One line at a time spooky story game

Rosie_Scope
Rosie_Scope Posts: 4,654 Scope Online Community Coordinator
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 Online Community Member Posts: 872 Empowering
    Then I realised it was Halloween and guessed it was trick or treat....... or was it? 
  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 770 Championing
    It's breath shimmering on the cold window pane ...
  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 4,654 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    I'd just reached the doorway to my bedroom when suddenly something came at me from the darkness...
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 8,327 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    edited October 2023
    It was just my cat, Mrs Mittens!
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 12,586 Championing
    However I was dreaming and when I woke up I found that it was a toy cat not my real cat. 
  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online 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 Online Community Member Posts: 215 Empowering
    i opened my eyes and saw...
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 12,586 Championing
    A ghost 
  • ClaraSais
    ClaraSais Online Community Member Posts: 42 Contributor
    With a glowing top hat 
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 12,586 Championing
    Like a Christmas hat 
  • AndyGT
    AndyGT Online Community Member Posts: 872 Empowering
    I could smell the alcohol
  • Emily99
    Emily99 Online Community Member Posts: 1 Listener
    In the air
  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 4,654 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    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: 12,586 Championing
    And it spooked a baby so badly that the baby was...
  • kreacher
    kreacher Online Community Member Posts: 215 Empowering
    the sick was glowing an eerie green
  • THE_DUDE
    THE_DUDE Online Community Member Posts: 234 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: 12,586 Championing
    That turned into money
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 59,525 Championing
    I bit it to see if it was real but it melted like
  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,409 Scope Online Community Specialist
    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 
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 59,525 Championing
    I stared, unable to move or believe what I was looking at, I took my phone to take a  photo, but, there was no picture. It was blank.  The liquid was orange with steam coming from it. Now it was multiplying into