Disturbing passages...

[floella_de_ville]

I've heard of a story like that where a muderor gets blood on his hands and scrubs it so hard that he cuts himself, thus he thinks the bloody is still there and spends forever ripping his hands to shreads trying to 'get the blood off'.

Sounds like something Lady Macbeth would have done, though she didn't. It would fit. I wonder if she's the inspiration for this murderer?

thats exactly what i thought when I read his reply
But Mark West writes lots of nasty stories about death I only picked one of his books up in a charity shop one time and I'm addicted now.

[Chaud]

I have something really disgusting.

It's a short story by Mark West called Speckles.

ok the story is about a guy who has obsessive compulsive disorder. One day he starts seeing these speckles on his skin and tries everything possible to wash them off and ends up sandpapering his skin off to get rid of the speckles. This is the final part of the story in which the guys landlady has come to collect the rent.

At five to eleve the next morning, Mrs Winterton knocked on door seven. Mr Anderson was normally prompt in the morning and she'd left it this late thinking that he might have the day off. But, if that were the case, she would have seen him leave the house to get something to eat.
There was no reply so she took the master key from the pouch of her smock. "Mr Anderson? It's Mrs Winterton. are you okay?" There was no reply so she unlocked the door. "I'm going to open the door okay?"
Again there was no reply so she pushed the door open and screamed. On the bed was what had once been a man. It was groaning softly and glistening red in the morning light. He had no visible skin and the duvet was sodden with blood.
Martin Anderson turned his head towards the door and the back of his skull came unstuck from the pillow with a slushy sound. He looked at Mrs Winterton standing in the doorway with a shocked expression on her face and was filled with terror.
"Mra Winterton, you have to help me. I think I have speckles on my eyeballs ."
Mrs Winterton was violently sick when Martin, obviously in great agony, raised the sandpaper to his eyeballs and rubbed as vigorously as he could.

Sick. Demented. Yuck. Gross. That's all I can think of or say.

Can you even sandpaper your eyeballs? That's sick, anything.....sick. I'm gonna puke. EXCUSE ME!

[Crescendo]

The most disturbing thing I think I've ever read in a book was not nearly that gory. It was just creepy to think about. This guy gets frostbite on his feet and they have to amputate them. Not that horrible to read.

Hey, sounds like a movie I watched two years ago.

Never, ever, EVER read anything that disturbing in that way. I've read other books with other disturbing sorts of things...

[Jen]

Oh jeez, Chuck Palahniuk has a whole disturbing short story (try to look up Guts, I'm sure it's around on the net somewhere, or I can send you an email with it in as I have it saved on my comp) Surprisingly, it's th every first Chuck P. thing that I read, and I was so fascinated by his writing style that the story really sucked me in. But yes, it still is very disturbing.

Ugh, I read some of that story, it somehow got onto my computer(I didn't put it there) and it was so.. disturbing that someone would even think that.

I read a book where someone had pnemonia and they stabbed them with kitchen knives to get the fluid out, but then all this blood came out too, and the fluid was shooting out into a bucket and the blood was just trickling down the body. It was sick, and thankfully I have no idea what that book was called.

[Alex]

I have something really disgusting.

It's a short story by Mark West called Speckles.

ok the story is about a guy who has obsessive compulsive disorder. One day he starts seeing these speckles on his skin and tries everything possible to wash them off and ends up sandpapering his skin off to get rid of the speckles. This is the final part of the story in which the guys landlady has come to collect the rent.

At five to eleve the next morning, Mrs Winterton knocked on door seven. Mr Anderson was normally prompt in the morning and she'd left it this late thinking that he might have the day off. But, if that were the case, she would have seen him leave the house to get something to eat.
There was no reply so she took the master key from the pouch of her smock. "Mr Anderson? It's Mrs Winterton. are you okay?" There was no reply so she unlocked the door. "I'm going to open the door okay?"
Again there was no reply so she pushed the door open and screamed. On the bed was what had once been a man. It was groaning softly and glistening red in the morning light. He had no visible skin and the duvet was sodden with blood.
Martin Anderson turned his head towards the door and the back of his skull came unstuck from the pillow with a slushy sound. He looked at Mrs Winterton standing in the doorway with a shocked expression on her face and was filled with terror.
"Mra Winterton, you have to help me. I think I have speckles on my eyeballs ."
Mrs Winterton was violently sick when Martin, obviously in great agony, raised the sandpaper to his eyeballs and rubbed as vigorously as he could.

Woah.. That's quite disturbing. Remind me to never read that book, please?

[AlligatorHater]

Oh jeez, Chuck Palahniuk has a whole disturbing short story (try to look up Guts, I'm sure it's around on the net somewhere, or I can send you an email with it in as I have it saved on my comp) Surprisingly, it's th every first Chuck P. thing that I read, and I was so fascinated by his writing style that the story really sucked me in. But yes, it still is very disturbing.

Ugh, I read some of that story, it somehow got onto my computer(I didn't put it there) and it was so.. disturbing that someone would even think that.

I actually really enjoyed it

[Qanda]

There's this book about the Ebola virus, and this girl read a short story from it out loud as part of her oral presentation. Apparently it really happened.

Anyway, the story tracks the main character as he gets more and more sick. Eventually it ends with him, on a plane, throwing up into a barf bag filled to the brim with black bile, containing who knows how many billion viruses, but still able to move, even though he can barely gasp out the name of the hospital he was told to go by his local hospital, to the taxi driver at the airport. Anyway, all the symptoms and stuff were disturbing enough, but the most disturbing part was the sheer number of people who came in contact with him, because nobody knew he had the Ebola virus.

Ahh, I've read that one before. That episode was much more grosser than you described. It had to do with this man infected with the Ebola virus nearing the "climax" of the disease. At that point, his insides were all bleeding and turning into pus, his brain slowly melting inside his skull (due to some horrible way the virus attacks the cells). The worst thing was that he was still alive and breathing on a passenger flight while his insides were turning into goo. Of course, with his brain melting, he was only semi-conscious, sort of a walking zombie. Then the episode reaches its climax when a flight attendant approached him to inquire about his very unhealthy complexion (the blood must have started seeping under the skin), when blood and pus started to bursting out of all his body crevices in torrents.

Sounds like a typical episode from a graphic horror film? The most disturbing aspect is that this is not a book of fiction! In fact, it was a factual account of how this group of people tried to contain the Ebola virus. (Though my account may not be very accurate since I'm retrieving it from memory)

[shimmer]

Eww!! Ewwww!!! Ewwwwwwwwww!!!!! Why would anyone feel the need to have to write anything as disgusting as any of this. What's the point.

[Robin]

Sorry, but this is getting a little too "R-Rated" and a bit too disturbing. Sorry to have to lock it, but there ARE children on the forums.

Robin
AKA Padfoot