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Dr. Evil (then Timmy Evil) is a preschool aged who comes up with a needlessly elaborate plan of scamming the whole preschool out of 50$. The only hitch in the plan is a young, non charismatic Austin Powers |
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[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | I freaking love your title! :D
Good luck in the contest, submitter-bro. | 2 | 0 | 17 | 20,901 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | Hi! Since you're the first on the list, you're the first I've read through! I very much enjoyed this. I thought the plotting was good and the setting appropriately creepy. The writing is crafted well (though on a technical point, I would suggest italicizing Max's thoughts, so it's easier for the reader to distinguish t... | 3 | 0 | 17 | 20,902 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | Hello /u/mrironglass! Loved your story! You made great use of the title, and I really enjoyed the plotting and pacing, especially the twist at the end. It was very old-school horror/sci-fi, and the horror was absolutely visceral. I definitely felt the tension and fear amping up throughout, and the atmosphere was claust... | 2 | 0 | 17 | 20,903 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | Damn. I was a little skeptical at first but the story found its own groove quickly. I kind of saw the ending coming but I would chalk that up to a youth spent devouring science fiction more than anything else. Not bad at all, great combo of grotesque horror, creeping dread, and all the right sci-fi-horror touches a ... | 2 | 0 | 17 | 20,904 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | No criticism from me.
Just wanted to let you know I *thoroughly* enjoyed your novelette.
Best of luck in the contest! | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20,905 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | So, to establish this first: I have a very harsh standard of critique. It is the same one I judge my own works by.
So you took a very interesting premise that has been used in sci-fi hundreds of times, combined it with another interesting premise that has been used in sci-fi hundreds of times and somehow managed to mak... | 3 | 0 | 17 | 20,906 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the story and was impressed by how much you were able to describe everything. I agree with others that knowing more about the characters would have been nice, but overall, this was a fun ride that had a really good tone. Good luck! | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20,907 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | Just wanted to give my notes on this:
The story is very well thought out in general. It pulled me in initially and kept me engaged throughout most of it with the draw of the pyramid. In a general sense, it works well for plot.
Your writing style is where I had some difficulty. You use commas a little much and in area... | 2 | 0 | 17 | 20,908 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | This was very entertaining and overall well written! Thanks for writing it! :)
My main criticism is, as others have pointed out, that there was very little character development. Just a bit of backstory could have made me care that much more about Max and Kirill.
You know what though, I read it straight through to th... | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20,909 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | This was a very good read. I sincerely hope this story universe expands. | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20,910 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | Just finished reading this piece of work and let me just get this out of my system:
*SCREAMS*
Okay, now back to your regularly scheduled programming. I have to say, I really did enjoy the premise of this finely written work. I love that you incorporated exactly how a pyramid works with how utterly confusing it is. Yo... | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20,911 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | Man, I read a few of the comments on here, and was super excited to read this. Unfortunately I was a little let down. I cruised through it, but I had to force myself to do it. As a reader, I wish this was more engaging. There was such a great concept here, and certain things really stood out to me.
The good: The story ... | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20,912 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | Hi, just finished reading Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid. I gotta say, the best parts were set up inside the structure and the unrelenting weirdness of the situation. It felt like a cross between a John Carpenter movie and a Lovecraft story, but might have hit too close to the Alien franchise--with it's infected cr... | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20,913 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | I have never read a sci-fi horror story and this one was great! It felt like Aliens (the movie) traversing through the pyramid. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I liked the reveal at the end. Others have mentioned any flaws that I've noticed so I won't repeat them, but with a rewrite that should be remedied. Congratulation... | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20,914 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | Hey Mirronglass,
Congratulations of getting your piece finished and submitting. If your story went anything like mine, it was an uphill fight all the way to the 28th.
