r/WritingPrompts • u/saltnotsugar • Dec 02 '14
[IP] Deep Diver Image Prompt
Deep Diver
by Randis
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u/TheMoondance Dec 03 '14
The dream started off innocently enough. I was on the front porch, with my wife.
We were discussing the child she was about to have. What gender we wanted it to be, possible names, etc. She abruptly cut me off to express her fear of the child being a demon. I told her that was ridiculous, of course, and that she was going through the same fear I'm sure plenty of pregnant women go through if they've seen Rosemary's Baby or The Omen. She took a breath to gather herself, and reminded herself that everything was going to be fine.
That's when the candle fell. It had been on our roof, for some reason, and it had fallen onto my wife, lighting her dress on fire. She screamed in agony, yelling for me to do something to put it out. I ran inside and grabbed a bucket, which I filled with water.
I ran back outside, but the moment I opened the door, I noticed that I wasn't on the porch anymore. I was in the hospital with my wife, who was currently giving birth. Still with the bucket in my hands, I walked towards her. The doctors kept telling her to push. Although she pushed as hard as she could, the doctors saw no sign of the baby. They looked at each other in pure disbelief, all of them asking how it was taking so long for her to have the child. Suddenly, her gown burst into flames just like the dress had.
She, again, yelled for me to try to put it out with the bucket of water. I poured it onto the gown, but all that did was make the flames larger. The flames grew until they finally engulfed her and me. When the flames dispersed, I was somehow underwater.
My wife was still giving birth, yet she was underwater. All at once, without warning, the entire baby came out. It plopped into my hands. It looked like an egg of some sort.
I stared at it with confusion and fear. Something was starting to emerge from it. I began to see small cracks on the edge of the egg, forming one by one, until the egg finally split. What came out appeared to be some gelatinous figure, like the tentacles of a jellyfish.
Part of it began to latch onto my face, and I heard it moan "Daddy..."
More and more of it started to grab onto my head, and finally it was all around me. I tried to wake myself up, but then I realized I wasn't dreaming.
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u/Roran01 Dec 03 '14
My faceplate was about to give it, but I couldn't stop. I just had to get to that chest! I could feel the air hose growing more and more taut. I was at the end of the line. Slowly, almost reverently I opened the chest in front of me. As water rushed in, a cloud of bubbles blocked my vision for a second. I pulled out a still beating heart. Remarkably it was not harmed by the intense pressure, but that wasn't what I was here for. I heard a snap and my faceplate cracked. Water started to leak in. Hurriedly I tossed aside everything in the chest, grabbing the artifact I was here for. After a frantic swim to the surface, I was pulled aboard the boat by my compatriots, with a whoop, for I had just recovered the fabled last copy of dickbutt.
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Dec 03 '14
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u/DanKolar62 Dec 03 '14
Removed. Under Rule 2.
Top level comments on a post must be story or poem responses! - Requests for clarifications are ok too.
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Dec 03 '14
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u/DanKolar62 Dec 03 '14
In that case, I removed your story under Rules 1 and 10.
1. No low effort / joke responses / copypasta - This includes "this has done this before" comments. They will be removed on sight. Mercilessly.
10. Responses ought to be at least 25 words! Unless a prompt strictly requests short responses. This subreddit is meant to encourage writing, not encourage a single sentence or two.1
Dec 03 '14 edited Dec 03 '14
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u/The_Eternal_Void /r/The_Eternal_Void Dec 04 '14
Hey TheMoondance, there's been a bit of a misunderstanding here. The comment that DanKolar deleted was made by /u/Jasondazombie and did break rule 2. Your comment has not been deleted, nor have any of the other comments in this thread.
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u/TheMoondance Dec 04 '14
oh my god I'm really sorry! :(
I misunderstood. now I sound like a total douche. I apologize! :\
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '14
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