive.
3 Years later: I lifted my b... |
5,123 | Describe an average day as aggressively and violently as possible
| Wake up to the sounds of screams, at least it sounds like it. I punch the off button on my alarm clock. Stomp out of bed. Bust through the bathroom door, time to intensely scrub my Fuckin chompers. After that I slowly microwave pig intestines wrapped in a pancake slowly suffocating. Was that a scream or just air escapi... |
5,124 | As the main character goes about their daily routine , they miss all the signs of a catastrophic event happening around them . The reader only becomes fully aware of what is going on when the character is suddenly killed .
| I get up to wash my breakfast dishes. I was trying to read a book in peace in my tiny one bed, one bath house. But the people outside are always so noisy. Especially today. I wish they ’ d just shut up at some point. Not too mention the dogs barking and the kids yelling. Ugh, if I had my way, I ’ d live on my own littl... |
5,125 | 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them. | Limb by limb I tore him asunder, the blood of my very father splashed against my clothes, my skin. He was pleading for mercy, mercy that I would not give. I dug my fingers into his eyes, his screams echoed endlessly in my ears, a guttural scream of rage and grief. I never cared much for him, he was nothing to me, nothi... |
5,126 | Tell a charming story from one character 's POV that becomes really sick and twisted from another POV
| Dear Diary
A puppy!! I got a puppy for my birthday!!! It's a girl puppy my daddy says and she's got long brown fur and really soft skin. Mommy put a muffler on her because she wo n't stop making noise and she bit me when I tried to take it off but I did n't tell anyone because then they'll send her away. She has n'... |
5,127 | You put your keys on your desk and turn around . They fall off . This happens about three more times until you get fed up and ask , `` there a ghost or something ? '' To which a voice replies , `` yes . ''
| You put your keys on your desk and turned around. They fell off. This happened about three more times until you got fed up and asked, `` Is there a ghost or something?'' To which a voice replied, `` Yes ”.
It was my voice. That was the first time we met and I remember it like it was yesterday. Although I suppose no... |
5,128 | "We're just here for the boy. Stand down. This isn't your fight." | Thump, thump.
My heart fluttered. I swallowed, my mouth suddenly dry. Determined, I focused on the door. The time had come.
“What-“
My mum suddenly darted into the frame, pushing me backwards, her hands on my shoulders. My back hit the wall as her tear streaked face swam before my eyes. I struggled to focus my gaze ... |
5,129 | there's a park near your house you've been visiting for the past few years. As you sit there, a tree nearby uproots itself and crawls towards you, planting itself next to you, giving you some shade. Tree continues to follow you to your apartment where it plants itself outside, patiently waiting | The tree shuffled as it moved swaying and taunting me as it rooted itself upon my front door step. What does it want from me exactly? I never bothered this plant before it’s almost as if it had been watching me the entire time at the park waiting for its moment to reveal itself and give me a fright as an uprooted tree ... |
5,130 | You play rock paper scissors with your reflection in the mirror, and you win. | (apologies if this is confusing or bad, i'm currently getting over a block lmao)
When looking in a mirror it feels almost instinctual to do some kind of gesture, it seems dumb but every human can admit that whilst looking at their reflection they pull a face or do some kind of handsign and of course everytime the r... |
5,131 | Write a story where each sentence has one more word than the last .
| No.
Please, no.
Oh god, no.
That ’ s our mantra now.
We ’ ve all been saying it. As if the saying helps. As if we could fix it. As if the repetition heals us.
It ’ s a nice thought, I suppose, for some.
Personally though, I think I ’ d prefer to be cured.
I ’ d prefer smooth skin to these bursting pustule... |
5,132 | A new invention enables people to remember their dreams with absolute clarity . It turns out we were forgetting them for a very good reason .
| `` Oh damn'' he said when he woke up. His girlfriend was in her pajamas enrolled like an animal, her sleep as tense as his. He looked down to his drawer where the machine was resting like a tangible ghost, it's soul as cold as his sweat. He woke up Ana with gentle wiggles from his hand. She turned his head to him and s... |
5,133 | The Fate of Your Corpse
| I feel the dirt hit my face as the townspeople shovel it onto my shallow coffin-less grave. I am unable to move, frozen in place. The townspeople thought putting a stake through my heart would kill me – and it would have, if they had managed to hit my heart. They did like many foolish people do and just shoved the stak... |
5,134 | You are a kid 's imaginary friend . They 're growing up . You 're fading away .
| A little. A little piece. Each day a little part of me fades away.
