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Lemmy Scare You! A community for sharing short scary stories.

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Inspired by r/nosleep, but without the "Everything here is true" and "You can't criticize the OP" rule. Post your scariest original short stories here.

Rules are simple:

  1. Be nice, criticize constructively, no name-calling.
  2. No obvious AI generated stories, or other spam.
  3. Everything posted here is creative fiction, any similarity to real life is pure coincidence.
  4. Prompts are allowed, but should be prefaced with "[WP]"
  5. Collaborative storytelling is fun, so if you'd like to continue your own story or other people's story as a series in the comments, start your comment with [CHAIN]
  6. Troll/Parody Stories would be allowed on Sundays, but the title should start with "[PARODY]"

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[–] MargotRobbie 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The incessant dripping sound in my basement never stops.

Have you called the plumbers?

Many.

What did they say?

Nothing.

Nothing is wrong?

No, they said nothing.

Why?

Some of them made it to the bottom of the stairs, turned around, and left without a word.

And the others?

Others never even made it down a single step.

What’s down there?

Where?

What do you mean, where? In your basement.

Nothing.

Nothing?

Nothing, but it takes time.

What? What takes time?

Nothing takes time.

What are you talking about?

Nothing takes time. It takes time to open the basement door. It takes time to walk down the stairs. It takes time to check the pipes and the tanks and the water pressure. It takes time to climb back up the stairs. And it takes, and takes, and it drips, and it drips, in its hourglass, for all time, in my basement.

It takes time to have this conversation, and it takes time to read this conversation.


The incessant dripping sound in my basement never stops.

[–] Duchess 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i thank you endlessly for keeping the spirit of nosleep alive here

[–] MargotRobbie 4 points 2 years ago

spirit of nosleep

New story idea: "I think the ghost of the nosleep subreddit is haunting Lemmy. ooOOOOoooo"

[–] MargotRobbie 4 points 2 years ago

I have a real problem with how on nosleep where someone just writes a long, boring conversation where nothing happens.

So I thought I'd try my hands at that too.

[–] JunctionSystem 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kon: Ok this is creepy as fuck and we love it.

[–] MargotRobbie 4 points 2 years ago

Shucks. Glad you liked it, tell your friends.

[–] Bird_On_Biff 2 points 2 years ago

This is seriously SO good I can't even