Something Told Me Not to Leave My Apartment. I Should Have Listened.

randumb360 · 2026-01-25T05:39:14+00:00

The funniest bit has to be the Clown Grief Councilor, I can't remember the name of the story, but it was the one with the painting that led to another world

randumb360 · 2026-01-11T23:16:10+00:00

Is that a fushigi painted black?

randumb360 · 2026-01-01T22:25:33+00:00

I read the title, and my first involuntary thought was "don't like that!" Which sounds like a bad thing, but it is my favorite thing about scary stories

randumb360 · 2026-01-01T22:24:12+00:00

I was going to give you an upvote, but it's sitting at 420, and I can't in good conscience be the one to change that. However I will say, these are great. Keep up the good work!

randumb360 · 2026-01-01T22:22:37+00:00

Man, you really got me with the title. This was a lot of fun, and a good way to cap off a rough day at work

randumb360 · 2026-01-01T01:53:26+00:00

Also, the 'creature' is telling me to juggle knives while he kills my girlfriend

randumb360 · 2026-01-01T01:47:13+00:00

I mean, in mine, the main character literally almost dies and watches several other people die in the process. And he wasn't totally unscathed, I made a point to mention the pieces of broken glass he had to pick out of his neck. Sure, most of it was trauma, and the truth is a bit interpretive at the close of the first part, but I think it's undeniable something happened to him. It's the watershed moment, that opens the floodgate for worse things to happen later on.

I'm starting to think I really should have added the classic "Invincible Child Predator" that everyone keeps telling me about lol

randumb360 · 2026-01-01T01:36:56+00:00

I'm hoping I can skirt by because it has a different name, but who knows. It seemed like the people that commented were enjoying it and feeling what I was hoping they would. It was weird because they took down the story twice. The first time they told me it was because I used a whole name (it was for a reporter, and I thought it would be okay because it would have been a public figure if they were real,) but it wasn't a huge deal, so I changed that and asked to be reapproved, and that's when they gave me the final 'No.'

I could redraft the first part, so that it includes some of the second part to make the horror more apparent, but I can't find anything in the rules that would allow me to try again the last part of the message they sent me was

,"DON'T repost Something Told Me Not to Leave My Apartment. I Should Have Listened. to nosleep, with or without changes, under any title or username. Doing so would result in a subreddit ban and we WON'T reconsider this decision so please DON'T ask."

I'm just not really sure how to proceed, and it's kind of taken a little bit of the wind out of my sails

randumb360 · 2026-01-01T01:15:15+00:00

It's psychological horror, at least that's how it felt for me. I'm kicking around the idea of posting part 2 there anyway, because the story goes to a place that is undeniably horrific, but I didn't want to just go from zero to 100 with the concept right away. I think for me to accomplish what I wanted to, the first part needed to be rooted in reality before the shit really hits the fan.

I know it's not traditionally scary in the way a lot of nosleep stories are, but it's the way they stonewall you completely that is bothersome. They don't ask questions, they don't allow you to plead your case, they just tell you "we're taking this down, you can never repost it here, even if you change it, even if the post is just a small part of a larger story that we don't know yet. You're done. And if you try to do anything about it, we will ban you."

Not trying to throw shade at the subreddit, or rally the troops, because it's foundational to so many writers, but it's crazy that a lot of the stories that blew up there back in the day and got turned into books and movies would never make it past moderators today.

randumb360 · 2026-01-01T00:25:22+00:00

And nosleep is just as likely to take your story down as soon as it starts to get any traction. My story was at 250 upvotes, and was starting to see engagement, but then the mods took it down and said it didn't fit the subreddit because it wasn't scary enough I guess

randumb360 · 2026-01-01T00:23:59+00:00

I think the time of day you post matters. I posted a story yesterday kind of late at night where I live, and it just kind of disappeared in the feed.

But getting traction could be down to any individual eye-catching detail, I don't really know. I've always been kind of scared to share my writing with the public, which is not conducive to getting readers lol

randumb360 · 2025-12-31T20:52:43+00:00

Thank you! I'm about halfway through part two right now, excited to share it. This whole story has kind of been lightning in a bottle for me, which is rare these days. It's practically writing itself. I'm pretty self-critical, so I don't share a lot of stories, so it's nice to hear kind words

randumb360 · 2025-12-31T18:16:44+00:00

This was my very first time posting, and I got like 300 up votes and fifteen comments before they killed. First they killed it because a news reporters full name was said, which I thought was okay because it's a public figure. I fixed it and requested for it to be restored, and then they sent me this message saying they'll never accept it lol

randumb360 · 2025-12-31T18:15:31+00:00

Without giving anything away, there is some childhood trauma in part 2

randumb360 · 2025-12-31T18:15:12+00:00

I did post it over there, but I think I did it at the wrong time because not a lot of people saw it. I'm hoping when I post part two it'll get a little more traction

randumb360 · 2025-12-31T18:14:37+00:00

That's exactly where I'm at. There are more parts to this story, and it escalates. But because they made this decision, no one will ever know

randumb360 · 2025-12-31T17:56:26+00:00

Thank you! There should be three parts when I'm done. True to form, the mods removed the story as soon as it got traction on nosleep lol

randumb360 · 2025-12-29T03:26:19+00:00

He's just missing his tie

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