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5,200 | Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house , not a creature was stirring ... but there sure is a lot of missiles flying by my window ...
| I did n't know what to do one second I was sleeping and the next I was up listening to the screams oh all the screaming...
So I turn on my tv and all the new stations are on all saying the same one thing.
... Everyone needs to evacuate to the other side of the states or stay in you home or your basement if you h... |
5,201 | If someone dies and is buried , a tree grows from their grave that symbolizes the life they had . When an unremarkable individual passes away people are shocked to discover something unexpected growing .
| `` What have you done with my daughter's grave?!''
Brittany Fritch was gifted, popular - and dead. McCarty Funeral and Landscaping planted her four years ago. This year her tree, the one which sprouted from each person's seed of life, finally bore fruit.
Since then there'd been no end of complaints.
The fir... |
5,202 | For the last 10 years you've used your time machine to steal from your future self; today is the day your past self shows up for the first time to steal from you. | My mouth turned sour just as the coffee hit my tongue. A feeling I hadn’t had in months. It was the Machine. Odd, I hadn’t planned anything for today. I didn’t have to wait long before a not so subtle, younger version of myself crept into the house. Little guy’s got way too many tells. That’s when it hits me, this was ... |
5,203 | You keep getting packages addressed to the person who lived in your apartment before you . One day you open one .
| The apartment was already a fairly haunted place. The previous owner, a lone man of 42, had committed suicide. It was tragic, but together with tragedy sometimes good things come forth. Though of course by no means would I consider the good to outweigh the bad in this case, but as a 21 year old student in dire need of ... |
5,204 | A villain commits crimes in such an hilarious fashion that people begin to look foward to hearing about them . You are that villain and want to be taken seriously .
| Leopold Blaine erratically walked around his messy room while watching television. `` Yet another case of them not understanding me. How can they be so dumb? ``, he cried.
The news anchor interviewed a police officer about another murder around Elysian Park, Hoboken, orchestrated by the serial killer known as the Loo... |
5,205 | A video game character has been abusing cheat codes , and his/her friends are getting worried .
| At first it was barely noticeable... He had a pretty house but nothing out of ordinary. But overtime he kept getting richer and richer without even having a job to attend to.
Later on he called us if we could come visit him pretty much all day or if we wanted to go out, I guess he did n't have a regular sleeping sche... |
5,206 | 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 .
| Someone once told me that lemon juice and dish detergent are the perfect way to clean blood out of carpeting. Or, shit, was it baking soda and scrubbing bubbles? Damnit, I never pay attention to the little things... you were so right, honey.
Ray Parker would have known, that little shit. He was the master of cleani... |
5,207 | Writing Workshop # 27 : Breaking Your Barriers # 1
| MICAH is a full AI humanoid with no mechanical parts. His body was actually made from Data Matter.
Data Matter is like matter, but easier to manipulate via electrical signals. And this matter can be used to form different matter. It can be as hard as titanium and suddenly as liquid-ish as mercury in a split second.... |
5,208 | A Dark Winter ( X-Post from /r/MostBeautiful )
| The biting Northern winds, already battering my fatigued body with endless bales of snow, gathered strength the deeper I penetrated into the dark woods. Even wrapped in a thick woolen scarf, covered by the most expensive winter coat I was able to acquire on such short notice, my face was paralyzed with numbness. I had ... |
5,209 | `` That day I sat on my porch , cranberry in hand , realizing I was about to become just another statistic . ''
| You know, I always did say I wanted to sit on this porch until the day I died. I did n't realize that today would be that day, but you know, win some, lose some. I always thought it'd get me in my bed, or maybe a snake in the garden, or maybe just a good old fashioned heart attack.
I saw the car, when it came aroun... |
5,210 | I love watching her cry. | I hear it. That bittersweet sound waking me up. I roll myself out of bed before my husband can insist and walk across the hall.
I look down at her. She seems so much bigger now, but every other baby her age is twice her size. She shakes with every big long wail she screams out. I pick her up, careful to support her ne... |
5,211 | A week after becoming president, you are approached by two secret service agents and told to follow. You arrive at a deserted warehouse, and after passing some hidden security measures, a door opens. An elevator. Down. At the bottom, a rusty sign: "Extraterrestrial Containment Program". | “So… why am I here you guys?” I ask, getting dirt off of my suit.
“Well, President, we made an agreement with these otherworldly creatures that if elected a new president, we show them our current ‘leader’ and you have to now spend time here so they know how you lead.”
“Jeez… okay let’s get this over with…” I say. Th... |
5,212 | You begin to think one of your co-workers is really just 3 kids in a trench coat .
| “ I could get over the sniffling when she lost her stuffed animal and the broken english she used to communicate. It is just those hands. They were half the size of a normal woman's hands. And her arms. She can ’ t reach the keyboard without bending forward and even then it is clearly an odd and difficult task. The pro... |
5,213 | You see a homeless man with a sign "I do miracles $5". Curious, you walk up to him and ask if he's a prophet or something. He replies "No, I'm a god." | “Five dollars, huh?” Nora mused, admiring the hastily scribbled words on the piece of cardboard held by the travel-weary man in his battered leather hat on Lincoln Avenue.