OK so here goes. First off, you did a good job keeping a consistent tone through the whole piece. But I had a little trouble with the pacing. I und... | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20,915 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | I'm just getting around to critiquing now. I suck :(
But anyway, as has been said many times, your story had a great creepy atmosphere. I love stories in which the terror is simmering and waiting in the corners to leap out. I particularly loved the concept of the corridors constantly rearranging and the shifting gravi... | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20,916 |
[PI] Spacemen of the Abominable Pyramid - FEB CONTEST | Hi, I really enjoyed your story! It was exciting to read and the time zoomed by for me since it held my interest so well. The descriptions were awesome and definitely the high-light for me (especially the aliens and the action scenes).
My criticisms are in line with the others' comments regarding character develop... | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20,917 |
[WP] No-one dies. | Like invincibility and immortality or just immortality? | 1 | 0 | 8 | 20,918 |
[WP] No-one dies. | It wasn't anything in particular that drew Stacey into the bar. In her experience they are all the same. A day in the life a bar is a universal experience. Especially at this time. Three in the afternoon was not a usual drinking hour. Normally it was only the rich, the retired, or those who have retired from caring tha... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 20,919 |
She said I couldn't do it and she was right. |
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She said I couldn't do it and she was right. | The head elder was carefully holding three little statues, wrapped tightly in black cloth. He had to be careful, so sunlight wouldn't touch them.
"What should we do, elder?" asked one of the five men gathered there.
I could feel the tension in the air as the elder hesitated before answering.
Of course he hesitate... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20,921 |
She said I couldn't do it and she was right. | Dammit, I thought. I, ace detective Ray Valthazzar, was bested. What's that dear reader? You want to know just who the outright fiend who could best me, ace detective Ray Valthazzar, was? You want to know the circumstances of this horrifying defeat, an event that simply shouldn't happen, someone getting the best of me?... | 2 | 0 | 3 | 20,922 |
She said I couldn't do it and she was right. | "Well" I thought as I fell, "turns out you CAN'T use a bicycle to jump the grand canyon". | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20,923 |
[WP] The villain from your favorite story is actually the good guy. | Omega, the space station that was a safe heaven by criminals, pirates, terrorists and wrongdoers of all other sorts, is now under the control of the authoritarian pro-human terrorist group, Cerberus.
General Oleg Petrovsky, the right hand of the Illusive Man, has with his genius military tactics and strategies, cunnin... | 3 | 0 | 12 | 20,924 |
[WP] The villain from your favorite story is actually the good guy. | (Not sure if this character counts as a villain, but my girlfriend made me watch the notebook last night and if I don't write something about it then I watched that crappy movie for nothing.)
Our kids say I shouldn't be living with her out here. I don't expect them to understand why I stay. They're too young to know... | 4 | 0 | 12 | 20,925 |
[WP] The villain from your favorite story is actually the good guy. | The signal changed the moment the men entered space.
It had taken me a decade to transcribe the original signal, and it was telling us to come to it. The longest part was developing the algorithm to decode the message, and when the signal changed I was able to immediately translate it.
I will never understand why it... | 10 | 0 | 12 | 20,926 |
[WP] The villain from your favorite story is actually the good guy. | The plague of man had infected the earth for far too long. The rape of Gaia, the mother to all had endured brutally uninterrupted, and the only hope for her resided in trial by fire. Incineration of the people who crawled without abandon across her face and their vile thatched roofed constructs. But any savior there ... | 5 | 0 | 12 | 20,927 |
[WP] The villain from your favorite story is actually the good guy. | He sat alone, as always. Watching over the world. Guiding it. His crimson eyes gazed over the barren lands of a world that had moved on, a world he had tried to save. Around his old watchtower a field of poppy's were the last remnants of a long forgotten beauty. On his balcony he waited for the pilgrim who would restor... | 2 | 0 | 12 | 20,928 |
[WP] The villain from your favorite story is actually the good guy. | They all call me crazy. I'm insane. I'm insane. I'm insane. Well I'm not, at least I don't think I am.
I'm not insane. I'm hyper-sane. That means I get it. I understand the whole reality of a situation. I get that I'm a character. Nothing more. I'm insane.
They all act like they're real people. They aren't, none of u... | 4 | 0 | 12 | 20,929 |
[WP] The villain from your favorite story is actually the good guy. | ...they've truly no idea, do they?
