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800 | You live on a world full of immortal beings . For the first time in the history of the world 's existence , somebody has died .
| They took my mother from our house, though I cried and begged them not to. The doctors were confused. This was an illness they had never seen before.
My mother did not move or speak or even draw a breath, no matter what they did to her. Her skin was pale and cold; her eyes, when they drew the eyelids up, were still... |
801 | 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 ol... |
802 | [ FF/CW ] The last thoughts of a person before they end their life . As a poem .
| If I had a gun, I ’ d be dead right now.
Hanging yourself seems easy enough
Just need some rope and a chair
Tying the knot doesn ’ t seem very tough
As long as you do it with care
It ’ s when you kick the chair away
And lie, hanging from the ceiling.
You hope your neck breaks straight away
And you q... |
803 | There's death in that wind. | The words hung in the salt-choked air, heavier than the water sloshing in the bottom of the tiny boat. Alan's knuckles were bone-white where they gripped the tiller, his eyes scanning the horizon like a hunted animal.
"There's death in that wind," Harold repeated, sitting across from Alan, knee deep in frigid ... |
804 | Theme Thursday - Blindness | Rods and Scones
Baker pressed his palms into the strangely warm lump of dough and shuddered.
Every morning, despite his fitful sleep, he awoke on time and felt his way from the cot in the back room of his shop to the front where the village's dough waited in a neat pile atop his long wooden table. He worked in darkne... |
805 | `` I do n't care about the million dollars you stole , just tell me where the hell my pet snail is ! ''
| Detective Bob “ JoJo ” Jones glared at the chalkboard. “ Snail Caddock and his crew are going crazy and we got nothing. ” Trench “ Snail ” Caddock, his four younger brothers, and six sisters grew up in a tar-paper shack without water or power east of Itta Bena, a town whose sole claim to fame was BB King grew up there.... |
806 | You can hear an intruder in your home , but you 're occupied in the bathroom ...
| I came rushing into my house and headed straight for the bathroom. I had to leave my work dinner early, I was so sick. I bet I ’ ve come down with the flu. Everyone at the office had it. As I ’ m face deep in the toilet cursing myself for devouring hot wings at lunch I hear it… Someone has just come through my front do... |
807 | You accidentally break a cursed object, attaching yourself to a vengeful spirit that can't touch you, but instead kills everyone else around you in hopes of breaking your sanity. As a sociopath, you manage to turn this curse into a reliable superpower. | Hi there police officer! It’s Jonas.
If you’re reading this, in front of you are the bodies of one Melissa Carlson, one Jamie King, as well as 15 others I can’t be bothered to ID. Yes. I killed them all. Well, more specifically, my ancient spirit did. At this point, I have listed some handy FAQ’s for you in this lette... |
808 | A serial killer wakes up to find themself in a zombie apocalypse . Give me his/her story .
| Dane's Journal.
November 2nd, 2016
I woke up wondering why all this Halloween shit wasn ’ t over yet. It was 6:39am and the little bastards should have been sleeping, so who the fuck is ringing my door at this time? I thought. I struggled into some pajama pants but didn ’ t bother putting on a t-shirt because... |
809 | You buy a microcassette recorder at an estate sale , complete with what you think are blank tapes . They 're not blank .
| The tape sat in my car for several days before I remembered that it was there. When I bought it, I'd forgotten about it.
Until now.
I sat in my car, the windows rolled up, and pressed PLAY. For a long moment, there was nothing but static; a good sign. I needed these blank tapes for a project.
Then I heard t... |
810 | Theme Thursday - Consequence | Another dawn cursed the city with her light, scattering the creatures disrupted from their feasts. Dark hollows glittered with eyes as red as their celestial punisher. Screeches of rage echoed through the crumbling city, and I buried my head beneath my worn pillow.
If alarm companies still existed, they could bottle t... |
811 | You work for a Make-A-Wish charity for terminally ill children . When your 10 year-old client 's final wish is for someone to be murdered , you know exactly why it needs to happen .
| Poor Kevin. He ’ s been fighting for the past week, the news covered the incident heavily. His parents begged them to leave their family alone as he recovers from the incident. What happened was unclear. The press asked him hundreds of times what had happened, he always remained silent. His small face made of stone. Ey... |
812 | The Grim Reaper is no longer able to claim lives directly . Instead , when your time is up a mark appears on your body and it is the duty of every other person to kill you on sight .
| My alarm went off at 6:30 a.m. I lazily tried to hit the snooze button as I rolled over, still woozy from the night before. All I remember from last night was feeling very feverish and going to sleep at around 10. My wife wakes up and looks at me puzzled for a minute.
`` What's wrong, honey?'' I ask.
