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600 | Write at least 500 words about someone getting up to open the window .
| Teresa stood up and drew a window.
Everyday she would hear a door creak and every time she would hear the door creak there would be a little crayon and piece of paper on her table. Today the crayon was color red though sometimes, the crayon was color blue. She felt cross.
Little changes gave her a sort of pain ... |
601 | You are a private investigator , hired to find out if a man 's wife is cheating on him . She 's not , but you do discover something else going on ...
| I followed her down the back alley, expecting to find her sucking off some loser. I did, but it was n't quite how I'd expected it......
I saw the back of her head first, her head bobbing up and down, and a man's legs. I crept closer, not wanting to make a sound. As I invisibly moved to her right side, I suppressed ... |
602 | It turns that it 's actually possible to travel through mirrors . However , our reflections make it their job to block us from getting to the other side , and there 's a good reason why .
| In the corner of my eye, barely in peripheral vision, there was a dark shape. It ’ s always there when I sit down in my chair with the hallway behind me at night. You probably think that I ’ m crazy, but I ’ ve measured it. I ’ ve put strips of tape on the kitchen floor, just to be sure. Within the tape zone, I ’ ve re... |
603 | A stereotypical Hollywood horror movie- Where the characters make smart decisions. | I never wanted to move to the creepy house. But we were running low on money- really low on money, and it’s not like I had much of a say in the decision.
Parts of the house looked like they hadn’t been touched in ages- so naturally, I decided to clean them. I replaced broken lightbulbs and creaky floorboards.
About t... |
604 | You just got home from a long day at work to find a strange... creature? in your house. You don't have pets, and even if you did, this isn't any animal you'd know. | As I opened my front door, a strange lizard-like creature the size of a small cat leapt from my door and frantically rushed to the staircase. I stumbqled back in fright, nearly landing on my butt. "What the heck is that?!"
The creature scrambled up the stair rail with relative ease. I didn't know how it got into my ho... |
605 | Mother just came home , but she 's been dead for 10 years .
| I sit on the living room couch, legs crossed, laptop burning my thighs. The sound of the screen door opening catches my attention, its familiar creaking signalling that my brother has returned home from work. The footsteps that follow, however, aren ’ t the usual heavy thumping that I associate with my brother. These a... |
606 | Your mother always told you that the attic shouldn’t be touched and never said why, but the rotting stench is getting too much for you to ignore. | “Just eat the food, it’s just broccoli, Kiana.”
Easy for her to say. Sure, every kid is a picky eater at some point in their life, but according to my mother, I’m extra picky. Perhaps I detest some foods, but aren’t most people like that?
In front of me sat a bowl of steamed broccoli, or as what I call it, inedible m... |
607 | every time you've entered a room you've heard a voice in your head "jack isn't here" until one day you hear "jack is here" | Entering her dark apartment, she winces as she hears that ever present voice in her head say those words she so hated.
Jack is here.
“Fuck!.” she exclaims, dropping this week’s groceries and putting her back against the closet next to the doorway she just entered for cover. Taking deep, calming breaths, she draws the... |
608 | A short story where the most emotionally charged line is also the advertising slogan for a household product or brand .
| Mother always said to stay out of the basement. We listened for the most part, there was plenty to play with in the house, and she flipped out if we went anywhere near there. The door was always locked, and she kept the key in her purse which was always at her side. The door was unassuming anyway, brown wood, cheap fak... |
609 | You're a thief who breaks into homes, but try your best to stay undetected. You lubricate the hinges to prevent squeaky noises, you sweep the floor to get rid of footsteps, etc. Eventually, you fix more than you take, and rumors spread about a mysterious, helpful fairy in town. | It started off small. I brought some cheap screws and an oil can to a job because I had gotten busted twice when homeowners heard a floorboard creak or a hinge squeak. Almost got my head blown off the second time.
Not anymore.
The town I prowl is rich, not super rich but old money comfortable rich. Lots of old people... |
610 | What 's the craziest dream you 've ever had ?
| It was n't my dream it was my brothers. I was 14 at the time and he was 11 when he walked in my room in the middle of the night begging to sleep in my bed. A normal family would have him sleep in mom and dad's bed but when I was 10 and knocked on my dad's door complaining of a monster in my closet he responded with'THE... |
611 | A boy explores a large abandoned house and soon realizes that the house and its contents are directly representative of his own thoughts and psyche . What is in the basement ?
| Compelled. Compelled and damned, like someone about to open a coffin to see what ’ s inside. It has to just be me. Only more of me. What else could it be? But there is terror sweating off the walls and nothing looks right. The colors are wrong, the sound is wrong. It ’ s making my hair stand on end. Horripilation, that... |
612 | Theme Thursday - Garden | The icy chill dances through my bones as clumps of dirt fall to the ground. My muscles are stiff, my bones crack with each movement. Everything feels unfamiliar.
