THIS. Also the ones that start out “I’ve had a lot of haunted experiences in my life, so here’s a novel summarizing 50 of them!”

PICK ONE and give us a well-written, yet brief, story!

And some of the replies this year are already so patently fake...the try hard writing style gives you away, fools!

If one of the requirements is that the story is true - why did you post the OBVIOUSLY fake masturbatory thrift store story from last year as an example?

Holy shit I am so sorry! I cannot imagine how terrifying that was, especially worrying about yourself AND children. Lucky for that dude all he encountered was a knife and two level-headed people. I can’t say he would have been as lucky in my house. I’m glad you’ve had access to therapy and that things are getting…

When I was a kid, like under 3, so this would have been in the 1960s-my parents lived in a small jersey shore town. There were six houses, all connected by paths into a central courtyard. A few houses down was a house the neighborhood kids had determined was a scary house. There wasn’t anything outwardly scary, it was…

This happened pretty recently. I found an old neighbor on the street one day with a bloody face. He had fallen over while walking his dog and couldn’t get up. I called 911 and hung around to see if he got admitted to the hospital, offering to keep his dog if so. He didn’t but I checked on him a few days later, worried…

Seriously. I will NOT be ungraying your titled fictional pieces. Or the ones that are just...obviously overwrought/adjectivey creative posts.

You’re doing the Lord's work. 

Omg those are the worst. Not just to read either--it’s a giant red flag that this story is borrrrring.

Like, some of them actually give their stories titles at the start. :/

Word. This is not writers workshop lol. Although I do appreciate the finely edited and reworked BRIEF ones.

Agreed, can we at least get some kind of warning??

For real. Nobody cares about the layout of the house, and it will NOT “be important, later”.

And remember: longer isn’t better, guys, pretty pls keep the unnecessary detail to a minimum kthnxbai

Ahhhhh so freaking excited! I really need this, people.

OMG Finally, I’ve been reading old posts to GET HYPE!!

It was believable up until the point where you decided to wear head to toe thrift stores clothes without washing them first. 

This is fake AF. And it’s a bummer people are encouraging dumb fanfic here because the preceding stories have been pretty great. This is about how great your vintage collection is, how you’re so petite no one wears your size, how amazing you looked and how you became an instant celebrity and then solved a crime and…

I don’t for a second believe this is a true story, but it was really well written and I loved it.

Two years ago, I got severely, awfully sick (probably the flu). I didn’t go to work for the entire week. It was all I could do just to keep myself drinking liquids and soup and shuffling to bed. The worst part was my husband was traveling for business, so I was all alone, just me and our sweet black cat Libby.