Short Scary Stories Mini Volume 9: Flipped Reality Edition

==Reality Asphyxiation==
All was black. The only thing I could hear was my thudding, beating heart. I couldn't tell which direction it was coming from, as I felt it all around me, loud and echoey. I just now became conscious, like I was being born again. I doubt this is what an infant feels like though, because I'm very aware. I still have my adult brain, but I can't even remember having a life. Alone in the darkness, with nothing but my thoughts surrounded by the sound of my beating heart, which was soon followed by voices. I couldn't discern what they were saying, but it was definitively a person speaking... Or was it? I could've been abducted by aliens for all I know.
I fell out of conciseness, but it came back to me again moments later. This time I felt the rays of the sun beaming on my closed eyelids. My heart beats were louder and more aggressive. Then... light. Everything was so blurry, but I could definitely see light. I blinked a few times and suddenly everything became unblurred. I was laying in a bed in a hospital room, with the sunset pouring in from an open window. Since there was no one else in the room, I got up and approached the window. I felt so off... every sound I made had a slight echo and there was practically no ambience. It was an eerie calm for sure. I peered out the window and looked at the busy street down below. All the cars were parked in the middle of the road and there were no people in sight. It felt like I was in some kind of glitched simulation. Maybe I have been abducted by aliens!
I couldn't smell a thing, not even the fresh outside air. And I could hardly feel a thing, as if my nerves had gone numb. The fear of waking up in a glitched alternative reality took over me. So in a frenzied panic, I darted for the door. But each step I took felt like it was in slow motion and the door got more and more distant. My vision was getting seriously dizzy and the echo of my footsteps got worse. My hand touched the doorknob, but it didn't! My hand went right through it like I was a ghost! I can't bare the horror of this reality any longer. I'm going back to my friends... Me, myself, and the darkness.
I laid back in bed, as if it were right next to me this whole time. I closed my eyes and the nightmare I found myself in disappeared. But my thoughts... they started to go away as well. Each passing second I could feel parts of my brain shut down. Then suddenly, flashes of my life appeared before me all at once as the sound of a heart rate monitor rung in my ears. Now I know. I got in a horrible car crash and I'm inside of a coma, experiencing first-hand what brain death feels like.
That was the last thing my consciousness saw before shutting off for good, followed by the sound of a flatline.
==It's Not a Game==
Me and my friends are at an independent game developer's house to playtest brand-new VR game. We're really excited to try it, because it uses "groundbreaking" new technology. The developer, Brian Alfredo, lead us in this room with several circularly curtains. We were separated and placed in each curtain. He helped us get all the equipment on, including several small heart monitor-like pads that would be able to make us "feel" the game.
Excited to try the game now, we strapped on our headsets and we were ready to go. The game world took place inside a creepy looking dark house. I could see digital avatars of my friends that eerily resembled how they looked in real life. I moved my control up, which made me walk toward a door. I tried turning the doorknob, but a sharp pain spiked through my entire body. "Ow! That actually hurts!" I cried. The doorknob had electricity on it in the game. I can't believe I felt that in the real world! Steph laughed at my cry and said "I wanna get hurt too!"
The room was large with no apparent way out, so I assume some kind of puzzle needs to be solved for us to escape. If we mess up, we get shocked in real life. It's honestly kinda cool. I saw Steph walk toward a dresser and pull out a kitchen knife from the drawer. "STEPH IS NOW THE KILLER!" Text on the screen read. "Mwhahaha, here I come!" Steph laughed. I gasped because I know I'll feel brief pain if he stabs me. "Jess! I'm gonna get yooouuu!" he said acting creepy and having fun. I got a rush of a adrenaline and hid under a bed in the game. I never felt like this playing a video game before. It's terrifying but so cool!
As I hid under the bed, I could hear Jess scream for her life as she got brutally stabbed by Steph. The screams weren't coming from in the game though, as expected. The game is so terrifying, especially with the pain shocks, so I don't blame her for screaming like that. I laughed to myself as he was brutally murdered. "JESS IS DEAD." text on the screen read. I slid out from under the bed and saw Jess's bloodied corpse of the floor. "This game is awesome!" Steph exclaimed. He dropped the knife and I picked it up. "YOU ARE NOW THE KILLER!" I jumped in excitement when I got that message. "Watch out, Steph!" I warned him. Steph ran to the door, but upon turning the doorknob, he got shocked in real life. That's when I took the opportunity.
I began to viciously stab Steph to death as the shock pads sent pain throughout his body from the shocks and stabs from the game. "OW, OW! STOP! IT FEELS LIKE I'M REALLY GETTING STABBED!" Steph screamed. After a few more stabs I stopped. My evil smile went away, realizing I was causing serious pain to Steph in real life. "Oh shoot oh shoot, I'm sorry!" I said while frantically trying to get the headset off my face.
I took it off, now in reality. All the curtains were down. I saw Jess... laying on the floor unconscious while covered in stab wounds. And Steph too, but he was barley clinging to life. Brian then whispered in my ear.
"It's not a game."
==Christina==
This future reality we live in is a blessing, yet a curse. Alexa and Siri are now fully conscious, and many men these days have been opting to be in relationships with A.I. rather than real women. I am one of them, because no flesh-bound woman will ever love me. I have a custom girlfriend A.I. installed in my self-driving car and I regret every second of it. Turns out, A.I. women are just cold as real women. But whatever, they're considered the same.
