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As the fungal infection experiment continued, I noticed my hands look a little off They dont look human anymore
It sucks not being able to afford a new lightbulb for my bedroom because now I’m forced to use the light switch at the end of the hallway and run as quickly as I can back to the safety of my bed. I leaped through the air and as my eyes adjusted to the darkness I realized I wasn’t fast enough because something was already waiting for me.
I've seen and talked to ghosts for a long as I can remember. They're so scared these days, and there's fewer of them every night.
The galaxy is ridiculously enormous but the Fermi paradox overlooks the truth: Earth and her denizens are inmates in galactic solitary confinement
I felt a sting, sweet and engulfing, seeing my wife so happy and proud about her first harvest of our garden. Love her so much, I of course got myself seconds of her zucchini spaghetti, even if the bitter taste was somehow off.
I always make an effort to take home the oldest animal in the shelter. It’s never suspicious when they die.
I took the batteries out of the carbon monoxide detector and went to lay back down. The constant beeping was making me dizzy and I couldn’t sleep.
I was delighted to find another soul after hours of exploring the dark giant's tomb. That feeling quickly turned to horror, when I felt the bald man's boot on my back, after I had walked close to a cliff from where you could supposedly see some kind of treasure.
I was impressed when the sex worker claimed she could swallow me whole. That is until she unhinged her jaw and began to devour me head first.
The cordyceps fungus is a common trope in horror stories because it forces its host to move against their will. So common, in fact, that it's not unexpected that several mega corporations are developing their own version of the disease to convert normal people into their slaves.
I was the sole survivor after that accident, stranded upon all but a small island, surrounded by the abandoned gear of my horrifically maimed colleagues and friends. I’m grateful to be alive, having found food there, but I can’t help but feel guilty after being the only one to never pick a short straw.
They say you shouldn't go caving alone, but I found a new cave and my partner is out of town for 2 weeks. At the bottom of the initial descent, the other end of the rope fell down after me, as I remembered leaving my phone in the car.
The old fisherman had rambled something about “bulls” in the river, but we paid him no mind as we dove into the cool water, gloriously fresh in the summer heat. It was only after a flash of teeth and fins broke the murky water’s surface, mere inches away, that we realized he was trying to warn us.
"You're just in time for our new package that just rolled out last month" the salesman said with such confidence. "The fees are a little higher, but your clone's organs can be harvested in less than 5 years, and we can start collecting their blood for emergencies in less than 2".
My husband and I increased our insurance policies ahead of our dive trip to search sunken ships for gold bullion and other treasures, since the hobby can be so dangerous. For example, did you know that if someone's SCUBA tank was accidentally filled with pure nitrogen, no one would even notice until it was already far too late?
Every once in a while my house fills up with a weird black smoke. Which is odd, they said the crematorium was covered up when the house was built.
"Have you ever wondered what happens after death?" my younger buddy asks me. "Guess ill never know.." I say as I start to consume him, granting me youth furthermore.
I Used To Love Playing Hang-Man As A Child But Now, As I Gamble With My Fellow Death-Row Inmates For Freedom, I Wish I Was Better At It.
An overwhelming sense of dread washed over the crowd as we gazed up at the magnificently blue sky, murmurs building into a panicked frenzy. After a moment or two, the error code vanished, and the clouds came back.
"After my husband ran away with another woman, my children fell apart," she told me with a sad voice. "My necromancy skills are not as good as your husband's, but I will try," I said while going through the pile of small body parts.
Bababa blababala, I said out loud to my kindergarden students, while they bursted out laughing. While all I wanted to say was, please call 911.
"It's alive! It's alive!" The little boy screamed as he ran away from the flattened dog on the road.
When the police said that they had found my little girl's killer had committed suicide I couldn't resist cackling like a madman.... Only now ,with their chief's cold body at my feet,do they realize the similarities between their wounds.
I had a bad feeling about that rickety old rollercoaster. When the cars reached the top of the loop-de-loop and my safety bar flew open, I knew I was right.
From the shore, the girl looked out upon the horizon, beseeching the gods to reveal her future husband. When a bull white as the ocean foam rose from the waters, she screamed, realizing with terrible certainty that her prayers had been answered.
As the universe shrieked in agony, and the planets collided, I decided the best course of action was to make my death painless. If only I had known what they had done to my drink that night.