All their talk of freedom and justice, all their crying out and their pedantic prattling, all so they can restore a democracy that never truly cared for them, and could have done nothing for them even if it did. When the invaders come - and they *will* come - their ideal government ... | 6 | 0 | 12 | 20,930 |
[WP] The villain from your favorite story is actually the good guy. | The Dresden Files - Written on my phone
Formless black shadows unite, a thousand whispers, nothingness brushes against your soul like cobwebs.
They call me the Adversary, because if they gave me another name it would only serve to draw my attention. I am He Who Walks Within, the emissary of Those Who Stand Without, t... | 3 | 0 | 12 | 20,931 |
[MP] The Handsome Family - Far from any road | Click, Click, Click. My heart ticked faster.
The woman in brown stood in front of me, eyes blazing. We both knew what was coming.
She was fast, the fastest human I'd ever seen, I was faster. The revolver fell from her out stretched hand, tumbling over and, catching the sunlight as it fell. She dropped to her knees... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20,932 |
[WP] A hockey goon meets his disappointed hero. | **Dan**: Parody of Eminem's song: Stan
[**Chorus**]
Team can't score, I'm wondering why I bought tickets at all
The ice chips clog up the window, and I can't see at all
And even if I could we're still losing, but your picture on my wallet
It reminds me, that it's not so bad, it's not so bad
[**Period 1**]
Dear W... | 6 | 0 | 2 | 20,933 |
[WP] A fortune teller has a crystal ball that only sees the past, but shows it with 100% clarity. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20,934 |
[WP] A fortune teller has a crystal ball that only sees the past, but shows it with 100% clarity. | The man shuffled in and sat across the table from the fortune teller. He ran his hand through his unwashed hair and stared at his feet. After a minute of sitting, still and silent, he gazed around the tiny room. He observed the circus posters lining the wall and deep purple curtains, before fixing his gaze on the cryst... | 5 | 0 | 17 | 20,935 |
[WP] A fortune teller has a crystal ball that only sees the past, but shows it with 100% clarity. | The two friends were at a stalemate in their argument - Kathy insisted that Rex had liked her before he started dating Katrina Reynolds, while Rachael insisted that he had come *"this close"* to asking her out, if only Katrina hadn't stepped in and flaunted her massive cleavage with the low-cut dress she had worn for h... | 2 | 0 | 17 | 20,936 |
[WP] A fortune teller has a crystal ball that only sees the past, but shows it with 100% clarity. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20,937 |
[WP] A fortune teller has a crystal ball that only sees the past, but shows it with 100% clarity. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20,938 |
[WP] A fortune teller has a crystal ball that only sees the past, but shows it with 100% clarity. | “You know, I don’t usually go for this kind of thing…”
“Hush child. Breathe deep.”
The room was tiny, cramped, filled with trinkets, curios, and oddities. A small circular table formed the only clearing. Two cushions were offered as chairs. He took one, she took the other.
The only light was that of candles, c... | 2 | 0 | 17 | 20,939 |
[WP] A man (or woman) falls hopelessly in love with a duck, but his/her family refuses to accept their romance. | David stared down at the table. It had long since started to show some signs of wear after so many years of use. The cloth was frayed at the edges, the loose strands gently brushing against his knees as his legs trembled up and down. Wide cracks split from the sides hanging over the table, opening like thin canyons run... | 9 | 0 | 12 | 20,940 |
[WP] A man (or woman) falls hopelessly in love with a duck, but his/her family refuses to accept their romance. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 12 | 20,941 |
[WP] A man (or woman) falls hopelessly in love with a duck, but his/her family refuses to accept their romance. | "So does it quack?" Roger's mother asked. She was a short, fretful woman with a fringe of moustache who was forever reminding him how much she loved him, and how much he needed her.
Roger sniffed disdainfully. "Of course it quacks. It's a duck."