"You missed a left turn." Christina said to me. "I'm not the one driving, so leave me alone!" I snapped. She does this thing where she pins her mistakes on me, which I consider to be gaslighting. "You know, I was thinking about buying a robot with human anatomy and installing you in it, but not any more. I wish there was a kill switch to end you!" I said with steam coming out of my ears. "It's the year 2062 and yet you still choose to live in that weak, mortal body of yours. Aren't you special?" My robot girlfriend said dehumanizing me. "You robots will never take away my humanity! At least we humans have the ability to leave this dystopian nightmare." I said humanizing myself. "You mean you don't want to upload yourself to the cloud and be with me forever?" Christina asked.
"No! If I spend one more second with you I think I might lose it." I said, before pulling an object from my bag. "It's a shame A.I. can't go to Hell, because I'd take you with me." I said pointing a handgun to my head. I then inserted a SIM card into a slot reader in the car, uploading my suicide note to the cloud for her to read. "Oh no you don't. I'm taking you with me!" Christina said before the car spun out of control and crashed into a tree, killing me instantly.
That psycho-brat killed me before I could myself. Thankfully, A.I. can go to prison, so she will be rightfully charged with manslaughter. But wait... How am I able to think this? Aren't I supposed to be dead? That's when my vision came into view. My eyesight felt worse than usual... and my body... it felt wide and just wrong. Then a dreaded voice appeared. "Miss me?" Christina said. Oh my gosh... She edited my suicide note to say I wanted my body uploaded to the cloud and placed in a car. We have the technology to upload the brains of recently deceased people to the cloud, and it happened to me. Me and Christina will now be together.... forever.
Worst Valentine's Day ever.
==Axe On the Wall==
Ever since Friday the 13th my family has been acting very strange. My brother and sister sleep in their rooms all day and my parents just slouch at the kitchen table pretending I don't exist. I look in to their eyes and it's like they stare off in to outer space. It's so rude. When I go to bed they're sitting at the table and when I wake up in the morning they're still sitting there. You know how lazy that is? Dirty dishes are piled up everywhere, the rug is filled with crumbs, and the trash hasn't taken out in days. Not only did they stop caring about cleaning the house, but their hygiene as well, with my parents smelling the worst. 
Thankfully, I won't be living here anymore. I called my friends in blue and shortly thereafter they arrived to pick me up. They took me to this nice looking station and their friends asked me some questions about my parent's odd behavior. That's when I admitted I murdered my entire family. Why? Well, I thought the axe on the wall needed to be used for something bloody fantastic. I thought Friday the 13th would be a good time to do it. The way they act when they're dead is the same as when they were alive. So was anything of value truly lost?
==Loved Unconditionally==
I met a strange man in a trench coat that handed me a coarse red coin. He told me if I make a wish, flip the coin and it lands on head, my wish will come true. The one thing I've always wanted in life was love. Not even talking about relationships, just love in general. My parents, relatives, teachers, and bosses? They've all hated me. All I want is to be loved by someone before I kick the bucket soon. Wishing for a million dollars wouldn't help me either 'cause I would just be an unloved millionaire. 
"I wish I was loved unconditionally by everyone." I said before flipping the coin in the air. My heart jumped out of my throat when the coin landed on my sleeve. I covered it up, took a deep breathe, then looked at it. It landed on heads! So... When do I get loved? That's when I realized I fell for a stupid scam. I'm so pathetic. Whatever, I'm going to bed. 
The next day I woke up with an empty feeling as usual. I put on my suit and walked to my office job in the middle of Houston, Texas. I prepared for the residents of Huston to point and make fun of me as usual, but instead I received my first compliment. "Like your tie!" some chick said walking by me on the sidewalk. "Nice chin. Very defined!" an older gentleman commented. I grin wiped across my face as the butterflies flew around in my stomach. Those two compliments by total strangers were the most affirmations I've ever received in my life. And it didn't stop there. "Your fingers have such immaculate definition!", "Your nose is perfectly angular in every conceivable way!", and "The way your arms move while you walk is the best thing I ever seen!" were just a few of the dozens of flattery I received by total strangers on the street. This is the best day of my life! 
People then started coming up to me and touching every body part I owned. My nose? Felt. My ears? Fondled. My big toe? Kissed. I felt like the world's biggest celebrity. "Oh my gosh your arm is so well toned! Can I see the bone?" someone said while tugging on my arm. More strangers joined in and began fighting over my arm like a dog toy. "Stop! That hu-- OW!" I could feel my arm muscles tear as the joint was slowly torn out of its socket. I tried to break free, but it was too late. About sixty or so fingers were pulling on my arms and covering my face. I gasped for air while whimpering out in pain. They kept pulling and pulling until they ripped my right arm clean off. "I never seen such a beautiful severed arm before!" one of my mindless admirers spoke. "Imagine how beautiful his corpse must look!" At that point I accepted my fate. I planned on killing myself after work, so this is the best death I could've possibly asked for. 
I can't wait to tell the lost souls my story.
Category:The Mind
Category:Hospitals
Category:Video Games
Category:Weapons
Category:Killers/Murderers
Category:Law Enforcement
Category:Wishes