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Horror Story Prompt Challenge: "The Last Command"
Horror Story Prompt Challenge: "The Last Command" 🚀💥 PROMPT: An astronaut and cosmonaut are aboard the International Space Station when a catastrophic event unfolds below: their home countries are on the brink of nuclear war. Communications are severed, and amidst the chaos, they receive their final orders from their governments—to eliminate the other. ⚡💔
By Jason “Jay” Benskin9 months ago in Horror
The Painted Grin
The posters materialized overnight, as if summoned by a malevolent force. They weren’t slapped on billboards or pinned to telephone poles like mundane event flyers—they simply appeared: clinging to bedroom windows from the inside, hidden in mailboxes that had never been opened, oozing from beneath bolted doors. The message screamed in stark simplicity:
By Jason “Jay” Benskin10 months ago in Horror
The Forgotten
The graveyard was an unsettling hush, broken only by a howling wind around crooked tombstones—a sound reminiscent of lost souls. The half-hidden moon cast a ghastly glow on worn markers, igniting in Jonas a fierce struggle between a deep respect for history and a paralyzing fear of the dark. The rain-soaked earth exhaled a nauseating blend of decay and wiggling earthworms, drawing him ever closer to the abyss.
By Jason “Jay” Benskin10 months ago in Horror
The Suicide
There is a moment before the fall when time seems to hesitate, when every heartbeat is caught between the promise of escape and the terror of surrender. In that suspended silence, where the pulse of his heart battles with the indifferent pull of gravity, James felt the familiar lure and dread merge. He had stood on the crumbling edge of the old bridge before—his palms scorched by the biting rust of the rail as he peered down into the ink-black water—and that same whispered invitation had haunted him later, in the dim corners of his apartment.
By Jason “Jay” Benskin10 months ago in Horror
The Midnight Abode
The ancient Victorian mansion loomed like a deranged warden at the end of a crumbling gravel road. Its milky, deteriorated façade and sagging porch told of a century of relentless decay—a relic of despair hiding unspeakable horrors. For a group of friends escaping the suffocating city, this monstrous monument promised a rustic hideaway and a maze of sinister terrors.
By Jason “Jay” Benskin10 months ago in Horror
The Dark Communion
Dr. Samantha Carter had spent years unraveling the dark mystery of night terrors—those relentless, soul-shattering invasions of fear that clawed mercilessly at the depths of the mind with an unseen, malevolent force. Yet nothing in her painstaking research had braced her for the arrival of William Grayson. Unlike the random, disorganized nightmares that plagued her other patients, William’s episodes unfolded with an unnerving precision—a twisted, orchestrated symphony of horror performing behind closed eyes.
By Jason “Jay” Benskin10 months ago in Horror
