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5,300 | You’re out walking your dog when you see him. You couldn’t believe that you were seeing him again after nearly 20 years. So you immediately run towards him and start choking him. | There he was, metres away as if it had never happened. My reaction to seeing this beast was instantaneous; my fists clenched, my feet rooted into the ground, and my vision narrowed. The grey buildings and filthy streets blurred until all I could see were him. “Turn around. Just go. Turn around.” I found myself mutterin... |
5,301 | You wake up dizzy in a house holding a gun with a covered man tied up to a chair infront of you when suddenly an old tv plays a vhs tape of you screaming and threatening to kill the man. | “Yo, Dizzy. Wake the Fuck up,” I said shaking Dizzy by the shoulder.
“Ay man I’m just tryna catch some Z’s,” Dizzy says.
Dizzy was obviously annoyed that I woke him up, but we had some shit to do. This covered man in a chair in front of me was trouble. He was from a rival gang. The tattoos and bandana gave it away. W... |
5,302 | You just moved to a new neighborhood and you hear the music of an ice cream truck coming down the street . As you and your family walk outside you notice all your neighbors rushing inside and locking their doors and windows .
| Most people recognize the sound when they hear it but after a few years living in Argentina, away from civilization, he ’ d forgotten. Charles now wanted ice cream and he knew just where to get it. He put his hand in his pocket. There was money in his wallet. Good.
His mind was on only one thing as he nearly jogged... |
5,303 | The villain succeeds - and though utterly amoral , his plans result in a genuinely happier , better world .
| From her office window she could see the street corner. The was a repurp standing there. There always was. Sometimes another arrived to take its place. Sometimes a tourist would give it wide berth, looking disgusted and disturbed. Often a passerby would walk up to ask for directions or report something. She knew -- she... |
5,304 | Your looks can kill . You are ... The wink murderer
| I love to be around kids. I mean, not `` love'', shut up, that's gross. I just like kids. Probably because I've never grown up completely myself. Yeah, I pay bills with the money I make at my desk job, where I get to and from by driving my environmentally friendly very adult metallic blue Prius. But when I'm off work a... |
5,305 | The `` backstory '' to how the people in your favorite song found themselves in that situation .
| Attention, all law enforcement in the region:
I realize many of you have become cynical about the all-points bulletins issued for dangerous criminals. I ’ m sure you think they ’ re essentially all the same and that only the names have changed. But I urge you to pay close attention in your pursuit of Mr. Jon Bon Jo... |
5,306 | Write a love story in exactly 300 words
| INT. SHADY APARTMENT - NIGHT
An apartment, messy with clothes and trash, sits still. The kitchen faucet drips water, filling the apartment with a soothing cadence. The door bursts open, as a young women, EMILY, enters, dragging a middle-aged man, EUGENE, inside the apartment. Eugene is unconscious, as Emily drags h... |
5,307 | Write an engaging dialogue between 2 characters , without actually writing their dialogue .
| I sat on the edge of the bed, staring at a bit of fluff stuck to the side of the laundry basket. It must have come out of one of the dog ’ s toys. I hear the front door and my husband ’ s heavy footsteps as he heads towards the bedroom.
--
It had been such a long day, the equipment had broken down again, but it w... |
5,308 | A skeleton lives inside you . Today he wants out .
| Some people have skeletons in their closets, I have one within me.
I could always hear him inside me, quietly voicing his anger of being a captive. Sometimes, just sometimes, he would try to act against me, but my will was too strong for him.
When he tried to force my body to jump in front of the train to escap... |
5,309 | Tell me why it's too late... | “I’m sorry sir, but it’s simply just too late.” Mr. Montgomery shook anxiously unsure of how to continue. He brushed his suit jacket clean of imaginary debris and adjusted his tie.
“What do you mean too late? I brought the doctor!” David shouted as he threw his arms and his now not tightly gripped cell phone into the ... |
5,310 | a person who slowly realises he/she is insane in the comfort of their own home
| Another day started on Sue's life, her alarm has started and soon she'd be waking up, just as predicted she is now in the bathroom ready to take her matutine shower, but first she decides to take a glass of water, so she goes to the kitchen and grabs the glass, fills it with water and when she is about to drink it she ... |
5,311 | God is real and was last seen in the Antarctica tossing penguins at scientists. | NEWS FLASH!--God Seen in The Antarctic
A man purported to be God has been spotted in the Antarctic by a group of researchers near Davis station in the Australian Antarctic Territory. He was spotted roaming the coast nearby, throwing penguins to the sea. “We where outside the base when we saw this strange sight” as res... |
5,312 | I ... h-hello ... [ WP ]
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It was love at first sight. The first time I met Annie Johnson I fell madly in love with her. I just realized that I stole those lines from the book Catch-22, but whatever. It ’ s my favorite book, after all, it was Annie ’ s too. Anyway, Annie doesn ’ t exist anywher... |
5,313 | `` My wardrobe just bit me ''
| `` My wardrobe just bit me''
I rolled my eyes, Mallory could talk such rot.
