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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…

  • 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…
  • Witches of Rascar Pablo: Part II
    by Kristopher Lawrence
    Witches of Rascar Pablo: Part IIBy Kristopher LawrenceEdited by Gao Rong Chapter 7: Death of a Cop Tal violación,castigada con fuego y azufre,a menudo se tratasimplemente con azufre. Such a violation,punishable by fire and brimstone,is often dealt withsimply by brimstone. 7:57 pm Thursday, May 18, 1984 (PDT)Grants Pass, Oregon “Aaaaaargh…” Carlos groaned as he awoke. He looked around, too weak even to turn his head.…
  • Witches of Rascar Pablo: Part I
    by Kristopher Lawrence
    Witches of Rascar Pablo: Part IIBy Kristopher LawrenceEdited by Gao Rong Prologue Lucas frantically negotiated the narrow stone walkway leading up to the church. Signs indicative of an all-too-familiar happening were not lost him. Rabid mastiffs on his tail prevented him from turning back. Slowing his upward pace – even slightly – brought them lunging and snapping at his heel. Nor did the pink moon…
  • The Black Tunnel
    by John Faucett
    -Strange – 6 Pages – I pulled my blankets off in slow motion. My knees all but buckled under me as I put one foot and then the other on the floor beneath me. I dragged myself to the shower, trying without success to turn the spigot. I barely managed to put toothpaste on my toothbrush. My clothes closet loomed in front of me, one…
  • Surprise Package
    by Brian Sellnow
    – Sci-Fi – 1 Page – The crying was to be expected. The girls, after all, were only six years old and, despite their enhanced intelligence and intensive training, were still emotionally immature. And identical siblings often formed unusually strong bonds. In addition to leaving the only environment they had ever known, they would also be away from each other for the first time in…
  • Purple Circles
    by wspires
    Last summer my eyes broke.  They would burn in the morning and I’d rub them.   I would look at my eyes in mirrors and see that there were red lines growing all over them.  “Shit,” I thought.  I washed them with water, then alcohol, then peroxide, but the red lines kept growing. After my eyes broke I started seeing things.  I’d walk down the street…
  • Alter ego No. 28
    by Nils Erwin
    -Humor – 3 Pages – Andy awoke to a foul stench, and a note. The note lay peacefully on the perimeter of his desk; evidently he had slept the night in the study. His back had, let me see. 2…3..7 – 12 yes, he counted at least 12 kinks in his back, and on passing the mirror he was also grotesquely mutated by a series…
  • The Grisly Death of Chester McDonald: A Fable
    by Randy Bone
    Chester McDonald suffered a most horrific death. He was eaten alive by his pigs. One day he went out to slop them, but they turned on him, the shifty bastards, and they made quite the feast of him, devouring him bones and all. But unfortunately for the pigs Chester lived all alone out in the country, so that they, having eaten him, had nobody left…

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Iblis Concept Angel

Iblis Concept

May 31, 2003

-Sci-Fi – 8 Pages – Humanity had sent him. Iblis was human, of course, but not Humanity. Humanity was the single, but often times conflicting, controlling entity of the universe…

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Duzzies

March 11, 2011

Duzzies by P.S. Gifford -Sci-Fi – 1 Page – The prompt was Starlight- and I was thirty nine. It is short and admittedly clumsy- I found it on line- but…

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Strange Archives

Purple Circles

January 22, 2024

Last summer my eyes broke.  They would burn in the morning and I’d rub them.   I would look at my eyes in mirrors and see that there were red lines…

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Little Affection

October 15, 2002

by Andrew Nellis In the box are the few pathetic remnants of her childhood. School year-books, some cheap junk jewelry, all the detritus left behind on the road to adulthood.…

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Humor Archives

Kenny the Koala

Kenny The Koala

January 25, 2000

by Jon Stephenson 1 Page Kenny the koala lived in a great, big forest with many other koala bears. Every day Kenny would wake up and climb his favorite tree.…

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Total World Domination

Total World Domination

September 7, 2004

6 Pages I was headed towards Union Square to shop for a birthday gift for my mother. Shopping, unfortunately, has never been my forté. My mother taught me well how…

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