She replie... |
813 | Write a short story about anything . Then rewrite it , omitting one word from each sentence , and turn it into a completely different story .
| She stared at him, lips curled upwards in a half-smile, left hand running up Jake ’ s exposed thigh. She ’ d wanted this for so long, dreamt of the two of them as more than just distant lovers for the better part of a year. Now it was finally happening, her heart racing faster with each hastened breath Jake took. Yet s... |
814 | Your little daughter have imaginary friends. One day, she asked if her friends can sleep in her room. You jokingly told her that they can stay as long as they want, as long as they help with the rent. The next morning, you found a hand wearing a Rolex and a roll of cash by the sink. | I spent the entire day doing yard work, I was soaked in sweat and covered in dirt. I needed to take a shower. I got to the bathroom and before I could get undressed I noticed a wad of cash next to a bloody hand casually sitting on the bathroom counter. The hand even had a nice watch on it too. I thought it was real at ... |
815 | After a cosmic event washing the Earth with a unidentified type of radiation, ghosts are now completely visible. They're not completely opaque so you can tell they're ghosts. They're everywhere. | I could feel my breath getting heavier. My mask started to fog, making it hard to make out everything in the street. I lowered my flashlight onto my wrist equipment now reading critical danger of radiation.
"This is it. Stay close together,” our Captain ordered. This was the first time in sixty years anyone stepped a ... |
816 | you realize the voice in your head wasn't a demon, but was The Player. | I couldn’t even cry as I butchered everyone in my home town, I wanted to so bad, but no that demon controlling my body wouldn’t even give me that.
Everything was normal this morning, no sign of anything wrong, but as I went about my day I started to hear a voice, it sounded lifeless and spoke slowly, and at first it j... |
817 | You finally give in to your urges and become a serial killer , but it turns out your first victim has been cursed with immortality .
| I thought it would be more satisfying. I finally gave in to the craving. The gnawing that starts behind the eyes, spreading to the base of the skull and shoots down the spine to the tips of my limbs like some sort of ambient electricity. It had been building for years; I had always been able to keep it at bay with smal... |
818 | There’s a fundamental misunderstanding about what you Reapers do. It’s not just about guiding souls, it’s about preventing unnecessary death. | The portal to the land of the living opens before me and I step through, black cloak billowing in the breeze coming from the other side. As I get my bearings, I shoulder my scythe and open my book of souls. Some people call me Death, others call me an Angel. Really I am both; a Reaper sent from the other side to make s... |
819 | A janitor working at Area 51 for 20 years is suddenly killed . Investigators search the janitors home and uncover a video . They hit play ...
| `` My name is John,'' an old man appears on the screen. His face seems stiff, like it's numb or something, but also like it's been numb for a while now. The video was shot in the room that the detectives and cops are in now. Everyone is silent, everyone stops documenting evidence to look at the screen. `` I do n't have... |
820 | You hear a rumour that there's a princess around, always surrounded by cute animals every time she sings. In this post-apocalyptic Disney wasteland, you could use a neverending source of meat... | You could hear her wails from a mile away. That’s when you know when to run. Or she’ll find you. Or they’ll find you.
It all happened so fast. She started changing. Her voice, once smooth and sweet as honey, grew scratchy and guttural. There was something in her voice that changed everything. Her screams would gather ... |
821 | You live in a world where , when the sun sets , all sorts of animals become increasingly aggressive towards humans .
| I heard a satisfying click as I closed the last lock. `` How's the back? Do n't forget the windows!'' I yelled to my wife.
`` We're all good, the windows are locked and boarded,'' she shouted back to me. It was n't always like this, there used to be a time when animals feared humans, before the virus had spread. I'... |
822 | This storm has been going on for days. The howling wind never seems to cease, the thick blanket of clouds never seems to move. You sent messages to all your friends... No response. THEY continue to scratch at your windows, begging to be let in. But you don't dare, not after Jim went out... | An ocean tide wind slammed without mercy against my thick glass wall. My house was pretty much made of glass, so I got an amazing view of what they are calling the storm of our lifetime. It’s honestly beautiful, blankets of gray/blue ice rain are going in all directions against my windows like an orchestrated dance.
T... |
823 | You’ve come to the realization that your friend was replaced by an imposter. This also comes with the realization that said imposter was a better friend than your so-called best friend ever was. | Her smile said that she knew something. I recognized it from a thousand different occasions—when we were little kids, I would see it before a practical joke, which never succeeded as she expected it to. As time went on, I would see it just before learning of a secret crush or a big surprise in the making. Near the end ... |
824 | Human beings are a crop and what we know as death is merely harvest time .
| The light at the end of the tunnel. “ How many times had he heard that phrase, especially over the course of the past year? ” Adam thought to himself. He looked around the hospital room that had become his home since he was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer.
He was surrounded by beeping medical equipment, extra ... |
825 | You are blind. Your guide dog wants you dead. | This is it, attempt #46. Spots tongue lolled as he watched from under the dining room table.