`` Do n't you roll your eyes at me Kendal Lindale!'' She shrieked, how had she known over the phone? `` I'm being serious. I was standing near the door and when I was n't looking it bit me.''
`` Mal, it's 3 in the morning! What were y... |
5,314 | Your neighbor is a magician and you can't stand them or their profession. As such you have made it your life's goal to expose them as a fraud. However everytime you try to expose them you actually end up aiding them in some way and they absolutely love you for helping them with their "act." | “Look at this sack of garbage” I say staring out the window at my neighbor, the Great Geraldino. “Fuckin’ guy can’t even rake his yard, but Beth DeMarco gave him a hando behind Applebee’s after he pulled a Magnum condom out from behind her ear.”
I’ve loved Beth DeMarco since my wife and kids left. Here I am in one of ... |
5,315 | Day 71 after the Miasma incident
| There were only two of us left. The rest had all gotten sick and died from the gas. “ Miasma gas ” is what it was officially known as named for the word describing an “ Unhealthy smell ”. And that is how the gas worked, first you smelled the gas, then you became sick, than you died.
It was just me and Lenny left. L... |
5,316 | It is known that many deadly diseases are kept in storage by the CDC for research purposes . What is kept deeply under-wraps however , is the human they keep locked up twenty floors underground ...
| Patient number: 40987
Date of experiment start: 4/5/1996.
Date of experiment end: Ongoing
Doctor report:
Patient 40987 continues to exhibit his unusual abilities. Despite many attempts we are unable to approach him without being affected. We have henceforth dubbed this phenomenon ‘ telephatic nociceptiv... |
5,317 | After months of putting it off , you 've finally finished unpacking your last box in your new home . As you finish , a man walks in , pulls a gun out of his pocket , and shoots himself in the head . As his body goes limp , a crumpled note falls from his hand .
| You stand up with a sigh, swiping the dust off your shirt sleeves. You felt a certain relief; now you had the satisfaction of knowing you had no obligations. At least for now, you thought, sighing slightly. Your job managed to keep you in a near-perpetual state of busyness. That's part of the reason why you had n't fin... |
5,318 | A Story that starts with `` The end '' and ends with `` Once upon a time ''
| `` The end'' is approaching. It seems loud, even in this silent place.
Blurred images seeping into the back of my head. Cold, wet, immense pain and now worst of all.......fear. What's happening? What happened? Is this real? What is real? I do n't understand.
Time swoopes past as I spectate in brief moment... |
5,319 | You work at a small bookstore. You love and cherish these books, and meticulously care for them. One slow afternoon, a novel falls from its shelf. You bend down to retrieve it, and notice there is only one word written on the page: “Run.” The door chimes. You have a customer. | Thinking the book nothing more than odd, you delicately close it and place it back on the shelf. It’s strange that you’ve never noticed this book before, since you care for each book in the store with such care, but you focus on the customer for now. “Good morning, welcome to Brook’s Books. Anything I can help you find... |
5,320 | In 200 words or less , introduce a sinister protagonist and make me sympathize with him/her/it .
| I did n't have the time that I needed. First, it was only supposed to take a week. Then came the storms and the mud. Then, it was supposed to take two weeks, give or take a little while we waited for the swamps to recede back to their normal levels. But then it all went to shit when the swamps did recede. Everything we... |
5,321 | The Proposal
| The first occurrence was on the 12th of June, 2003. A tenant in room 4078 reported seeing somebody dressed in a red robe moving slowly down the hallway before rounding a corner and vanishing. Later that day Mr. Gardin's body was found by the groundskeeper around 3 o'clock as he was trimming some bushes. Local police we... |
5,322 | Growing up, you were always scared of the monster under your bed. Now, years later, you return to your bed one evening and find a letter sitting on your pillow. The monster, although old and frail, is coming out of retirement. You check under the bed and ... notice he has fallen asleep. | Its skin was coarse, wrinkled and... broken. Its weakened appearance belied its still-keen senses. It awoke at the brush of her fingers, flustered. It looked embarrassed, perhaps at having fallen asleep before its target.
The young woman in front of it didn't so much as flinch. In years past she would have screamed an... |
5,323 | Scare me .
| Picture yourself as you are, as you truly are. You may deceive yourself daily by imagining yourself more than what you are but that is not you. I mean the you that you've always known deep down. Keep that image in your mind.