I want to tell you about myself. Suzy is my best friend, and I am— was, Suzy ’ s best friend. We met just after her third birthday. The first thing I remember is Suzy asking me if I wanted to play tea party with her.
I didn ’ t feel like I had a... |
5,135 | In the far future where everything has an AI a man is negotiating with his alarm clock for more sleep .
| “ Wake up, Jerry. ”
The speakers lining the walls of Jerry's bedroom, as well as the entire inside of the house, blared to life with a dull hum. Jerry pulled the covers over his eyes as the ceiling fan's light bulbs buzzed on. From the speakers came a monotonous voice that was just loud enough to force Jerry's ears... |
5,136 | Your ( human ) main character has a conversation with God , but it can not be the God from any existing religion .
| It had been three days since the man started following him and John was starting to get scared. He couldn ’ t escape the guy. When he was at walmart, the man was in the next aisle, buying crap boxed donuts. When he went to the movies, the man was in the audience, chewing his popcorn a little too loudly. When he went to... |
5,137 | Everything is legal in the name of science ! Scientists are allowed to break morals and ethics in the pursuit of knowledge . The only catch is , if they are n't successful in their research , they will be convicted of any crimes they committed in the process .
| In Today's News
Steve brought his cadaver studies work home with him. His wife came into the living room to find him drawing pictures of the dissected muscles of a bicep. He was drawing impeccable renderings by hand. He was even photographing the musculature and cartooning the photographs in photoshop.
His wife... |
5,138 | You live in a world where humans actually do get 3 wishes , one when you 're 5 , one when you 're 10 , and one when you 're 20 .
| ( WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT! )
Sometimes, I hate humanity. And let me tell you: Today was definitely a day like this. We were sent in after the police arrested just about every adult on the compound. We were sent in to handle the children. The compound was meticulously clean - that is unless you found the hidden ... |
5,139 | Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words , 2nd sentence has 19 , 3rd has 18 etc . Story ends with a single word .
| I would like to take the time to tell you one thing before I leave this manuscript in your hands.
Your fears are not unjustified and that creature stalking you in the dark is not part of your imagination.
Every time you ran to the top of the stairs at night, you have barely escaped its grasp.
When you shut ... |
5,140 | 50 years from now , the sentient security network that spans the world turns against us . The remainder of humanity huddles together in the last bastion of human privacy , the bathroom .
| The walls were eggshell white, and the floor slate, with black granite countertops. The tap was gold with handles of synthetic crystal shaped into some weird floral arrangement. The tub, in the far corner of the room was filled with tepid water. John turned the tap but nothing happened. He moved to the toilet and sat, ... |
5,141 | A woman just handed you a small statue . As you take it into your hand , she vanishes . You start to feel strange .
| It's been almost three days since that pale gaunt woman approached me, speaking in a language I did n't understand. I have n't left my apartment since it happened. I started... Seeing things, things I could n't explain. Things about the future. Things that have n't happened yet. People around me dying, being killed, pe... |
5,142 | The more tragic your childhood backstory , the more powerful you are as an adult .
| We had the unlimited time for playing and happiness when we were young, I was 3, my siblings would play all day and everywhere, like everyday will be the same.
Then we start growing up, and we realized our mom was always there while dad
seemed to be there only in occasions that we'd remember.
I remember him sle... |
5,143 | it 's Friday , you stayed late at the office and are the last one to leave , after you get into the elevator it breaks down between floors . Your cellphone is dead , there 's a chance nobody will find you until MondY morning ... .what comes next ?
| You press the button that is specifically designed to call for HELP. Worse case scenario you pry open the doors and you either open the doors above you or below you... most likely below you... and you skooch through the opening if your HEAD fits through. There really is n't that much room between floors of most buildin... |
5,144 | You receive a small package with breathing holes and no return address. Inside there is a 4 inch tall, terrified person wearing tattered rags. | There was a ring at the doorbell and I got excited. Maybe she's finally home? My wife has been missing for 6 weeks. So of course I hurried to the door hoping just maybe she came back.
