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[WP] It’s the 1800’s and dragons are extinct everywhere except the American western frontier. A cowboy’s most important job is protecting cattle from dragons. | I didn't want to be here. I was forced here against my will. We ruled this land for a hundred millennial; the dark wings in the sky, princes of the air, lords of man and beast. We co-existed with the red men for all of that time in relative peace and harmony. Sure, we'd destroy a village or two every once in awhile to ... | I found the damnable set of boots sitting at the back of the Wai’pu gulch.
“You know this is sacred ground to the Comanche?”
“Perfidious knave, such daring…” said the dragon. Smoke started to lick at the ends of its nostrils, they were about the size of dinner plates, this fella was big getting ready to molt and get ... | |
[WP] It’s the 1800’s and dragons are extinct everywhere except the American western frontier. A cowboy’s most important job is protecting cattle from dragons. | I didn't want to be here. I was forced here against my will. We ruled this land for a hundred millennial; the dark wings in the sky, princes of the air, lords of man and beast. We co-existed with the red men for all of that time in relative peace and harmony. Sure, we'd destroy a village or two every once in awhile to ... | The black dragon glided down to the men gathered around the campfire. The ground shook as it landed. The dragon roared back its head and howled, small tufts of flame leaking out of its nostrils as it did so.
Chief Hassun rose slowly. "Dramatic tonight, Chogan." The Chief and his people had always called the dragon... | |
[WP] The Devil doesn't know what he's supposed to do to people in hell. You're the first person ever to be sent there. | Being careful not to slip, Edgar stepped down the wet stones on his bare feet. It was getting darker as he got further away from the torch behind him. He grasped at the wall as he slowly winded down the ancient curved stairway. As he peered around the corner, he spotted the glow of another torch.
"Oh, finally." he tho... | “Good morning.” The man called.
It was dark, save the man. He had bright skin and blue eyes unlike anything I have ever seen.
“Where...am I?” I asked.
“You are home, this is home.”
His voice was smooth and soft. I felt warmed by his presence immediately.
“You have fallen out of his favor, as have I.” The man continued... | |
[WP] The Devil doesn't know what he's supposed to do to people in hell. You're the first person ever to be sent there. | Being careful not to slip, Edgar stepped down the wet stones on his bare feet. It was getting darker as he got further away from the torch behind him. He grasped at the wall as he slowly winded down the ancient curved stairway. As he peered around the corner, he spotted the glow of another torch.
"Oh, finally." he tho... | "So uh.. where am I" I said meekly to the only other person in the room with me. He paused for a moment "This is SUPPOSED to be hell." he seemed a bit annoyed.
I thought for a moment, maybe this is some stupid joke. "Excuse me?" I asked, the sound of my voice crack surprising me more than anything else in this strang... | |
[WP] The Devil doesn't know what he's supposed to do to people in hell. You're the first person ever to be sent there. | The pain of literal hellfire clawing at my flesh snaps me into consciousness, my eyes open to reveal my entire being is consumed by the flames. A weaker man would dismay, cry out, or crumble in the intensity of the pain- every single bit of skin sends out needles jabbing into my mind as it is battered by the flames, bu... | Hello? Hellooo?
I called down the hall. No response. Then, faint running footsteps. "Oh, hey..." says the Prince of Darkness. "Don't go... Don't go..."
So this was hell. Cooler than I'd imagined. Comfortable in fact.
"I must say," continues the Devil, "I wasn't expecting anyone. Since the deathbed confession ... | |
[WP] You are a State Necromancer in the employ of a District Attorney. Your job usually involves ressurecting victims and witnesses long enough to testify at trial but the current case you are working on is unlike anything you have ever seen before. | "Mrs. Tabitha Rainsford, please take the stand."
A bailiff wheeled her up to the witness stand next to the judge's bench. She was seated in a special wheelchair, one that had straps to hold her body upright, as she would tumble limply out of her seat otherwise.
The judge turned to her and asked, "You are Mrs. Ta... | St. Mark Building
27.11.2060
Necromancer: NM
Accused: ACC
[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT]
NM: Aright, we’re at the DA St. Mark building, the date is 27th November, 2084. You are Graham Shaw, dead at age 24, born in 12th February 2060. Can you confirm?
ACC: [NODS SLOWLY]
NM: Beautiful. I work for the Dist... | |
[WP] When the world's most prolific advocate for Satanism dies, all hell breaks loose in the Afterlife Assignment Bureau when it's discovered that he's never actually sinned in his life. | He seemed really embarrassed by his situation, which really didn't make things easier for Jasmine. She was used to belligerence, had expected intolerance, was prepared for confrontation.
What Jasmine got instead was good manners, humility, and really, really charming eyes.
"Mason, look, try to understand. The Depar... | "He's WHAT?" Cried the director of the Afterlife Assignment Bureau, or AAB.
"Well, ma'am, he never sinned once in his life. He was the most sinless person we've ever had through here." Explained the intern, James.
The director sighed and covered her face with her hands.