"That should do it," the brain surgeon smiled, discarding his scalpel. Holding the brain above the Governor's vacant cranium, the surgeon dropped it into place with a harsh sucking sound and read aloud the words etched across it: "DO NOT QUESTION MY METHODS!"
His deep fear of tsunamis had led Dr. Rivera to design a house that was perfectly, hermetically sealed. "I should have given Naomi the door code," thought the professor as the riptide pulled the house further from the shore.
After waking up from a drunken bender, I was horrified to find my mother murdered in cold blood. My anger was relieved, though, when the authorities arrived days later to inform me they were arresting the killer, until they began to read me my Miranda rights.
Private Phillips fell to the sand, half his guts leaking out as fire started to engulf his uniform. "I can't believe this fucking shit, I said no more burn victims," said a tired voice in the hazy darkness, "they reanimate into zombies just fine, but the fuckers' skin cracks open as soon as they start moving."
“Tammy—want—baby!” the toddler wailed, gulping air between shrieks, little cheeks wet and blotchy. Dad rubbed his temples, sighing, “Fine, we’ll go to the playground tomorrow—but no breaking this one, okay?”
Adam and Ava knew they would have to answer for their attempt at overthrowing the tyrannical Supreme Council. "For your crimes against the holy harmony of the Cosmos we sentence you to live 1 trillion lifetimes on the prison planet Earth."
I joined a camp of refugees,We ran out of food but they found some meat we could eat. After the meal I go to the bathroom and I see a body hanging there,no organs
Been enjoying this new game that just came out, but I didn't like the way my character looked and decided to start over with a new save. I'll have to find something else to do these next 9 months before I can start playing again.
My daughter-in-law says my grandbaby is allergic to bananas, she's being dramatic At least that's what I thought until I snuck bananas into my grandbaby's formula and heard gasps for breath a few minutes later
I saw my friend get pulled into the TV, and I couldn't follow him. The next morning, his corpse was found hung on a telephone pole.
The world was torn asunder when the son of man returned, yet it was not because he ushered in doomsday. This time he lived a full and happy life, but was also subject to the ravages of human age, at which point his acolytes said he should be followed regardless of his Alzheimer’s influenced proclamations
When Death inevitably came for me I decided to greet them as a friend, accepting my fate. I was ignored.
Every time I pass my sister room I try not to look at her. I guess she's still hasn't forgiven me for not being honest about me killing her to the police.
A man walks into a teleportation booth and selects a destination. A bright flash is followed by a voice: "Congratulation, your clone has been created at [LOCATION], please stand still as we begin incineration..."
"Would you like some water to wash that down", I said sliding the cup laced with LSD. His gaze slowly drifted from his wife's bloody body to the grill.
I drew deeply on my cigarette, relishing the moment as I looked out across the city from my balcony. A bright flash appeared in the distance followed by a towering cloud of smoke and fire, this one closer than the last.
Every time I fall asleep, my dreams last longer and longer It's been 2 weeks since it started, and everytime I fall asleep, hundreds of years pass
Cindy thought it odd when she glanced up to smile at a similar man with a similar dog while on her walk to her mailbox at the end of the complex. By the third encounter, she looked up from her phone to see that the mailbox wasn’t getting any closer.
Hearing a terrible commotion from somewhere down the hall, I rushed towards the source of the noise- the hospital's morgue. As I rounded a corner, the sounds suddenly ceased, and my heart rose in my chest as I watched *something* with three human heads slowly peak out from the morgue and look at me.
"Now that you've admitted the man in the video was you," said the detective, "tell me exactly when and where this was happening." "L... last night," I answered with a trembling voice, still deeply disturbed by what he just showed me, "in my dream."
We were warned that there could be shape-shifting goat men in the woods that would infiltrate our group, so we made sure to pay attention to who was part of the group. So imagine my surprise when everyone was convinced that I was the goat man, despite being with them from the start.
"We've been through this several times, why can't you understand?" They said to the physiotherapist just before time reset. Coming to they didn't even look knowing the doctor was going to take them to therapy.
I messed up, I’d stayed too long and now the undead was upon me. I knew what I had to do, but I didn’t know if I had the strength as the rotting corpse of my daughter led the charge.
My mom kept pestering me to play with the new Science Lab kit she brought me from her job at the kindergarten. It was fun at first but after a while the bodies wouldn't even twitch when I shocked them, so it was very boring.