I open the door, but there's nobody. I stepped out onto the porch and peered around the edge of my living room wall to see down the sid... |
5,145 | You receive a message from your future self , to pack your bags and leave immediately . A minute later , you got another message from the future : `` Whatever you do , do not leave your house . '' What do you do ?
| It was a lazy sunday afternoon and as with every sunday I was at home, sitting in front of my computer not doing anything of substance. Again. It was a welcome change for me to receive a message on my phone but not from the person I hoped that would write me.
`` Pack your bags and leave immediately'' is what I saw.... |
5,146 | After being unable to gain weight no matter how much you eat, you buy and swallow two anti parasite tablets, just in case. Within the hour you begin to hear faint inhuman shrieks coming from your stomach and experience an intense gnawing pain. | As I lock myself in the bathroom and look at my paling face, my gaze shifted to the bottle I had clenched tightly. I'm surprised it hasn't broken yet. It was the only thing that kept the stomach pains at bay.
But for how long?
I run my free hand through my tangled, dark brown hair and attempt to take a deep breath. '... |
5,147 | Take the taste of a drink and make it the atmosphere of a story .
| God I tried to post this yesterday but it did n't let me... Oh well I hope it garners some interest. I apologize for any inaccuracies in drinks, I'm not a drinker myself so I do n't know much about them.
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Leaning over the table, I let my fingers brush across hers... |
5,148 | "Sir, as requested, the next galaxies in our list to be conquered and dominated are Sagittarius, Andromeda, Milky Way, and Tucana, but if you allow me, I don't think we should be messing with the Milky Way, that galaxy belongs to the human race and they're completely and absolutely insane" | The tall, mantis-like alien stood silent, still and rigid, each of its pairs of delicate arms positioned symmetrically in front of its chest. Its body was thin and strangely elegant, and its carapace exoskeleton had precise dashed markings engraved onto it with pinpoint accuracy. Everything in its chamber was exact and... |
5,149 | Nihon Alley
| You figure they ’ d all be open, right? After all, it ’ s just rain and it ’ s not even that late. It never seems like it ’ s that late honestly. Not with the lights on all the time. But the lights are on and no one ’ s home. Figuratively of course. Everyone ’ s technically home already at almost three in the morning. ... |
5,150 | Terrify Me ; be it with monster stories , psychological horrors , or even just a very basic fear- just make sure I do n't sleep tonight .
| Again the scalpel approached and again i could do nothing to stave its course, slowly it approached my eye and started cutting, i could feel every slice and every tug as they pulled it out.
As they rolled me back in my cold metal chamber they shut the door without warning, darkness enveloped me, and my hearing star... |
5,151 | Today 's news headline : Last death world wide recorded 24 hours ago !
| In the past 24 hours, nobody died. Not a single one. No suicides, no murders, not even an accident. People just do n't die.
Why not?
People can still get hurt, I proved that this morning when I cut myself on a knife. And there are reports of people still attempting suicide, but it just does n't kill them. The b... |
5,152 | Humanity has made contact with several alien species. You are a researcher who has just discovered that this isn’t true: it’s in fact just one species in increasingly elaborate disguises. | Everybody was hyped at NASA, when we got our first Alien visit. It was kept secret from the public, for obvious reasons. But we were among the lucky few who were had the authorization not only to see them, but to also talk them, and even shake their hand. No, they didn’t talk the same language as us. But we were allowe... |
5,153 | A man who has lived his whole life underground has just come to the surface for the first time .
| My daddy tells me about the bloodhounds, about how they are always following us. He tells me about their bloodshot eyes and their shiny black noses, so strong, he says, that they could smell a hawk flying past in the night sky. He says they never rest. When we rest, he says, when we sleep, they're chasing us down.
... |
5,154 | A fragment of your autobiography ... Of your previous life .
| The water stopped running, and for a moment it felt as though time had stopped but the earth was still spinning. I held my breath, hoping he would not be able to hear the beat of my heart. There were foot steps, but one might have confused them for the sound of death knocking. As the footsteps got louder, I felt as tho... |
5,155 | You are a necromancer who is in charge of solving homicides .
| The alley was cordoned off when we got there, me and Jonesy. He was a swell cop. Did this because he loved it – there was nothing Jonesy liked better than figuring out the puzzle, finding the killer. Swell cop. Kinda sick in the head to like something like working homicide, but he was the best partner I ’ d ever had. W... |
5,156 | You are a necromancer, but actually really bad at it. The only thing you have ever brought back to life is plants. So now you tell everyone that you are just a very gifted gardener, to cover up your failure. | It’s the brains. That’s how I ended up in this gig. Brains to flowers, Hell of a career path, right?
