One line at a time spooky story game

Rosie_Scope
Rosie_Scope Posts: 4,116 Online Community Team
edited October 2023 in Coffee lounge

Halloween is coming up, so let's get warmed up for the spooky season by writing a story together.


It can be serious, silly, scary or funny and can go in whatever direction you want it to. The only catch is that each person can only write one sentence at a time. And try not to go too political with it, politics is already scary enough!

So for example, if I wrote: Long, long ago, in a dense woodland far away from civilisation, there lived a grumpy old witch named Mrs. Broom.

The next person would continue: Mrs. Broom lived so far away from the nearest town that she was forced to survive on roasted toads and slimy eels, but she was getting hungry for something more...

And the next person would continue on from there.

The stories can be as long or short as you like. As long as you can finish it in one sentence, you can end a story at any time. You can then start a new one and see where it goes!

Let's see what you can come up with!

I'll start with some pure stereotypical spookiness:

It was a dark and stormy night when I saw it for the first time, it's deep dark eyes staring at me through the window...

Over to you!
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  • AndyGT
    AndyGT Community member Posts: 783 Empowering
    Then I realised it was Halloween and guessed it was trick or treat....... or was it? 
  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community member Posts: 770 Championing
    It's breath shimmering on the cold window pane ...
  • Biblioklept
    Biblioklept Community member Posts: 5,387 Championing
    I thought briefly about investigating but instead ran upstairs to hide.
  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 4,116 Online Community Team
    I'd just reached the doorway to my bedroom when suddenly something came at me from the darkness...
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 7,407 Online Community Team
    edited October 2023
    It was just my cat, Mrs Mittens!
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 11,437 Championing
    However I was dreaming and when I woke up I found that it was a toy cat not my real cat. 
  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community member Posts: 770 Championing
    Then I realised I was dreaming I was dreaming, I felt hot, foul fetid breath on my neck ...
  • kreacher
    kreacher Community member Posts: 166 Empowering
    i opened my eyes and saw...
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 11,437 Championing
    A ghost 
  • ClaraSais
    ClaraSais Community member Posts: 42 Contributor
    With a glowing top hat 
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 11,437 Championing
    Like a Christmas hat 
  • AndyGT
    AndyGT Community member Posts: 783 Empowering
    I could smell the alcohol
  • Emily99
    Emily99 Community member Posts: 1 Listener
    In the air
  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 4,116 Online Community Team
    as he bobbed up and down with a ghostly glass of whiskey in his hand, his shiny Christmas top hat glowing in the darkness
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 11,437 Championing
    And it spooked a baby so badly that the baby was...
  • kreacher
    kreacher Community member Posts: 166 Empowering
    the sick was glowing an eerie green
  • THE_DUDE
    THE_DUDE Community member Posts: 241 Empowering
    edited October 2023
    So I took a deep breath and starting hearing what I thought was hail but it wasn't it was..
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 11,437 Championing
    That turned into money
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 57,935 Championing
    I bit it to see if it was real but it melted like
  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 4,989 Online Community Team
    my dreams of being rich, the melted money felt disturbingly gloopy in my mouth so I spat it out and saw the liquid began moving itself across the floor 

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