Nathan hated dealing with bugs for as long as he could remember. Maybe it was a phobia stemmed from being locked in an attic as a child. He remembered the silken pods attached to the walls dripping a clear mucus. the thing inside was trying to get out.
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#quicklebug
Ahead of Lou was the wreckage of a fishing boat, one that he knew quite well. There was something about this situation as the water's surface was stained red with blood. Tales about the snake of the sea weren't just stories, at least not anymore.
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#sea_monster
It was unprecedented for monsters to hunt or prowl outside their territory. Months went by, and it became prevalent that they would have to strengthen their borders. As what was coming out of the groove wasn't what they were used to fighting.
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#unprecedented
Horror Writing Prompt #2153: #quicklebug
Write a terrifying tale inspired by the prompt and tag it with #horrorprompt.
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"The catastrophe has caused #unprecedented damage...massive casualties are reported...supply chains are disrupted from coast to coast..."
The witch calmly listened as she wove her spell. Of course, they'd frame it all in passive tense. She'd have to fix their mistakes again.
#horrorprompt #writing
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Giants rose along the coast, not kind enough to work for the lords who paid the watchmen. So lords built giant robot watchmen to blind them.
Kindness doesn't trample blindly, they figured.
The giants moved to the ocean and were called sea monsters, waterproof at that.
#scififri #horrorprompt #vss365
Horror Writing Prompt #2152: #sea_monster
Write a terrifying tale inspired by the prompt and tag it with #horrorprompt.
Thanks to Rixari x.com/PoetrybyRixari for today's inspiration!
It’s #unprecedented, but they follow #blind hatred. It’s not #temporary. No proof #video or other will wake them. Perhaps the vastness, which they cannot comprehend, or quantity, which they don’t understand, of options in life is the reason they don’t want freedom.
#vss365 #2WordPrompt #HorrorPrompt
It was an #unprecedented event for the royal court. The mad king forced his courtiers to pay homage to his dead queen. A love that lasted beyond a treacherous death.
She opened her eyes and sat up. He smiled amid the horrified gasps and screams. His love was true, and justice awaited.
#horrorprompt
So many dark winters, unprecedented.
Evil minds whipping up storms, starting pointless wars where the only winner is the devil himself.
There is no stopping this tide of destruction.
There is no place for solitude, and the screams last long into the night.
#unprecedented
#horrorprompt.
Horror Writing Prompt #2151: #unprecedented
Write a terrifying tale inspired by the prompt and tag it with #horrorprompt.
Thanks to Nicole Briggs x.com/bibbyzmine for today's inspiration!
Horror Writing Prompt no. 2136: blue
#horrorprompt
a study in blue
i thought that I should press
my fingers in the hollow
where your collar bones don't meet
that your lips would turn blue
like your eyes, like the sky
and it would be beautiful
04-08-2026
“I have an incredible #collection,” he said with a wide smile.
I pictured paintings. Rare books.
“Follow me.”
I stayed a few steps behind
He opened a door.
Then I saw.
Skulls. Piles of them. Bones scattered across the floor.
He started to laugh.
#horrorprompt
I bear no #beak nor talon no #shout nor rant. To be #realistic in this world one must be #wakerife and #bank on a #collection of the weak of mind. Send them #toward the #ink wells to sign their existence away. That’s my scheme, my way. Let strife be their way.
#vss365 #2WordPrompt #HorrorPrompt
"That's a strange #collection."
"Momento mori. It's amazing what the Victorians had for trinkets to remember their dead."
"Hair clippings seem mundane. A necklace of golden teeth, vials of dried blood...what's this?"
"A genuine heart. She carried it around, rumor said."
#horrorprompt #writing
Distant thunderclaps
rattles the skeletal woods,
in somber evenfall
incandescent embers faintly
illumining the corymb,
dewy haze clings
to withered crocuses,
ghostly remembrance
fueling the agony.
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#horrorprompt 2136 Blue
I love Rebecca's blue dress, the one with the yellow flowers.
She was wearing it tonight, as we left the restaurant.
As the attacker was chopping, chopping, chopping, I kept my eyes on her blue dress.
It's so sad to see it splattered with my blood.
I'm sorry, Becca.
#horrorprompt 2142 Hesitate
He who hesitates is lost, mamma always said
So I took my shot - jumped out of the alleyway and grabbed the guy and his date, smacked her hard across the face and with my dear mamma's cleaver just started hacking 'im up right there, singing mamma's favorite song...
#horrorprompt 2143 Stranger in the Night
She shivered under the aluminum blanket in the back of the ambulance as the police asked her what happened.
"He just kept singing," she said. "Strangers in the niiiight ... WHACK! as he chopped up Jeremy"
She sobbed
🎵 "Exchanging glances"
WHACK!
You chose to not be part of their collection. They wouldn't have called it that - a collection - but you do. And in doing so, you invoke the breadth of something nearly tangible. Ink that can be felt, for a half-second, as the world dissolves it.
#writemap #ink #vss365 #horrorprompt
Simon was excited to show the guests his collection. A hobby that he had built over time. However, when they were led to the room that held it. It was full of freak show attractions made from people who had once drawn breath.
#horrorprompt
#collection
They'll never realise they're part of my collection. Every one I transform from something dull and boring into something extraordinary, each unique now in their own special way. It's getting really tough for me though, I'm slowly running out of different ways to kill them.
#HorrorPrompt Collection
My #collection of neuroses burst into the night. They bit the neighborhood, poison sinking into brains, terrors multiplying at rabid pace. In the morning, everyone smiled, and destroyed each other through The Internet.
Then nuclear bombs fell and it didn’t much matter.
#horrorprompt
Horror Writing Prompt #2150: #collection
Write a terrifying tale inspired by the prompt and tag it with #horrorprompt.
Thanks to BLT x.com/BillfromBoynton for today's inspiration!
The news pours mass genocide into my mourning coffee. Somewhere children try to hide bright, scraped-kneed and argus-eyed with nowhere safe to flee. The news pours genocide powdered buildings, bodies fried, earth baked like hard-cracked toffee somewhere children try to hide, ego never satisfied they keep serving them to Donnie. The news pours mass genocide like hydrogen peroxide propelling calamity somewhere children try to hide. Remember the crucified, seek peace for the Irani as news pours mass genocide, somewhere children try to hide.
Lunchbreak #villanelle that's been burning inside since 9am
Not sure this exactly fits the prompts listed as it emerged without using the words specifically, but so it goes. Poo-tee-weet.
#promptcombo #thethingitself #horrorprompt #sacrificial #poem #poetry #politicalpoetry #politicalpoem #resist
I've lost count of the hours, been awake several days now. Maybe I should just give in and let them take me in my sleep, could that be any worse than this? A movement in the corner of my eye, but when I turn there's nothing there. Would I even know if I saw them for real now?
#HorrorPrompt Wakerife
He couldn't sleep. The storm kept him awake, #wakerife, with its constant booms of thunder. So he shuffled downstairs. Maybe a cup of tea and a boring book could lull him to slumber.
The kettle was just whistling when he heard a knock on his door.
#horrorprompt #writing #writingcommunity
He’d led a bad life. Many skeletons in his cupboard. The payback was hours of wakerife, tossing and turning, listening for the slightest sound. One night, he heard footsteps approaching his bedroom...the security system had failed.
#wakerife
#horrorprompt.
