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Community => Planet Tales => Topic started by: Flux on January 11, 2015, 07:10:37 PM

Title: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Flux on January 11, 2015, 07:10:37 PM

Self-explanatory.
I'm going to start us off with the most overused one-sentence-horror-story ever.
There was but one man left in the world, and he heard a knock on his door...

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Rusty Edge on January 12, 2015, 01:26:26 AM

"Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole" said the judge.

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 12, 2015, 02:01:29 AM

Bush for President.

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Lorizael on January 12, 2015, 04:34:34 AM

I could say it's the infuriatingly inaccurate eulogy or the loose assortment of black-clad friends and family crying, but I'd be lying; no, the worst part about attending your own funeral is that you're dead.

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Geo on January 12, 2015, 06:11:21 AM

It's live, Jim, but not as we know it.

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Flux on January 24, 2015, 09:28:05 PM

"Today, on January 26th, 2015, Apple will be discontinuing the iPhone series of smartphones."
Wait, I actually wouldn't be to sad if that happened.
"Today, on January 26th, 2015, Google will be discontinuing the Android operating system."
Thats a little better.

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Flux on January 25, 2015, 11:31:00 PM

I think my reflection just blinked.

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Buster's Uncle on January 26, 2015, 12:57:17 AM

It made its seven hundredth post, still proclaiming its disarming innocence - before it hatched.

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Flux on January 26, 2015, 03:06:40 AM

He knows my secret!
He knows the bell is a shell!

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Geo on January 26, 2015, 04:47:02 AM

The Horror!

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Flux on January 26, 2015, 03:45:13 PM

Indeed

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Geo on January 26, 2015, 05:49:49 PM

The Sorrow. :'(

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Flux on March 05, 2015, 10:55:56 PM

My reflection blinked....

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Misanthrope on February 16, 2022, 04:22:08 PM

It was supposed to be a harmless little experiment, but, well, you've seen the results... everyone has.

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Geo on February 16, 2022, 10:53:47 PM

In the land of Halloween, the Ultimate Horror rules!

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Misanthrope on February 18, 2022, 07:41:41 AM

It was all too easy to make fun of those hysterical paranoid doomsday-criers because they were all so illogical... turns out they were just hazy on the 'how' and 'why' parts.

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: PvtHudson on March 15, 2022, 11:24:06 AM

Just another bright day of productive research is starting in our shiny cutting-edge Lab Three!

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Geo on March 15, 2022, 02:35:37 PM

Lab Three, Two, One,...  ;nuke;

Title: Re: One-Sentence Horror Stories
Post by: Misanthrope on November 21, 2022, 05:17:52 AM

Huddled in a shelter with my children, shaking with fear, not knowing if one of the explosions would finally find us, or if they would tire of using conventional munitions and just annihilate what was left of the city, but right now, even that tender moment makes me nostalgic.