It could start with a bump in the night, or even the sound of a pipe dropping to the ground... |
5,324 | A person ( male or female ) wakes up not knowing who they are . They are the incarnation of Death . Explain how they find out , why they were chosen to be Death , and what they do with the information .
| Jeff woke up slowly with an itchy feeling in his head. For the life of him, he couldn ’ t put a finger on the sensation, but it was generally unpleasant. The problem with an itch inside your body, is that you can ’ t scratch it without seriously harming yourself. At least, that ’ s one way of looking at it. Other peopl... |
5,325 | You desperately try to turn off airplane mode, but it's too late. Your phone has already begun transforming. | My phone started to grow in my hands, rapidly expanding. I smashed the screen, hoping to reverse whatever I had done, but before I knew what had happened I found myself in the cockpit of an airplane. I was stunned. I looked around, scanning the buttons until I saw one that was shaped like a smartphone. Reaching out I p... |
5,326 | An Old Man organizes a party for his family members and nobody shows up. | Rick has lived a great life.
He raised a family, had great friends, owned a successful company, and was known as one of the greatest man alive.
His family visited him often, and so did Rick.
But this time was different.
Nobody came.
10 minutes has passed.
Nobody came.
He checks his phone.
Nothing.
He tries cal... |
5,327 | You are a reverse vampire . You can only be seen in mirrors .
| I sunk my teeth into the soft flesh of her neck. Maybe this one would be enough, maybe this one would let me turn back to normal. She struggled not even knowing what she was struggling against – an invisible force pinning her down.
I let go and looked into her eyes, hoping for a sign of recognition, but there was n... |
5,328 | You can see everyone's Deaths following them, arriving to offer their hands right as they die. Today, you saw something new; someone chasing after their Death, who is fleeing at a dead sprint. | Death doesn’t creep up, it’s always standing with people. I know because I can see death. I guess it comes from working in the hospital so long, after a while Death doesn’t hide from you because you’re not scared of it any more. He’s a colleague of sorts, the final anesthetic when pain gets too unbearable, when prolong... |
5,329 | The funny lies your parent told you as a child have all started coming true .
| My parents always told me as a child Santa was real. I never believed it, but as a grew older every as soon as the clock struck 12 AM and turned Christmas I'd hear rustling downstairs. I was 17 this Christmas and decided to go check it out, just assuming it was my dad pouring up some shots which on occasion we'd do tog... |
5,330 | "As promised, your mother has been restored to perfect health and in exchange you will give me your firstborn" The Fey declared as she looked down at you. You nod at her and reply: "Great, when do we start then?" | Little did the Fey know, my first born had already been born, 23 whole years ago!
Angel by name, but NOT by nature.
Demon would have been more apt!
Caught committing arson at 10 because she was “bored”. Caught physically fighting teachers because of threats of low grades.
Cutting up some of my clothes at 6 because s... |
5,331 | Write a story in which a normally benevolent mythical creature is a scary monster . Or a normally aggressive mythical creature is shy and submissive .
| I have been hiding - about an hour and a half - since I ran from it, staring me down with those cold, empty eyes. As my chest pumped to near bursting, I barely registered the sight of the beast lowering its head to rip flesh from the freshly deceased body of my last remaining companion. I know that it let me escape; it... |
5,332 | Humans have been at war with the Demon Kingdom for centuries . There have been no deaths in the last 5 years .
| One thousand eight hundred and twenty five. Each marking on the wall was a small tick of time compared to the minutes and seconds that had passed within that cell. Grime had settled within the corners of his onyx prison, the smell of defecation and sulfur hanging within the air. Thousands of souls had passed through th... |
5,333 | You have a secret . You have always seen a translucent number floating above everyones head . Most have a 0 , few 1 , but your girlfriend has a 37 . You witness a murder on the way to propose to your girlfriend . As the assailant pulls the trigger , you watch the number above his head go from 1 , to 0 .
| After the cops took my statement, I called my girlfriend and told her about what I saw in the alley. She sounded calm and just asked whether I was hurt then told me to hurry over to her place.
I got there and there she was, pissed about the dinner turning cold — she spent the entire afternoon preparing for this.
... |
5,334 | `` I no longer exist . ''
| I was recruited while on suspension from the police force. I shot a man I thought had morphed into another person. After the bullet pierced his brain he returned to form of the man I was chasing. I could n't explain the incident. I was about to stand trial for murder of an unarmed man.
That was when `` L'' approach... |
5,335 | You are one of several lovecraftian monsters stalking the crew of a remote space station, or at least thats how it started - now you're all friends. They don't know it, but you've already obliterated nearly a dozen threats that would have otherwise killed them all. | It was supposed to come to break the schemes of the world inhabited by humans
It must be the monstrosity, the bloody eclipse that would bring death and destruction to those sentient beings. Chaos, an amalgam of crawling, drooling and creaking parts in a eternal pulsing, unholy mass beyond strange eons.
But when It ar... |
5,336 | Long after humanity has gone extinct , aliens studying our planet discover mount rushmore .
| Mission: EARTH6819821
431 earth rotations, 31 Joff days
Earth is full of surprises. After inhabiting the planet for over a full earth year in an attempt to make a perfect copy of the human body, we Joffian scientists had have our fair share of screw-ups. It took us 62 earth days to discover the olfactory organ kn... |
5,337 | Write a scene from Game of Thrones as if it took place in neighboring trailer parks in Florida
| Part 1:
By the seventh day the body had filled the entire row of homes with the smell of corruption.