Lush greenery and budding flowers sway in the breeze beneath the moon’s glow. My knees shake as I push forward, bare feet sinking into the earth. Pink and ye... |
613 | Everyone is born with blond hair . A person 's hair turns brown when they lose their innocence .
| “ I like your hair. ”
Illuminated by the basement ’ s dim lighting; pale, long fingered hands gently brushed the cheek of a young girl, somewhere around the ages of 11 or 12. Beneath his touch, the girl ’ s terrified whimpers slowly transformed into sobs.
“ Shhh! Don ’ t you worry, everything will be alright. ”... |
614 | You see a monster in your house that you can only see in a mirror . To your surprise , it can only see you in a mirror .
| My sister Carla was there when I first saw it. She was trying to hurry me out of the bathroom to do her makeup. I wiped the condensation from the mirror and noticed a dark shape behind her. Confused, I watched as it slowly came into view. Despite the initial lurch in my chest I forced myself to ignore it, it was certai... |
615 | A story that starts out like a cliche joke , but actually evolves to be a really creepy ghost/horror story .
| How does the joke go again? How do you drown a blonde girl? Put a scratch and sniff sticker at the bottom of a pool!
That's what Timmy was thinking about – the silly joke his brother told him.
The 12-year-old boy stood at the corner of his in-ground pool, staring at the lady. Fully clothed, she was lying at the... |
616 | The surprise ...
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I'm still working on it, but it's a rough draft I guess.
I came home to a surprise.
The groceries left on the table. A mess of splattered blood around the delectables, wet blood dripping around cabinets, still smelled fresh. Yet, strangely enough, I could still breath. Blood heavily filled the once vibrant ... |
617 | Scary story time , write your best horror story .
| I ’ d always thought about death. How I ’ d die. How others would die. But I never imagined it would be anything like this.
My best friend laid on the ground. His hands were full of bloody stumps, all of his fingers having been cut off. His wife laid on the floor next to him. Ants crawled all over her corpse. I lea... |
618 | A short story that seems dark , sad and depressing ... until the very last sentence turns everything into a comedy .
| The walls were dripping with human condensation, like they had sucked the blood and sweat from under the skin of the dried up man trapped in its midriff. The man was blindfolded and gagged and tied and deprived of most of his senses. He could only listen. Trapped voices of some imagined tortured were whispering into hi... |
619 | Taking from r/worldnews , `` Gunman in clown suit kills senior Mexican drug cartel member ''
| Gun with silencer attached, in pocket. Lower level windows barred shut. Try garage door, won ’ t budge. Try fence, easy access. Dog attached to my heels barking in alarm. Start over.
Gun in pocket. Unhook neighbor ’ s dog from tree, lead over to fence. Open gate and release neighbor ’ s dog. Dogs take chase into th... |
620 | You have a potentially dangerous stalker . How ironic , as you are the most infamous serial killer that has yet to be caught .
| Matt was an early riser, even though many nights he was up very late. Very late doing what you ask? Well, that was for him to know and the police to find out. You see, Matt was an insurance actuarial by day, and a serial killer by night. And not just any serial killer, but one that had eluded police for years. Matt mov... |
621 | `` The darkness is similar to a spider ; we may fear it , but it fears us more . ''
| My name is Amelia and I'm seven years old.
Some things about me... well, I like strawberry poptarts. I have a little sister and she is one-month old - her name is Natalie. I watch disney movies with my dad. I like music... oh, and I hate spiders.
Spiders scare me, they scare me a lot. So one day, daddy told me ... |
622 | You are a ghost who haunts a currently empty apartment. An alarm clock left by the previous tenant has been ringing nonstop for the past hour, driving you crazy. You decide to haunt the flat next door to convince them to turn it off | Ah~ excellent!
He’s getting ready to take a shower. Lots of steam, bad lighting and a bathtub with a shower curtain. Perfect for haunting.
I might not be able to move things like those badass poltergeists, but I am capable of producing chills, flickering lights and shadows. Scary shadows. Maybe if I give him a scare ... |
623 | Write the witness statement of an inanimate object used in the committing of a crime
| It started off with her screaming and yelling about how she wanted a divorce. She had good reason to honestly, I got to see him sleeping with the babysitter before she walked into the kitchen. I know, no extra, just the statement about what happened. Gotcha.
Well she ’ s screaming and yelling and he got this look a... |
624 | The Collector Cometh . 400 Words . ( Contest )
| This was the last moment of my life.
“ You are too late, ” the Collector announced as he pressed the blistered tip of his thumb against my forehead. I let out a horrible shriek as the flesh under his thumb tip started bubbling.
“ Get away from me, ” I growled as my back hit a wall.
