User blog comment:Dark Cyan/Ideas may be cheap, but I'm out of stock/@comment-28938497-20150201005125

I can write a short story about any given subject, most likely, but creepypastas are harder than most. They have to be creepy. They have to have some element of horror too them, and horror isn't the most flexible of genres. Any household item can be the basis for a short story. There's a cup. Perhaps the golden cup of Rah is buried in egypt and an Indiana-type archeologist tries to find it, but it's modern day and therefore he enters Egypt during a revolution. That came cup could be a fantasy macguffin. The Holy Grail in disguise. There could be poison in the cup, intended for a spouse, or a nosy detective.

A story from just about every genre, I can develop just from a simple cup. Except horror. At least to me, that's a rather more complex one. Maybe...the cup clatters to the floor in the dead of night, forcing the hero to venture downstairs.

That's not very original. Plus, it's only a setup. I would still have no ideas of how to make the aftermath more interesting that 'serial killer' or 'ghost'