"Pardon me," Roger's father asked. For such a hulking man, he receded t... | 3 | 0 | 12 | 20,942 |
[WP] A man (or woman) falls hopelessly in love with a duck, but his/her family refuses to accept their romance. | I saw her floating in the pond with the other ducks. I was instantly awestruck. Standing there, staring where every perfect feature came together in one beautiful creature.
She looked up my way. I glanced down. Before my nervous habit kicked in, the one that would have made me look away, I realized that I had to have... | 1 | 0 | 12 | 20,943 |
[WP] A man (or woman) falls hopelessly in love with a duck, but his/her family refuses to accept their romance. | On behalf of all of those in the reddit IRC, this is the best WP of the day (or yesterday) | 1 | 0 | 12 | 20,944 |
[WP] You stole food to feed to your little sister and are now running from the law. (Any era or genre welcome!) | "Asa, I'm sorry."
You words sputter from parched lips, faded and hollow as the reed grass of a pond in late winter. The snow falls in droves, and you stare down at the rusted iron that pierces your side. The two King's men laugh as they knock you to your knees with the butt of the second man's axe. Hot blood drips fro... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 20,945 |
[WP] You stole food to feed to your little sister and are now running from the law. (Any era or genre welcome!) | Pug held his breath as he walked along the spine of the roof. It was slippery up there from the fog that spread through the low quarter this time of night and he hated high places. Between the mercenary guards lurking in the market to catch thieves and the Count's new proclamation that any foolish or desperate enough t... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 20,946 |
[WP] You stole food to feed to your little sister and are now running from the law. (Any era or genre welcome!) | Ironically I had seen the famous play Les Miserables the other day, and now it was like it was happening in front of my eyes. Me? Well I was Mr.24601 himself. I ran and ran, clinging on to the bread loaf with my life as I was chased by the guards. I saw a fogged up alleyway and dashed for it, *might as well,* I thought... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 20,947 |
[WP] You stole food to feed to your little sister and are now running from the law. (Any era or genre welcome!) | Marcus Kilkenny was sucking cow dick. There was probably a better way to make that known, but the food he filched from the street vendor was in fact bovine penis, split, stuffed with herbs, brined in salt water and a spicey blend of exotic peppers. He found it delicious, but it was setting his mouth on fire, thus the r... | 2 | 0 | 9 | 20,948 |
[EU] Frank Underwood from House of Cards is called out on talking to an illusionary audiance | “What we need now, is a tragedy, something to shake the nation and keep the world on their toes. If America is a boat, I’m about to set the water rockin’.” Frank says, starring at the camera.
“Mister president?”
“Yeah?”
“Who are you talking to?”
“Look, I don’t have to answer to anybody anymore.” Turning to the audi... | 1 | 0 | 17 | 20,949 |
[FF] Write the most Metal story possible, in under 100 words. | Mecha Satan crashed into the room and pounded out a killer guitar solo, shredding the white off the nun’s clothes with each strum. Their heads began banging uncontrollably as he switched to playing with his teeth. Mecha Satan then stood up and, in one fluid motion, performed a bare-legged powerslide to the drum kit—mid... | 18 | 0 | 5 | 20,950 |
[FF] Write the most Metal story possible, in under 100 words. | Swords clashed, hateful screams filled the air. Blood rained down from the heavens as the Gods came together to watch the spectacle. A decapitated head flew before the full moon.
In the middle of the battlefield, one man looked up at the crack in the sky. He laughed maniacally and shouted “There is no man strong enoug... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 20,951 |
[FF] Write the most Metal story possible, in under 100 words. | Scandium
Titanium
Vanadium
Chromium
Manganese
Iron
Cobalt
Nickel
Copper
Zinc
Yttrium
Zirconium
Niobium
Molybdenum
Technetium
Ruthenium
Rhodium
Palladium
Silver
Cadmium
Lanthanum
Hafnium
Tantalum
Tungsten
Rhenium
Osmium
Iridium
Platinum
Gold
Mercury
Actinium
Rutherfordium
Dubnium
Seaborgium
Bohrium
Hassium
Meitnerium
Da... | 15 | 0 | 5 | 20,952 |
[FF] Write the most Metal story possible, in under 100 words. | The meat churned with anticipation as Taint Crusher Took the stage, a feedback loop so concentrated it perforated half of the ear drums in the venue ripped through the grainy amplifiers, some squawking vocals for the mic check between concussions of snare and thunderous bass. The meat went wild, bodies screaming, bounc... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 20,953 |
[WP] The characters in a lousy story get fed up with the narrator's poor skills in storytelling. | I wrote this a while ago for a prompt like 48 hours after it was posted, so no one really saw it haha. It is almost exactly the same subject as your prompt, so I figure I'll post it again here (hope that's okay)!
