“I didn't have an appointment at the clinic, I was a walk-in and knew I was going to have to wait a while. It didn't make me nervous to get shots or anything, but it did make me nervous that they kept calling people in and nobody was coming out.”— Thexthy, reddit.com
“Every night at bedtime, I hear my daughter saying 'Hi' to an empty room. Tonight, I heard somebody say 'Hi' back.”— jbtyrone, reddit.com
“I thought I heard one of the kids opening the furnace earlier. Then I remembered the handle was on the outside.”— wutang77, reddit.com
“She soothingly hushed my cries as she hugged me. Then, with a loud crack, she absorbed my broken body into hers.”— Markojpp, reddit.com
“Quickly growing confident in my newfound ability, I soared through the air and touched clouds for the first time in my life. I was utterly fearless until the voice above me said ‘I’m going to drop you now.'”— Markojpp, reddit.com
“Since I started dating again, my ex-wife glares at me whenever we're in the same room. I should have sewed her eyelids together before mounting her head so high on the wall.”— derogatorydolphin, reddit.com
“The boy lay in bed, a familiar dull pain in his legs, just below the kneecaps. After the accident, he hadn't thought it possible to retain the sensation of your legs being separated from your body.”— daPWNDAZ, reddit.com
“I just gave birth to the perfect child. He's so still and quiet, but are all boys born this blue?”— Feral_Fox, reddit.com
“I wish I didn't survive the Great Famine of 2083, to go on living with such constant hunger and to go on and starve until your morals no longer matter. To know what your own children taste like.”— WAWDoing, reddit.com
“Being one of the first people on the moon has it's perks. Being the only one to be forgotten doesn't.”— daPWNDAZ, reddit.com
“I stare at the newborn in my arms, wondering what went wrong. Babies shouldn't have this many sharp teeth, their jaws shouldn't be this wide...and they definitely shouldn't be able to speak full, horrific sentences at two hours old.”— Marisa, business.facebook.com
“Driving home late one night I came upon skid marks that veered off the road, since it was raining I didn't stop. I found out a week later that the driver had laid in the ditch for three days after that night before passing away.”— Joseph, business.facebook.com
“He looked at the moonlit path with some trepidation, but decided it was only his nerves and he would proceed. As he walked down the path he felt the sharp pain on his neck, then stumbled and fell to the ground; his head rolling down the path like a rotted pumpkin.”— Rodney, business.facebook.com
“'Mommy, I had a bad dream. Can I snuggle with you?' my daughter asked as she stood in my dark doorway, holding her old teddy bear, her voice hoarse from the graveyard dirt clogging her throat.”— Liz, business.facebook.com
“As an older gentleman and a young child were walking through the woods, the child looked up and said 'It's getting dark and a little scary'. The older gentleman looked down and said with a smile, 'I'm the one that has to walk out of here alone'.”— David, business.facebook.com
“She stripped down, meeting his unblinking eyes through the thin strip between the curtains, taking sick pleasure in the fact some creep was watching, before sliding into bed and sleeping peacefully. The next morning, she awoke to police knocking on her door to let her know a body had been found hang…”— Yolanda, business.facebook.com
“'Did I lock the door?' I thought as I shut off the light next to my bed. As the closet slowly creaked opened, I remembered...”— Nick, business.facebook.com
“Went to the bathroom in the middle of the night and heard the baby rustling around, so I decided to grab him out of his crib and bring him into bed. I'm afraid to open my eyes because an hour later I heard him on his baby monitor and I'm still holding something...”— Kelly, business.facebook.com
“The lady at the foot of my bed, who frequently visits me in my sleep and terrifies me because I cannot see her face, kept pointing towards the window one snowy night. In the morning I looked out the window and saw large hoof prints walking towards my window, with none leading the opposite way; all a…”— Ed Colin, business.facebook.com
“I thought I was living a normal sane life like any other human being. Then one day I realized that the maniac serial killer in my nightmares with the bloody knife was me.”— Tara, business.facebook.com