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Welcome to Alarmingly Strange Stories — the home of weird fiction!

Founded over 20 years ago, Alarmingly Strange Stories was built on the belief that everyday creators can craft Weird Fiction that rivals (or surpasses) anything you’d find in mainstream publications. Dive into our latest featured tales, and let yourself be drawn into worlds you never saw coming.

Whether you’re into mind-bending Science Fiction, quirky Humor, or the downright Strange, there’s something here to spark your imagination. Explore our archives for a complete collection of stories that will leave you thinking long after you’ve read the last word!

And for you creative folks, we encourage you to participate!
If you’ve ever had a story that was just a little too strange for the mainstream, we want to hear it. We believe the best stories come from the places where reality ends and the strange begins. So if you’ve got a tale that’s out-of-this-world, a plot twist that’ll leave readers questioning everything, or a universe so odd it could only exist in your mind, we want to publish it.

Submitting your story is simple—no account required! Just paste your story into our form, hit submit, and soon the world will experience your strange creation. However, if you’d like the flexibility to edit and perfect your story before it goes live, we recommend creating a free account. With an account, you can save drafts, make edits, and control when your story is published.

What is all This?

TheWeirdcrap’s Alarmingly Strange Stories posted its first story in 1999 with the goal to provide non-censored fiction by amateur writers. Perhaps you wrote a piece of fiction for a class and thought it was pretty good. It’s a shame no one will ever read it except your professor or teacher. Well, this is your chance to share it with the world! We have a translator on each page to make it easy for someone from another country to enjoy your work!

Or, if you like to read and your sense of humor is just a little off-center, then this your home. But don’t stop with the current submissions go to the archive pages for more.


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Featured Alarmingly Strange Stories…