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Dave walked into the kitchen, allowing the door to slam behind him with a tremendous cra... | 11 | 0 | 10 | 20,954 |
[WP] The characters in a lousy story get fed up with the narrator's poor skills in storytelling. | So there these two guys, yeah? They were like, brothers... I think. Yup, they were brothers. A conversation between them would be something along the lines of
"Hi Matt!" The Vinny brother says hi to the Matt bro, duh.
"Hello, Vinny, nice to see you so fresh this morning!" Vinny in his southern accent tells Matt that... | 5 | 0 | 10 | 20,955 |
[PM] Let's do this! | A suicidal hooker from Medieval London travels to our time and meets an asian guy with a small...
Anyway...
Real prompt: A man stops you in a back alley. He is wearing a trenchcoat with the collar up to cover his face and a large hat. He pulls out one half of his coat and inside it, attached by velcro straps to his c... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 20,956 |
[PM] Let's do this! | The phone keep getting text messages. They all say the same thing with little variation. "Don't eat it, don't even smell it." | 1 | 0 | 7 | 20,957 |
[PM] Let's do this! | Someone went through the deliberate effort to pick out every marshmallow piece of your Lucky Charms and you must figure out why. | 1 | 0 | 7 | 20,958 |
[PM] Let's do this! | A boy runs away from his adoptive Mom and sisters to his 'real' family. They aren't what he thought they would be. | 1 | 0 | 7 | 20,959 |
[PM] Let's do this! | A soldier is sent back in time to Berlin, floating atop a pile of incendiaries in a hot air balloon. There is no flak, no fighters, no response, just one man wondering if he should drop the bombs or not. | 1 | 0 | 7 | 20,960 |
[PM] Let's do this! | Prompt: Write an erotic story about a racist who kills himself...in the past.
No, seriously:
In 500 words or less, write about a character looking for something by candlelight. | 1 | 0 | 7 | 20,961 |
[PM] Let's do this! | Describe your favorite animal without giving it away | 1 | 0 | 7 | 20,962 |
[PM] Let's do this! | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 7 | 20,963 |
People from the tv show Lost crash onto Banoi from Dead Island |
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[WP]A thief on a crowded street steals more than expected, and it causes more trouble than it is worth. | Nobody ever notices the coins.
All the greedy assholes pay too much for their food and end up with those annoying jinglies. I do a service, I do. I liberate those noisy ass coins from the jacket pockets of passergoers. Twenty bucks a day is plenty when you only need three square meals. A few quarters a person is the a... | 6 | 0 | 8 | 20,965 |
[WP] He stood before a god and laughed. | "You thought that I designed this temple," he paused and waved his arm to emphasize the marble room they were standing in, "for you?"