“That’s the word on the street,” he smiled. The motion of his mouth upset his overgrown mustache.
“Actually,” she held up a finger. “That’s the wo... |
5,214 | You go to bed alone in a one bedroom apartment in a low income area. You wake up the next morning in a wealthy man’s body next to a beautiful woman in a gated estate. While trying to figure out what’s happening, the phone rings and you recognize the number once you see it. It’s yours. | I was dreaming about a ringing phone as the phone went off. I looked at the number and recognized it as my own – I was still dreaming. What I didn’t recognize was the phone. Or the hand holding the phone. Or the bed I was in. Or the room. Or the woman sleeping next to me.
I sat up quick and clicked answer, listening, ... |
5,215 | Make a duck scary
| First Post: Hoping for some criticism!
My girlfriend always called him `` duckie'' because he was so cute. But she did n't know she had her memories manipulated by that ferocious creature. He only strikes in the daytime, coming at my loved ones, one by one. The time had come now he is now after me. I tried rushing ... |
5,216 | Write a scary story about an object or place you would n't expect to be haunted .
| Boxes of cereal towered atop one another in an endless row. This brand, that brand, sugar-free, all-natural, whole-wheat, honey-flavored. Oranges, blues, greens, reds, browns, and whites. An endless checkerboard.
What kind did the kids eat?
I pulled the list from the back pocket of my new jeans. They were so co... |
5,217 | Can you write a story that chills me to the bone in less than 150 words ?
| The flesh moved again. It was subtle, but noticeable to the trained eye. It crept up the sides of the vial, formed a variety of unorthodox and twisted shapes. Shapes that no normal culture of cells should ever take. The flesh began to crawl around the boundaries of its enclosure. It lacked proper muscle tissue and bloo... |
5,218 | In the afterlife , you start at the age you are when you died , and age backwards . When you reach 0 , you are reincarnated .
| And in my final moments, I guess I had what some people call an'out of body experience'. I left my body and floated up, watching the heart monitor flat line. I heard that awful beeping that says goodbye. What were my last words? Did I say anything? God forbid I left the planet without a last witty remark.
A scream ... |
5,219 | Write a story about an innocent game of hide and seek as if it were something more sinister
| “ Emily, I ’ m going to find you, ” I said to the seemingly empty house. My three year old daughter somewhere, she didn ’ t want me to find her, but there was nothing she could do to stop me. When I was her age I hid from my father; under beds, in the dark, wherever I could hide. I didn ’ t want to be found, but he alw... |
5,220 | Brown Eyes
| The detectives held cloths to their mouths as they burst into the musty cellar, the overpowering scent of decay refusing to relent. They had to step over two, three, five bodies before the real spectacle was even visible. Their suspect stood before a long metal rectangle; the autopsy table that had gone missing nearly ... |
5,221 | There is a door in your room you do n't recognize , one you 've never seen before . You can hear something on the other side , but you ca n't make out what it is . The only way to find out is to go through the door .
| I woke with relief from some thinly remembered nightmare, eyes snapping open to the still quiet of the night. I was curled on my side, blanket clutched to my chin. The door was there on the wall opposite me. It had appeared while I slept, below a framed print of a monkey perched in the entrance to some temple in Kathma... |
5,222 | Write a story about an inanimate object
| I never expected to be much use to anyone. An envelope? Who writes letters anymore? My siblings, all packed on either side of me in a clear plastic package, told me to cheer up. `` We have so much potential,'' they insisted. `` We could hold love letters, heartbreaking news!''
What fools they all were. While lett... |
5,223 | A boy in a cardboard box labelled "Time Machine" just crash-landed in your backyard. | I stared.
A blonde haired boy in some sort of spaceman costume had rampaged through my home, dragging along with him a stuffed animal. How old was this kid? Do kids these days even have stuffed animals?
I tried stopping him at first, but I quickly gave up and simply waited for him tire himself out. I watched as he de... |
5,224 | `` You mean four . '' The explorers had stopped arguing , turning back on the guide . `` There 's ... only four statues , in the antechamber . '' The silence only highlighted the soft , rasping sound of stone on stone ...
| “ Four? You ’ re mistaken there are certainly eight ”
“ EVERYONE STOP! JUST LISTEN! WAIT! ”
The sound started soft, growing louder and louder
The ground was clean, no rock dust or powder
“ Who ’ s there!?! ” shouted George – a bold, fearless man
The room was silent “ We should leave ” said Fran
... |
5,225 | They laughed at your Granny for putting out a saucer of milk 'for the fairies ' , but sometimes the old ways are not without reason .
| My grandmother is a kind old woman but I'm starting to suspect she has dementia. Last month I came to visit and she met me on the long wooded path to her house. She seemed so excited. She told me about this amazing cat she had befriended.