  • Sandcastles
    by Will Shadbolt
    -Strange – 11 Pages – This story begins in the age of myth. It was a time when demons haunted nights, mushrooms housed gnomes, and knights fought dragons. I wasn’t just Anthony, I was Sir Anthony. I had just begun the fourth grade at a new elementary school. My dad drove me over in the morning when he wasn’t too hung over and after school…
  • Rise of the Cyborgs
    by Spamrider
    See, the thing was that over time we made the machines more and more like us because we wanted the machines to be able to do all the things that we can do so that we wouldn’t have to do those things anymore.  Eventually this even came to include thinking. Now there is nothing inherently evil or wrong about machines that can think.  The problem…
  • Paranormal Story
    by Alan Smith
    -Strange – 4 Pages – This concerns one night some considerable time ago and is a true story. Locations are accurate, only my name is true, the others have been changed for protective purposes. I was driving home after a night out with my friends. I was 17 then, I had just passed my driving test that day, 17th December 1968, 2:15 on a Tuesday…
  • Only On Jupiter
    by Ed Bread
    Only on Jupiter by Ed Bread -Strange – 5 Pages – Mistakes happen. I left the heater on. It was my fault. I admit it. No one was hurt. At least I have that on my side. So, while the cops and judges and whoever sort the details, I’m forced to live out here in Arizona with my Uncle Proosteau. None of my friends or…
  • A Lady Named Melvin and a Boy Named Sue
    by Randy Bone
    A Lady Named Melvin and a Boy Named Sue by Randy Bone [The following is an actual, unedited “conversation” with an artificial intelligence chat bot.  The bot’s responses have been rendered in bold and italics.] There once were three beautiful ladies. Interesting! Is there anything else you would like to share about these ladies or is there a specific question you have in mind? The…
  • The Gray of the Streets
    by S. E. Costard
    There was a little girl with thin knees that sat in the back of the stage, behind the curtains, where the audience couldn’t see her, watching the dancer with rapt attention. The dance was slow and beautiful, and the poor little girl, for poor she was with thin, dirty rags for clothes and a thin, dirty rag for rubbing the floor with in her poor…
  • Fonzie’s Revenge
    by Kenneth Keller
    Fonzie’s Revenge A reimagining of Happy Days Written by Kenneth Keller fonziesrevenge@gmail.com Remember the classic TV Show “Happy Days?” You know, it starred that Howdy Doody looking Motherfucker that played Opie Taylor on the Andy Griffin Show? It also had the original MILF Marion Ross and that Dreidel playing guy who starred in the Movie Nightshift, which coincidentally was created by said Opie. Yeah, they…
  • Communion
    by Dan Ericsson
    Communion, by Dan Ericsson There was nothing. Then there was Irving. The booth which he inhabited had not existed until he sat there. When he left, so would the table, the upholstered benches and the dessert advertisement. It would slide from reality to his memory, trapped until someone else sat there. The same went for Irving’s sandwich. When he bit it, it was reality. And…
  • A Little Bit of Dirt Never Hurt Anyone
    by P.S. Gifford
    A little bit of dirt never hurt anyone By P.S. Gifford Wallace Montgomery slumped at his kitchen table dressed in nothing more than grayish white boxer shorts. The girth of his behind overflowed on the wicker chair. In front of him were three empty “big boy” frozen breakfast containers. The stink of putrefaction that permeated his kitchen had been softened by the scent of imitation…
  • Confessions of a Professional Defuser [excerpt]
    by Randy Bone
    Confessions of a Professional Defuser by Randy Bone Thought bombs are carefully designed psychological viruses routinely implanted into our heads from a very young age through the schools and later through the media. The powerful devious minds behind it all call it “inoculation”. Which is ironic you see because what they are inoculating against are ideas. They know they can’t ever completely control everybody’s thinking. …
  • The Legend of Bobbi-Jo
    by Stephen Johnson
    The Legend of Bobbi-Jo, by Stephen Johnson I was 18 years old when my mother spontaneously combusted. As it happened I was enjoying my morning breakfast of Grape Nuts and Lucky Charms coated with melted butter. No milk was involved. My Mommy had dropped an Eggo on the floor. Obscenities strained my ears as she and Bobby-Jo, my pet ferret, wrestled over it. I was…
  • TOLD YOU SO
    by Steve Wilkins
    I Told You So by Steve Wilkins -Strange – 3 Pages – Penfold Stekins (or Smiley as he was known, or rather had been known, to his close friends) had no idea whether it was night or day. No idea of the date. No idea of anything much really. He only knew one thing. Spiders. He had been saying for what seemed an age. “Beware…
  • Witches of Rascar Pablo – The Complete Novel
    by Kristopher Lawrence
    We are excited to present a unique addition to TheWeirdcrap.com: the complete novel, “Witches of Rascar Pablo”, submitted by Kristopher Lawrence. Previously published in separate installments, we’re now providing links to the entire novel for your convenience. Kristopher has a special connection to our website; he was once a devoted reader, and over time, he decided to contribute a work he had been developing for…
  • Tracy Tenchins
    by Paul Steven
    Tracy Tenchins by Paul Steven The pedals of the push bike turned slowly as a u-nail spun violently past Sparrow’s left ear.”Come on mooovvveee,” screamed Sparrow pushing down harder on the pedals, his teeth baring like a mad rabid dog. It was no use, the gears were stuck in third. Sparrow could hear the shrills of the chasing pack behind him. His heart skipped a…
  • Barrage of the Dead
    by Jason Earls
    Barrage of the Dead by Jason Earls Dan sat at his dining room table working on a new piece of origami when a mangled, bug-eyed, undead man, entered his house without knocking. Dan remained captivated by his origami and didn’t notice the zombie plodding toward him with outstretched arms. The zombie made faint gurgling sounds as it approached. It was bald except for two patches…
  • Space
    by Randy Bone
    Space. I remember when there used to be lots of it, back when there was still enough room to stretch out and to breathe and to run and jump and play. Room enough for people to be alone. But not anymore. That was all before The Catastrophe. Name’s Anus. Hugo Anus, Jr. to be exact. I was in heating and air conditioning before TC (we…
  • Five Tiny Dwarves, a Circle, a Cat, and the Girl Who Saw it All
    by Jake Cordova
    – Strange – 4 Pages – Part I The little girl found a nice place in the grass and sat down near the stream. The sun was setting and the faint smell of a forest fire filled her nostrils. “A full moon!” she said aloud, smiling at the sky. As she watched the giant, pale circle move slowly across the sky she caught glimpse of…
  • Thousands of Fleeing Japanese
    by Craig Snyder
    A small dark man in a small dark room picked up his pen and wrote: In ancient times, the monsters walked among us, and it was good… Godzilla was in downtown Tokyo for the afternoon. It was something he’d made a habit of lately. He’d Smash a few buildings, crush a couple of buses, pretend to get caught in some power lines, humiliate the Japanese…
  • Creation By Fire
    by Michael J. Shuler Sr.
    A burned and battered man turned slowly, rolling over on his back. Pain shot through his body. He started to lift his right arm, but stabbing agony shot through it, causing him to moan and clutch his arm with his other hand. The moan echoed in the burned, stinking room. “Help! Can anybody hear me?” There was a complete lack of sound around him. His…
  • The Bell Tower
    by Submitted by Guest
    Our story begins deep in the heart of Terrebonne High, where a dark secret lies, waiting for a not-so-bright student like Marsha Johnson to come along and knock at its door. Many years ago some strange events happened at this high school. Please come with me now as I describe to you the story of the ghost of the fourth floor. Marsha liked to think…
  • The Prey
    by Nikolay Terekhin
    -Strange – 1 Page – Dalibor bent over to catch his breath. His throat felt ragged, as though the air was scratching it. His heart was pounding in his chest, his head was spinning, and his calves were burning. He let his bag drop off of his shoulder and sat down next to it on the ground, which was all a coarse black rock. It…
  • Interfacing
    by Randy Bone
    “What the hell are you doing?” I asked him. “Interfacing,” he said. “With your shirt?” “This shirt is a microfiber weave quantum computer,” he replied as he kept tapping imaginary keys on the side of his stomach. “All my garments are computers. So is everything in this room.” I thought about it a minute and then asked him, “Even your underwear?” “Yes.” “But why would…
  • ONION MAN
    by Polina Danilyuk
    Onion Man by Polina Danilyuk -Strange – 2 Pages – “What you have?” says Olaf. Olaf isn’t like you and me. You and me, we’re sitting, baking, locked up in a stuffy school library, reading stories to each other. Olaf, he barely speaks a word of English. Until today, he’s never even been to the U.S.. Today, he lands in San Francisco for the first…
  • Mr. Sockforahead Does not Live Here Anymore
    by Joshua Blanc
    At his desk in the evidence room, Peter Gumption stared at his cryptic crossword. An hour had passed, and all he’d written was `beetroot’ in the five-down column. He frowned, and reached for the white-out. He would typically spend many of his hours at work in this manner, even on busy days. Sometimes, if he really got bored, he’d venture into the forest of shelves…
  • He Who Remembers
    by Nils Erwin
    -Strange – 3 Pages – He Who Remembers by Nils Erwin I was once held captive in a horrible dungeon by a large British man with ghastly teeth. He surgically switched my hands, just to see if I was truly ambidextrous, and had a persuasion for cooking rats on his hotplate. He was a terrible man and I hated him so. I was often remarked…
  • Hershel’s Great Journey
    by Randy Bone
    Hershel’s Great Journey by Randy Bone Hershel was a bug.  He had always been a bug and, for all he knew, he would always be a bug.  Now I’ve got nothing against bugs mind you.  Not unless you count the way they buzz around in your ear, and the way they crawl all over your skin, and how bite you and make you swell all…
  • Seeing a Girl
    by G. Caliban Fournier
    I can’t tell you how pleased I was to watch your pageants around the pool last summer. I counted the days of the week by your swimsuits. A charming yellow two-piece on a Friday afternoon. A glossy, seal-black one-piece on a Sunday morning. A navy blue bikini and a white strapless suit alternating on Saturdays, when you had time between work and the gym to…
  • Witches of Rascar Pablo: Part III
    by Kristopher Lawrence
    Witches of Rascar Pablo: Part IIIBy Kristopher LawrenceEdited by Gao Rong Chapter 10: Katatòn Y en cuanto a los que se encuentranbajo la luna de Kataton,Evadan la exaltación,y tengan cuidado con el quetzlcoatlus. And concerning those who find themselvesbeneath the Katatonian moon,Evade the exaltation,and beware the quetzalcoatlus. ∞ : ∞ @# ijđæ, ĦǮ ∞, ЊҨ (ӢἏ)??, ЌΆȚǢŦŐŇ Almost immediately after falling asleep, Lucas awoke clinging…