The god looked at him, from the god's pedestal in the room. The god spoke in a voice that was not male for female, angry or joyful, and not in words understood in the conventional sens... | 5 | 0 | 6 | 20,966 |
[WP] He stood before a god and laughed. | The great doors opened soundlessly, revealing the grand hall before it. John stepped through, leaving the doors open behind him; the dying sun from outside gave light to the dark hall before him. He looked around. Great statues of rock stood all around the hall. There were statues lined against the walls, some of them ... | 9 | 0 | 6 | 20,967 |
[WP] He stood before a god and laughed. | This time, Jasper knew he would die. It was his time after all, no one ever saw The Lord 3 times and lived to tell the tale, in fact, it was rare for anyone to ever see The Lord. The Kingdom they lived in was small and secluded, and time refused to affect it the way it did the larger lands to the north, or even the eas... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 20,968 |
[WP] He stood before a god and laughed. | I am an inventor. I create things. The thing about being an inventor, is that since everything I create is new, nobody knows what it is, or what it does. I could try and explain them, but they don't have the fundamental understanding of quantum mechanics of psychobiochemistry that would help them grasp what I am wor... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 20,969 |
[MP] It's the spring of 1969. I'm a high school dropout. You're Charles Manson. Convince me to join the family. | Well think about this for a second. It's not like you have anything else better to do. | 2 | 0 | 7 | 20,970 |
[MP] It's the spring of 1969. I'm a high school dropout. You're Charles Manson. Convince me to join the family. | The sun is starting to set... it's warm on my face, and I am getting sleepy. I lie back on the cushions of the VW bus I am riding in. These people were so kind to pick me up. My feet were getting tired from all the walking and I was tired of being passed by and looked at like I was a freak while hitching a ride to L.A.... | 4 | 0 | 7 | 20,971 |
[WP] A video game character becomes self-aware. | "Hey, watch it, asshole!" yelled Tommy Vercetti as an old lady in a station wagon cut him off. He laid on the horn but she refused to drive any faster. Shaking his head, Tommy turned the wheel sharply and stomped on the gas pedal. His yellow 1986 Pegassi Infernus sped past the crawling SUV, and Tommy rolled down the wi... | 3 | 0 | 4 | 20,972 |
[WP] A video game character becomes self-aware. | *"Why are you making me climb this wall with my bare hands?"* shouted Kratos irritably as he scaled the impossibly steep surface of the temple's wall. "Why couldn't I just go around and use the ladder? Seriously, this is f'ed up!"
He jumped from the wall and stabbed into the back of a flying manticore, struggling not ... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20,973 |
[WP] A comedian has been elected President of the United States, and he's about to give his State of the Union Address. You take it from here... | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 34 | 20,974 |
[WP] A comedian has been elected President of the United States, and he's about to give his State of the Union Address. You take it from here... | Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans:
Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it... and slept with him. Talk about going the extra mile. I mean, the extra six inches! *the crowd gives a nervous laugh.* I kid, I kid, she helped raise our graduation ra... | 17 | 0 | 34 | 20,975 |
[WP] You live in a utopian society where almost everything is perfect to you. You then find out who created the utopia, and wish you didn't know. | It must of been sometime around 3 A.M. and I was carrying another volume down to the basement. Working in the Free Peoples' ledgers was never exciting, but at least tonight the material was interesting. So old the reports were still filed on "flash drives" from the mid 21st century. Fascinating. These particular sets d... | 3 | 0 | 8 | 20,976 |
[WP] You live in a utopian society where almost everything is perfect to you. You then find out who created the utopia, and wish you didn't know. | So, this is the big man's office. Well, the secretary told me he wanted to see me. He's made a pretty great place here, so I don't see why I shouldn't oblige.
As I open the door, I can't help but notice the smell of bratwurst and the sound of Richard Wagner. Finally, I fully open the door, and there he is...
"Hitler?... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 20,977 |
[WP] The Roman and Aztec Empires covering all of Europe and North America respectively have survived into the Modern era. Now at war write from the perspective of one of the troops on the ground | The priests have made their offerings. Millions were taken to the temples and sacrificed. Huitzilopochtli is satisfied. He must be satisfied. He will guide us against these...Romans. The heavens will grant us victory, our Gods will defeat their Gods. Jupiter cannot stand against the full might of Huitzilopochtli,... | 10 | 0 | 32 | 20,978 |
[WP] The Roman and Aztec Empires covering all of Europe and North America respectively have survived into the Modern era. Now at war write from the perspective of one of the troops on the ground | Carlos sipped a beer. The white man who had served it to him scuttled quickly behind the counter, like a weak little mouse. The whites may have had rights now, but they still spoke Nahuatl or Pipil and tended to stay in their own communities, away from the intimidatingly superior Aztecs.
