The Growths
I’d had them ever since I was a kid.
I can remember being incredibly self-conscious about them, hiding them in my pockets under books and bags. The kids at school never said anything to my face, but I knew they were laughing behind my back.
I remember asking my parents to take me to the doctor, to get them checked out. The growths on my hands seemed to be the elephant in the room back then, since they’d just say I was fine and change the subject. But I knew better.
I had tried to remove them as a child, but without avail. Scissors, knives, potato peelers; trying to cut or scrape them off was always a lost cause because I couldn’t continue once the pain kicked in.
But today was different. It’s amazing how numb you can get with a couple of tourniquettes and a bottle of Jack Daniels. I was originally planning to use a sharp knife, but figured that trying to slice through the tough flesh of the growths would be too arduous in my drunken state. I opted for the slightly more technological plan B.
I had to hurry though. I was already pretty light-headed and was starting to feel dizzy. My hands and forearms, nearly blue from the lack of circulation, couldn’t wait much longer either. The whirring of the blender helped to put me in a sort of trance–ready to do what I had wanted to do since I first looked down at my strange deformities.
I shoved my left hand in first. The immediate sensation of sharp blades slicing through flesh was jarring, but I was surprised at how well the alcohol was working–I expected it to hurt more. I could hear the sharp metal churning and cutting, working perfectly as planned. I pressed my hand down harder. All those bad memories, all of the embarrasment–all of those horrible things were now nothing more than a thick red pulp.
Breaking from the feelings of ectsasy, I pulled out before the blades hit knuckle. I smiled, taking a good look at my new hand. As for the growths–well, five down, and five to go.
This is great, awesome story.
I laughed at this one, cool story.
I went “oh shi-” and then continued to laugh my ass off.
… That one took a second to click. God, did I lol.
I don’t get it! Help please?
(S)he has five growths on each hand. What do you have five of on each hand?
LOL
Wow.
Just..wow.
Fagdor is a faggot.
Lol. I think this one was silly.
That one made me laugh.
How silly.
I hope the OP knows this is here and checks the comments. I’d really like to encourage him to keep writing. This story reminded me VERY much of some of Stephen King’s early short stories.
That reveal was winternet awesome. Moar plox.
Holy Crap!
This is awesome. Write MOARRR
Didn’t Stephen King already write this?
Read Night Shift, the short story “I Am The Doorway”.
Confusing language, but still a decent shocker.
wiiiiiiin
oh dear god.
At first I was like what the fuck then I was like ho shit…then I lol’d
=D Wow. What madness this is.. Quite wonderful though. What people will go through to make themselves “perfect” in their minds.
Just go that the growths were fingers, took me a good 20 seconds of thinking. That kid is an hero and doesn’t afraid of anything.
Wait, shouldn’t he have noticed that the other kids had these so called “Growths”?
I agree with Ricky. How the hell do you get fingers mixed up with “growths”? And why didn’t the doctors explain to him/she that it was normal?
because emogirl, nothing is as it should be, when you are INSANE…
it was quite funny.
in the end i finally knew what was the “growths” he was talking about, it was his fingers… great. :p
nothing shocking…
o shit thats disturbing
he must have some sort of mental illness
This one was actually kind of funny, seeing as how he’s fucking daffy.
their is such a mental illness where you feel as if you must chop off a limb or two of your body
it was on dateline or some shit
Wouldn’t he notice that the other kids had them too?
i bet he lived in an alternate reality where only he had fingers…
kind of like the episode “eye of the beholder” from the twilight zone
first i was a like….
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but then i lol’d
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Someone else said that this reminded them of a Stephen King short story…it made me think of ‘Survivor Type’ from Skeleton Crew. The only difference is, this guy didn’t eat his fingers…
This made me lol also.
Found it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIID
@Dru – Well, fuck. Explained by science again!
Ah, well. Imagining this guy looking at his hand-stump with a maniacal grin will forever make me guffaw like a baboon.
haha, wowww!
kinda funny but oh so creepy…
i liked it!
=)
I can almost imagine him the next day, plasters on his stumps.
“HAHA! NOW I’m normal! Lets see you mock me now!”
*holds up other guys hand to let the guy compare it with his own*
“So now what do you… wait. SHIT”
@dreamer: yeah this sounds like something he would write.
i fucking love this one. Lol,Sigma.
Anyway, all you fuckers who are like “LOL WOULDN’T HE NOTICE?”are stupid
Insanity, anyone? you don’t think logically if you’re insane.
Did anyone else think “I wish i were insane as that person.” or am I just retarded?
@lostmyselfalongtheway
You know I never thought of it that way I think it would have been even better that way…DOUBLE SHOCKER XD
I wasn’t shocked or anything because I didn’t really care for that loser. “ohhhhh these growths putting them in blender ohhhhh being harassed at school ohhhh look at me i’m emo ohhhh.”
Woudlnt he notice other people have fingers, or these “growths” too? i mean seriously was he also blind?
Woudlnt he notice other people have fingers, or these “growths” too? i mean seriously was he also blind?
God, i cant believe he had to guts to stuck his hands into a blending.
Wow. This dude is really messsed up
Crap.
im horrible at typing.
i meant “stick” and “blender”
kinda figured it out what the growths were. mostly because this is in the insanity catagory
no wait, six more to go, the growth between my legs. Which I have to say is quite smaller than the other growths.