“ Your time is over, ” he... |
625 | You were born with the ability to hear thoughts. As a psychologist, you have listened to the thoughts of the depressed, the psychopathic, and the insane, you've listened to it all. A patient enters, and you can hear only silence. | I misread psychologist as psychiatrist, but I won’t rewrite it because I’m lazy.
Silence. I didn’t even notice him walk in, until I heard the door close. I spun around in my chair to face him as I listened. The man was average height, with dark hair cropped to form a revolting line falling over the top of his forehead... |
626 | As an FBI agent , you 've had your share of odd gigs , but this time your orders are to `` protect America 's most valuable asset : Shia Labeouf ''
| This is my first story, sorry if it is n't satisfactory.
“ This is a job I'd usually only let veterans take on, ” said your employer. “ But, desparate times come for desperate measures. ”
“ After several people were eaten on this operation, you're the only one willing to take it! ” he said.
You're start... |
627 | Sleep paralysis is defensive mechanism . They ca n't hurt you if you do n't move .
| I've had terrible sleep paralysis experiences in the past. ONE really creepy one that I vividly remember-
I had drifted off into the paralyzing state and i began to hear footsteps come through my door. A tall, black, shadowy yet sort of glowing figure was at the foot of my bed.
I have a wooden floor in my room, ima... |
628 | The Door
| I opened the door and then I saw the most ugly and the most terrifying thing: a mirror. I had n't looked in one for years owing to the horrific scene presented before me. Hair growing from every orifice, my eyes waterfalling bristles of dark, matted tresses. The blood that seeped from the slits which I saw through had ... |
629 | For the past seven weeks you 've come home to your mother in tears but today , she 's laughing . You 're oddly unsettled .
| Every day for the past six weeks had been the same. I ’ d come home, stand in front of the door for a few minutes bracing myself, then finally come in to the sound of sniffling and crying. My mom would be on the couch, curled up in a ball, blankets covering her and tissues thrown about. She ’ d look up when the door op... |
630 | "Ron did you murder another of your teachers? You are seriously going to get caught one day." | Since his father left us unexpectedly, Ron has become quite the problem child. It began as acts of aggression towards animals. Some days I would come home to see a dead squirrel, or a beaten bird. I tried to scold him, teach him right from wrong. The behavior however has only frighteningly increased.
The first teacher... |
631 | Carnival Cooking is a local burger joint. The bozo-esque clown mascot always creeped you out as a kid, but now you're a young adult working in the kitchen. The other employees are acting strange and, before long, you discover something sinister hidden in the meat locker. | It was just meant to be a look, just a glimpse. I only looked because I could swear the meat locker smelled rotten. Dave swore on his life that he checked it, “No need to look Rheee,” with the elongated e like he always talked, “I sweear on mee mums right arm that I checked!”
I hadn’t noticed that it was off until now... |
632 | Write a creepy story about something generally seen as not creepy
| A couple of young parents are trying to get used to life with a baby. As the nights passed, they started to get used to the routine.
One night, just after settling their baby. The parents prepare to watch a film when suddenly! The baby starts screaming, at the top of his lungs!! Both parents sprint to the babies ro... |
633 | Vampires have to drink the blood of a compatible donor for their blood type .
| One thing that surprised me about being a vampire was this: your stomach still makes noises. I had always figured that, yeah sure, the living dead drink blood, but I didn ’ t expect the organs to still somewhat function. I suppose something has to be done with all the blood though.
So when I sit down to pretend to do... |
634 | You are stuck in a private hospital in the mountains during a snow storm . Something terrible is in the hospital .
| The screams, that ear piercing, blood curdling scream awoke me from my slumber. My side, all wrapped up, it hurt to move. The scream came once again. This time it got my attention.
`` Someone must not want their meds'' I thought.
I looked towards my door, doctors and nurses were running down the hall, looked li... |
635 | "I saw mommy killing Santa Claus" | I woke at 3AM to the sound of yelling. It sounded like my mother and... a jolly old man?
Slipping out of bed, I was careful not to make any sounds. At the top of the staircase, I strained to hear what they were saying.
“You fucking whore, you didn’t tell me you had a husband before I boned you!”
“Well what about Mrs... |
636 | Sunday Free Write : Leave A Story , Leave A Comment - Mimeo Edition !
| Thanks for reading and feedback. I'm just fleshing out some images that have been floating in my head this week.
The tide drifted in on a cloudless, full moon night. The slum city of Bad Town sat at the lapping edge of the rising sea. The beachhead was lined for a mile, expanding north and south, with vacant hove... |
637 | Your mother calls you to dinner . You have your own house and your mother has been dead for eighteen years .
| `` Young man! Get your lazy ass over here!'' shouted my mother, presumed dead for eighteen years ago. I was at her funeral, saw the casket laid down six feet under, it all happened. Eighteen years ago.