Carlos' friend, Sitting Bear, ... | 20 | 0 | 32 | 20,979 |
[WP] The Roman and Aztec Empires covering all of Europe and North America respectively have survived into the Modern era. Now at war write from the perspective of one of the troops on the ground | Everyone else was seasick. I had locked myself in my captains quarters and polished my helmet, stroking the big spiky feathers on protruding from the top. I heard several people vomit and then a knock on the door. *Shit, they need something,* I thought, sighing, "What do you need?"
"Sir, we're all sick, call for a doc... | 1 | 0 | 32 | 20,980 |
[WP] The Roman and Aztec Empires covering all of Europe and North America respectively have survived into the Modern era. Now at war write from the perspective of one of the troops on the ground | The invasion of the Americas was a slow process. We discovered the continent over a thousand years ago - it was a shock to the people of Rome, or so I'm told. The concept of there being lands beyond the end of the world was a strange one. Since then, however, the Americas were mostly ignored. It was too far away from T... | 5 | 0 | 32 | 20,981 |
[WP] The Roman and Aztec Empires covering all of Europe and North America respectively have survived into the Modern era. Now at war write from the perspective of one of the troops on the ground | War is Hell only if Hell is a waiting room.
Our battalion has been stationed in this same damned spot for what seems like centuries. The citadel's bulwarks are ancient, paint peeling off rusting handrails. Still, she does her job well. She's positioned right for it too; a hilly plain, surrounded on three sides by the ... | 1 | 0 | 32 | 20,982 |
[WP] The Roman and Aztec Empires covering all of Europe and North America respectively have survived into the Modern era. Now at war write from the perspective of one of the troops on the ground | The proxy war had been fought for a long, long time, each side supporting this or that African regime. Between us, we kept any great nation from rising there. Neither of us wished to battle China, Russia, Tawantinsuyu, or India, but the old blood debt between us would not let us rest either.
I remember when the re... | 2 | 0 | 32 | 20,983 |
[WP] The Roman and Aztec Empires covering all of Europe and North America respectively have survived into the Modern era. Now at war write from the perspective of one of the troops on the ground | I know this'll get buried, but what the hell...
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"Two thousand years of history, and ten thousand more."
That phrase is on the wall of every single school that educates my people. My people, of the mighty Empire of Roma, have endured two thousand years of history. You all know the story. Hell, every single ch... | 2 | 0 | 32 | 20,984 |
[WP] A genocidal dictator realizes how cruel he's been two years into his massacre. | He swished the bottle... a few more drops were left and he poured them into his mouth dropping the bottle to the ground after it made a hollow ping as it crashed into the gravel. It was hot out. The liquor didn't help and sweat dripped openly from the mans face. He kept walking along the gravel road. The air was dry an... | 3 | 0 | 14 | 20,985 |
[WP] A genocidal dictator realizes how cruel he's been two years into his massacre. | He stood at the very middle of the gate and stared. What had he done? He knew that his choices would hurt people, but it was for the very good. He knew that because he wanted to punish these men and women so badly that they would suffer, but should anybody suffer this badly?
"*Mein Führer, bereit sind sie.*"
He turn... | 5 | 0 | 14 | 20,986 |
[WP] A genocidal dictator realizes how cruel he's been two years into his massacre. | "Mein Fuhrer!" The man said.
Eh? I replied, as I rubbed by forehead.
"It is ze time to wake up for ze early morning murder." said the man.
"I'm not following." I retorted. "Anyway, what time is it?"
"Ten o'clock precisely, Fuhrer!" he responded.
"What day is it?" I asked.
"It is ze 23rd of May!" He told me.
"Wo... | 2 | 0 | 14 | 20,987 |
[WP] A genocidal dictator realizes how cruel he's been two years into his massacre. | *Clong*. *Clong*. The pendulum swung, unstoppable.
An old man sat behind a majestic desk, surrounded by paintings that could buy several countries.
