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Mistakes



Estimated reading time — 2 minutes

You’ve made a lot of them. But you’ve always managed to escape the consequences so far. You know that flash out of the corner of your eye, like picking up some peripheral movement just out of sight, and then you turn your head and there’s nothing there? That was one of the times you’ve made a mistake.

That creeping, unsettling feeling that you’re being watched, that there is something dark and sinister near that can see you? That’s a warning tens of thousands of years of instinct has driven into your body that you’re about to make a mistake.

And that unexplained bruise, that fresh cut you can’t remember receiving, those times you wake up sweating, screaming, and breathing like you’d just run a marathon and can’t remember why? Those are the times when they almost got you.
What are they? Well, it’s hard to describe. Imagine trying to explain ‘red’ to a blind man. You can’t really explain it, you just have to experience it for yourself. And you really don’t want to experience this. I can tell you that you are just one thing to them: food. And they can keep you alive for quite a long time while they eat.

You’ve probably heard at least one unexplained sound while reading this. Maybe it’s nothing. But sometimes it’s one of them trying to break through, to find you. But they won’t, not unless you make a mistake. When you make a mistake, it’s like dangling a piece of meat in front of a pack of hungry dogs and then yanking it away again. Sometimes they don’t react quick enough. Sometimes they do. There are so many unsolved disappearances over the centuries, it’s hard to tell how many were victims of their own kind, and how many simply made one too many mistakes.

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You see, it’s when people are most worried about making mistakes that they tend to mess up the most. What mistakes are there to make? If I told you that, you’d just make sure you didn’t do them anymore. And that would be a shame.

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49 thoughts on “Mistakes”

  1. During this i was eating pizzarolls halfway through i dropped my plate when trying to take it to the kitchen and i made a mistake. I was panicked lol im the only one up and im like “Ohmagosh” But i loved this 10/10

  2. I hear so many unexplainable noises at my work seeing as I work in the middle of a field, in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night. In the last few nights I have read a total of 7 different stories about something lurking in my peripheral vision. I often see things in my peripheral vision even before these stories.
    What is the universe trying to tell me?
    I’m afraid.

  3. ThisIsANameForAComment

    I often have weird cuts and bruises. Usually they happen when I’m asleep, but every so often it happens during my days somehow. Anyway, that already scares me, so this pasta… OMFG!!! PLEASE NO!!! 10/10

  4. Meh. I have that all the time and nothing happens. Then again, I’m a slippery little bugger. ;)

    Nice story, I rate this 6/10!

    Sincerely,
    Grim Gamer

  5. So, I saw something from the corner of my eye, turned (of course there was nothing) and it was a mistake (though, apparently, harmless). Guess I shouldn’t have turned. So taking notice of them is a mistake, ignoring them will keep you safe. Seems like they said too much (and they are, anyway, pretty lame, if they have to wait for me to do something wrong to get me).
    All in all, decently written, but there are just too many pastas like this one around, and they never managed to creep me out even when they were but a few.

  6. As I’m reading this in the back of a subway sandwich shop in sorry to say I wasn’t scared but if I was lying in my bed at nighttime I would have given it a 8 out of 10

  7. Look, I’ve seen some horrific shit. I’ve done horrifying things. I don’t scare easy.

    This scared the everliving shit out of me.

  8. Wholly crap, as I was reading the part about the unexplained noise my fridge makes some loud whooshing sound! XD great pasta by the way.

  9. This is especially creepy since I’m always noticing bruised that I don’t remember getting. :O

  10. It was all right until the writer revealed itself to be one of “they” of whom it spoke… Kind of cheesy, and kind of doesn’t make sense. Why would they write about themselves? A predator doesn’t make itself known to its prey. How would they even go about writing about themselves? I don’t know… I just believe that “twist” at the end was… well…. a mistake. 4/10.

    1. It’s explained in the story, the part about ‘being afraid of making mistakes is when you’re most likely to make them’. As for ‘how’, who knows. They’re some kind of extradimensional predator or something. I’m sure they could figure it out!

  11. moral of the story: always chase the flashes and movement in your peripheral vision……

    because they aren’t mistakes…..

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