He watched the black cane tap on each tile, making a ‘tuk tuk tuk’ noise. "Spot? Spot!" A voice echoed from inside the kitchen.
Spot’s panting quickened and he wagged his black tail. You villain! Enslaver of dogs! He barked a... |
826 | when people go to sleep they disappear. Nobody knows where they go or they they get there. | It started after the storm. The familiar yet still eerie Warning siren and TV warning. The people went about their ordinary routines. It was normal.
That night, news from across the state rolled in to the TV station. I’m on night shift, and don’t sleep well most of the time anyway. “MP-001 - 24 persons”. The machine k... |
827 | You wake up in a motel room . There is blood on the floor , a gun in your hand and bodies strewn on the floor . You check the gun only to find it empty and the sound of foot steps closing in on your location .
| Blood. Gun. Blood. Gun. Blood. Hotel. Blood. Gun.
Someone is coming.
Blood. Blood. Gun. Hotel.
Where am I? What is going on? What ’ s happen? What did I do? Where am I? Who am I? Am I drugged? I fall on my knees and vomit. After a minute, I look around the room. I try to recognize the bodies lying on the floor. N... |
828 | "There's a portal inside of the mouth of this corpse." | Maggie was busy cleaning the tools to prepare when she heard her intern stumble in the morgue. “Be careful, Kyle!” She exclaimed without turning around, starting to be desensitized by her intern’s constant clumsiness.
“Ms. Mayfield, you have to see this!” He shouted back.
She sighed. “What is it this time?” holding b... |
829 | Create a fictional mythological race, (werewolves, vampires, skinwalkers, etc) and the legend behind it | Bright red letters warned on the TV weather report: “Polar Vortex expected this evening. Low of -23C. Vortex Bears likely. Stay inside.”
“I’m tired of the damn vortex bears.” I grabbed my coat. It was going to be an extra hard day at work, knowing that I might not be able to go tomorrow due to the cold.
“Dad, what’s ... |
830 | You're dying of cancer so you agree to an experimental treatment. The first of its kind. When you wake up after the operation all the surgeons are dead. | "Hello?" Parker sat up uneasily, noticing the extreme heaviness that clung to his head.
“Oh God… What the Hell happened?” Parker turned about on his hospital cot, looking down on the corpses that littered the floor around him. Rigid and decaying, the bodies of the surgeons who he remembered putting him under what seem... |
831 | They're almost here. The Lights were seen from Earth weeks ago, but they're much bigger and brighter now. A spaceship is almost visible behind it. The rest of the humans are terrified, but you're ready to welcome the rest of your species back home after so long. | The spaceship had touched down in the desert hours ago. It was huge and gleaming, with a flaming rock drawn on its sides. Every once in a while, flashing lights would emit from the windows, though we couldn’t see anything from the outside. It was a little worrying, especially since nobody had come to greet us yet and a... |
832 | when you die , you are born again . Only , when you reach the age you died in previous lives you gain all the memories of your previous lives on top of your own
| When she turns fifteen she will get all the memories from her previous life. The doctors had told her parents in hush tone worried about what could have happened in her past life. She on the other hand is excited. What if she could solve a cold case or reconnect with loved ones? She could have a fortune to her name! Bu... |
833 | Car insurance agents come together to battle it out to find out which car insurance company is best .
| First time posting here, or really anything like it, also it might be a little dark.
Four of them had gathered to represent some of the most powerful car insurance companies
in the nation, The Allstate agent, The Geico Gecko, Flow, and Jake from State Farm. They all stand
apart in an open field wondering why ... |
834 | They called it the 1000foot hole ... But for all the wrong reasons ... 500 men had donated to it .
| We had found Site-423 about two weeks ago now; nestled in the pine-covered foothills of the Northwest Territories, the “ Thousand-Foot Hole ” was actually by most estimates only between fifty and eighty feet deep – twenty feet across and roughly circular, it had been dug straight into the ground years before. From ten ... |
835 | you thought you were being haunted, when in reality, you were the one doing the haunting | (WP)
You’re looking through your attic, going through old things, when you suddenly come across a journal to which you don’t recognize. You open it, realizing that it is a diary, left here from one of the former owners of your house. Written within, ghosts are mentioned. This doesn’t come as a shock to you, of course,... |
836 | `` You ... Do know I 'm about to kill you , right ? '' A serial killer 's latest victim does n't seem to understand the gravity of the situation .
| `` hey mister?''
`` what is it sarah?''
`` why do mommy and daddy keep getting me new babysitters''
`` I ca n't say I know why. can you tell me what usually happens?''
`` uh, ok. usually they get here and they say hello and play with me until mommy and daddy leave. once they leave they still play with m... |
837 | A rather harmless eldtritch being visits Earth to collect some flora for its garden. It doesn't understand why everyone is screaming. | As the unspeakable horror feels around the universe with its ears, Rog'Yathon ponders over what it is searching for.