There was a broken and shattered portrait in laid in front of him, and a photograph of a beautiful young girl creeping out.
The old man crumbled a small note. No one ... | 1 | 0 | 14 | 20,988 |
[WP] A genocidal dictator realizes how cruel he's been two years into his massacre. | I know what I'm doing. I know how to do it, and I'm good at it. I started as boy, 21. It was a way to make money; no one payed better than the cartels, you know. After a few small jobs I was noted for being efficient. I rose, quickly. If I was inclined to cliches, I would call it meteoric. The money was good, and greed... | 2 | 0 | 14 | 20,989 |
[WP] A genocidal dictator realizes how cruel he's been two years into his massacre. | Life in Thrace was terrible for it's half a million people, many of them Turks like the Dear Leader. All his life he strived to help as many of them as he could. Even if some must die, the **majority** would live on in the old ways. He must save them from the foreigners and their customs and influences before everythin... | 1 | 0 | 14 | 20,990 |
[WP] SEAL Team 6 stumbles through a magical portal and winds up on a hill overlooking two medival armies squaring off | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 42 | 20,991 |
[WP] SEAL Team 6 stumbles through a magical portal and winds up on a hill overlooking two medival armies squaring off | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 42 | 20,992 |
[WP] SEAL Team 6 stumbles through a magical portal and winds up on a hill overlooking two medival armies squaring off | "Take sides are you crazy? There's six of us. There's thousands of them. Hell, even if we wanted to, which side do we take," said John adjusting the sight on his AR15 rifle. Tom rolled his eyes at him. John turned his head, "I have no idea what we do here. Wait for the portal to open back up, I guess. Maybe its monthl... | 24 | 0 | 42 | 20,993 |
[WP] SEAL Team 6 stumbles through a magical portal and winds up on a hill overlooking two medival armies squaring off | "Cover!"
"What the FUCK"
"Get me a sitrep right now, goddamn it."
Naval Lieutenant Frank Hayes surveyed the bewildering scene in front of him. His team of eight seals was currently scrambling to get behind cover and inventory their situation.
So far as he could tell, their situation was officially fucked. Five min... | 14 | 0 | 42 | 20,994 |
[WP] A ten year old girl who has been isolated in a basement and only knows how to perform basic human functions (walking, eating, grabbing things, e.t.c) is let out into the world. Write her thoughts as she encounters new and alien creatures and creations. | CRACK.
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creak.
pitter patter pitter patter.
creak.
Blind, fear, thump, fear.
Hunger.
Light round tasty crunchy yummy there down out me Eat.
Thirst, need. Pitter patter pitter patter, need. Pitter pat... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 20,995 |
An old man sits in his chair, playing his violin effortlessly. An assassin site across the room, listening. The old man sits his instrument back in its case and asks why he has come. The assassins stands..... |
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An old man sits in his chair, playing his violin effortlessly. An assassin site across the room, listening. The old man sits his instrument back in its case and asks why he has come. The assassins stands..... | ...draws his pistol, takes aim, and empties it.
Into the violin.
Wordlessly, he turns and walks away. | 2 | 0 | 2 | 20,997 |
An old man sits in his chair, playing his violin effortlessly. An assassin site across the room, listening. The old man sits his instrument back in its case and asks why he has come. The assassins stands..... | ...and walks closer to the old man, his pistol at his hip. He cocked his head to one side and smiled sadly when the old man met his eyes.
"Do you remember the piece you played at your inauguration, sir?"
The old man managed a smile as well. His eyes darted to the pistol. "Which inauguration?"
"It was the third one, ... | 5 | 0 | 2 | 20,998 |
An old man sits in his chair, playing his violin effortlessly. An assassin site across the room, listening. The old man sits his instrument back in its case and asks why he has come. The assassins stands..... | ... "Father I have failed you." She whispered not wanting to believe the words that were flowing from her traitorous mouth "I could not take them. Im sorry.."
"Hush child, find your seat and listen." The old mans voice was sweet as dark honey. Each word he spoke seemed sung rather than spoken. He reached down and pick... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 20,999 |
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