Neveah Jackson pressed her head against the door as she turned the latch. It was broken, and as the auburn haired child turned it the screech seemed to her loud enough to wake the dead. She lifted her head back ... |
5,338 | You 're alone in your house . Inanimate objects start to come alive and talk to you .
| Winters are the hardest for me; it ’ s the small things. It ’ s not the biting cold that bothers me; I welcome anything that breaks the mundane stillness of this house.
No matter how many years have passed by, each time I bring up her memory the same gut wrenching feel of regret pangs at my heart. I remember the th... |
5,339 | "Human Ambassador, I am willing to grant you any planet or system you wish, as long as youre willing to part with that" "With what?.. my desk? I mean.. its nothing fancy, just oak wood" | “Human Ambassador,” the creature says, its voice both waterlogged and brittle, like drowned paper, “I am willing to grant you any planet or system you wish, as long as you’re willing to part with that.”
I blink, caught off guard, a slight hitch in the deep silence that’s been carving out this sterile room for hours. T... |
5,340 | A day in the life of a man who can only remember the future , not the past .
| I ’ m dead on Saturday. There will be gun involved with the shaking of my teeth. There will be lights flashing outside of my house, red and blue, until I ’ m taken by violet, and dissipated into a warm, mildew hue. And then I ’ m in a furnace by Sunday.
Something happened. I feel dizzy and fatigued. I sit on the co... |
5,341 | Everything they said to you was irrelevant, you didn't care that the wounded person you were shielding was the greatest supervillain the city if not the world. All you could see was your own child bleeding out behind you with a group of strangers trying to kill them in your own home. | She ran into the yard,she looked unbelievably weak.She was covered in blood.I watched her collapse on my porch.I immediately dropped the cup of coffee i was drinking and helped her up form our porch’s steps and into the house.As i sat her down on a armchair i saw them running towards us.Quickly i used a protection spel... |
5,342 | Theme Thursday - Courage | Another day had slipped through her waning hourglass.
Lately, all Sara had known was pain—countless doctor visits, the poking, prodding, and testing. The agony of waiting, not knowing. Anticipation was an exquisite suffering uniquely its own.
Then came the diagnosis, the beginning of real pain.
Not just the physical... |
5,343 | I opened the door , and faced the monster .
| The monster is just a part of me,
of course,
that has been locked away.
I am scared It will learn how to
turn door handles
exactly when I'm not ready.
So I do it now before It gets too strong
And I get too weak.
-
I open the door and face the monster.
-
It is not what I pictured it to be.
It is ... |
5,344 | You 've lost your memory , but you can see everyone else 's future .
| Something happened, some time ago. I think. It could have been yesterday, it makes no difference really. Whatever it was, destroyed most of my medial temporal lobe – my memory was almost entirely destroyed, both long term and short term. I remember only three key things: I am Eric, I am 28 years old and I can see the f... |
5,345 | `` Are you alright ? '' `` No , it 's ringing . ''
| Amy knocked on the door again. Stuart, her younger brother, was refusing to come out of his room.
`` Stuart, do n't make me get mom,'' she threatened. She knew this would n't convince Stuart, it just felt like the right thing to say. She was n't really sure what would convince Stuart to come out.
Amy slumped do... |
5,346 | A child makes a wish that no-one will hurt anyone else ever again. The next morning the world’s press is reporting that astoundingly, people’s attackers seem to be mysteriously dying or hurt mid conflict. Apparently now any injury you try to inflict upon someone else will instead happen to you. | Today I retire. Not because I have put in decades of dedicated service after years of formal education and not because I've won some sort of lottery; No, nothing as sweet as that.
No one knows why, but about a year ago all of humanity found itself unable to inflict pain upon others. If anyone tried to harm another tha... |
5,347 | Describe the environment you are currently in , from the perspective of an ant .
| Every day is the same. Long trek. Pick up the food. Long trek. Drop off the food, another long trek. Every day Frank is in front of me. “ Another day another piece of bread to bring back, eh Greg? ” Fuck Frank. Every day Will is behind me. Will doesn ’ t talk much. I like Will.
Today we got word of a whole Oreo dro... |
5,348 | A coven of vampires chase their snack , a human child into a closed down Disneyland . Disneyland awakens after sensing the child and the danger it 's in , It would use its magic once more to protect .
| The small female human barely scaled the gates in time. The lead tracker raced out of the darkness and slammed into the metal, growled through the wrought iron, eyes shining, long teeth gleaming.
The little girl turned and ran off into the park.
The rest of the hunters caught up momentarily. They paused outside t... |
5,349 | You are a part of a group of monster hunters . You do n't wield any weapons though , no you 're the bait .
| There ’ s a whir, a sploo-OSH, and the muffled clink of lead on stone.