“Flowers. For A’kenta,” it blushes with a sweet taste. A’kenta loves flowers. Surely by growing some flowers in the garden for A’kenta, they would be moved by Rog'Yathon’s thoughtfulness. It continues l... |
838 | After you die, you come back as a spirit, but only while someone alive is thinking of you. For 10 years you've had seconds or minutes of consciousness at a time. But for the past 16 months, you've been constantly awake, and you begin to suspect why. | This would be so much more convenient if I awoke near the one who was thinking of me. When I first awoke, I didn’t even bother trying to find who was thinking of me because all my previous hauntings had only lasted a few minutes. I just enjoyed being awake.
After the first hour, however, my first thought was to find m... |
839 | The mountain has no top. The bottom is chasing you. You climb every day. Descent is death. This is life. | The morning call sounded. We prepared. Little Mira rubbed her eyes and squinted against the bright sun. “Grandmother says today is her day.” “We honor her sacrifice to the Abyss, “ came my automatic reply. “But I will miss her, Sophie.” “She is doing this for you. For all of us. She loves you very much, Mira.”
It was ... |
840 | Your parents have been providing you with "monster spray" to use under your bed since you were a kid (over twenty years ago). You thought it may be just fragranced water, but it's like a security blanket. Last night you ran out for the first time. You wake up to whispering underneath your bed. | Old habits die hard.
I mean who would have thought that at 25 years of age, living in my own flat, and for all intents and purposes a fully functioning adult, I’d still be afraid of the dark? More specifically, things in the dark.
It really shouldn’t matter that the little bottle of ‘Monster repellent spray’ I hold i... |
841 | You were just swallowed whole by a giant sea creature . To your surprise there ’ s already a man living inside whose created quite a comfortable living space .
| [ Begin Transcript ]
Testing. Testing. Is this recorder on?
This is the log of Captain John Smith, Captain and apparently only survivor of the SS Sakura.
Aight, so I ’ m fucked. I wanted to be an astronaut since I was a kid. Now here I am, stuck in the ass end of the galaxy. The starmap is literally showing... |
842 | In a world where everyone has the ability to change their appearance at will , two detectives investigate a crime .
| Conan flashed his badge and handed a strand of his hair to the officers as he ducked under the yellow “ Police Line Do Not Cross ” tape. He made his way over Edgar, his partner, who was squatting over a body covered with a blanket.
Stifling a yawn, Conan apologized, “ Sorry man, missed your calls. The new kid kept ... |
843 | 9 out of 10 dentists reccommended this toothpaste . What is the one who did n't 's story ?
| And now dear Listeners, a word from our sponsors.
Your yellow, cracked teeth tremble in your smiling face. They try to escape from your parting lips like roaches pouring from a faucet. No, the roaches are parting your lips through sheer volume. Twitching, reaching, scuttling legs slip between the cracks in your bro... |
844 | A man is losing a fist fight. | I am on hands and knees as blood freely pours from face. I can barely see out of my left eye and I would bet my nose is broken. Breathing heavily, I wince with each breath - a rib is poking out through the skin.
A fist hammers into the side of my head, snapping my head to the right and sending a spray of blood on to t... |
845 | People on the autism spectrum are resistant to completely immune to eldritch knowledge's sanity degradation effect due to their brains being "properly attuned" to recieve and process it. | When Elliot was 6, he saw a monster under his bed. Unlike many of his peers, he was not making it up, and he was not afraid of it. It looked like a warped starfish that had tentacles instead of arms, and there were eyes randomly distributed on its body. He was cautious at first, and so was the monster who realized the ... |
846 | Describe what 's left .
| The ash on the ground, crumbling under the small pink shoes on my little sister ’ s feet, consumes the charred wooden floor. Here and there, a wall stands stubbornly like a skeleton sitting at a dinner table, protesting the obvious; screaming ‘ I ’ m not dead. Bring out another steak ’ and smashing its brittle fists to... |
847 | With a snap of its fingers, it had them all under its control. | I couldn't believe it. He broke his own fingers to take over our minds. We were watching him on the screen when it happened - he just grabbed his left index and middle finger and bent them sideways. You could hear it through the speakers. CRUNCH. It felt like I could hear it in the slow the vibration of air between his... |
848 | "Please help me! I'm trapped in a story with an evil narrator!", cried the unfortunate man who will never escape my story. | “Please help me! I’m trapped in a story with an evil narrator!” cried the unfortunate man who will never escape my story.
Of course, no one listens. Why would they? Like the unfortunate man, they all belong to me. Like the unfortunate man, they are me.
The unfortunate man begins to cry, hugging himself with his arms ... |
849 | You 've seen ghosts and spirits your whole life . However , they never talked to you , until today .
| “ Hey. ” said the voiceless voice.
Jeremy kept walking.