`` Such a beautiful creature, I coaxed him in with some milk, come inside so ... |
5,226 | A monster keeps trying to scare a little kid , but the kid keeps failing to notice his terrifying stalker .
| Maurice slowly looked out from under the bed and noticed the room was dark. He moved towards the darkness in front of him and stood up. He looked down and noticed the boy named Brian. He moved across the room making sure he avoided all the objects scattered around the floor. Maurice moved inside the closet and slammed ... |
5,227 | It was a two minute window . Two minutes , that 's all it took .
| `` Do n't worry, I'll be back in two minutes, max!''
Two minutes, that's all it would take me to get into my house, grab what I needed to stay at a friends' place, and book it out of there again. If I was lucky, Mom would be sleeping and Dad would be at work.
Though I ran through my front yard, I stopped and sl... |
5,228 | In the future, science has revealed that there is in fact an afterlife and it is in fact the ultimate eternal paradise. Society's new biggest threat is dissatisfaction, as suicide soars to the number one cause of death worldwide. | Satan: I swear, they’ll fall for it.
St.Peter: Have a little faith...
(A person with a bleeding bullethole to the side of his head appears, Satan starts staring)
St. Peter: That could be a regular occuranc...
(suddenly more and more people start appearing, all with signs of self inflicted wounds, burns, or a tellta... |
5,229 | Cthulhu is found dead in the ocean. Cause: Plastic in its stomach. | Cthulhu returns, but killed by ocean plastic
This morning beach-goers who were expecting a nice early dip were surprised to see the massive dragon-octopus-humanoid body of Cthulhu lying motionless in the sand.
“Anytime something like this happens, whether its a whale, or a shark, or the dark lord of the seas, we have... |
5,230 | One day , all the clocks begin counting backwards .
| He didn ’ t even notice at first, boredom and a desire to die clouded his sense of time. The Man Like a Turtle was dying, that was evident by the tubes in his gut and arms, the stale air and pale hospital white that surrounded him.
The beeping was the only constant. Even as the clock slowed to stand still and then ... |
5,231 | You hear people, you hear vehicles, you hear noises of people around you. They arent invisible, and everyone seems to be around the corner. You aren't crazy, but for the past 2 years you have not seen a single human. | I hear them, everywhere. Everyday.
It was yesterday when I rounded the corner, and saw Mickey standing there. Bang, shot him dead right there.
Why aren’t they here? I had a date with destiny, a meeting with Fate itself and I was abandoned here. Why did they do this to me, why, why, why, why, why.
Sanity should never... |
5,232 | You are sleeping at 3:00 AM and you hear a loud noise. You look outside your window, and you see a man wearing a Canadian flag around his waist and a shower cap, standing on your car smashing it with a sledgehammer during a raining storm. Somehow, a logical explanation ensues. | “I’m pressing charges this time, it’s the third time this week!” I practically scream into the phone, before remembering who I’m talking to. “I’m telling you I’m done. I don’t care that he’s the mayors father, I don’t care if he has dementia, I don’t care if they’re willing to keep paying to fix the damage, or if they ... |
5,233 | You find a note in your mailbox that reads , `` You 're next ... ''
| 7:55 AM- I woke up and put on some pants and a sweatshirt and walked out to the mailbox in my apartment. I stood their looking and saw some bills. I also saw a note written on loose leaf paper. It was written in red ink and the handwriting looked like it had been written by a five year old. It said `` YOU'RE NEXT''.
... |
5,234 | One day you wake up in another persons body . On the news it shows your old body has died in an accident and now you 're stuck in this new vessel .
| “ Well, shit! ” I said, as I watched the news.
I woke up as usual. I looked in the mirror, and I noticed I was not myself. Not like, “ I don ’ t feel good, ” but, “ Who the fuck is this in the mirror?! ”
I looked like a COMPLETELY different person. To make matters worse, I was a woman, and I now look like a fat... |
5,235 | "That's not what I meant when I said take care of him, you idiot!" | Gregory had been a large point of contention ever since we had started the operation. He was altogether far too talkative and far too fond of noise complaints, even on days when we hadn’t been in to work. He was getting us dangerously close to being caught, and not just by the police, but boss reckoned we have some pro... |
5,236 | What is in the hole at the bottom of the Sea ?
| There ’ s no hole. Who told you there was a hole? Did they offer proof?
Come on, you ’ re smarter than that. Look, anyone can fake a picture. Unfortunately, some people in this world are just bored. They use their unproductive time to come up with little things they like to tell themselves. Being creative is fine, ... |
5,237 | Due to solar activity and apocalyptic storms , humanity can only live above ground for about 6 months each year . However , you only get 3 days warning to return underground each year .
| Prologue:
Earth.