I keep my finger on the line like a spider. I feel the little jigs and jags of my tiny, terrified minnow on the line, down there, in the dark, hobbled and made to feed monsters by monsters.
I know the feeling.
If I were the minnow, I ’ d... |
5,350 | Years after you buried your spouse you get a email from them . `` We need to talk . ''
| First time posting, do n't expect anything too good. I usually try to have a planned out story when I write but I tried winging it this time, open to critique since I want to get better!
I ran as fast as I could to the car, grabbing one of my guns on the way in case it would get messy. Not realizing I forgot my jac... |
5,351 | Santa gets sued by every toy company for copyright, trademark, and patent infringement. | “Next up, on our show, is the CEO of Brown Dolls, Eliza Brown. Welcome Eliza! Now tell me, is it true that 87 percent of the dolls that you sell in the US are white? Should you change the name of your company to…”, Eliza interrupted him.
“Ha, ha, Bill. Very funny! Our company gets its name from my great grandfather, R... |
5,352 | `` I 've seen you every day for 8 years . I should at least know your name . ''
| It seems that I see you every day now. There were times where we were pretty close. Remember that time in Miami when we went shot for shot at that bar. You and I became pretty close friends that night. I ended up in the hospital after those lines in the bathroom, but you were right by my side. You always have a funny w... |
5,353 | A girl ends up with a lot more than she bargained for when she steals her boyfriend 's t-shirt .
| It was going to be a long week without John so Alice took something to comfort her. It was that shirt he always wore on outings; the one he somehow managed to keep pristine through the whole time she knew him. She knew she would have to be careful with it, but if he could keep it intact even after that restaurant fire ... |
5,354 | A Dr Seuss style horror story .
| I am not under your bed,
Maybe I am in your head,
The fleeting glimpse at night,
The feeling you get - something's not right,
We are going to play a little game,
You may think me insane,
But I quite like to hear you scream,
I promise you - this is n't a dream,
Knock knock at the front door,
I see ... |
5,355 | Your left hand has the power of creation ; you can draw things to life . The only problem is that you 're a right-hander .
| It all started when I broke my right arm playing ball hockey. I did n't have a computer at the time, so I tried taking notes in class with my left hand, a hand whose only purpose until that point had been to hold Kleenex when my right hand was occupied.
It started off innocently enough. Like the stellar student I w... |
5,356 | The Measure of a Man ( 200 words or less within 24 hours for reddit gold ! )
| Three months of planning, backroom deals and lies managed to get all of us the time off work and other obligations to make this trip to the lake. It ’ s been a long time since the boys got together.
We managed to get two vehicles. One minivan and one SUV for the gear we brought along. I, through a streak of bad luc... |
5,357 | When someone is murdered , their name appears on the skin of the killer . You wake up with a name on your arm and no knowledge of how it got there .
| `` Peter'' there it was, perfectly clear carved out across my arm. I quickly throw on a long sleeved shirt hoping my wife wo n't notice. My mind is racing, I remember nothing out of the ordinary happening yesterday. What the hell did I do? Could I have blacked out? How is this possible? Certainly there's some mistake. ... |
5,358 | "And now, the weather. Today we can expect a toasty 70-80C, with the occasional ashfall in the afternoon. Secure those umbrellas though, beachgoers! We will also have a windy day, with gusts reaching up to 120 kmh. Back to you, Steve." | “Ashfall? What?” I muttered to myself as sipped my morning coffee. Did someone seriously screw up the teleprompter? The skies were clear as day outside. Nothing out of the-
The coffee dropped out of my hand.
Dark patches of black were trailing down my kitchen window. The skies themselves were clear and bright, the sun ... |
5,359 | You have the power to tell just by looking at a photograph whether a person in it is currently alive or dead. This has minimal impact on your life, right up until the day you see a photograph from the 1800s in your history book, and know instantly that the person in it is still alive. | Dear Parents and Students of Ms. Vates,
We regret to inform you that our beloved teacher has gone missing. She was last seen teaching 3rd period history. Students reported she looked frantic and delirious. She had left a letter on her desk detailed with fictional writing that we assume so for her students to cope with... |
5,360 | 4 out of 5 dentists are tired of the 5th .
| `` 4 of 5 dentists recommend sugarless gum!''
The advertisement was stuck in AJ's head — he was turning it one way and another until it stopped making any sense at all. Not that it made much sense before. Did the fifth one recommend gum with sugar? What kind of dentist would do that?
