Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Stories

It's late at night. Very late.

Your eyes are a little sore, but you aren't ready to go to bed yet. The thread you're reading on /x/ is interesting enough to keep you awake; to tell the truth, it has you a little too creeped out to close your eyes just yet. You know they're just stories written by people just like you and in the beginning they served to give you a good chill before bed.

The more you read them, the more you wonder if some of them might be based on reality. Yes, the Candle Cove story is confirmed fiction, but didn't you see things as a kid that no one else seemed to see? Weren't these things you tried to explain to your parents, fears they couldn't enderstand. Eventually you learned that your parents were older and knew your fears were irrational, but what if they weren't? What if you really DID see something they couldn't see?

No, you think to yourself. That's just silly. They're only stories.

Then again, there are other stories that throw your skepticism off a little. The smile.jpg news article is obviously fake. A photoshopped image of a dog smiling couldn't possibly make people go insane or want to kill themselves, but now that you look at the picture, it DOES make you feel...weird. Not insane or suicidal, but definitely not normal.

Stop it, you say to yourself. You're acting like a child. It's okay to be scared by creepy stories when you're eleven years old at a sleepover, but now you're older and you know these things are only works of the imagination.

Still, you can't shake those feelings.

Eventually, you have worked yourself into a fear that is just strong enough to keep you awake once you've closed the computer. You feel silly, but- didn't you just see a shadow move out of thecorner of your eye? And what was that noise that came from inside the wall behind your bed? You glance at yourself in the mirror, but you just don't look quite right. 

You feel a chill. Suddenly, you find yourself pulling your feet under the covers, although you can't explain why. You have to go to the bathroom, but there's no way you're getting out of bed. You can only lay there, paranoid and alert, until the sun comes up and light fills your room.

Then maybe that thing in your closet will stop watching you.....

16 comments:

  1. Something stares at you from inside your closet? STARE BACK UNTIL IT GOES AWAY.

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    1. Or masturbate, with a grin, staring it right in the eyes. Finish, then throw it at them.

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  2. XDDD The comment above made me laugh quite a lot.

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  3. I liked this pasta. This was good pasta.

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  4. I enjoyed this pasta very much, but I enjoyed the first comment better.

    If only I could do that with the thing in my mirror, but it doesn't go away :/

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  5. I applaud you fourth comment. Bravo.

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  6. Lol, I almost shit bricks but then I read the comments.

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  7. Ohmygosh ruin my night...wait its 5 am...still! :0 lmao good job on not letting me go back in my room

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  8. Don't worry, I'm sure Jeffery will protect me.

    He the monster who lives under my bed.

    He's a great guy. This one time, he ate this burglar.

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    1. So that's what happened to my uncle Jim!

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    1. the monster is watching your TV...

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  10. This pasta made me have to go to the bathroom. And then come back to finish reading.

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  11. Something staring at you from your closet?
    1) Get up
    2) Make a snack
    3) Pull up a chair
    4) Sit there and stare intently back at the thing while munching on your snack until it goes away.

    Problem solved.

    Either that or stop getting high before bed.

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  12. I dont have a closet! SO HA!

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