At first I thought I was hearing things. Sometimes I hear my name being shouted out aloud my home, and that's beca... |
638 | The Revolution was a Lie
| The thing about violence – it ’ s weak. It has no integrity or structure. The domino stands as strong as a redwood by comparison to the teetering links of the chain that is war. It begets itself, an asexual beast, self-replicating and exponential.
Our villain is war. Our saviour is war.
My mother and father w... |
639 | You 're not feeling quite like yourself after that organ transplant
| My body ached. This was n't like a sickness ache. This was the ache where your muscles hurt to move and your bones feel like they're about to crack. I could feel my blood pulsing through my veins and my eyes adjusted to the dim light. The first thing I noticed was that I was in my own bed in my apartment. Strange. The ... |
640 | 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 didn ’ t know when I noticed the smell ’ s I ’ ve come to associate with death, but I ’ d warrant that it was about the time my grand uncle died.
I was a young boy, only 7 years old, and it didn ’ t strike me as inappropriate to hold my nose and loudly say, ‘ But he stinks! ’ as I ran from the room where he was rec... |
641 | Your phone charger falls between your bed and wall . You reach into the crevice to retrieve it and your hand suddenly meets with another .
| It is late in the night and I lay down to rest
I am cuddled in bed with a book on my chest
a handwritten book that I found outside
no title, no author, it was wrapped in some hide
I am reading a story about a guy named Jax
who had a little obsession with a thing called an ax
lumberjack turned mu... |
642 | Write a murder from the perspective of a cheerful inanimate object
| Not a murder but I tried
In my younger years I lived a life of extravagance, I was regularly out at sea, wind and salty water splashing at me, I have to admit that when the salt dried it used to get between all my crooks and crannies and itch a bit but being out at sea was wonderful, such freedom and glee at being ... |
643 | Dead men don't speak | One-Hundred Fifteen: Chapter One: The Corpse Pit:
I’m struggling: there’s one thing above all others that I can’t seem to do in this rotten world of smokestacks and poverty and that’s finding something to live for. Day in and day out, I do the same routine. Wake up, clean myself, walk to the factory, and dump beans in... |
644 | Instead of dying , by accomplishing something , you advance to level 2 of life .
| When the truck hit me and sent me flying across the road, I thought I saw a hunched man floating over me, grinning at my misfortune. Things were going by real slow, and I remember wondering: `` Whose job is it to paint these yellow lines in the road?'' And then, just as I was wondering why I would think such a thing, I... |
645 | The words you speak are tattooed on your body as you speak . The young have very few words on their body , the old have many , and they often blur together . One day in school/work someone walks in with a completely blank body .
| We are all covered in tattoos. When we speak, the words are instantaneously carved into our skin. It ’ s a skin pigmentation virus that became a pandemic years ago and has yet to be cured. We call it catching the Dye.
Dye traveled incredibly fast, and within a week, the majority of the country was covered in a clus... |
646 | A very religious parent tells a scary bedtime story to their child about a world without religion .
| It was the night before Halloween and Richie was surging with the holiday spirit. After watching the “ Spookathon ” series on Cartoon Network, his mind was full of skeletons, witches, goblins and ghouls.
“ Tell me a scary story! ” he demanded of his mother, who had just walked into his room to tuck him in.
She ... |
647 | The werewolf looms over you, drool dripping from its hideous fangs. You throw the stick. | The beast looked at the stick confused it tilted its head to the side and then faced me
It's breath was rancid smelling and warm but I got the heat much quicker when the beast bit down on my neck blood seeping through the wolf's fangs I scream but almost no sound comes out
I jab my palm at the wolf's eye causing it t... |
648 | While browsing on your parent 's computer you recieve an email notification addressed to them . It 's from an advanced robotics corporation , informing them that the warranty on [ your name ] expires in 30 days .
| Beep.
“ Did you hear about Kathy Jones ’ s dog now?? ” read the latest text from my mom.
The text started around 8:30am this morning a little after I got to school and hadn ’ t stopped — coming in about every half hour and getting more dramatic with each one. Moms could be like that, you know?
But the news ... |
649 | Your father was a Minotaur, your mother was a Mermaid. You got the human half of both parents and now you’re just some guy. | “Listen little seahorse, you’ve got plenty of time.”
“Dad! Don’t call me that, it’s embarrassing.”
“Oh… You never used to mind.”
“I’m eleven.”
“Yeah… I know kid. It’s just I remember, well…”
“Her name’s Cass. I think I like her.”
“Cass? Good name. Uhh, traditional. Runs in the family?”
“She’s human Dad.”