You see, necromancy only looks easy from the outside. Get some nice grisly components, say a few ominous words, dress like you stepped out one of Tim Burton’s fever dreams. Surely. Only not. That’s almost all for show.... |
5,157 | tell me of a childhood nightmare that has affected you even as an adult
| When I was a child, I would always dream that I had wings and I would fly all over the town. I always told my parents that I am a superhero and they would pat me on the head with smiles.
The wonderful exhiliration of jumping off the roof of our house and flying off made me want to sleep all day. Sometimes I would d... |
5,158 | You have a super power , however you have a fear of what it is . Examples included .
| Arista stood frozen on the sand a safe distance from the edge of even the most ambitious wave. Her heart racing as she looked out to the ocean. She willed herself to move forward with every ounce of courage she could muster but her feet remained steadfastly planted. Her childhood friend Todd bobbed in the water motioni... |
5,159 | Hit me in the face with emotion .
| I wrote a paper once. Yeah, I know that ’ s super vague. Look. I was in tenth grade. It was in creative writing. The task was to write about our strongest memory. The class was taught by an incredibly intelligent and kindhearted professor in her mid-twenties. She immediately connected with the entire class on a level t... |
5,160 | As a state executioner you have heard the last words of a hundred condemned men, but only one has kept you up at night. "You dream of the pit too, don't you. Do you think we'll ever be able to fill it in time?" | Memoirs of a corrupt state executioner.
As I sit in my cell waiting my turn I think back to what brought me here. It started with a condemned man’s last words to me. A convicted mass murderer, who from all the news reports was unrepentant. His is a name that you should all remember, Thomas Trynal. Yes, the same one wh... |
5,161 | A house is haunted by a ghost but instead of being scared the occupants insist that the ghost gets a job and helps out with the bills .
| `` Listen Black Beard, I know your soul has been entrapped in that oil canvas for over three hundred years, and I respect that, but we've got to hash some things out or you ’ re going to be on the next episode of Pawn Stars and I do n't care how much Rick low balls me, I will sell your ass for a handful of unhaunted 19... |
5,162 | The tragedy of the happiest man on earth
| `` Jason, you're fired.''
`` Hey, great, well it's been a blast, and I wish you all the best. Take care now, bye-bye!''
And that was it. Another week, another lost job. Rent was two months late, my child support payments even more so... My debt was piling up into the tens of thousands, and it was getting worse ... |
5,163 | A man has the ability to smell death . The greater the stench , the closer a person is to dying . He leaves his house one day and is instantly overcome with the pungent scent of mortality . Every person he passes reeks of death .
| I am not like other people. I first noticed this when my grandmother moved to the retirement home. It was an old musty building, with an atmosphere thick with mothballs. What struck me however, was the distinct smell of gorgonzola cheese floating out of certain apartments. The retirement home ’ s cheese factory seemed ... |
5,164 | A person sees people not as they visibly appear , but as the angel or demon inside them
| `` Come in, David.''
Dr. Hoffenburg's office was pristine. Framed on the wall above his desk was his degree - a doctorate from Yale. On his bookshelf stood each edition of the DSM along with dozens of other books on psychiatry, mental disorders, and case studies. David sat down quietly, arms crossed.
`` So, you... |
5,165 | In a parallel universe , Daredevil 's not blind . He 's deaf .
| Matt wakes up to the pulsing of his phone alarm. He opens his eyes and looks at his phone, while simultaneously looking at the reflection in his phone, where he can see the reflection of a masked man in his eye.
He throws the phone hitting the intruder in the jugular. He spots an unfamiliar glare on the ceiling com... |
5,166 | Everyone is born with a unique tattoo on their ankle . Every time you fall in love with somebody , their tattoo appears somewhere on your body .
| “ Who is she?! ” Leila demanded, shutting off the water.