Kinda makes me wonder though. Although it’s obvious (s)he is human, is (s)he really?
maybe he thought his fingers should be the same as his toes?
Will it blend?
guys he’s crazy! why wud he notice or care that other ppl had fingers!
i wish his parents took him to a looney bin or sumthing…he shudnt b allowed to wander the streets getting drunk and such…
btw i love that ep of twilight zone ‘eye of the beholder’
thats just what i was thinking of
i remember reading this img this is probably my favorite creepypasta XD if not then the one i wont forget. beautiful just beautiful.
i remember reading this one its probably my favorite creepypasta XD if not then the one i wont forget. beautiful just beautiful.
I NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THE TREE GROWTHS ON MY CROTCH
ahhh, now my fingers are hurting.
this is weird.
ive read this so many times it’s grreat
wicked story, the insane girl/boy made me lol!
umm,what tha fuc kis up with that broa,it aint cool,i mean,OOH LOOK AT ME,ME FINGERS ARE EVIl,IS BLENDER TIEM,WHIRRRR!!!!!!
Arrrggghhhh this one always makes me cringe. Ack ack ack.
Ahaha, gay.
Oh my.
This story strongly reminded me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=653XPlSxEIE
Wow.
we have 4 fingers and a thumb.
BUT WHO TYPED CREEPYPASTA?!!
This is my favorite story on here of all times. I like all the stories in this section though… Maybe because I’m crazy too, muhahahahaha.
This story reminds me of the song “Perfect Insanity” by Disturbed, haha.
i had a feelin’ half way through that it would be his/her fingers but I wasn’t sure, still was kinda creepy at the end when i realized (s)he just stuck his/her hand down the blender.. -shivers at the thought-
I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM! I WENT TO THE DOCTOR AND THEY TOLD ME THEY WERE CALLED ‘FINGERS’.
SO IF ANYONE ELSE IS SUFFERING FROM ‘FINGERS’ DONT WORRY, THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THERE.
BUT THEN WHO WAS TYPE?
I have the same problem right in the middle of my legs, below my navel…
it took me a while.
i was invisioning freakish lumps of mutilated flesh.
but then i was like ‘ahhshit, fingers.’
Finger smoothies! Delicious.
LOL!
I love ones like this, so sick.
I like this one alot. I read it to one fo my friends and she didn’t get it. I had to explain it to her. But I laughed my ass off when I read the last sentence.
There’s actually a mental disease that causes people to do this. They see a body part, something completely normal, as a weird, abnoraml thing, or something they just don’t like, and will go to any lenght to remove them.
Good story though. Had you thinking there actually was something wrong.
Its called Body Disphoria, or BDD. The crappy thing is they are completely fine after the limb/toe/finger/eye/whatever is removed, but it is impossible for them to do it legally. No doctor will remove a healthy limb/organ/whatnot for “no reason” so they end up doing shit like this in real life.
Funny. After I read this, my foot started hurting.
Should I put it in a blender? xD
That was brilliant. Creeped me out and made me laugh at the same time.
To all the people who think this is bizarre –
look up anorexia nervosa sometime.
BUT THEN WHO WAS BLENDER?
This was surprisingly good. Saw the ending coming, though.
I lol’d.
That would hurt. But I guess you gotta do what you gotta do.
Best one on the site. Looks kinda prof.?
Brix were shat.
What a fucking dumbass.
This has always been one of my favorites =)
It’s actually kind of creepy when you realize that they are his fingers, lol.
It’s funny as well, as I was expecting some kind of boils or cysts.
I squicked. Pure and simple. The fact that this kind of mental illness is a very real thing made it all the more ‘Oh fuck.’
Damn you, CreepyPasta.com. Damn you to hell
I expected ghosties to fly out of his growths, then I lol’d.
It took a minute or so before I realized the growths were fingers XD
I thought “Hehe, it’s probably just his/her fingers, and he/she is insane” when I was a bout halfway through
Y’see this is much more effective than “ZOMG U GOT RAPED BY PHONE IN UR DARK BASEMENT”, this shit makes you think, that’s why it’s all the more creepy.
Properly mentally ill this. I like.
Why didn’t the kid notice that the other kids had growths too?
Den who was blender?!
What the fuck man?
I wonder how he wrote this story considering he cut off the “growths.”
Despite the inconsistency of the story’s mind-fuckey (why would having fingers lead to embarrassment?), I liked how it played on the reader’s imagination. I’m picturing these hideous pustules or something. Ending totally shocked me and the description of him putting his hand in the blender made me cringe.
Guess I won’t be making smoothies any time soon….
7/10 and 2 brix shat
One of the best pastas I’ve read in awhile (reading back through archives), Didn’t twig on until the end. Then I just sat there doing a fantastic impression of a fish out of water…
This is pure genius~
Greatest pasta ever.
Became obvious by paragraph 4…
Narrator-Lol.
It took me a while…but then I got it. It reminds me a litttttle bit of JTHM, just \’cause Johnny would do something like this. :3
I really liked this. *nodnod*
I didn’t even get this until I read the comments.
I just thought he had a growth on each finger.
At first I was like \"Whut?\" and then \"HOLY CRAP\" and then I lol\’d.
I didn’t like this story.
It awaits moderation
haha this was hilarious xD i lawled so hard
well done funny shit.
BUT THEN WHO WAS BLENDER??
Creative.