Do Not Stop Reading
Channel: Scary Stories
Date: 2022-12-05

Do Not Stop Reading

Do not stop reading! Do not stop reading! Do not stop reading!

It worked. Okay, stay with me here, it’s working. 

Are you there? Is someone reading this? I guess someone must be.

I’m not really sure what to say, but I know that I need to keep typing. I'm really scared right now, but I need to keep typing or else I will die.

I guess I should tell you what’s happening right now, because you’re probably confused about this. Trust me, I’m confused too, but I need to keep typing and you need to keep reading this.

Okay, so where do I begin?

It started just a few minutes ago. Literally just a few minutes ago. One moment I was sitting in front of my laptop, working on my thesis, the next moment a window pops open on my screen. At first, I had thought Command Prompt had opened on its own, because the screen had a familiar looking pitch-black background with white text written on it.

Annoyed at this distraction, I was about to close the window when I noticed what was written on it. “Type or you will die. Someone will be reading what you type. If they stop reading, you will stop existing.”

This brought confusion to me, and I wondered if my laptop suddenly got infected by a virus. That message was certainly odd, and I never thought Command Prompt would ever display something like that. For a few seconds I stared at it, afraid what kind of virus could be hacking my computer at that moment. 

I’m not a techy guy and I just know the basics when it comes to computers. So, to have a potential virus displaying itself in front of me made me worried and scared. Unsure how to proceed, I decided to do what I thought was best, which was to open up my anti-virus and have it scan my laptop.

However, before I could move my mouse to summon my anti-virus program, I began noticing something strange around me. It was a faint feeling, and I couldn’t figure it out at first. It was as if something in my surroundings suddenly went missing and that I could sense its disappearance. 

Feeling a chill run through my body, the environment around me suddenly felt cold. It’s hard to describe the feeling that I felt, but it felt like a mixture of fear and anxiety.

Deciding to look around my room, I tried to figure out what was causing me to feel suddenly so uncomfortable. That’s when my eyes suddenly fell upon my window and saw nothing but an empty dark void outside.

Staring at it I froze. That had caught me off guard. Keeping my eyes fixated at my window, I was stunned to see that my normal view of a beautiful Saturday afternoon was replaced by a terrifying dark emptiness. 

Stunned and still unbelieving, I got up from my seat and rushed towards the window. Maybe it was just the trick of the eye? The world outside couldn’t have possibly been replaced by emptiness. 

Yet it was.

As I stood by the window and tried to look outside, I saw nothing but a dark void. No matter what angle I did and no matter how hard I tried to rub my eyes, all I saw outside the window was nothing but a dark empty void. The world outside was gone.

I wasn’t sure how it happened, but somehow it did. 

Feeling my instincts kick in, I felt panic race up inside me as I realized that I must be in danger. Because of this I naturally wanted to get out. Go to where, I don’t know, but I knew that I needed to get out and escape whatever horror was occurring.

However, as I turned away from the window and took a step towards the door, my eyes opened with fear as I saw that there wasn’t any door. Instead, there was nothing but a blurry mass where my door used to be. The outline of the door was still there, but the details that told me it was a door was gone. Looking on, it seemed like a faded collection of colors that got blurrier and blurrier with each passing second.

Frightened and unsure what was happening, I started backing away. Keeping my eyes on the door, I felt more fear rise within me as I realized that the whole wall that I was staring at was starting to become blurry. No matter how many times I blinked and rubbed my eyes, what I was seeing was real. The wall in front of me was becoming blurry, as if it was fading out of existence. 

Looking around to see if it was spreading, I suddenly felt my heart drop when I saw that the other three walls of my room were becoming blurry also. Quickly darting my eyes up, I saw that the ceiling was also fading. Then, looking down, I nearly jumped once I saw that the floor was also fading.

I suddenly found myself standing still at the center of my room as I watched everything slowly fade away. My bed, my cabinets, my TV, they were all fading along with the walls.

Everything in my room was fading. Everything except for my laptop.

Although the desk it lay on was starting to disappear, the laptop was still full of color and clearly there.  It was, however, starting to sink into the fading desk it was on.

Unsure what to do to save myself, I stood there for a few seconds before suddenly remembering the firs