“ Hey! I ’ m talking to you Jeremy. ”
Jeremy faltered on his next step. He looked around and saw hundreds of people in the hallway. Hundreds of people occupying a space fit for twenty. Jeremy could have sworn he had heard his name called. In reality he... |
850 | A horror story/scenario that does n't involve death or physical torture .
| A dead silence,
A soft cold breeze travels,
Quake at your knees.
In the darkness you know something lurches
behind the cabinet behind the curtains.
No form can be made of this mysterious intruder,
only that he sounds as hungry as a bear.
Phones disconnected,
no calling the police,
only you can deal wi... |
851 | Time traveling for good ...
| It'll be nice to get back to my normal routine. The 1520s get old after a while, especially the stink. I am growing weary of their sending me there. I blame my bosses, sending me on all these wacked-out missions to God knows where for God knows what. The new administration has no idea what they are doing.
And now s... |
852 | Write a horror story from the perspective of three year old .
| Sometimes I fall over and sometimes my skin breaks. I ’ ve always wondered how it goes back together, and now I know.
There are little bugs that live under your skin. I can feel them moving, but they are so small I can ’ t see them. Mummy says that they have needles for arms and they knit my broken skin together at n... |
853 | After watching dozens of alien movies, aliens do decide to attack earth. You are terrified of being devoured by these feathers creatures until one day after killing one to protect you family you realize they taste 10x better than chicken. | It all happened so fast. It felt so disorienting. All of what mankind had worked for was about to be gone, or so we had thought. Those ships appeared from nowhere, covering the blue sky and replacing it with black. I can remember the penetrating sounds from the T.V.’s all throughout our neighborhood. “NATIONAL WARNING”... |
854 | You hear crying every night around midnight , tonight you hear a blood curdling scream .
| I was scared to sleep. I had been hearing strange sounds in my room. It was always the same. A child crying. The first time I heard it, I almost ran out of the room. But the moment I got off my bed, the crying stopped. I covered myself with the blanket fully and closed my eyes, hoping that it was just my imagination. T... |
855 | You 've heard of the Tell-Tale Heart . Well , this is the story of the Tell-Tale _________ .
| The Tell-Tale Trojans
True! —horny—very, very horny I was and am, but why do you say I am crazy? This virginity has sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all, the sense of sight was acute. I noted all women walking down the street, in the mall, and about their yards. Women, standing in hallways a... |
856 | A cure for sleep has been found , by taking a cheap pill people no longer need to sleep . You opted to continue sleeping and now 1 year after the release of this pill you notice that people are starting to act oddly .
| Funny how it was the booze that done it.
All these health nuts and gainfully employed workaholics, they went straight for it. Popping this pill like it was the cure for cancer, staying up all night jogging and typing and and fucking and spending time with their little pill-popping brats. I never went in for pills. ... |
857 | Make me feel the most intense sadness/non-physical pain you ever experienced .
| Whenever anyone asks about my father I tell them he died when I was seven.
The usual response is `` Oh.'' And a long period of silence. I always imagine they are mentally running through all the times they had with their dad. The running in the park, the being taught how to shave, the introducing him to a girlfrien... |
858 | You've had to watch as someone else took control of your body and lived as you for years. You never thought you'd get your body back, but one day after they went to sleep, you woke up in your body; Nothing left of them but a letter. | Been years. And for all these years, I’ve… been observing him living… in my body, as me.
Sometimes, I still ponder how something like this could happen, how something like this is even possible.
And that… how no one ever noticed.
He is not me. I… I was such a shy, innocent kid who… always focused on my studies, alwa... |
859 | Write a horror story that is terrifying in context but hilarious out of context .
| He had just started sleeping in his own room. It was an adventure of its own, but he knew all too well of the monsters that lurked. Their house was old, full of stories and things out of stories. Joey knew of the monsters, but he hadn ’ t expected it to come so soon.
The night was quiet. His window was bare, show... |
860 | You 've just pulled into your driveway to see your child has accidently summoned a demon using sidewalk chalk and playtoys .
| It wasn ’ t what I had imagined. When you think ‘ demon ’, you think red, horns, wings maybe. Something vicious, dreaded. What stood before me couldn ’ t be further from the image – and that was terrifying in itself. What gave it away was the feeling of despair that creeped into my mind. It all said: run – leave your l... |
861 | The monster under this child 's bed is more afraid of them than they are of it .
| My son came to me one morning crying like I'd never heard before. It was a good five minutes before I could get him to tell me what was wrong. After a while he looked at me with his big red bloodshot eyes and just blurted it out. He was terrified of his bed. He said he was afraid of the thing that slept in his bed and ... |
862 | A cop is tied to a chair , helplessly watching the serial killer he 's chased for so long prepare his tools to kill him .
| The clock wouldn ’ t turn, you thought absurdly. Somehow you ’ d gotten it in your head that behind the clock lay some vital key, the way a painting might conceal not a safe but rather an inscription etched into the reverse of its frame. An inscription by some master known for everything but the monstrosity of blood an... |
863 | You are a ghost watching your killer's sentencing in court. | I quietly enter the courtroom and take a seat on the last row, wearing my favourite sweatshirt and jeans that i got as a present from my little brother, Hector. Slowly the room starts filling up and after about forty minutes there’s a steady low murmur present.