I squinted at my wife and winced as suds slipped into my eyes. “ Who is who? ”
“ Jordan, I see it. ” She slapped the small of my back. “ I see her mark on you. Who is she?! ”
I turned the water back on to rinse the shampoo away, partly because it hurt... |
5,167 | It 's 2 in the morning , you 're about to turn off the TV . However the screen goes static , then a women appears on the screen shouting your name .
| I woke up with a slice of pizza in my hand and empty beer bottles littering the table. I looked at the TV and Vince Offer was staring right back at me - damn I had to get one of those slap chops. The last thing I remembered was George hand modeling - I must have dozed off during a Seinfeld rerun.
I sat up, threw th... |
5,168 | Make me cry using a third grade vocabulary
| Today Tammy's dad told me that when people ask me how daddy died I can say that he had a heart attack. I do n't understand why he wants me to say that. Tammy's dad said it is nobody's business how he died and I can tell a lie and it'll be okay this time. It's bad most times to tell a lie but sometimes you can tell a li... |
5,169 | The main character is dead and nobody remembers him or any of his deeds as a living human .
| The night was dark and moist, like that cold type of moist that sinks down through your dermal sponginess and penetrates the bones, filling that porous marrow with cool condensation, like a soda pop on a hot summer day. Melissa had been sitting on her balcony for two hours now, gazing into the purple night, wondering i... |
5,170 | Write the saddest love story you can , but end it with `` and I could n't be happier .
| I met him three years ago on a night much like this one. He was just sitting there on the curb as rain poured down, matted blond hair dripping clumsily into his face. It looked like he was waiting for someone.
Normally, I ’ d have kept my distance, but I recognized something familiar in those dark brown eyes. A lon... |
5,171 | Get me hooked in 150 words
| The tiles in the bathroom were outlined by dingy brown grout, and the mess was all over the floor. She knelt, scrubbing the tiles furiously, as if quasi-praying it would be clean. It was his fault, she thought. The fact that she lived in this place that barely deserved the title of a home, she had to give up her dreams... |
5,172 | You survived the alien invasion because it happened during your intro level engineering class' final. It turns out your crackpot professor invents some rather creative weapons in his spare time. | Dammit.” I muttered, staring at the paper. I was definitely going to fail this. “Oh well.” After two years of collage, I had mastered the art of not giving a shit. I started to work on another question, when the room was rocked by a giant explosion outside. I head snapped up and I stared at my friend Lizzie, “What was ... |
5,173 | Your greatest childhood fear has finally found you .
| It had to happen to me, did n't it? I remember the countless sleepless nights I had as a child, cowering and whimpering in my bed, as the sound savagely clawed its way through my ears into my head, and corrupting my mind.
That fucking alarm bell.
It started a few days ago, I was alone at home. I had finished cl... |
5,174 | A day in the life of the world's worst detective | Homicide. Hom-i-cide. What a dark world we live in. A world where people think they have a right to kill. To strike down their neigbours in cold blood. To break into their homes, like cougars in the night. To ransack their valuables, and make off with their most prized possession. Their life. Men of pure black hearts. ... |
5,175 | Two introverts are trying to hide from the drunken masses at a High School party gone wild . Tell me the story of them meeting in the only quiet room of the house .
| I brush past another guy that ’ s drunk out of his mind. I ’ m not a social person. I don ’ t belong here, at a house party. The only reason I ’ m here is because my friend invited me here. I look over at him.
He ’ s drunk and making out with some girl.
Great. He ’ s my ride home.
I jump back, as another co... |
5,176 | Write a story that seems creepy on first sight, except for one small detail that makes it extremely normal on a more careful reading [WP] | Nothing could compare to the rush of cutting through warm flesh. It was exhilarating in a way that nothing else in her life had ever been. It made her feel alive even as she toyed with the life of this man she’d barely even introduced herself to earlier tonight. She’d never seen the point in delaying the real fun with ... |
5,177 | People are being painfully and realistically murdered by strange monsters in their dreams , and then never waking up . The upper class purchases and consumes energy pills that allow them to go without sleep , while the lower classes are left to defend their dreams from the monsters every night .
