STORY STARTER
Submitted by chiyo 📄🤍
“Gosh, I have to stop getting blood all over these hardwood floors…”
Write a short story which contains this line.
Death's Mistake
The Grim Reaper looked like a dork in a living room
Was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and small shorts
Also had his glasses on while holding his scythe
Until he slid and fell down
"Why did this have to happen today?
Why did a bunch of teens have to play THAT game?
The game of Don't Stab Me With a Knife, Bro, stabbing each other brutally for fun?
Because all it causes is just a bunch of bodies
Lots and lots of bodies piled up on each other
Bleeding and whatnot, just uggggghhhhh!"
He got up and picked up his scythe
Walked around the teens and looked back at them
"Did one of their shirts say something?
Did it say 'Oh, Death can't kill me
It just makes me stronger'?
Oh yeah, I think it did"
The Grim Reaper sighed
He went into one of his pockets
Got out a small bag
He got it up to his mouth and blew it like a balloon
The bag got insanely big
He opened up the bag so it could have all the teens in it
He slowly brought the bag down on them
Putting them all in the bag
He grabbed the bag and wrapped it up
He put away his scythe
By snapping and opening a portal to Hell
Specifically, Death's room in his house in Hell
He threw his scythe away
Started walking to the portal
Carrying the bag against him
Dragging it across the floor
He looks back after getting close to the portal
"Gosh, I have to stop getting blood all over these hardware floors as it makes such a mess
He sighed and threw the bag to the portal
Looking at all the blood on the floor
He put his skeletal hands against his hip bone
He sighed again
While shaking his skull
"Why can't people just take me seriously, especially those dummies?"
“Or the guys who were bungee jumping over that cliff?
Those women who were skinny dipping in a poison-infested pond?
Or that weird guy who masturbated to death while he was looking at me?
Ugh, makes me shiver thinking about it,”
He is about to go to the portal
Until he gets suddenly transported to another place
He gets confused as he drops his mandible and scratches his skull
Scratching against a crack, letting a spider crawl out
He turns his skull over to see a dead couple on the beach
The beach where he celebrated his birthday
Looking at how the couple was naked and lying on top of each other
The woman on top of the man with her posterior on his face
The man under her, her mouth on his privates
Their mouths were full of a mix of very colorful stuff
He lowered his back and facepalmed his skull while bending down, getting his mandible
“Some people just don’t care enough about life and making good choices
To have a good life and avoid anything bad like me, Death
Only wanting to let poor impulses control them, wasting them
Until they’re wasted potential, wasted on poorly using their time doing random stuff like this
Treating me as if I'm just a bad dream like the boogeyman or Amber Heard
Full of what God knows in those mouths
The woman’s eyes are still open,
Making me think of her genuine soul
Ew, gross
I don’t want to think that humans
Most of them don’t even think that of themselves
I don’t know why I care so much about bringing their deceased selves to Hell
When even I think them not having to be there would make Hell more swell
But, hey, they exist here, all the time
Always impacting me, even making me somehow want to rhyme
Sure, they’re ignorant, impulsive, confused, horny, scared, hive-minded sheep that can really smell
But humans are better than Putin and Walt Disney, so, hey, what the Hell?”
But maybe they are better than I think
Maybe they are more swell
Maybe they could rise above a lowly sink
Or maybe I’m saying and feeling this because of this smell