There’s a loud bang and everyone is asked to stand up. I ... |
864 | You are being stalked by your greatest fear .
| Here we go again.
It's here. I can feel the presence flooding the hallway, seeping under the door, and saturating the floor. I ca n't remember the last visit. Was it last week? Maybe. All I know is that I can almost see it now, the dark matter that fills my home.
I try to escape outside. I had to walk through i... |
865 | Shortly after dying , you wake up as a newborn just now departing the womb . As the days pass , memories from your previous life begin disappearing . [ WP ]
| My formerly devout Baptist parents told me the full story about what made them question their faith and believe in reincarnation. I do n't remember anything that happened; it was so many years ago.
When I was nineteen, they told me about how I regularly had nightmares and night terrors when I was just three years o... |
866 | "The vaccine restores a zombie's humanity, but can do nothing for the lingering memories and guilt." | They say the vaccine returned our humanity. They say it saved the world from certain destruction. They say without it, the plague would have wiped out the whole world.
I guess that’s all true. We still lost so much, and it will take so long to rebuild. People didn’t just get bit and turn into zombies. Some were killed... |
867 | Discovering a hidden `` super '' power
| God, I ’ m tired of this shitty place. Every morning I wake up to my own hell, as dramatic as that sounds. I go to a place where the people hate me. It ’ s crazy. I have done nothing to wrong these people, yet they all seem to have this burning desire to ruin each day I spend breathing.
And the teachers don ’ t see... |
868 | `` To this day , I ca n't get the taste of that lizard out of my ''
| “ To this day, I can ’ t get the taste of that lizard out of my mouth! ”
Everyone roared with laughter around the campfire, drowning out the peripheral sound of crickets and owls. I had done it again, I thought, puffing out my chest. While the guys remained transfixed on horror stories about ghosts and werewolves, ... |
869 | Make me sympathize with someone who does things that would normally be considered unforgivable under any circumstance .
| From under his covers, Timothy could hear the footsteps as they came nearer and nearer to his room. He began to shake as he thought of what was about to happen. A thin sliver of light shone into the room as the door creaked slowly open. It opened wider, and a shadow glided through.
“ Dad, please don ’ t, ” Timmy sa... |
870 | : You do n't remember what you do for a living . Literally . You black out for 8 hours 5 days a week and a paycheck appears once per month .
| The two men in the front of my door looked dead serious.
I ’ d just finished eating breakfast with my wife Shelly when the doorbell rang. Expecting some kind of early door-to-door salesman, I opened the door, only to be greeted by two fully suited men looking ready to visit some kind of funeral.
“ Are you Mr. J... |
871 | Gim me the best scare you can using 500 words or less .
| I had a nightmare recently. My daughter had asked me to follow her to the garage where she would go to hang herself. I woke up, with sweat. I asked her the next day if everything was alright.
She lifted her shirt to reveal a large bruise on her arm. Who would hit a six year old? I felt a sick feeling in my stomach.... |
872 | Give a review for a really innocuous item .
| I do n't know where to begin with your faulty product. All I wanted was a mirror - what I got was a new lease in a tiny apartment across the street, a divorce, and maybe custody over my children ( if I'm lucky ). If House & Kitchen Wares will not offer me a full refund, I will be sure that no one visits your outlets ev... |
873 | Over night, 90% of the world's population has dropped dead. In the following weeks, the survivors, who come from diverse countries, ethnicities, religious beliefs and lifestyles realize that they all share a single, peculiar trait... | Franco's backed into a corner, his knees pulled up to his chin. He's a mess, a shaking, huddling, pathetic mess. I split the harpoon in two, over the knee to show him I mean business. Five seconds—that's all he has for explanation, maybe contrition, and then, he's gone.