| I do n't know why I agreed to this challenge. I have more than enough money to never sleep again, but I let them convince me to go through with this. Rather, I let 2 billion dollars convince me
Last week, my friend called and told me that he knew some guys who would pay 2 billion dollars to anyone who could survive... |
5,178 | You go to sleep alone , and wake up with someone next to you .
| I become self aware as I feel the morning's sun on my face, trying to hold on to a lucid dream that's escaping me as I wake. I immediately feel my queen sized bed sinking deeper than usual as I slowly turn over to see a large silhouette under the covers.. `` What the fuck!?'' I exclaim aggressively. I jump out of bed r... |
5,179 | Killing people is an everyday thing . `` Look mom , my first kill ! ''
| `` Wow, honey! You got him really good! Stay right there, I need to take a picture of this.''
I sat across the room staring at my smiling little brother in shock.
He was so excited.
He was standing next to the neighbor's corpse with a kitchen knife in his hand. It was one of the larger knives in the house, ... |
5,180 | Your worst fear .
| I woke up suddenly with a startle. I look across the room and see that the red numbers on the alarm clock say `` 4:00''. Oh, well, might as well make a trip to the bathroom.
I stand before the mirror. I bend over to splash some water on my face. I look back up. There is someone standing behind me! A blank-faced lit... |
5,181 | We've all heard what happened to 9, but always from 6's perspective. Tired of being vilified, 7 finally sets the record straight. | Y'know, I've always said it was the fame that did it. Me 6 and 8 always used to be buddies, y'know, knew each other since the invention of Arabic numerals. We always used to hang out in 9's garage, just jamming. Of course, it wasn't just us three, but we were always the most talented. That's why we got top billing. But... |
5,182 | A ghost finds her haunted house being occupied by a serial killer .
| “ Excuse me, ” said a voice behind his back, making him jump on his spot reflexively. Jerome looked behind him, only to find the darkness surrounding him, only broken by the light of his lamp.
“ Hello? ” Called him. Maybe his mind was playing tricks on him, after all, he always thought that only crazy people could ... |
5,183 | Write something with the first line being `` I leave the door open . ''
| I leave the door open. For the last five months it has been the only barrier between my family and certain death. One part of the home I grew up in. My Father had us barricade the entire first floor in a desperate attempt to keep out looters. I doubt that would have stopped anyone, plywood can ’ t deflect a shotgun she... |
5,184 | An infamous serial killer cements his legacy as “ most gruesome ” with one final graphic murder
| `` What's the autopsy?'' I asked the witness.
The detective flipped the page. `` Well, we know it's Hannelore or an imitation of her work. Hannelore's mark was found on the belly of the victim.'' The detective coughed. `` The belly was found about twenty feet from the rest of the victim.''
Somewhere in the cour... |
5,185 | A detective is called to the scene of a murder but finds that all the evidence points to himself .
| I am Rachel. My cell rang early in the morning as always. Each of my day starts with a call informing me about some murder or rape or something like that and my days are passed with solving riddles which are so involved that sometimes in my deep reflections I find nowadays that I have lost so much in life due to this j... |
5,186 | Write a story in the eyes of a civilian in a Plague Inc. game .
| Three weeks ago, there had been a news report. South America had been suffering riots and chaos for a few days, and finally the government gave in. The entire country was positive for some form of prion disease, and reports were coming from neighboring countries that they had similar outbreaks. It started with a slight... |
5,187 | `` It 's okay . It does n't hurt anymore . ''
| I cradled my buddy in my arms... Tears were running down my eyes. My helmet was itchy and my breath ragged, as I watched his face grow pale. He coughed on occasion, blood spurting out as he struggled to breath. I wiped away the spittle and blood drops, shaking him back and forth as I fought to control myself...
He ... |
5,188 | Any work of fiction, but written as a police report. "Subject Goldilocks entered the home without permission while residents were absent. Subject proceeded to damage furnishings and take food." | Report #22-819750
INCIDENT: HOMICIDE
On 2-19-2022 at 0244 hours, I, Officer Maxwell Macabre was called for a welfare check just off of Village Road, Mile Marker 213. I arrived to a cabin where the call was reported. I knocked on the door and announced myself, but was met with no answer. After a quick look around the ... |
5,189 | Pain is discovered to be the most efficient form of energy . It is ruled illegal , but secret human pain factories have already begun . You are the owner of one of these factories .
| Pain was n't the key—oh, it was a good start, of course, but it was never the key. That was trauma—physical or mental. The more extreme the trauma, the more power it generated. Of course it was ruled illegal, inhumane, and other, nastier things besides. But I had a plan to exploit that—in fact, people had had a similar... |
5,190 | You are an aspiring scientist who's put years of work into inventing time travel. You're on the verge of a major breakthrough in your studies, when suddenly you're visited by your future self, who tells you to stop IMMEDIATELY. | "Listen... If you continue, worse will come."