She is no longer what she used to be. Our present is chaotic, our future uncertain.
We, the humans, burned her, cut her down and polluted her. The destruction of the protective atmosphere came first, the melted seas later and then came the apocalypse. Large chunks of lands went underwater a... |
5,238 | The forest is getting real tired of a serial killer murdering innocent campers. | Wolves used to be a rarity in the forest. A few years back the forest was a bright and welcoming place; a place for families to escape from the stress of the city for a while. Now it was plagued by rumors of ghosts and wolves, of campers disappearing without a trace. 4 years ago the serial killer "The Jaguar" started u... |
5,239 | You got a genie, congratulations! Enjoy your three wishes. Beware though as he'll do his best to warp your wishes to try and make you regret them. There is some good news though. He's really bad at doing that. | A waft of incense coils through an open temple window. In the distance, in the forest, birds are chirping. Cicadas call to other cicadas and the occasional monkey lends his voice to the chorus. In an open court, a Buddhist monk sits. Across from him, a genie floats above a small, brass lamp. “So,” the genie continues, ... |
5,240 | A man is killed in a car crash by a drunk driver . Ten years later , the ghost of the man leads his fiancee to the driver 's house to seek revenge .
| It was a decade to the day since Paul's death when I knew I had to make a confrontation. I'd been through a lot of ups and downs. I had traveled extensively, had too many lovers to count, and drank so much that my liver's functioning is probably some kind of medical miracle by now.
A year ago I had moved back to ou... |
5,241 | There is no life without water .
| Just like every morning he was shoved out of his little shack, the yoke put over his neck like he was any other beast of burden. He could feel his collarbone strain. Each and every day it got worse. This yoke, the same one they ’ d used for how many years, was splintering and weather worn. They locked it into place aro... |
5,242 | A couple brings home their newborn baby for the first time . Write a story from the pov of the family dog on how he views this strange new thing .
| What ’ s that? What ’ s that? Mommy, daddy you ’ re home! Oh I ’ m so excited, so excited!
Huh, what ’ s that? What ’ s that? What ’ s that thing you ’ re holding? Can I see?
My legs eagerly follow my master and his wife as they slowly climb up the stairs. They seem to be cooing and awing at something.
What... |
5,243 | You are a low-level intern for the local supervillain. The job pays well, but you have to keep it a secret. One day, your lover asks you to meet their parents. Reluctantly, you agree to have dinner with them. Turns out they are the city's greatest superheroes | “Well, aren’t you going to come in?” She whispers to me. I hesitantly nod and walk inside. I’m sweating bullets, but I try not to make it obvious. How could I not be nervous? My girlfriends parents are my boss’s greatest enemies! If they discover that I work for the enemy, they’ll never let me see Sarah ever again! I j... |
5,244 | Can y'all be a dear , and write a story filled with action , drama , robot unicorns for my 2 and 1/2 month old nephew for me ?
| Once there was a boy who was very kind. One day when he was walking in a park, he saw a robot unicorn. But it was severely broken. Its legs were all scratched, its horn, which was on its forehead, was disjointed. As soon as the boy saw the broken unicorn he felt very sad for it. He picked it up and bought it home. He w... |
5,245 | Your newborn 's first words are `` Dammit , I 've played this level before ! ''
| We ’ d been married for six long years and had all along resisted the pressure to have a child. We finally realized that we were ready and after another nine months of wait it was the doomsday. It had been normal all along and the doctor had predicted a regular no-hassle delivery. So, we were all in the birthing suite ... |
5,246 | your body seems to have a mind of its own. Whenever it senses a danger, it moves by itself to minimize the threat to you. It's never wrong. On one ordinary day, your body stops, then runs in one direction at top speed, clearly away from or towards something. | It has never been wrong. Not once. Usually it's small stuff, like I'll feel an urge to duck or jump to the side, and a baseball will pass right where my head was. When I realised only I did that, no one else, I kinda kept it to myself. I want to fit in, right?
It didn't interrupt my day to day life much, until now. I ... |
5,247 | 18 line freestyle
| A painting with the word CONTENT in childish yellow block letters hung on her wall; it ’ s the only thing I really looked at.
I got out of there right after.
She reminded me of my mother.
Jesus.
I did like that she lived out of the east zone.
I thought about that every time I left her place.
A quick snatch ... |
5,248 | - Create a character who has committed one or more of the worst sins you can imagine . Try to make the reader forgive this character .
| Sarah sat near the kid who looked bashful and shocked beside her.
Her actions this afternoon ….were they right or sinful? It felt like both now that her deed lived in private history. Sarah had watched the kid for years as a reliable baby sitter and sidekick. She had yearned to try what she had only glimpsed in day... |
5,249 | Tell me about a dream you had
| We made our way through the tall grass, seems we had been walking for hours through here. Our excellent shoes kept our feet from feeling anything at all.