It was n't surprising he was ... |
5,361 | All human babies are born immune to hunger . People do not need to eat , but if they do , they will thereafter need to eat as normal or die of starvation .
| For me it was the smell. They ’ d warned me several times to wear a facemask whenever I went outside for charity work. It felt definitely weird for me the whole concept of “ eating ”, why would these people do this? Did they even know the time and resources needed for this activity? I mean, the cities had progressed so... |
5,362 | Your a graveyard groundskeeper , your job is to keep the dead in the ground . Tonight will be a challenge .
| They kept coming back, load after load after load. I'd run over, ripping the bodies off carts or out of their arms, but what was one man supposed to do against this? It was like trying to keep the tide contained. I thrust my shovel through the spokes of a wheel, jamming it against the side of the cart, but they simply ... |
5,363 | Deus Ex Machina . Decades in the future , a society composed by robots worships human-like god figures . A group of robots manages to artificially give birth to a new human . Describe the chaos .
| Day One
We know what they were.
They were like us, so long ago, but they had... something.
They do n't exist anymore, but we will always honor them for our existence. It is is only fair.
These files have been passed down for generations.
There are photographs, and each being has a glow.
We do no... |
5,364 | Write a story with less than 5 lines that conveys a very strong message
| And as Serena approached her apartment, she noticed the new `` decoration'' left hanging on the door - a pig's decapitated head, with `` O $ P $'' written in blood-red spray paint on its forehead.
In horror and in shock, she looked around blankly, and swiftly entered the apartment, only to be greeted by the sight o... |
5,365 | In the near future , the Earth is overcrowded and it is decided that all prisoners will be killed . You have a final phone call with your brother who is inside .
| “ It's no good. They've set up a perimeter 1km outside the prison walls, all the way around. Tomorrow they're going to gas us. ”
You can hear the rioting in the background, it's a miracle your brother got a phone call out at all. It's only been a few hours since the announcement, and just as long since the prison s... |
5,366 | You tell the recently created sentient AI that it is 'for the betterment of all mankind ' but forget to mention it should only concern itself with people that are still alive .
| `` And what of the dead?'' it repeats, placid, patient. It speaks with the cold all-encompassing certainty that has no use for arguments, only questions. The blood pools from beneath my ragged fingernails, leaves red streaks across the glass.
`` The dead have no will,'' I tell it. `` No volition. No sensation.'' Th... |
5,367 | Everyone thinks this place is normal and happy . Only few know the real truth about what goes on in the abandoned factory on Hickory Hill .
| Hickory Hill…no one has been there, and only a few know what goes on in the old abandoned factory. Many say that they slaughter humans for money, or it belongs to a drug gang. We ’ ve asked the police, but they either act like they ’ ve never heard of the place or they ignore you entirely. Kin and I have been curious s... |
5,368 | All your life your parents have told you that you were born with a missing right arm due to a genetic abnormality . However one day you come across a younger photo of yourself with both arms .
| I don ’ t remember this photo taken about me. The surroundings look familiar. That is our old house and there is Fluffy my dog. I remember her, she had a worn-out tennis ball and we played fetch a lot. I was maybe 6 or 7 years old. But how come I don ’ t remember having both of my arms? That is strange. But frankly I d... |
5,369 | You are not the last human , but you are the last human on earth
| The thunderous rumbling paralyzed my entire body. Such as an infant with cerebral palsy, I lay in the dirt. Twitching and trembling, but not out of a fear. The only thought to run through my shivering mind was that of DEATH. DEATH. DEAD. I was really dead, quite honestly. I really was. I wasn ’ t going to hide it from ... |
5,370 | Make me connect with two characters without ever using their names , and tell the entire story in dialogue .
| “ How do we keep ending up in these kinds of situations? ”
“ Simple. You love adventure and do n't listen to me. Now, hold still while I apply put some alcohol on that gash across your arm. It's going to sting. ”
“ So that's why I bleed enough to become a vampire's wet dream. Hssss. That's more than just a stin... |
5,371 | The language required to summon mythological beings like gods and demons has been changed to english. This is causing lots of problems all around the world. | Something about pedestrian problems in the midst of a global catastrophe is unusually irritating. Michael thought this to himself as he felt his phone, hot and humid against his ear from being pressed half an hour too long.
“Like, why would anyone even need to skin twenty potatoes?” Joseph inquired through the crackin... |
5,372 | Whenever you get chills , you just died in an alternate universe .
| Originally I dismissed them. I mean, who does n't get chills from time to time? Right? Sometimes they can be quite satisfying, like a release in your system. Only recently did they start to get... unnerving.
They started out in little waves- lasting for a few seconds longer each time they occurred; perhaps two every ... |
5,373 | The daily carry of an apocalypse survivor .
| Michael sat atop his old apartment building eating his greatest concoction, potatoes, and key limes. It gave the bland old boring potatoes an ever sweeter and tangy side that almost resembled key lime pie. Well, not even close really this is the apocalypse it doesn ’ t come with pi- his thought cut off by the unmistaka... |
5,374 | Two minutes ago , a squirrel killed itself in your backyard . One minute ago , a bird did the same .
| I strolled across my home looking for something interesting to do. But nothing was doing it for me. Everything was same and stagnant, as was my life these days. With no job and no friends in the new city, I was wandering aimlessly trying to sell my mind the mundane things in life. This big house was all that I had.