Staring at the person who seems like a complete replica of me, yet looked few years older, my eyes landed on the badge in his tattered clothes.
[Navigation Volta]
The badge looks fairly familiar... Wait!? Upon my realization, I took out my own badge that was given by my ... |
5,191 | You jokingly leave a locket of hair and finger nail clippings to your children with a note - if you ever need me again , clone me .
| I awoke at some point. It's hard to remember. Life does n't start with a bang, it creeps up on you.
My first new memory was sitting on a couch, draped in a blanket. The small cabin seemed familiar even then, as did the bright light shining through opaque windows. It had always been like that.
Yet, it had n't.
... |
5,192 | You live in a world where everyone 's eyes display the date of their death , seen by everyone else except the individual 's own eyes . It 's illegal to tell anyone what their numbers are . Today is your wife 's numbers .
| My grandma, before she passed, used to tell me about “ back in her day ” when everyone ’ s eyes were just normal, no date, no technology, and numbers, I thought she was just being a bit old-fashioned. Old people always complain about new technology being for the worse, and I really didn ’ t understand why anyone would ... |
5,193 | Years ago a curse was cast that all people wearing costumes would turn into real versions of the costumes . This is now an annual , known and accepted phenomenon .
| My hands were still shaking as I picked up the coffee mug from the table. Dried tear streaks marked my face and the sleeplessness of the past few nights had sunken in, making my eyes burn.
`` It's okay,'' the officer spoke softly, `` take your time.''
I nodded my appreciation, `` It-it was around 11:55... Mary ... |
5,194 | Gim me the best scare you can using 500 words or less .
| She was my first delivery and my last.
She was brought in already on a stretcher, screaming and cursing, the nurses crowding around her shouting and preparing her for the birth.
The first thing I noticed that was strange was that the woman did n't look very far along. Maybe 5 or 6 months. It did n't look optimi... |
5,195 | Cannibalism is a widely accepted social norm .
| The saw grass rips at my legs.
It's been nearly 14 hours and they are still after me. I thought I had lost them at the river but their dogs kept tracking. I guess you can teach old dogs new tricks. I just need to make it to the valley I can lose them there.
There is a rustle in the bushes ahead. I stop and drop to ... |
5,196 | You're an evil wizard. However, most of your spells are pun based. | It’s three on one. I’m okay with those odds. Charlie thought. Well, three on two but Shannon didn’t have her wand with her. It was up to Charlie to take these three men down. Luckily, the men weren’t armed. They were, however, very large and very mean looking. He moved so that he stood between them and Shannon.
Charli... |
5,197 | Shia Labeouf takes up the role as motivational speaker on a suicide hotline .
| To the tune of actual cannibal: Shia LeBeouf
You ’ re standing on a ledge.
There ’ s no one around,
And you ’ re on the phone.
On the end of the line you hear him,
Shia LaBeouf.
He ’ s talking to you
About 14 floors up.
He talks about why you ’ re up there all on your own
He ’ s ... |
5,198 | Write something that makes me more afraid of the light than the dark. | It was a beautiful midsummers night. That day had been too hot, but now the sun was gone, and the pavements and air were left with nothing more than a gentle warmth. The park path was bathed in a gentle silver glow from the full moon. Crickets sang their songs in the underbrush. I sat down on a nearby park bench, peeri... |
5,199 | tell a story about a zombie apocalypse , but it 's from the zombies perspective .
| It does n't hurt anymore. Nothing does, not even as I stare into the blazing sun above. I lay there for a moment more, hesitant to move for many reasons. One being the fact that there is now a gaping hole where my stomach used to be. I ca n't see it but I can feel the emptiness when I try to press my hand where my bell... |
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