`` Is it still following us?''
I looked back, I had gotten used to it but I still felt my stomach tighten. It was staring at us through the grass, we could se... |
5,250 | As you put your 4 year old son to bed on christmas eve, he asks you what you want for christmas, you jokingly tell him a Ferrari, the next morning, you get up and he hands you a small box with a key inside and tells you to look outside. | It was Christmas Eve and our family had just finished our festivities. We had a night full of laughter and drinking and it was time to put my son to bed. I picked him up and we marched down to his room.
“Hey champ! You ready for bed?”
“Sure daddy, I wouldn’t want to miss Santa! What is Santa bringing you this year”
... |
5,251 | You , secretly a telepath , lose a loved one . Describe what it feels like to no longer hear their thoughts .
| Noise.
Not many people really understand their own thoughts. Mostly people think in bursts or flashes of color and words. Sometimes people like to think in a stream of consciousness, an ironically subconscious translation of imagery into rhetoric. But most of the time a thought explodes into someone ’ s mind with e... |
5,252 | You wake up with no memory , in a room slick with blood
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I pressed my hands against the wall, realizing my movements were leaving red and brown smears against the concrete siding. Another movement- I made my way towards the corner, trying to make curious sense of the place- How would I get out of here? What is this place?
I heard voices. A metal sliding door opened, fi... |
5,253 | As soon as I opened my eyes three things became abundantly clear .
| Suddenly, I was awake. As soon as I opened my eyes three things became abundantly clear.
1. This was most definitely not my room. At all. My bed had been replaced by a big pile of leaves, soaking my hair and the skin of my back and legs. My walls were now tall pine trees, with their branches waving in the wind. And... |
5,254 | A vigilante kills the scum of society , until one day he kills an innocent .
| I was too late. From the moment I heard his startled gasp when I thrusted my knife deep into his abdomen, I knew this man did not expect to die. It's surprising actually, you'd expect any man whether he's a murderer or not to cry out in the face of death. But the scum of this city do n't cry. They commit horrific acts ... |
5,255 | While digging in your back yard , you make a discovery .
| I dig a lot. I have a few vegie patches and my kids and I, well, we just love digging. Feeling the earth on our hands, under our nails, smelling the soil, it just... well, not to be silly, but, it grounds us. This is our mother, I tell my children. Look after her.
The kids love it when we find worms. I let them tak... |
5,256 | Describe a psychopath , characterised through his perspective of the outside world as opposed to our perspective of him
| The toilet flushed. I slid my arm through one sleeve, then the other. After fiddling with the buttons on my lab coat, I looked at myself in the bathroom mirror. A sore, red zit was forming on my bony, pale cheek. Leaning in over the sink, I placed my finger nails at its base and squeezed. But nothing happened. I re-pos... |
5,257 | 2050: An artifical superintelligence has taken over the world. The good news: It helps humanity to overcome their problems. The bad news: It's like your mum commenting on everything you do because "one day you will thank me for that". | “It’s what everybody does!” he screams as he slams the marble island -- his fist immediately swells.
The large monitor once used to increase the value of homes, robotically responds, “Henry, if you would have listened to me earlier, then I wouldn’t have to search for homemade remedies to repair a fractured wrist,” she... |
5,258 | One day , you wake up to see that every other human in the world as disappeared . After some time surviving alone , you wake up to see that they have all returned and all behave as if nothing happened .
| After a day of foraging for food amongst the deserted suburbs, I was once again wondering... what could have happened to all of these people? After my mac and cheese, slightly burnt on the gas stove I had set up, I settle down on my makeshift bed. I move camp every night in fear that something unknown could be out ther... |
5,259 | `` It was the first time that I had cried in three years . ''
| Being an advocator for a crusade had never been my thing. I was the type to avoid controversy and try to blend it, the most uproar I ’ d ever caused as an adult was objecting to a jaywalking ticket in my twenties. Other than that I typically went along with the flow.
I ’ d realized I was gay when I was but 10, of c... |
5,260 | You are a psychic who normally speaks with many benevolent ghosts and spirits . But one day you find that they 've all gone .
| Karen greeted her last client of the day at her door, a young woman who wanted to speak with her recently deceased mother. It would be no problem, spirits were usually friendly, wanting just as desperately to talk to someone as the living. Some spirits were not as friendly, but by no means were they `` evil'', death ha... |
5,261 | : Humans now have tails . Describe a day in a life of an average person .
| I feel the slimy sheets of bedding and look at the covers stained purple with blood. There's no lasting evidence of anything that had happened last night except my throbbing tailbone. I slide my hands under the covers and feel the tail... the wretched tail. It appeared slowly, the size of a small tumor at first, but no... |
5,262 | You live alone with your parrot . It just said something you do n't remember telling it .