“Oh. G... |
650 | Monsters under beds and in closet are real , but invisible to those who have passed puberty , except for one parent .
| Kallmann syndrome they called it. That's what I was diagnosed with at age 20 when they finally decided to name the cause of my impish appearance. I stared into his room and prayed he did n't have it too. My `` miracle'' baby James. Nearly all cases of Kallmann syndrome sufferers are infertile. This fact was thought of ... |
651 | "I have seen what lies beyond the edge of the Universe. I do not wish to go there again." | Supervisors Log 13/08/45-03:
So the experiment was a success. Broadly put.
We sent a spacefaring ship, Cardinal 1, into a synthetic wormhole created by harnessing the obelisks found at Site 12. Moreover, and perhaps most importantly, we managed to bring it back.
However, of dire consideration is only one of the twel... |
652 | Write a story based around any quote you can think of .
| “ Just three more steps Junior, nice and steady. ”
I hold and guide Grandma up the three remaining steps towards her upstairs bedroom. With each step the floorboards creak and throw up small dust storms that dance around our feet before resettling on the floor. The staircase is impenetrably dark; Grandma doesn ’ t ... |
653 | `` Hello '' , spreading her arms , she asks innocently `` Could you all please kindly die ? ''
| Bella was a good girl, a sweet little thing, adored by both our family and friends. My wife and I had raised her to be the best. It was easy, especially because we were both raised in strict homes with strong role models.
We taught her manners first, then how to respect others and show kindness and love. I would wa... |
654 | You wake up staring into a pair of eyes , your own .
| There ’ s always a point, right when you wake up from a deep sleep, where the last cobwebs of a dream can cling to your mind, manifesting in reality like a lingering shadow. It ’ s happened to everyone I ’ m sure. A man standing in the corner of your room, a cat that you ’ ve never owned curling itself up by your feet.... |
655 | A young woman vacationing in a rural New Hampshire cabin starts feeling that something is very wrong with the snow outside. A man bursts in through the door, slamming it aggressively. "Whatever you do- don't go outside!" | The snow outside was wrong, Lisa felt it in her bones, an unsettling certainty gnawing in her chest with every flake that fell. She couldn’t explain why because it was beautiful. It was the thick kind of snow that inspired Christmas cards, the kind that looked more like fake cotton than frozen water. But in that dim, p... |
656 | As your dying wish , you ask that your body is jettisoned into space . Sometime later your body is recovered by aliens who are able to resuscitate you .
| I always knew the day was going to come ever since I got the news that it was terminal. At least I was given time to prepare for my death. I gave instructions to my family that were to be carried out. I did however have a strange request about my body. I simply didn ’ t want to be buried or burned, nope I wanted my bod... |
657 | Your daughter asks you to check and see if there 's a monster under her bed ... This time there actually is a monster .
| `` Mommy, please! There are weird noises under my bed!'' my daughter said, panicked tears streaming down her face.
`` Lily, you're almost 6. You're old enough to know that monsters do n't exist. And you're getting too big to come sleep with your moms any more.''
`` Please, Mommy, just check! I heard breathi... |
658 | Your neighbor is terrible at pretending to be human. | Humans aren’t perfect. This is an unquestionable fact. However, my neighbor Marvin seems to challenge this reality.
His white picket fence, which he built himself, has exactly .25 inch gaps between every slat. The height of every slat is level with the one next to it as well. Across the entire perimeter, not a single ... |
659 | You stare at the broken mirror, realizing that you can never go back. | I look at the mirror and see my distorted face looking back. There’s a throbbing coming from my arm. What happened? Where is everyone? It’s silent here. I look around the room, and there I am laying on the floor a crimson puddle lays next to my arm. It’s getting colder now. Where’s the next mirror? Everyone is downstai... |
660 | You unknowingly piss off a mildly powerful being . You receive a mildly inconvenient curse .
| There was an older gentleman who frequented the café I work for- a crotchety old man with a bad back and a mean stare. He wasn ’ t very nice to the staff but, luckily, I didn ’ t usually have to wait on him.
One day, he decided to switch up the routine and wandered into my section, choosing the vacant booth towards... |
661 | 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... | 4!...3!...2!...1!...
I blew hard into the plastic mouthpiece and unfurled the long tongue of a party horn which squealed and squeaked in the mad cacophony of horns, cranks, bells, and cheers. Everybody turned to wish each other a happy new year with hugs and handshakes. The couples shared a kiss and I turned my gaz... |
662 | "I saw mommy killing Santa Claus" | A crash downstairs woke little Jamie up and for a moment, his thoughts drifted to our closet and the monster that he knew had taken residence in it. Upon closer inspection though, he realized that it being Christmas Eve, the only possible explanation was the fact that Santa Claus had taken a tumble on his way down the ... |
663 | You buy an old painting and hang it in your house . Every morning you notice its out of place . No matter how many times you rehang it ; it keeps moving . To your horror , you realize each night its moving closer and closer to your bedroom ...
| I… I swear this story is true. I don ’ t want it to be. It shouldn ’ t be, but despite all logic and reason, it ’ s true.