Alarmingly Strange Stories Archives

Sci-Fi Archives

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Rise of the Cyborgs

April 7, 2025

See, the thing was that over time we made the machines more and more like us because we wanted the machines to be able to do all the things that…

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Lunars Armor

Lunar’s Armor

November 21, 2004

3 Pages Phoenix Rebirth, another technology brought to you by the Microsoft Union of companies, and by the technology of the fiftieth century. It costs a whopping, 50,000,000,000 Dollars for…

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Strange Archives

The Dance

THE DANCE

August 15, 2011

Sci-fi – 17 Pages – The sun fell like a hammer into the once turquoise sea and darkness was upon us in an instant. Of course the night offered no…

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OLD AGE

February 16, 2006

by Erin Renee Hune Glover -Strange – 2 Pages – The room smells of poverty, rot, and old age. A heap of yellowed, tattered blankets begins to stir on a…

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Humor Archives

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The Evils of Drink

September 4, 2005

-Humor – 2 Pages – Josh had sat contently near the roaring campfire, examining the dancing flickering flames and the crackling of the firewood and considered the day’s events. Chester…

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Binkle Bunny in Super Electronic

July 15, 2001

Humor – 4 Pages – It was a lovely day and the Cummy Todge was brimming with people. Some of these people were regulars who were somewhat used to the…

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We showcase stories from all kinds of creative voices—published authors, emerging writers, and everyone in between. If you’ve written a strange tale and want to share it, this is the place. Writing in isolation can be tough, but here, your work won’t fade into obscurity.

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