| I guess when I bought Bird I was at my lowest point since Sean had passed. I was lonely, I couldn ’ t bring myself to interact with other people. I brought Bird and his cage and his jangling mirrored toys and birdseed home to my one bedroom apartment. Im not sure what I was expecting: a dazzling conversation partner? A... |
5,263 | You 've been sentenced to execution and are allowed to make a final statement . If your final statement moves a studio audience , you 'll be pardoned . What is your statement ?
| “ Look at this. Look at all of you. Look at me. Does nobody see it? This is cruel. Not to me, no. I murdered an innocent man. I grasped his throat between my hands and watched as his face turned pink, turned red, turned violet. I watched as his life was taken from him, as his life was taken by me. I am an abhorrent per... |
5,264 | There 's a door in the middle of the forest . No one who has ever gone in has come back . Your job is to guard anyone from going in . One night , you hear a knock on the door .
| The slow creak of the forest and rustling of leaves makes my hair stand up on end. I have the strange feeling like I am being watched. It ’ s not unusual to get that feeling working out here in the middle of the woods, but tonight it feels different—more real.
I have only been working this job for a few weeks now; ... |
5,265 | Death penalty where the criminal 's loved one is put in execution instead of the criminal .
| I never understood why so many fear death. It is irrational, really. They hate it because they think they are supposed to, like bratty toddlers and broccoli.
People don ’ t realize they experience thousands of deaths a day. Each time they look at their phones or daydream or escape in a story they are killing themse... |
5,266 | A new gameshow starts playing on every station worldwide . The rules of the game ; Say what you want to win , and if you do n't answer ten questions in a row correctly , then something of equal value is lost . After three hours someone says `` A glimpse of God . ''
| He stood, as every man would, with the palms of his hands sweaty as ever. This is what it feels like to be two minutes away from a definite answer to something that's been troubling him for as long as he can remember. His rib cage tightened and his heart started to beat quickly - not because he's in danger, like his ou... |
5,267 | Can you write me a horror story that does n't include darkness or a monster ?
| Joan walked into an empty room, there were mirrors on all four walls and standing tall in the center of the room was a canvas, covered with a white cloth.
Joan watched as the door was locked behind her, she walked over and touched the edge of the cloth, which felt warm on her fingertips.
She looked over to a ca... |
5,268 | I am alone in the dim bathroom of an abandoned train station when I wake up with no memory of how I got there . Gathering myself , I find I have nothing but the clothes on my back and a note reading , `` I 'm sorry I left you , but ... ''
| I rub my eyes and my vision is blurry. I gag from the strong odor coming from the stalls and vomit in the sink. I vomit more when I realize how filthy the sink is. I see my reflection through the dirt in the mirror and my complexion is abnormally pale and I notice I only have one of my hoop earrings on. How did I even ... |
5,269 | Two teddy bears are sitting at a bar getting drunk , discussing the hazards of the job .
| “ … So then, so then her little brother comes into the room, sees my fluffy ass and decides I get to the monster in his play fantasy. Little shit throws me all round the room like I ’ m a rag doll. Well, I mean I guess I am one those but that ain ’ t my intended purpose, you know? ”
“ I hear you, Teddy. I bleeding ... |
5,270 | There is a demon that lives in the corner of your eye , which only you can see , and all it does is stare at you .
| “ Jim, you okay? ”
“ Huh? ”
“ The report, did you finish it? ”
“ Oh, here. ”
“ Thanks. ”
It ’ s getting harder and harder to go to work, to leave my house even. All I want to do is curl in my bed and never get up. How will I pay the bills? Maybe I can get a note to work from home from now on.
I thought ... |
5,271 | : Earth 's species are uniting and revolting against humanity 's cruelty and abuse of all things . You are a Great White Shark off the coast of South Africa . Your ongoing task is to patrol the waterways looking for opportunities ...
| You remember watching the spear pierce your brother's back. You remember watching the net smother your mother- you stared in horror as she squirmed in a blind panic. You tried to snip the netting away with your teeth, but you could n't get enough, and you watched with sullen eyes as she was pulled above the surface- th... |
5,272 | In an alternate world , a well-functioning society of zombies face an outbreak of humans .
| My first thought was that why don ’ t they talk to me anymore.
It had been two days since I encountered the human, he sprayed me with some fluid and then he ran. I have never seen anybody run so fast in my life. He ran straight over to the ruins and climbed. I think that ’ s the word. Yes climbed or moved up to the... |
5,273 | Like an animal marking its territory, Death leaves its scent behind. | When Cory walked through the door and past the yellow tape there was no mistaking that smell, he had known ever since his first case and it had only grown more familiar but it somehow still always managed to sting the nostrils.
