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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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[–] EABOD25@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago (19 children)

I'm do what any red blooded American would do. Get my gun

[–] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (18 children)

Get the Shotgun. stroll right out the front door ask him "can I help you? And pump the shotgun.

That'll fix any idiots attempt at trolling, or attempt at home invasion.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 8 points 2 months ago (14 children)

It's 2024, we can buy cheap semi-auto shotguns now that don't require manually pumping to action the bolt.

[–] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But you lose the dramatic effect

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The dramatic effect is witnessing the trespassing creep transform instantly into pink mist and various chunks of unidentified meat.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And then you find out it was the two neighbor kids in a coat.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

beautiful but isolated area

implies no neighbor kids to murder

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't really see isolated to mean completely isolated, more along the lines of "it's a couple miles into town and ten acres between me and the neighbors" but fair enough.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your personal feeling of a definition of a word does not align with the reality of the actual definition of the word "isolated", so you can think what you want, just realize that it's wrong.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Autism, huh? Good luck with that.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Ideally the dramatic effect from the pumping action renders the need to use it unnecessary.

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