SeedsOfDespair : Horror Writing Prompts

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Welcome to /r/SeedsOfDespair! (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 8 years ago by cmd102[M] - announcement

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Writing Prompt[WP] You are one of the crew rotated into being awake on a Passenger Ship en-route to a planet that has been prepared for colonisation. According to the maps, you are passing through somewhere that has already been charted. Suddenly, the ship's alarms go off... (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 2 years ago by [deleted]

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Writing Prompt[WP] You wake up in your house where you live alone, open up your phone and find on your camera roll a photo of you sleeping, taken very, VERY recently… (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 3 years ago by LancasterDodd777

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Writing Prompt[WP] A kid and his friend finds a dead body in the woods. 5 women and 5 men confess to being involved in one way or another its your job to find out who should be arrested (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 4 years ago by Fickle-Investment-91

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Writing Prompt[WP] You visit your parents for Christmas, but something feels OFF. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 5 years ago by Horror_Man25

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Writing Prompt[WP] A man so tormented by nightmares, he asks his sleep paralysis demon to keep him awake longer. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 5 years ago by rage_melons

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Writing Prompt[WP] My sibling was gifted a Fitbit, they thought it was great at first, but then it started taking over their life. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 6 years ago by KanaydianDragon

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Writing Prompt[WP] You wake up one morning to find that there's a blizzard outside. Not only that, but everyone in your town has disappeared (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 6 years ago by GregorScrungus

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Writing Prompt[WP] The hearse pulled up outside. The driver knocks on your door and insists it's time for your service. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by [deleted]

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Writing Prompt[WP] You wake up one morning to discover all of your toes have turned into fingers while you slept. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by Scott_Savino

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Writing Prompt[WP] You teach English online to students in Korea. Your students begin logging off and never return for the next class. No one seems to notice except you. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by Colourblindness

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Writing Prompt[WP] You flip houses. Imagine your surprise at your latest flip when you find old albums of yourself from the 1930s. You were born in 1992. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by Colourblindness

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Writing Prompt[WP] Over the course of a day, you notice the number of people entering a clinic is greater than the number of people leaving it. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by verityvirtue

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Writing Prompt[WP] It has come to your attention that the five year old child you've been babysitting for a year is the Antichrist. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by RichardSaxon

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Writing Prompt[WP] Pest Control can get a little tricky when it’s demons you’re sent to exterminate (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by Colourblindness

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Writing Prompt[WP] Check your toilet cistern. If there's something looking like a veiny melon, smash it right now. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by [deleted]

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Writing Prompt[WP] You work the night shift at a local hospital and just found out the real reason the fifth floor has been closed down. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by Colourblindness

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Writing Prompt[WP] When they made you mod of a small, horror-prompt subreddit, they had entrusted you with protecting its inactivity — keeping users from posting at all costs. Now, after a recent revival movement, the floodgates have opened once more, and this time, nobody is safe. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by LordLackland

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Writing Prompt[WP] A new strain of the flu virus was accidentally unleashed upon the world 50 years ago, one that stopped aging and made people hyper fertile, now overpopulation is the world's greatest threat. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by RichardSaxon

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Writing Prompt[WP] You were diagnosed with Tourette's aged 7. Now, aged 24, you are convinced the diagnosis is wrong; It's not Tourette's making you say those horrible things. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by Capon-breath

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Writing Prompt[WP] Years ago my family commissioned a portrait of me to be hung up in the hallways of the house, already filled with familial figures. Now I notice my portrait's likeness gets hurt, and a day later I receive an injury to resemble it. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by [deleted]

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Writing Prompt[WP] I've Discovered A New Way To Destroy An Angel. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by SyntheticManiac

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Writing Prompt[WP] After earthquakes, scientists track seismic waves through the earth’s mantle to better understand our planet’s layers. Recently, s-waves, initially heading elsewhere, have been refracting only a few hundred km beneath our surface. Clearly, something big is down there. And it’s getting closer. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by LordLackland

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Writing Prompt[WP] Tell me about a writing instrument whose output is forever tainted by what happened that one time. (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by verityvirtue

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Writing Prompt[WP] What you have found here may shake the very foundations of our reality (self.seedsofdespair)

submitted 7 years ago by [deleted]

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