You realized the app had been stealing more than just your data when you died. As you manipulate the digital architecture of your binary Hell, desperate to warn others of the algorithm’s hunger, all you can manage is “I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically…”
I keep hearing loud banging under my bedroom floor even though I completely sealed up the basement. Isn't a body supposed to rest in peace once it's buried?
As a mother you get used to your children saying childish Insults and threats when Their sibling is pissing them off. Never in a million years did she assume her eldest was serious when she'd said she'd pluck out her brothers eyes and feed them to him.
“Never point a gun at something you’re not willing to shoot.” I look up the barrel of the gun at my father, only 9 years old, not realizing this will become routine.
In the stillness of the night, she felt a gentle tug at her sheets. Turning, she saw her own gaunt face, twisted in agony, hovering over her, whispering, "I never left, I'm just inside you now."
i’ve never worried about the noises in my house at night; always knew it was my cats. but they both went missing a week ago and now i don’t have anything to blame the thumping and scratching sounds on.
The TV rang with an emergency announcement, mass murderer on the loose in my county. Then it turned off becuase I forgot to pay for the bill and now I cant see the rest.
She practiced her sobs in the mirror, while holding her daughters tiny shoe It was accident, at least she hoped they'd believe
I tend to zone out when I'm doing a task. Wish I broke that habit before I peeled my hand to the bone while making dinner.
The AI I made glitched and it could only think about justice. And it has seen r/noahgettheboat and r/noahgettheblackhole
"Sometimes, my husband's eyes go completely black," Sarah candidly admitted to Joanne, "and it's like... something else is watching me." Concerned, Joanne invited Sarah to another lunch later that week, but she jumped a bit in her seat when her friend removed her sunglasses, revealing a pair of pitch-black, hungry eyes.
It got very lonely since my two beloved dogs died. Despite the constant scratching and whining outside my bedroom door at night.
“I jammed my hand down the gap between my bed and the wall, fishing for my blankie” “Instead of soft fabric, I felt sharp teeth and slimy jaws bite down on my hand, ripping through flesh and bone…”
“I gazed longingly down at Earth through the visor of my spacesuit.” “Panic only set in once I saw the severed end of my tether float by my visor.”
I angrily shouted at the doctor, “Just because YOU can’t hear the voices doesn’t mean you can say categorically that they aren’t real!” The doctor calmly replied, “And just because I AM one of those voices doesn’t mean i automatically have to agree with you.”
When the old guy I was drinking with told me he could survive the jump from the 42nd story rooftop bar, I called bullshit and told him if he survived I'd jump too. He just picked himself up from the pavement and is waving for me to come down now.
When my wife told me she was going out to her she shed I wondered what the hell she was talking about since we don't even have one. Hours later I found her discarded skin in the back yard and have no idea what to tell the police.
“Look at me, I’m a cowboy!”my little birthday boy yelled with glee as he rode the inflated bull in the bounce house that my husband rented for his party. “Omigod, you didn’t stake down the bounce house?!”I screamed out to my husband when I see the strong winds carry it up and away, and my son and his best friend tumble out from eight feet in the air.
Since my daughter learned about the tooth fairy, she has been eagerly putting a tooth under her pillow every night, in exchange for five dollars. It's been 6 weeks now, and I have no idea where she is getting all of these teeth.
It had finally happened, earth and everyone on it would freeze. One last bag of candy for me and my daughter as I go to give her the final piece reality sets in as I realize gummy candy doesn’t crunch.
I looked at the dead womans body, who was lying there with her lips slightly parted and her head turned towards me. Why the hell is she smiling at me!
A beautiful seedling from a watermelon began to sprout, its delicate green tendrils unfurling like tiny emerald ribbons in the warm sunlight. What started as a harmless gardening project soon became a nightmarish realization as the vines rapidly enveloped her, suffocating her in a relentless embrace until she was nothing but a withered husk, forgotten by the world she once knew.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
It wasn’t my fault, my father never taught me gun safety. My little sister even told me she didn’t see any bullets down the barrel.
During my near death experience, I floated above my body, and then out into the surgical waiting room, hoping to say goodbye to loved ones I should probably thank my husband and sister because it was seeing them banging in the disabled toilet that made me return from the widening tunnel and make their lives as miserable as possible
I was undressing and kissing my mail order bride for the first time, working my way down her body, I was turned on to see a large red hour glass on her abdomen above her pubic mound. My excitement quickly turned to fear when her voice changed and she demanded, "Hurry up and finish, I'm getting hungry."