"Wait," he cries as I step forward, "just...I'm ... |
874 | Describe an everyday action as if it was the most horrifying thing on earth .
| She was sitting there quite innocently, minding her own business and soaking up the intoxicating energy from the sun, when someone came by and yanked her fiercely by the hair. The pain was intense, but at first, nothing happened. The killer looked at her closely, frowning in concentration before he tugged harder. With ... |
875 | The human race figures out that cannibalism is the key to super human intelligence
| I ducked under the yellow crime scene tape and donned a pair of blue latex gloves. My partner, Jessica Moon, was already inside the dinning hall. Crime scene investigators scurried about like ants, collecting and weighing samples, bagging evidence in teams. One to mark, one to verify. Check, re-check. Efficient account... |
876 | while driving down the highway , you notice that one of the attractions advertised for the next exit is your name . Curiously , none of the other passengers in the car can see it .
| Road trips have always been a two way road – fun yet nerve wracking. Riding with dad as a kid in the vastness of the desert brought clarity and comfort. My memory is foggy but I think it ’ s been 3 years since he passed. He said he named me Luke because I was brave and brought light to the world. Times have changed, I ... |
877 | You know that you have died. You find that you have woken up as your family pet, years ago. You have somehow traveled back in time, but you are no longer in a human body. The first thing you see when you come around is yourself as a child. | I was on the way home from school and took a short cut down a dark alley way. There was a musty smell and rats rustled in the garbage next to me. Then I heard footsteps behind me as if They had just appeared. Something touched my shoulder I turned round and saw a man. He grabbed my throat and held me. His skin was thin... |
878 | Anyone want to try a shot at horror or supernatural ? Write a story around this real occurrence : A house , farm , or town mysteriously blanketed with spiders . ( link in text )
| They don ’ t like the ground. So they climb and hang themselves; their presence both a symbol of the fragility of life and the horrors to come. It is with sadistic humor that a great god can watch from great heights how one species ’ act of preservation means the doom of countless others. One eye turns, then two, then ... |
879 | Steve Erwin is now the host of a show where he goes around and explains mythical creatures .
| Fucking hell
It ’ s only maybe 10pm
It ’ s fucking midnight
No fucking way
John started to pull out his tired little plastic compass from the offensively blue backpack when Tyler crashed into him from behind
Get the fuck off me!
The fuck are you doing?!
Watch out!
Two boys, 12 and 13, ou... |
880 | You made a deal with the devil to become rich . He then tells you that fortune will be yours , but there is a curse . For every $ 1000 you spend , a random person on the Earth will die . Congratulations ! You just won $ 250,000,000 .
| There is an old man standing in the line behind me. He looks to be about 75, with a crown of white hair and inquisitive blue eyes. He reminds me of David Attenborough, with his calico pants and white vest. In his hand he's holding a selfie stick and he seems overly excited about his purchase. His hands are running over... |
881 | You're watching a horror movie and shouting at a character for doing something stupid. To your surprise they listen, now you must save their life! | A popcorn shell lodged itself in the space between my gum and back tooth. Otherwise known as the place no food has gone before. I dug around with my finger, trying to find the right place for my nail to scrape it.
The killer announced his presence with a haunting melody. “Oooh, you're gonna die!” I thought.
With a sh... |
882 | The plot get 's ruined by a character with common sense .
| It's been a nearly a month since we moved to our new house. I ca n't help but think somethings off about it. Nothing crazy, sometimes I notice open doors that I swear I closed, creaks at night that just do n't seem right, things in places I swear I did n't leave them, just random stuff like that.
At first I thought... |
883 | [ wp ] You always thought the other voice in your head was just that , a voice . Until you heard the same voice , right next to you .
| The shock wore off and I was able to move again. I wished I was dead and I fell to my knees in horror. I hadn ’ t meant to kill him, but you know how these things are. There he lay, another statistic to arm some politician. And for what? Seventeen dollars? Is that what my soul was worth? Is that how much I had just sol... |
884 | Everybody joked about what a zombie apocalypse would be like . But no one expected the ghost apocalypse .
| `` When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.''
Bold, poetic, and seemingly impossible. I'm still not sure if hell exists, but I do know the dead now walk the earth. Disembodied, silhouette-like creatures haunt the living. I say ‘ creatures ’ because they are no longer human; every trace of th... |
885 | Animals can be genetically combined with any other animal with no problems , allowing dog-cat pets , true teacup elephants , and many other things . But you do n't always get what you expect . Describe a pet owner who got a pet he was not ready for , but is determined to keep it and love it .
| Richard, I've had it up to HERE with that....thing. I want it gone TONIGHT.
Honey, we ’ ve been over this. He ’ s not going anywhere. He ’ s adorable and weird and I love him.
HE??? How can you even tell it ’ s a male? Look at it! It ’ s got two legs and I ’ m pretty dam sure there ’ s nothing in between. Do yo... |
886 | Your family has a superpower: you have a lot of cousins. No, like seriously, a lot of cousins. If you ever need something, you've got a cousin for that and who can get it done within 24hrs. | My oldest living family member is my great-grandmother with an outstanding 106 years on earth. My grandfather and 5 out of the 6 of his brothers and sisters are still alive. One of his brothers died in a car crash a few months ago. We are a Christian family and my family takes go forth and multiply a little serious. I ... |
887 | Describe a unique world ( IN COLLABORATION WITH /r/SKETCHDAILY )
| 25 September 2013
My name is Alex. I don ’ t know where I am. I can see the top of the sky better than the ground. It ’ s kind of like a crystalline coal. There are occasional thin trees and the ground ( floor? } forms doughy ridges. So I can ’ t see far. I don ’ t know how I got here. I ’ m going to stay in this a... |
888 | A horror story in twelve sentences
| I ’ d been lying so horribly still for long enough that my body had begun to stiffen without my noticing.
