Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26409831-20150519113950

 I know what you are doing here.

 You come here for the “creeps”. You like to be scared, you like to read stories which send that tingling feeling up and down your spine. You come here, you read through a lot of stories. The crappy ones. The gory ones. The mediocre. The sloppy. The badly written. But what you really come for are the good stories. The ones which make you shiver, wonder, have nightmares. Or why would you come back over and over again, like an addict?

 Well, I came here out of curiosity. To see just how many “human beings” come here and enjoy themselves while reading about children being butchered, loved ones killed, friends sacrificed, parents murdered, people losing their sanity or all hell literally breaking loose.

 Interestingly enough, some of you do not only enjoy this a lot, you even invest a lot of effort into this site. You make contests and try to write the scariest story. You rate the stories on here, sometimes with an elaborate system even.

 How nice of you! I never thought this little project would gain so much attention. After all, this is just one page on the vast thing called “Internet” which deals with the abyss that the human soul is.

 Do you know what you have done by reading all this? Done to yourself?

 Human minds are quite the clever little machines. You have your so-called “conscious”, which you can actively make use of. It’s the thingy making that grocery list for you, reminding you of your mother’s birthday, enabling you to drive a manual. Then, there is the “subconscious”. A far more interesting aspect. Why? It affects the memories you make, your psyche, your emotions. It takes in a lot more than your conscious, which receives mostly filtered information. Your subconscious is subject to subliminal messages. Maybe you know that story about how the Coca-Cola Company buried single frames of their bottles in TV-broadcasts? People didn’t “see” them actively - but they got thirsty nonetheless.

 Well, you might have guessed by now why I am telling you all this. Every single story you read on here had its own little subliminal message. Have you noticed little changes in your perception? That tiny little shadow in you periphery? That little urge just to do something, sometime? Something you didn’t think yourself capable of? Any unwanted thoughts when operating with a knife in the kitchen? When holding you new-born nephew? When driving a car?

 Funny little machines, the human minds. Taking in all this darkness, all these abysmal thoughts, picture by picture, sentence by sentence, story by story. And all that – voluntarily! Just a few more of you, and my mission will be complete. The slow turn towards the dark side of the human soul will be achieved. And you will succumb to my sweet insinuations.

 Have fun and read on!  