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.
Posted in Insanity & Madness
May 14th, 2008 at 11:41 am
This is great, awesome story.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I laughed at this one, cool story.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:01 am
I went “oh shi-” and then continued to laugh my ass off.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:51 am
… That one took a second to click. God, did I lol.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I don’t get it! Help please?
June 16th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
(S)he has five growths on each hand. What do you have five of on each hand?
June 18th, 2008 at 11:25 am
LOL
June 19th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Wow.
Just..wow.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Fagdor is a faggot.
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Lol. I think this one was silly.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
That one made me laugh.
How silly.
June 28th, 2008 at 12:15 am
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.
June 29th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
That reveal was winternet awesome. Moar plox.
July 1st, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Holy Crap!
This is awesome. Write MOARRR
July 1st, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Didn’t Stephen King already write this?
Read Night Shift, the short story “I Am The Doorway”.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Confusing language, but still a decent shocker.
July 4th, 2008 at 11:36 am
wiiiiiiin
July 10th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
oh dear god.
July 10th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
At first I was like what the fuck then I was like ho shit…then I lol’d
July 14th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
=D Wow. What madness this is.. Quite wonderful though. What people will go through to make themselves “perfect” in their minds.
July 15th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
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.
July 16th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Wait, shouldn’t he have noticed that the other kids had these so called “Growths”?
July 18th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
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?
July 21st, 2008 at 3:13 pm
because emogirl, nothing is as it should be, when you are INSANE…
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:05 am
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…
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
o shit thats disturbing
he must have some sort of mental illness
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
This one was actually kind of funny, seeing as how he’s fucking daffy.
July 24th, 2008 at 1:16 am
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
July 24th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Wouldn’t he notice that the other kids had them too?
July 26th, 2008 at 4:26 am
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
July 27th, 2008 at 1:36 am
first i was a like….
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but then i lol’d
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July 29th, 2008 at 7:57 am
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…
July 30th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
This made me lol also.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Found it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIID
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 am
@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.
August 5th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
haha, wowww!
kinda funny but oh so creepy…
i liked it!
=)
August 6th, 2008 at 10:26 am
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”
August 6th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
@dreamer: yeah this sounds like something he would write.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
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.
August 10th, 2008 at 12:57 am
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
August 10th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
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.”
August 12th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Woudlnt he notice other people have fingers, or these “growths” too? i mean seriously was he also blind?
August 12th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Woudlnt he notice other people have fingers, or these “growths” too? i mean seriously was he also blind?
August 16th, 2008 at 1:27 am
God, i cant believe he had to guts to stuck his hands into a blending.
Wow. This dude is really messsed up
August 16th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Crap.
im horrible at typing.
i meant “stick” and “blender”
August 17th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
kinda figured it out what the growths were. mostly because this is in the insanity catagory
August 17th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
no wait, six more to go, the growth between my legs. Which I have to say is quite smaller than the other growths.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:40 am
Kinda makes me wonder though. Although it’s obvious (s)he is human, is (s)he really?
August 19th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
maybe he thought his fingers should be the same as his toes?
August 25th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Will it blend?
August 25th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
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
August 28th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
i remember reading this img this is probably my favorite creepypasta XD if not then the one i wont forget. beautiful just beautiful.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
i remember reading this one its probably my favorite creepypasta XD if not then the one i wont forget. beautiful just beautiful.
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:51 am
I NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THE TREE GROWTHS ON MY CROTCH
September 4th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
ahhh, now my fingers are hurting.
this is weird.
September 5th, 2008 at 3:55 am
ive read this so many times it’s grreat
September 6th, 2008 at 10:47 am
wicked story, the insane girl/boy made me lol!
September 12th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
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!!!!!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Arrrggghhhh this one always makes me cringe. Ack ack ack.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Ahaha, gay.
September 26th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Oh my.
This story strongly reminded me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=653XPlSxEIE
Wow.
September 29th, 2008 at 10:27 am
we have 4 fingers and a thumb.
October 7th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
BUT WHO TYPED CREEPYPASTA?!!
October 11th, 2008 at 9:57 am
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.
October 19th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
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-
November 7th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
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.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:16 pm
BUT THEN WHO WAS TYPE?