It started Tuesday. Three days ago. I bought some shitty painting from the yard sale down the road. The man selling it looked so old that the Civil War may have been his first news event. He did... |
664 | Just another day at the soul recycling center...until something goes wrong. | Souls are nothing special. Everyone has one. The longer you have one, the more of “you” it picks up and holds on to. You ever experience that deja vu feeling? Or when you feel like you’ve been here before? I’ll get to that. Anywho, Recycling souls was fairly easy work. It paid pretty well, and as far as interdimensiona... |
665 | You have a brick. It looks like a brick. It feels like a brick. Yet, over the past few days, people have been desperately trying to buy or steal the brick from you. You're starting to feel scared. | The first time someone noticed the brick, I barely thought anything of it.
I had taken it to the hardware store, hoping to find a match. My grandfather’s house was old, the kind built when things were made to last, and after clearing out his attic, I figured I might finally fix the crumbling section of the garden wall... |
666 | Voyager 2 is found orbiting the Earth . It is exactly the same except with one new addition : a single image of our galaxy taken from outside it .
| `` You found what?''
“ An the image of our galaxy, sir, taken from the outside.''
“ And you're sure that it's the Milky Way?''
“ That's what the analysts are telling me.''
`` How did Voyager two even make it back? It was over one hundred astronomical units out!''
“ We... we don ’ t know, sir. ”
... |
667 | Write a short story about the upcoming end of the world with as much detail as possible .
| We were the last mammals to go –it didn ’ t come as a surprise when it finally started happening. As far as I was concerned, the world had been dead for a long, long time. There were four of us, now there is only three. We know there are more people out there, ones with guns and lights and pretty things. Food grown in ... |
668 | One day , while talking with your friends , they ask how long has your family being in a cult . You have no idea what they mean and they start discussing your family 's `` traditions . ''
| Listen man, I don ’ t know if I want to join your family for dinner again…
Why ’ s that? I know my mom makes stuff kind of bland, but you should definitely try my dad ’ s barbecue.
It ’ s not that, I just feel uncomfortable around your family. Your version of… grace is a bit… different. Off-putting, actually.
... |
669 | The man just sat there under a starlit sky, drinking in the rain. | It was a beautiful night with a full moon that shimmered on the water, but Ben didn’t notice. All he cared about at that moment was his whiskey and his son. His son whose funeral he had attended today. His 4 year old boy was gone. Forever. He wanted to forget. He wanted to make the pain go away, but no matter how many ... |
670 | You find a thousand year old can of food , and the expiration date is tomorrow .
| I've been walking for days now. There is no reason to count the sun rises anymore, I have no one left to tell how my day is going. The sun light pokes through the various tree branches to temporarily blind me. The roads are too dangerous to travel on so this forest becomes my camouflage. I think I see a small city comi... |
671 | Write about/from the perspective of a mind plagued with What Ifs .
| My finger drums against the steering wheel as I watch the garage door ascend in a welcoming moan. She ’ s not home. I pull the car into my side and shift into park. She probably just went to the store or something, she did mention we were out of milk last night. And other stuff. I exit the sedan and peer down our drive... |
672 | Sunday Free Write : Leave A Story , Leave A Comment
| ( Looking for advice and criticism on this piece. Hope everyone is having a great day! )
In the morning I see that things have gotten worse.
The crowd of zombies has doubled in size. I stare down at them from the second floor landing. They bumble against one another, tripping on the wreckage of the stairs, al... |
673 | You , a grown adult , are afraid of the dark . Explain why this is a legitimate concern
| `` Into the cupboard,'' my mother said to me, when I was a boy. `` Do n't make a sound.'' She slid me in, closed the door. There I sat among the bags of flour and sugar, the measuring cups, the baking soda and muffin tins. I knew they were there, what they were. But everything was dark. She closed the door on me but I ... |
674 | `` This is 911 , we already know . Arm yourself and lock your doors . Good luck and God bless . '' [ TT ]
| Derrek sat trembling, his back against the island bench, the cold kitchen tiles numbing his bare feet. Janet and Carl were already gone. It would only be a matter of time before it would find him. It would want him quickly. It was hungry.
