Top 5 Example

Hey there WA!

This is my entry for the Top 5 challenge!

As you guys may know, my work is sometimes… gruesome. By that, I mean dark, violent, and sometimes even terrifying or depressing. To think, I actually have drafts for stories that are much worse than the ones I have posted, but you guys may or may not ever see them.

However, with each story having a different level of darkness, I wanted to make a list of the top five I consider to be the darkest stories I’ve made. This list is composed entirely of my own opinions and what I think is the most disturbing out of my work. It is very possible that you guys might feel a bit different, and that’s ok. This list also contains spoilers from my stories, so be prepared for that. Finally, if the title alone didn’t forewarn you, this post will have discussions of very dark topics. Please be cautious while reading. Without further delay, let’s get on to the Top 5 Darkest Works.

5. Red Lollipops

To some extent, most of my stories end up in death. What really determines the placing on the list depends on how the death is portrayed. However, Red Lollipops makes number five on the list because while it is not cruelly violent in nature, it is quite disturbing in its own special way.

While making a booming business of lollipops set in a medieval era, there began to be a disappearance of knights from the King’s Guard. Anyone want to know what the secret ingredient to the lollipops? Ah, that’s right. At the end of the story, we find out that the old woman was killing these nights and using their blood to make the lollipops. While not much of an explanation as to why, it is still a pretty terrifying secret.

What makes this a disturbing story is not the fact that the old woman murders people. What makes it gruesome is the fact that she hides their blood in candy that people eat, completely blind to the fact that they are technically vampires. Since consuming blood, your own or others, can actually poison you, it is safe to assume that the old woman will eventually kill off her consumers with this product, which makes her truly the most evil person in my stories. However, because it wasn’t all that gory, I decided against placing it higher up on the list.

4. Ink

While not really my best work, Ink still holds the trophy for one of my more messed up works. Set in a 20th century era, a boy goes through difficulties with his father. The boy wants to be a writer, but the father detests the idea because he believes in hard labor. If the drunken rants and verbal abuse wasn’t enough, towards the end of the story we see the father completely snap and lock his own child in an empty room which is the equivalent of solitary confinement.

Soon after, we watch as the unnamed teenager slowly loses his sanity over not only being trapped in a room, but also not being able to pursue his ion of writing. Eventually, he hears thoughts in his head that grow very loud, and the character pretty much loses his mind over not being able to write any of his thoughts down.

After a quite unfortunate breakthrough, the character discovers that there is a razor in the room. After breaking open his skin to draw blood, he finds that his blood will work as good as ink, and begins writing down his thoughts on the wall. If that wasn’t disturbing enough, the last line “someday I will run out of ink” can only leave the reader to assume the boy has intentions on drawing blood to write things down until there is eventually no blood left.

3. messed up.

Following a similar formula to Ink, this story is much darker. This story follows another unnamed male as he describes preferring solitude over crowds. By choice, he decides to move far away and basically become a reclusive soul. Eventually, though. This character starts to hear voices. While appearing friendly at first, they quickly turn hateful and command him to well… hurt himself.

Using a blade as a weapon of choice, we read further on to watch the man in agony as the voices scream at him to carve himself, making him bleed and feel pain everywhere on his torso. In the end, the unnamed character mentions that he doesn’t know when his agony will end or if it ever will. It is very possible that depending on interpretation, the disembodied voices would eventually command him to take his own life, if he didn’t bleed out beforehand.

What puts this work so high on the list is the fact that while Red Lollipops and Ink contain gore, we notice two things. In Red Lollipops, we see that a brave knight makes an effort to kill the older woman but he ends up getting killed, and in Ink, we see that while the character is in agony, he continues to make the choice to draw blood on his own free will. In messed up, however, we see that the character begs to be left alone and begs for the agony to stop, yet he is coerced into mauling himself nonetheless. The begging for life alone makes this much darker than the previous two, but hold on, we still have two more to go over.

2. Killing Kindness

KK was also a least favorite of mine, but I still included it because it is a very dark story. You’ll see why it outranks the others in a moment. This story was created simply because of the bad pun, and it takes place in a fantasy world where personality traits take on a human embodiment. Separated between good traits and bad traits, the two are often at war.

Despite the fighting, though, Kindness tries to make peace with the enemy by paying them a friendly visit. The embodiment of innocence and good, Kindness, believes that if he tries to cheer them up, things get better. Unfortunately for him, the enemy faction believes he was sent to attack them. Since the enemy is ruthless and cruel, they not only kill Kindness, but do it in the most prolonged, unpleasant way possible.

To summarize the last bits of the story, Kindness is stabbed, beaten with blunt objects, and hanged. All while the reader gets to take in the innocent soul cry his eyes out and beg for his own life. Due to the fact that his death wasn’t quick and instead was very slow and torturous, I placed this one higher because this was truly the most torture before death I had ever included. Yet, there is still one story even worse than this.

1. Twiins

Twiins is indeed my darkest story thus far. Set in the present day, two twin brothers take enjoyment pranking other people. After pulling a ruthless prank on their grumpy neighbor across the street, they find themselves kidnapped and locked in cages.

Now, risking going to prison for the rest of his miserable life, the old man could’ve simply killed them. However, he decides to go a more evil route and practically force the two siblings to take their own life by playing the candy version of Russian Roulette. With a bunch of pink candies in a bowl, the two brothers take turns consuming them one by one. If they manage to get all but the two poisoned ones, they are promised to be let go. If they get poisoned, however, well…

What makes this my darkest story yet is the fact that while my other ones had cruel elements to them, this one poses a lot of trauma for the two siblings. One of them is forced to watch the other die by poison, which already gives him so much stress that even if he were to survive, he wouldn’t be able to handle the emotions. However, the surviving one gains the desire to want to die after his brother did, and ends up swallowing the rest of the candies, including the last poisoned one.

Unfortunately for the remaining twin, though, he doesn’t die by the poison. His body instead rejects it, and makes him terribly ill. Despite wanting to die, the kidnapper decides to spare him his life. We see the kidnapper walk off, and leave the brother marinate in his own trauma and illness as he is forced to stay alive. Having to undergo such a messed up experience and be left alive for god knows what to come easily makes Twiins my darkest story of all time.