As he walked through the lounge of this 15th story apartment in downtown New York he took a... |
5,274 | A mother on a boat with her child . There 's something in the water . 350 words .
| Olivia could smell the ash in the air. Her body stiffened, muscles in quiet suspense, as if one movement could give their position away. She had never been more terrified in all her life. A bead of sweat dripped off her head and onto the wad of blankets in her lap. She looked at her newborn, still fast asleep, undistur... |
5,275 | You find a CD labeled `` Backup Child '' . Hoping to expand your playlists , you pop it in . It 's not music .
| So I ’ m not the most technically savvy. So sue me.
You find a CD, you pop it into a computer, and a menu pops up. It ’ s a CD. It ’ s got ta have music on it, right? So, you hit AutoPlay, turn the volume up, because it ’ s music, right? It didn ’ t seem like such a big deal.
I was tired of I Heart Radio playin... |
5,276 | Write about the daily life of someone who exercises demons . Yes , you read that correctly .
| I sighed once again..
It was only the second training for Gorgbogkt and he was late again. Much too late. I didn ’ t have much faith in him to start, but this was beginning to really annoy me. He just didn ’ t take training seriously.
My experiences with the others had been better then this honestly. Jarhogit had... |
5,277 | Someone spray-painted “Tony, call me, you prick” on the sidewalk behind my work. I’m dying to know the backstory. Any genre, take it in any direction you like. | Did your significant other ghost you? Has it been a few days or weeks since your son or daughter last responded to your text or call? Feel like playing a prank on a pal, but don't know what to do? Trying to track down that girl who reluctantly gave you her number last year, but don't know where to start?
Sidewalk Note... |
5,278 | Give me hope , and take it all away in under 150 words
| `` Oh my god, he's crying Cheryl!'' I said. The ratty blankets had been boiled as best as he could manage, the baby placed in and wiped off. The last 9 months had be difficult, dodging the wild animals and finding a place where they could be quiet and deliver in peace. They hadn ’ t seen anyone in years, so I had to le... |
5,279 | Come up with the most original way of telling a serial killer/murderer horror story
| This funeral was closed casket, scattered audience, and no speakers. It was easy getting in for these reasons, the family did not care much whether or not Gibson ’ s death was reported or not. His mouth sewn shut, and face vandalized prompted the closed casket. No one other than the priest gave parting words to the man... |
5,280 | Tell the story of the first human being to capture and train a Pokemon .
| It had poisoned my son, so I was on the hunt.
Forests and trees, and wild pokemon ready to defend them. I saw red, it ’ s all there was, no danger or carefulness. I needed to squash a bug.
Caterpie, was what my son called it. He used to chase one around our yard when it got too close, playful. And I saw it, sli... |
5,281 | When all the snow melts in NYC , they 're gon na find all the bodies of the people they thought were n't getting murdered .
|
Looking back we all feel pretty stupid now; all those celebrations and news stories, those declarations of how New York was changing. We were going to be the first place which had eradicated homicide; it was a ground breaking story.
There was no place on Earth which had accomplished that; sociologists were stunne... |
5,282 | Write a story from the point of view of a prisoner in solitary confinement .
| Every day is the same to a dead man. The sun rises and sets on them, but they're always in the dark of their coffins and tombs with only insects for company. At least I still have light, when they turn it on and off. Three times a day, food comes in through a slot in the door. And once a week, I get to go to a differen... |
5,283 | At the age of 18 you are permitted to redistribute your twenty skill points around into whatever skills you want permanently . You decided to put everything into LUCK and leave the rest at 0 points .
| I quietly entered the hospital room. There, attached to a series of tubes and machines, was my brother. One machine fed him a steady IV drip, another pumped his lungs full of air and then emptied the mat again, a third just steadily blipped in time to his heartbeat. An indistinct antiseptic smell tugged at the nostrils... |
5,284 | Writing Workshop # 19 : Symbolism & Messages
| I never liked what I did. It felt like a stain on my skin I could n't hope to ever scrub clean. Blood always coated my hands, and the horror and screams of the dead plagued me in my dreams.
Days when I do n't have to make a kill, I seek the simplicity of nature. I would sit on a bench at the park and hear the sound... |
5,285 | Virtual reality is now affordable to everyone . However , instead of everyone living happily ever after , the overwhelming reaction is to only live in a happy world for a few years before becoming bored and seeking stimulation by exploring increasingly dark and twisted fantasies
| Turns out paradise does n't last forever. The sun burns. The waves still. The sand grows itchy in your loins. The idyllic grows idle, and energy turns to ennui. It had been a month since I arrived here, and I was done with this goddamned island.