Something tripped the sensors on the porch light, throwing beams of harsh flu... |
675 | Due to your careful planning , your family has successfully survived the nuclear apocalypse . There 's just one thing you did n't prepare for . Ghosts . An entire planet of fucking ghosts .
| I have lived with the bodies of my dead wife and infant son for two months now. Although I have done my best to keep the smell of their corpses from overwhelming the bunker, I realize now that the time has come to say my final goodbye to the flesh I once covered in kisses. I can hear Lily softly weeping as I retrieve t... |
676 | Write a horror story from the perspective of three year old .
| I always have Mommy and Daddy check under my bed and in my closet for monsters. Every time they do, they tell me there's nothing there. They never look good enough cause after they leave, I still hear scratching and thumping. When I do, I scream and they come back and scare it away again, but they never see it or hear ... |
677 | It visits every night in your dreams. Now, you think you've started seeing it while you're awake. | At first, it was only in my dreams. The Thing. You know, the one with too many teeth and not enough eyes. It would shuffle into my nightmares every night like it had a standing appointment, sitting on my chest, breathing hot, sour air into my face.
Every night, I'd wake up in a cold sweat, heart pounding, but I'd tell... |
678 | When people find out that they are pregnant, the parents work together and submit a life story for the child, which will almost exactly be the life events of their child. Now authors are starting to offer their services to new parents afraid of writing for their children themselves. | “Madness ensues as a mass murderer is caught. Who is responsible? The father insists that he had no hand in writing his daughter’s life. The mother insists that she outsourced a mysterious writer’s services, yet there is no evidence the writer ever existed. Stranger stories at 10.”\ My wife turned off the radio. It was... |
679 | A character comes to realize that his/her beloved five year old may well be an irredeemable sociopath . Now what ?
| `` Why?'' I ask out loud as I reach for the light switch at the bottom of the stairs. `` Why does he have to be this way?''
A few months ago his teacher told me about some drawings he had made. Most of them were of a man-like creature. Sometimes he had knife fingers. Sometimes he had chainsaw arms. The body changed... |
680 | Describe your nightmare ( IN COLLABORATION WITH /r/SKETCHDAILY )
| I walked through the empty mall, unsure of how I got there. My footsteps echoed ominously, and the garish, cheerful storefronts seemed creepy and foreboding. Every once in a while, I would come across something odd, like a broken storefront window or a blood-stained shoe, but, considering my state of mind, I did n't pa... |
681 | Write a story where the good guy is actually the bad guy, but it's only revealed on the last line. | I had to save her.
They were a quiet family on the outside: the man was lanky, looked like he worked hard and hated it. The lady, like most mothers looked like she gave up on herself after motherhood. The girl, however, was the most dovelike child you could ever meet. In reality she was the only quiet thing in that ho... |
682 | Tell me a ghost story from the perspective of the ghost .
| I am so scared at what is happening around me.
Seriously, around 3am every morning I am woken up by some noise or a knocking sound coming from the other side of my door. I always go and check it, I often knock into things along the way, but I never bloody find anything. I am being haunted by someone, or something a... |
683 | You wake up naked in a sterile-white room with a locked , metal door , and a grey pill laying in front of you .
| Everything is so cold. The air is stale and my head is ringing. It ’ s almost like I have a hangover or something. I try to open my eyes, but they are still too heavy. Oddly enough, everything is silent.
I attempt to open my eyes again, barely keeping them slightly peeled for a couple seconds. All I could see was w... |
684 | You 're in the middle of a shower , and hear a loud cry for help . It 's below you . In the depths of your shower drain .
| Another long day at work. Half asleep and completely exhausted I turned on the warm water and cranked up the music on my speakers. The music along with the warm water usually helped me relax. Funny, I thought. The music sounded distorted. I changed the song and it sounded a similar sound occurred. It sounded like a scr... |
685 | Write a horror story where the main character just doesn't give a fuck | New house, inherited from my grandfather who nobody ever told me about somehow. Maybe him being named Overbaron Killkids Von Goregutter was a factor. Oh well. Three floors, a dozen rooms in each, beachfront property (even if the “beach” was a spooky cliff that lightning seemed to flash behind every time I came back to ... |
686 | You can transfer your consciousness into a small object by touch, including animals and another human. Your body, on the other hand, just stands there and stares until you return to it. You zapped back to your body this time, and found yourself in cuffs next to a crime scene. | [First attempt. No edit.]
The Practice of Giving and Taking
In these last minutes before I escape there’s time to make confessions. There’s time to confess to all the terrible deeds committed in these thirty years of living. There’s time to confess to all the omissions and their consequences. There’s time to quit lyi... |
687 | You suffer from auditory hallucinations, however they appear to be whole personalities and doctors can't explain it so you live with it. You get used to talking to them, one day you ask them to pass the salt without thinking about it, the salt moves to your hand.. | “Thanks John!” I salt the meat,just enough so it would retain that wonderful taste.
“Not a problem Alex.” John smiles,with his perfect white teeth and his lovely blue eyes.
The sun outside is shining brightly,the clouds drifting lazily. A ray of light shines through the curtain,a breeze gently passing through it.
