Lemmy Scare You! - like nosleep, but better.

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Lemmy Scare You! A community for sharing short scary stories. - Lemmy.world

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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 in the comments, start your comment with [CHAIN] 6. (TBD) Troll/Parody Stories would be allowed one day out of the week, but the title should start with “[PARODY]”

Nosleep was one of my favorite subreddits before the quality dropped and the stories there became frankly absurd. Since there’s a lack of creative writing communities around, I thought I’d make one for fun.

So, if you have some pent-up creative energy from not being able to write stories on relationship_advice anymore, come try to scare your fellow lemmings here!

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Beat me to it! Guess I can’t create the same community twice in a row, huh?
- Margot RobbieOP
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  But you are welcome to contribute your own spooky story and thoughts there, as it should be a place that’s welcoming to everyone, right?

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