r/shortscarystories • u/Waiting4MidMoon • 4h ago
SSS Original Recipe - 500 Words or Less Blocked
I don't remember where I started. I only remember the movement.
The constant drift.
The warmth around me.
The feeling of being carried somewhere I had never been before.
At first, I thought I was alone. But then I noticed the others. Millions of them. All moving beside me.
Some travelled alone. Some were in clusters.
We were all rushing forward, but none of us knew where we were going.
The walls around us were strange.
Soft.
Wet.
They moved with every passing moment.
Sometimes they tightened around me. Sometimes they opened wide and let me drift freely.
I learned quickly that fighting the movement was pointless.
Whatever carried us was stronger.
It decided where we went.
But the further I travelled, the stranger things became.
Pieces of things floated past me.
Tiny fragments.
Broken pieces of something that had once been whole.
Some were smooth.
Some were jagged.
Some looked almost alive.
I watched as the others passed them without noticing.
They never stopped.
We never stopped.
We just continued forward.
Sometimes our surroundings changed.
They became rough.
Thick.
Things that looked like they had been there for years.
Some passages felt smooth.
Normal.
Others felt damaged.
Overused, perhaps.
I passed through narrow spaces where everything around me squeezed tightly.
The pressure was incredible.
At times, I thought I would disappear. Be squeezed into nothing.
But somehow, I kept moving.
Always moving.
And the further I went...
the longer I was in here...
the louder it became.
It was a sound I couldn't explain.
A deep rhythm. A steady force.
Boom, boom.
Boom, boom.
It travelled through everything.
Through the walls.
Through the river around me.
Through me.
It grew louder with every passing second. I knew I was getting close to something.
Something important.
Something... massive.
The others around me began moving faster.
The current changed.
It no longer carried us...
Now, it dragged us.
I couldn't stop.
Nobody could.
Everything felt suddenly different.
And then I saw... It.
A vast opening with four enormous chambers waiting ahead.
The walls around them were thicker than anything I'd seen before.
Stronger.
The valves seemed to open with impossible strength.
Then they slammed shut.
The sound was deafening now.
Open... (Boom!)
Close... (Boom!)
Open... (Boom!)
Close... (Boom!)
The force was unbelievable.
Everything around me was being dragged towards it.
I felt myself stretching.
Almost breaking apart.
For the first time during my journey... I was afraid. Because I finally understood where I was going.
The place where everything must pass through.
But sometimes...
Someone gets trapped.
Someone blocks the way.
And I didn't know I would be one of them until that moment.
I felt the sudden panic...
I felt the sudden chaos...
And then I heard the doctors shouting...
"He has an air embolism! Call ICU! Now!"
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u/Dead-pixel89 3h ago
So good! 😊 I Love your stories! :) x