“W... |
688 | All human beings are suddenly unable to murder or otherwise physically harm one another . If you attempt to punch , stab , shoot , ect . another person , the wound appears on you , instead . For the first time in decades , authorities are investigating what appears to be a murder .
| The detectives stared at the body on the floor, both careful not to step in the pool of dark crimson blood that surrounded the top half of the body, which lie in the middle of the foyer of a large three-story home. Both were equally puzzled as to how there was only one body in the room. For the last ten years there had... |
689 | You are death row 's last meal chef . Today 's condemned prisoner killed your daughter .
| Today is the day. Finally. Ten long years waiting for this day and it ’ s finally here. The day that the man who killed my little daughter dies. I ’ m Alana. I ’ m a chef in a Federal Prison and I prepare the meals for the condemn man on the death row. I ’ ve been working here for at least two years and one fateful day... |
690 | An early human discovers how to get milk from a cow and tries to make it not sound weird to his friends
| I mean we eat these things all the time, right?
of course, every chance we get
Except they're hard to get.
well yeah you got ta chase them down.
And when you do get one what's the first part you eat?
THE HEART! still beating!
Yeah... But what comes before eating the heart?
...
Before it l... |
691 | A large band of creatures walks into your bar. You give a disgruntled sigh and ask, “Species and age?” Before flipping through the pages to find the legal drinking ages for every single creature and trying to remember it. | Tbh idk why I took this job. It’s exhausting. Sure being an inter-dimensional bartender sounds cool but memorizing the endless species and their drinking ages is not my forte. The money was great though. I could afford to pay off my student loans. That’s something.
Tonight was a typical night. Most of the species toda... |
692 | The sign on their fence reads: "Beware of God." | “You scared pussy?” Tommy scoffed as we stood in front of the seven foot tall fence. Rotting rope barely kept the ominous sign hanging on the chain links between us and the decaying church. What must’ve once been a beautiful pearl white cathedral was now being left to rot after a freak fire burned down most of the buil... |
693 | Captive Audience : You 've been taken hostage , not for ransom or for violence , but because your captor just really needs someone to talk to .
| It was 3:43 am, according to the digital clock on my nightstand, when I was jolted into a sweaty consciousness. In my dazed state, I could swear I heard the dull thud of feet hitting a carpeted floor. It was typically my husband ’ s responsibility to confirm there was no one in the house, but he was away on business th... |
694 | Write an emotional and tragic moment so poorly that we laugh instead .
| Miranda took one look at the computer and swooned back into her chair, one arm thrown over her eyes for the comfort of darkness. And she screamed loud and long and shrill. It was a good scream, and a lot of it.Swooning and screaming and a general sense that something had not gone well in her world.
Might not be tru... |
695 | Describe a very non-frightening object from the point of view of someone with a severe phobia of that object .
| I know there is no good reason to be afraid of it, but every time my roommates bring it out I quickly leave the room and go to my own place. I ca n't believe I am the only one who is afraid, the thing is huge and makes a terrible noise that I ca n't stand to hear from across the house let alone in the same room. To be ... |
696 | Your SO awakens from a nightmare . `` No ! '' they scream , `` I have to save them ! '' and promptly fall back asleep . Intrigued , you jump under the covers and follow them in .
| “ Daaaaaaaaad!!!! DAD!!!! ” I screamed at the top of my lungs. The sky beyond my window was glowing a fearsome red. The clouds are billowing and furious. The light has been sucked out of the earth. All that ’ s left is a haunting red glow. Is the sun exploding? Is this the end?
I ran down the stairs, screaming “ Da... |
697 | Reimagine a fairy tale , but tell it as though the characters have psychological issues .
| Let me tell you about a shepherd I used to know.
A few years back, a local shepherd had built up his flock and needed to head to new pastures. He had a small family, himself, his wife and their son, and they all moved up into the hills for the season. Of course, living up in the hills means limited access to suppli... |
698 | You 've summoned a demon to assist you with your nefarious deeds . A hole opens in the floor , revealing your new helper . `` Tell me your name , '' you command . An hour later , it 's still not done making the incomprehensible sounds of its name .
| `` WHAT DID YOU SAY SONNY? WHATS YOUR NAME AGAIN?'' Garcia screamed at the repulsive monster sitting on the kitchen floor.
No sounds came out. Nothing but `` OJVDNVDKDENDWKDWEGRKGB''.
“ OH WAIT. I SHOULD PUT ON MY GLASSES. Maybe that would help me hear you better. ” She said, seeming as for the past hour, that ... |
699 | Write a story that contains a secret coded message . Let the comments try to figure out what it is .
| Dad was always strict in my house growing up. Maria, my best friend, was always a little unsettled by him and his constant obsession with rules. He ’ d always be telling me “ Behave yourself ” with such an intense look that you might think he was joking. Kids in our neighborhood would run by our house shouting cruel ni... |
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