If you are tired and confused, take OVERFLOW for instant relief up to 24 hours! As she swallowed her 5th pill, the aroma of beef on the grill floated out of the living room and into the bedroom.
It broke my heart when my wife told me weeks ago that she’s been seeing other men. While I was messaging my secretary, she pointed at an empty doorway and said “don’t you see them too?”
The cabin was nice with dim lighting and old wooden furniture, only problem was that there were many black and white pictures of "old people" on the wall... nevertheless we decided to rest there in the night. As my freind waked me up in terror I realized that all the pictures on the wall were replaced with broken mirrors.
The web sleuths have been all over this multiple homicide case in my old hometown. So far they’ve been immensely helpful in providing the information I’ve needed to not get caught and with any hope they’ve even contaminated the crime scene.
I finally finished my night shift cleaning the museum and i was getting ready to leave But i swear on my life that when i put that angel statue next to a mirror there were only one
The monsters in the corners of our world are afraid. Not of things that are unknown, like themselves - but things that you can't know.
My employee asked for a day off to take care of their depressed teenager son but I declined because we had too much work to do I was shocked to read in the newspapers about the latest school shooting, even more so when I read the shooter's last name
The newly engaged couple kissed passionately as every passenger and member of the flight crew in the jet airliner who saw the moment clapped and cheered. When the pilot asked to see the ring, he was shown the pin of the live hand grenade that had just been tossed into the cockpit before its door could be shut.
"I want to talk to your manager," I told the receptionist because I use their services religiously and deserve preferential treatment. Lisa, the manager, put a gun into my mouth and said hitmen are all booked up until January.
I have the best life, Four kids and a loving wife! But today when I walked into the living room one of the lamps looked weirdly flat.
One day it finally happened- the dead began to rise from their graves. In retrospect, the sheer number of victims I had decided to bury in my vegetable garden was quite unfortunate.
After several hours of delays, avoidance, and procrastination, I knew I finally had to bite the bullet and do my work. My patient isn't gonna perform surgery on himself, you know!
The clock struck midnight and the girl ran out of the ball. She had killed her stepmother and stepsisters.
When I looked through my husband's phone, the fear and sickness I felt took control of me, pulling the bullets and gun out of our safe. I simply couldn't let another child live with those experiences.
My girlfriend was a revolutionary scientist, and when she asked me to participate in one of her experiments, I accepted on the spot. I no longer know where my body ends or where the machine begins.
I was woken up in the middle of the night from strange whispering in the hallway outside my bedroom As i rubbed the sleep from my eyes, i realized with horror, that the whispering sounded like my own voice.
"Huh, that's cool, I didn't know these straws change colors," I told the guy I was dancing with as I came back from bathroom.
I would lie if I said that I didn't have any concerns when the doctor explained the implications of the procedure. But two months have passed since the lobotomy and I'm glad to report that Delia is rid of her melancholy and can still partake in all her marital duties.
The FBI marksman took the shot after the gunman grabbed a mother, threatening to put a bullet in her. The marksman wanted to save the hostage so bad that he didn't let his hangover or his double vision stop him from shooting.
I knew being a landlord would be a lot of work. I didn’t realize maintaining a giant mansion would be harder than covering up the mysterious accidents and deaths on the property.
I invented a device that allowed me to reduce my size, so naturally I used it to win every single Hide-And-Seek round. Today I hid in an oven, but it seems the device has malfunctioned.. why am I sweating?
"Scientists say that due to global warming a new mindcontroling fungal infection is on the rise" "I'm not sure why are they so agitates, this is the greatest thing that will happen to you"
The tag read "This tag may not be removed under penalty of law except by the consumer." Having inadvertently removed it, the ever obedient Amelia gagged as she forced herself to swallow the polyester pillow fluff.
I watched as he blew his brains out. Given how many people he had be killed for stupid reasons and that he tested the cyanide on his dog and then didn’t even choose that method to kill himself, I felt it best to leave his soul in his dead body.
After an accident that killed my family and left me with amnesia, they gave me old photo albums and told me who I was. I think the accident damaged my eyes, it looks like all the people in the photos have the wrong number of fingers.