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Roulette



Estimated reading time — < 1 minute

During your day, there are probably a half a dozen moments where you can’t see, if only for a split second. Not like blinking, of course, that’s far too quick . Just that moment when you’re taking off your shirt, or wiping your face with a towel. That brief instant where you’re plunged into darkness. Every time this occurs, you’re playing roulette. A game. Unbeknownst to you, of course. Every time that happens there is something waiting, eagerly, to pull you into that darkness. That only happens if you lose, of course. One day you might open your eyes to find that you’re not where you were before. There are unsolved missing person cases every week. Those people? They lost.


Credited to JHubbbb.

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101 thoughts on “Roulette”

  1. Abhishek Pasupuleti

    I don’t think I’ll loose…. I don’t wipe my face…. I let it dry, I pull my shirt down…. So basically I don’t play?

  2. I really like the theory of this but it just wasn’t there. I feel like it needed to be longer to explain more other then that nice work.

  3. Much to short for my liking. I dont 5 page ones but this was much to short and if the game is officail the author of this story just lost.

  4. Wow, the world is full of lucky people who keep winning then (not to mention, there are at least 4-5 straight hours in which I don’t see anything because I am, you know, sleeping, and I tend to keep my eyes close when I do… I’m a gambler and I didn’t even know O_o).

  5. the hash slinging slasher

    this one didn’t really get me :/ it was good i guess but it was just missing something that gives you that unsettling feeling. The kind of feeling that can turn your comfortable home into an inescapable torrent of fear and helplessness, where you know your being watched but you don’t know when the monster you hope isn’t there will come out of its hiding spot to play.

  6. Scientifically speaking, there are a lot more times than mentioned when you can’t see; when you shift your eyes, rather than blurring the image like watching Cloverfield, your eyes sort of “turn off” for a few thousands of a second before they find their target.

  7. I’m more afraid of monsters warping while I am blinded and attacking me

    …Damnit, I’m afraid of the dark, mannequins, doors, and have a mild fear of escalators. How the fuck did I get so messed up?

  8. the only creepy aspect is that i’ve always been paranoid about those moments spoken of, for the most part it just made me laugh.

  9. more about the roulette? it doesn’t really seem like it plays much of a part in the story. it could be changed into anything else and pretty much turn it into one of many stories already posted here. you should seriously consider expanding.

  10. I’m just gonna make this more interesting in my mind and say that blinking counts. If that were the case, then…

    I’M SCEERED TO LEAVE MA HOUSE NAO

  11. Shoulda mentioned those brief moment we’re blind when we move our eyes back and fourth that adds up to about fourty minutes of total darkness a day with our eyes completely open. You should do a little reasearch on Saccadic Masking and maybe incorporate it if you ever revise this, I think that’d be interesting to play with.

  12. This pasta was bland and undesirable. There was nothing scary about that than the idea a real person thought it was good. Honestly…

  13. Interesting idea that if I’m wiping my face with a towel, and when I put that towel down, I might be pulled into a creepy place and never be able to return to this “world”.

    However, “Roulette” is so lame right now for me probably because of Rihanna slaughtering it with her music video. =/

  14. crusherXofXdreams

    Well, I liked it, I believe you could have made it just a little bit longer adding detail…or maybe a ‘incident’ to go along….but I read the story at three in the morning and had a nightmare at 730am. Thanks.

  15. Interesting, I used to have fears about that when I was young. Whenever I was alone in my room, changing, my heart rate would always increase a bit whenever I took off my shirt; I was afraid something would suddenly be standing where I couldn’t see for that split second.

  16. It’s a decent idea, if not a little cliché. I’m just not a huge fan of the way you wrote it. It was very … blocky. You had a bunch of unnecessarily short sentences that smashed right into the flow of the story and made it, in the end, unenjoyable.

    6/10. It had potential.

  17. crap, i lost the game like 300 times while reading the comments. this is a neat idea and quite creepy, if a little too short.

  18. Sorry guys, I didn’t mean for anyone to lose :/ I was always scared of those little moments, so I decided to write a pasta. It’s my first and it needs editing, but thanks for the feedback :D

  19. This is like listening to someone tell try to tell you something they experienced, but they leave out the important shit, and leave you wondering what the fuck they’re talking about. With a little more effort, it could have been great.

  20. I’m not going to say this was a favorite of mine, but damn it is nice to see a return (however brief) to the old, short-and-sweet pastas of old. My hat’s off to you, author.

  21. I like it. Ilike the sort ones alot. I never really thought of it that way, but somethimes I get freaked out when im trying to get a shirt on, but I can’t. I don’t know why…

  22. Meh… Interestingly, though, there *is* some truth to this. You’re blind for a good part of the day due to your brain basically “shutting down” your eyes whenever you shift your gaze somewhere else.

  23. This is actually one of my biggest fears, that something will be waiting for me after I lift the shirt off my head, or finish drying my hair. This pasta, however, does not do it justice. It could have had more oomph.

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