# Your "One sentence scary story" submissions. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083 "2015-09-30T21:40:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mikeisskeptical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@Mikeisskeptical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikeisskeptical)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/41 "2015-10-01T04:25:48Z")
> [@LouLou7](#): > > In the world of competitive African Violet growing, minor infractions are not tolerated; a fact Imogene realized as she stared down at the dagger protruding from her chest, the purloined leaf of Ethels Reflection fluttering forgotten to the floor. I love this one too. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/42 "2015-10-01T04:31:34Z")
After she tore her daughter away from the Grizzly that was aggressive enough to maul an innocent 6 year old, Elizabeth retreated to the edge of the cliff with her critically injured child in her arms searching for any refuge only to hear the disquieting sound of the ground giving way beneath them. ---
**Author:** ![Mikeisskeptical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@Mikeisskeptical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikeisskeptical)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/43 "2015-10-01T04:32:19Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > I scratch, and I scratch, and I scratch, but the bugs are still there, still there and I scratch again and now the blood comes but they’re still there, pullulating and swarming and biting and I scratch and I scratch and now the white bone gleams but the bugs are _still there_ This is one of my favourites so far. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/44 "2015-10-01T04:33:05Z")
The door creaked and rattled–there was something big and really dangerous testing it from the other side. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/45 "2015-10-01T04:38:36Z")
Looking around the room she slowly realized that they all thought he was wonderful, an absolute saint for putting up with such a clumsy, disheveled and eternally exhausted wife. ---
**Author:** ![Mikeisskeptical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@Mikeisskeptical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikeisskeptical)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/46 "2015-10-01T04:45:57Z")
Hands tight around his daughters throat, he envied her release from this insufferable life and knew that she would forgive him in the next. ---
**Author:** ![Mikeisskeptical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@Mikeisskeptical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikeisskeptical)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/47 "2015-10-01T05:15:07Z")
He pressed the pistol to his brow and squeezed the trigger hard, the resulting empty click filling him with far more dread than all the terrible howls and cackles from outside. ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/48 "2015-10-01T05:19:04Z")
When, purely by chance, he noticed the absence of the tiny scar under his jaw, he realised it wasn’t a mirror after all. ---
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/49 "2015-10-01T05:22:35Z")
Nobody ever saw him again; just those last words desperately scrawled on a wall, “im possessed by a demon from satan, help” ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/50 "2015-10-01T05:49:15Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > Today marked the tenth anniversary of the first day that he’d regretted not signing the living will. Absolute best one yet. Bravo for scaring the hell out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/51 "2015-10-01T06:03:29Z")
“She’s gone, son,” I whispered, unholstering my gun, “Go downstairs. You _know_ what happens next.” ---
**Author:** ![brovolone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@brovolone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brovolone)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/52 "2015-10-01T10:11:09Z")
She feels air hitting the back of her neck as she rinses the soap off of her face–she looks into the mirror as she opens her eyes, and behind her stands a raggedy-clothed, blood-covered, unknown man with his head tilted slightly downwards. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/53 "2015-10-01T11:40:12Z")
As he felt his muscles tighten involuntarily, Tom realized that the rednecks had been right all along; aliens really did have a thing for anal probing. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/54 "2015-10-01T11:48:01Z")
When she saw which implement the hooded figure had chosen from the bag she realized that even if she healed she would never be the same again, assuming that she lived through what was about to come. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/55 "2015-10-01T11:49:39Z")
While peeing and looking out the bathroom window, he saw his burly neighbor’s short male lover putting on a show; a performance art dance in that house’s bay window… naked… masturbating wildly with one hand… and picking his nose crudely with the other… in a celebration of Art. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/56 "2015-10-01T11:50:51Z")
And then the disconnected doorbell rang. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/57 "2015-10-01T12:05:17Z")
With every crunch, his smile grew wider. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/58 "2015-10-01T12:18:15Z")
The nerves that carry pain are not deep; we’re going to play together for a _long_ time. ---
**Author:** ![Gothic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gothic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gothic)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/59 "2015-10-01T12:24:05Z")
I don’t love you anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083/60 "2015-10-01T14:36:13Z")
As the blood poured out of my throat, my last coherent thought was. “Christ, that lion has awful breath, and I’m going to be part of that smell.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-sentence-scary-story-submissions/733083.md?page=4)