As I slid my hand forward to the edge of the bed, the muscles in my arm tingled in violent protest.
God knows how long it had been since The Woman in Red left me here.
She told me that if so much as one finge... |
889 | I know it 's 3 A.M. , I know I 'm naked and wrapped in a shag rug . But there is a perfectly good explanation for this .
| Go out they said. It ’ ll be fun they said. Fuck that. I ’ m not in my early twenties anymore. I ’ m thirty-two. I ’ ve seen what awaits me after a drunken night of debauchery. I ’ ll give you a spoiler alert: it rhymes with ‘ Smerpes.
So. Yeah. I blew those fuckers off. Closed the curtains and settled in for the lon... |
890 | Your wife calls you in to the bathroom to kill a spider . Write a horror story about it .
| I like my country. I know most people do but I'm not afraid to say it. Australia really is the place for me. The beaches, sports and sunshine are enough to keep me satisfied throughout the summer.
However, where there are good things there are also the bad, a double edged sword if you will. Of course I'm talking abou... |
891 | Whenever someone reaches 18, they are given a sealed envelope with their last words inside. You just received yours and opened it, reading the words: "I always knew you were going to kill me." | I always knew you were going to kill me. The words rang once more in Arthur’s mind. It was a daily ritual. Someone he knew wanted him dead, and he would find out who. Was it Martha from Marketing? Or Gerald from Accounting? Arthur wasn’t entirely sure, but he would never let his guard down.
Ever since he was 18 and le... |
892 | You are playing the most important game of Musical Chairs in your life .
| [ Listen to this whilst reading. Or do n't. ] ( https: //www.youtube.com/watch? v=aORD1aRz_qI & list=SRjody % 20reynolds % 20endless % 20sleep )
When the music stopped, I quickly pushed the closest person as far away from the chairs as I could. The music was still echoing in the room when she fell. Thump. The sound... |
893 | A man who has gone insane , tries to work out how he went insane .
| I ’ m on my back. My eyes are open, and the bleak white ceiling tiles stretch endlessly beyond my peripheral vision. A clock, real or imagined, is counting the seconds, adding to minutes, adding to hours, adding to days. Am I going to sleep or waking up?
*One. Two. Three. *
Time to move. Arms, move to the side,... |
894 | Write about the monster under your bed
| The monster under my bed licks my toes with his rough tongue when my legs hang loosely off the side in a languid sleep.
The monster under my bed eats the wax in my ear like honey from a jar.
The monster under my bed tickles the hairs on my leg so they stand up on end and keep me warm.
The monster under my b... |
895 | The main character makes eye contact with a stranger for less than 5 seconds and never sees them again . That moment changes his/her life forever .
| Graham ran with a vicious joy, like a dog that had been unleashed and was now free to hunt down the helpless rabbit. Hearing the cries of his brothers he roared out a yell of animalistic delight.
They were traitors, a village of idiots who could no longer tell their enemies from their heroes. He and his brothers ha... |
896 | Survivors of a zombie Apocalypse discoverer to late that the bite of a zombie do n't make you into a zombie . Only dieing does .
| I looked at the body of my wife, so carelessly killed by ignorance.
I wanted to strangle him, kill him. He taker her life without hesitation, without warning – but how was he to know?
* “ I had to do it man, before she turned - you're CDC you should know! ” *
I ca n't help myself, I snap and planted a fist ... |
897 | Tell the story of a couple 's relationship through the eyes of their pet .
| Knocking on the door at precisely six in the evening, I can see Kisser with that big ass grin through the door ’ s window and it makes my blood boil. I ’ m watching from the couch as Bowl Filler hurries to let Kisser in. Filler's been doing that disgusting version of cleaning with water and dressing and redressing hims... |
898 | A psychic alien who feeds on dreams comes to Earth for the first time. Turns out humans are the only sentients in the galaxy that have nightmares. | The alien watched as the images flashed through the human’s mind. Watching as the human laid trapped in a spider’s web, unable to move. Their desperate squirms only tightening the surrounding webbing, making it so it was nearly impossible for them to breathe. Each breath only straining their lungs until they felt like ... |
899 | She's funny, she's beautiful, and she's into you. She'd be perfect except for one tiny detail: The snakes in her hair despise you. | Her smile was so perfect to me. Her eyes froze me in place like stone. Her skin faintly shone under the moon like twilight. This was our fourth week seeing one another, and every time I saw her I felt at peace. Last night, Maddy (She loved my nickname for her) sent me a text saying she’s never had feelings for someone ... |
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