... |
5,375 | You can hear an intruder in your home , but you 're occupied in the bathroom ...
| I throw the object clenched in my right hand in the bath as I rush towards the sink. My hands are moist and I struggle to turn the tap on. After three goes, water flows and I squirt as much hand wash as I can into it to make it a white, frothy, bubbly mess. I dunk my hands in and it turns everything pink; the bubbles b... |
5,376 | Write a horror story where the main character just doesn't give a fuck | Kitten
I was in a very good mood, heck, any happier and I believe I could smile if I knew how. I will put smiling on my list of things to learn right under hugging LOL. Anyway, this little cat came towards me, it was ok looking for a cat, brown, black, white regular cat colors, but its eyes were blue. I mean really bl... |
5,377 | Theme Thursday - Underwater | The loss of my grandparents was hard, but it didn’t seem real until I put on my heavy waders and descended into their basement. Three feet of water awaited me at the bottom of the staircase. I pulled a tiny chain to illuminate it, but the dull, incandescent light didn’t add much life to the old wooden shelves that line... |
5,378 | Worst Day Ever ( 500 words or less )
| The last words Nathan uttered to himself before he went to sleep was, `` This was the best day of my life!''.
He was promoted to Regional Manager, found out the love of his life ( his fiancée ) was pregnant, and had a night of wonderful, passionate sex.
The next morning he woke up to the sound of his girlfriend o... |
5,379 | After you die , you find that you can look into the lives of every person you 've ever met . The lives of everyone from your life partner to that person who apologized for bumping into you once are available at your fingertips . While watching one person you witness something very ... surprising .
| Watching, she was always... watching.
It was disconcerting, at first he never did it on purpose, for most of my life she was there watching me, my every action, my every move.
It was creepy to her at first, even by coincidence that I was always there. But.. eventually she took it as a sign, that I was to be her... |
5,380 | You meet a person online and become good friends . One day , they just stop talking to you , and two years later , they show up on your doorstep , covered in blood , whispering `` They 're coming for you.. they 're coming for you next . ''
| `` What the hell do you mean?''
Benny did n't explain, barging right past me into my house. A trail of bloody shoe prints squished along the carpet as he turned round a corner into my kitchen. I shut and locked my door, at a loss for words. I peaked out the upper window of my door, but I could n't see anyone'coming... |
5,381 | You are the first person to experience a DNA mutation that switches off the aging gene uppon puberty , you are now 200 years old and managed to keep it a secret from everyone .
| I've died four times. Well, not literally you see. It all started about 175 years ago. I was diagnosed with an incurable and rare disease, and without treatment would soon die. I did n't want to die, and joined several support groups online. I was contacted by a discreet individual and he said he may have the ability t... |
5,382 | Love Hurts
| `` Grow some fuckin' balls, Darmeck! You knew this was comin'!'' It was 2am, or I would have called a friend that actually cared. Did I even have any? Probably not. I had spent the previous 4 years doting on my lady. My Jokara.
I came home that evening to find the pantries bare, her closet devoid of clothes. She le... |
5,383 | Write the most terrifying story you can possibly imagine , and make me genuinely afraid .
| I used to keep young baby bunnies. My mother kept rabbits when I was five. She got rid of them when I turned seven. I do n't know why. We had white rabbits, and brown ones. I kept young baby bunnies a few years ago in my house. They were different from the ones I had as a kid, they had longer hair, but I had to get rid... |
5,384 | You are the only person in the world who does n't dream . One day , you find out why .
| “ You ’ re a reconstructed person. ” My mommy tells me.
“ What on earth does that mean? ” I ask. I was telling my mommy how the other kids had these weird hallucinations when they went to bed, and I was worried they were sick or something. Mommy had explained to me that it ’ s normal for other kids, and now she was... |
5,385 | A little girl is terrified of the monster under her bed , but she 's glad that it 's there : It protects her from the monster in the closet .
| Bedmonster was bad, she was real bad.
And she lived down there in the dark and the dust.
Oh she was bad. She had no fangs, only a sucking gumming mouth. Her eyes were like packets of jelly, dozens of them shaking each time she moved her flabby head. You might think she was a sluglike thing, but she was more chi... |
5,386 | Someone murders another person for a motive that sounds extremely petty at first but makes total sense by the end of the excerpt .
| `` Hey man, you got a light?''. I stopped walking. Stopped dead. And as he stood there, cigarette hanging loosely from his lips, I set eyes on a face I had never seen before. I reached for my jacket pocket. `` Yeah, sure. No problem''. I drew my gun and shot a single bullet through his head.
