STORY STARTER
Submitted by LunaTheWitch🌙
Your protagonist is at an arcade late at night. When they decide to go home, they turn around to see that every single game in the arcade says ‘game over’ in flashing red letters...
Write a thriller story beginning with this premise.
Game Over — The Arcade
_Game over._
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This message is on every arcade game. Every one of them. Even if it was just them left in that arcade,as this arcade is own by their parents,so they can stay as much as they want and when they want.
And they even remember closing the doors and the windows. Every one of them. And they only played at two of these. So it is and should be impossible for every one of them not only to be ‘open’,but also to show ‘Game Over’.
The letters slowly become red,a flashing red. And then,they become black. And again red.
They tried to close all of them,but not even one of them closed. They all remained ‘open’ no matter what they did.
It took them a few moments to realise that the keys are gone.
_They are looked here._
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And now,the letters are starting to become a blood color,and they even drip,like real blood would. And the sound of something dripping is now coming from all those games.
Somehow,despite being scared,they fall asleep.
They fall asleep hearing their own breath and the sound of dripping. _Of dripping blood_.
Their parents come in the morning to open and wake them up. And after they told their parents about the incident,they check the cameras. Nothing. Yes,there is them closing over and over again the arcade games,and searching for the keys,but this is all. No sound of dripping. No ‘Game Over’ on any of the arcade. Nothing at all.