`` You ca n't leave,'' said the bartender, like this was some Hotel Ca... |
5,286 | The story of a boy as he grows up , as told by his oldest possession - his wardrobe .
| His tiny baby clothes were the first to fill me. His mother hanging the Spiderman and Batman and Elmo onesies on baby hangers she bought from Ikea. My head was all clothes with tiny patterns while the rest of me held all the trucks and the GI Joes and Star Wars figurines. I was the pearly gates. I lit up the boy ’ s fa... |
5,287 | God forgot about Earth soon after Adam and Eve , fully expecting them to die . One of the Angels just informed him they survived , and the population is over 7 billion .
| “ …excuse me? ”
“ Yes, sir. Over 7 billion. It took us by surprise too. ”
“ But I…after all this time? I left only two of them with…nothing, really. How did they not die? They should have died. I wanted them to die… ”
“ I ’ m well aware, sir, but you see, someone left it on this whole time while you were ma... |
5,288 | The color of people 's eyes are based on what that person has seen in life .
| When they finally released her from the hospital, she left through a ward dedicated to optometric therapy. The walls were lined with photos and paintings capable of drawing an aww from even the darkest-eyed of patients.
Yet the patients still stay in these experimental programs, attempting to dilute the blackness o... |
5,289 | Everytime you wake , you 're somewhere you 've never been . Could be a different country , could be a differnt world . Tell me how you survive .
| “ Where am I? ”
“ You ’ re home. I ’ m your wife. Your short term memory is shit. Always has been. Please don ’ t freak out and break anything. I just replaced all the stuff you broke yesterday. I ’ ll make coffee. ”
His heart rate increased. He looked around. None of it familiar.
“ Lies. ” The cadence in h... |
5,290 | You are about to die . Tell me your story .
| I ’ m bleeding. At least I think I am. Is this what bleeding feels like? I don ’ t think I ’ ve ever experienced it before. Oh sure, a few scrapes when I was little, but not like this. This is pools and rivers, lines of red creeping across my clothes like snakes. And it ’ s cold. Why is it so cold? Oh yeah, because it ... |
5,291 | You are a successful artist who has a condition where you randomly black out . When you wake up , you see that you have created beautiful masterpeices that you do n't remember painting . Lately , all of your paintings have been more and more disturbing .
| I sat in silence. There were more of them again. Their eyes staring at me from the walls, the desecrated canvas they lived in.
I felt sick seeing this in front of me. Is this my unconscious mind? Maybe it ’ s just what my deepest darkest thoughts look like? Or am I…am I doing this?
Whenever I wake up I ’ m always i... |
5,292 | Choose an inanimate object . In less than 100 words , describe the world from its point of view .
| When i first got here with my brothers I thought we were going to accepted into this workplace we had something to contribute, something to bring to the table and while we were only new to work we had fire in our eyes and a passion to learn. We were shown to our desks when we arrived and met our partners for the rest o... |
5,293 | The monster is insisting that it 's your future self
| ( Warning: Graphic, horrific, and abstract. )
It began with a stomach ache - though I must confess that describing it as such does n't do that so very baleful sensation any justice; no, it was more like a grinding sensation in my guts, a visceral twisting that caused me to shudder in utter queasiness every time it ... |
5,294 | 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 ! ''
| I had this terrible dream that I always have. I am still in Vietnam. I am running and there are snakes everywhere and there is this one big snake and he is about to bite me, and bang I am awake with full of sweat and heartbeats but no snakes.
Something feels completely different I can move more freely. I am feeling s... |
5,295 | Covered in blood and grinning , you emerge from your house . But no one has been killed . Why are you so happy ?
| I knew I looked like I was crazy. I was covered in blood and grinning like a madman. I knew it was likely that the police would be called if anyone saw me, but that did n't stop me from going outside and basking in the warm glow of the sun.
After 9 months of my wife and I being told that, in all likelihood, our bab... |
5,296 | The spaceship needed a janitor and you took the job. Everything was going well, until the ship's A.I. killed the rest of the crew. The A.I. has decided to spare you and you don't know why. | You turn the corner of the hallway and see the same mess, body parts and blood covering every surface. You just shrug and continue doing your job.
You always got to start by sweeping up the big stuff. Out comes the broom. Sadly, it’s already soaked red with blood, so it’s definitely going to smear, but oh well, it’ll ... |
5,297 | Write a heartbreaking story .
| We stood on cliffside overlooking the infinite sea. Far beyond the horizon was the nightmare I used to have. It ’ s light peeked over the horizon, encroaching on the night sky, always threatening to come back.
Even though there were billions of people better than me, Josh still helped me. When the nightmare surroun... |
5,298 | I love watching her cry .
| I hear it. That bittersweet sound waking me up. I roll myself out of bed before my husband can insist and walk across the hall.
I look down at her. She seems so much bigger now, but every other baby her age is twice her size. She shakes with every big long wail she screams out. I pick her up, careful to support her... |
5,299 | A sci-fi world where executions are done via memory wipe
| It was my turn. After spending four years in maximum security prison it was the day of my memory wipe. I do n't fit the bill for a killer but I guess it just happened. My best friend, James was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's when he was 43. It destroyed him and he could bear the thought him losing completely ev... |
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