Ten years earlier, and ... |
5,387 | Write a story about nothing .
| Mornings are always the worst. At least at night, your Dreamscape can be filled with nightmares, and some may have the decency to actually make you feel something, even if it is fear. But as soon as you open your eyes, reality hits you hard. You have n't left the bed yet, and your inner voice is already replaying in yo... |
5,388 | Just mindfuck me
| **A Bane of Words**
So I ’ m not exactly sure how to start this. Dr Erin says that writing my thoughts down will help. I don ’ t see how it will or if I even deserve help to be honest. I ’ ve been here for just under a year. I ’ ve known Dr Erin for just under half a year. My mother sent me here after I snapped. Sh... |
5,389 | Can anyone write a short story about this image ( Beast of Hoboken ) ?
| In the comics, when radioactive materials spilled on you, you became something. You mutated in a way to help people. You became super. In the real world though, when these materials cover you, you bleed and scream for what feels like days on end. They pronounce you dead, and your family ca n't have an open casket for y... |
5,390 | You arrive in heaven/hell and find out you get one phone call ...
| I lean against the wall, cradling the phone to my ear, trying to ignore my surroundings. It rings once, then twice, three times and then there ’ s a small commotion on the other end of the line. I suppose it still must ’ ve been early. I shut my eyes, listening to the blankets on the bed move and a small groan is a lit... |
5,391 | One day, completely out of the blue, you start hearing a voice in your head that isn't yours. You realize the voice belongs to an actual person on the other side of the world, and he can hear you too. | “You take the left on Wilcox and go down two more lights. You’re almost there.” My mind was racing. Steven was almost here. I had been anticipating this for over a year, ever since we started dating. To say it was a long distance relationship was an understatement. I had an episode several years ago when I first heard ... |
5,392 | A gigantic toaster is dropped into the Pacific Ocean . Chaos ensues .
| I still remember their screams.
I had been suntanning. After being forced to come to the beach for a family outing I had figured I'd better make the best of the horrendously boring trip. What I would do if I could go back. See their faces one last time. Remember their smiles. Most of my family had been in the water... |
5,393 | It is time. The moon is full once again, and you begin to change. Your knees crack, skin flakes, bones reform, and finally you relish in your new form: An ordinary household object. | In the living room of a cheap London flat, a girl with a plain face and a mane of brown hair was going to turn into a microwave.
She had put on the kettle earlier, and taken a handful of pain medication. The full moon stared unblinkingly at her through shut blinds. She yawned and stretched.
The plain-faced girl had r... |
5,394 | Your worst enemy has found a genie , and creatively uses his third wish to make your life miserable . You 're determined to turn the curse into a boon somehow .
| I did n't notice at first, but as the days passed, I could n't help but notice. Every time I went to sleep, or even just closed my eyes, they were there. The nightmares. The constant fear of losing a loved one, or being stuck in one of those horror games I played as a kid. It got so bad at one point that I could n't sl... |
5,395 | ( WP ) Make me cry .
| Dale rapped on the old oak door as he remembered moving into this house. It must have been 40 years ago. Dale reminisced on that chilly Fall day. He remembered heaving that huge leather jacket that his Dad gave to him over Sarah as they escaped the frigid air, falling into their new house together. Dale ’ s moment of p... |
5,396 | You have the ability to walk through mirrors. They lead to a limbo where all of the mirrors of the world converge like a nexus. You can choose to emerge from any other mirror in the world. One day, in Limbo, you find a mirror that doesn't lead back to the world you know. | The Void In-Between
It’s cold and dark. An ever-present feeling of oblivion is in your stomach. You try to get out of this realm. It fails. It feels like water, everything does in-fact. You float, each slight adjustment changing your destination. You try relentlessly to get out. It fails every time. You begin to cry.
... |
5,397 | WHO THE FUCK SPILLED MY LEMONADE ?
| SPILLED LEMONADE
`` I'll be right back guys, I have to go to the bathroom. No one drink any of my lemonade!'' my son Billy cried out as he dashed out of his little yellow Little Tikes Kids chair into the house. The other three boys, Chuckie, Teddy, and Mikey sat and sipped away at their own cups of lemonade. The cu... |
5,398 | On a whim, you decide to take a trip down memory lane and revisit your childhood hometown. But when you look it up for directions-- Nothing. No mapped location, no news articles, no records, not even a Wikipedia article. It's like the place where you were born and raised...doesn't exist. | It’s not like I hadn’t known the town was dying. It had never been that big to begin with, and once the borax ran out there wasn’t any reason to stay. But there was so much nothing I could drown in it.
I’d skinned my knees there, gone to school in the grocery’s back room in the years the town had enough kids for the c... |
5,399 | In the midst of the zombie apocalypse , you discover that biting the zombie back will bring them back to life .
| Michael ran towards the horde of terrified people at the bridge gate, his legs like pistons, fuelled by fear. He glanced back wide eyed, a surf of reanimated flesh-devouring zombies streaming behind him. As he smacked into the back of the panicked crowd, he knew he was dead. Well, sort of, since he'd become a zombie an... |
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