"This is going to be a nightmare..." She groan... | |
[WP] A thousand years in the future mankind has reached the stars, but in doing so we came to realize one of our greatest fears: We are the only intelligent civilization in the universe. | "Eureka!"
"Now what?"
After the first dog testicle was turned into guarana powder, the editor of the science journal decided it was time to stop. He went to his litte-furnished room, which for the patterns of your time would be impossibly clean, impecabbly organized and surrealisticly beautiful. Yes, beauty was stand... | [WP] We were safely in orbit around Planet HR 8832c. It looked as Earthlike as we expected; extensive oceans, green and brown continents, snow-covered mountains, fluffy white clouds scattered in familiar patterns. Alfa upped the magnification on the viewing scope. Automatic cameras were feeding similar data into the co... | |
[WP] You've always said you feel like you were meant to be born in a different time period. One morning, you wake to find yourself in the muddy trenches of the American army during World War I. | Adrenaline shot through my body, the smell of ammonia, acrid and sour, stung my virgin nose. I shot up from where I was sitting in the trench, attempting to dust off mud, caked on my ass from having been sitting so long. Thats when I realized the landscape wasn’t the only thing that was off. I was dressed in boots and ... | Every day was so dull, life had all just felt so wrong. Day by day I wandered through life feeling disconnected from everything and everyone around me- a foggy haze separating me from the so called happiness that everyone else felt. At night I would lie in bed staring up at the ceiling wishing, sometimes out loud even,... | |
[deleted] | [wp] There is a reason aliens have never invaded Earth. Humans are the most feared species in the galaxy. | The Martian watched the screen attentively. He managed to keep it hidden, but deep inside he was quaking with fear. He watched his enemy through the hidden spy cameras. "Just be glad you aren't a soldier...Having to fight these things..." He thought to himself. The human in the screen flipped the round, circular thing ... | "Wouldn't it be cool if we meet humans?"
"Wouldn't it be cool if we committed suicide?"
"No it's not the same thing!"
"Yo. What would you even do? Did you even pay attention in creature studies?"
"What are they even gonna do? They're so tiny"
"They have GUNS"
"We have LASERS"
"Yeah. We have barely ever use them. They ... |
[deleted] | [wp] There is a reason aliens have never invaded Earth. Humans are the most feared species in the galaxy. | Humans are the most dangerous beings in the galaxy. Their numbers are growing past their ability to maintain them and they’re desperate, but also ingenious. They’re finding means of escape and once they discover how to spread their virus throughout the galaxy we’re going to have a plague on our hands.
To find such a ... | "Wouldn't it be cool if we meet humans?"
"Wouldn't it be cool if we committed suicide?"
"No it's not the same thing!"
"Yo. What would you even do? Did you even pay attention in creature studies?"
"What are they even gonna do? They're so tiny"
"They have GUNS"
"We have LASERS"
"Yeah. We have barely ever use them. They ... |
[deleted] | [wp] There is a reason aliens have never invaded Earth. Humans are the most feared species in the galaxy. | The Martian watched the screen attentively. He managed to keep it hidden, but deep inside he was quaking with fear. He watched his enemy through the hidden spy cameras. "Just be glad you aren't a soldier...Having to fight these things..." He thought to himself. The human in the screen flipped the round, circular thing ... | "Hey dude... wouldn't be like, cool to like, fight a human?" said Zorlak in between puffs of Kxaklycl. "Oh nah man. They got like, things that shoot little tiny metal things. They get stuck in you and it kills you. " replied Drxc. "But we got like... weapons that use power from stars, man. We could totally take them." ... |
[deleted] | [wp] There is a reason aliens have never invaded Earth. Humans are the most feared species in the galaxy. | She knew that as a junior officer she should not feel so brazen in the face of a Grand General. However, she was so certain that she was right. She would attempt, respectfully, to make this known to this far superior officer.
He dwarfed her. It was immensely clear why his kind led all and hers led handfuls. His back ... | "We were like them once. Aggressive, curious, brazen, brash and oh so ambitious. We funded our sciences on the spoils of war and created an empire where several species now live in peace.
"It was exciting when we first heard about them, the people of Earth. We almost missed them.....do you remember, my colleagues, ... |
[deleted] | [wp] There is a reason aliens have never invaded Earth. Humans are the most feared species in the galaxy. | Bugs. They call us bugs. They have nicknamed us after one of the weakest, most easily killed beings on their planet. They created weapons against us much like what they use to kill the "bugs" on their planet. Horrible weapons. Weapons that melt and uncreate our bodies like fire undoing metal. Bugs, they call us. As ins... | "We were like them once. Aggressive, curious, brazen, brash and oh so ambitious. We funded our sciences on the spoils of war and created an empire where several species now live in peace.
"It was exciting when we first heard about them, the people of Earth. We almost missed them.....do you remember, my colleagues, ... |
[deleted] | [wp] There is a reason aliens have never invaded Earth. Humans are the most feared species in the galaxy. | Bugs. They call us bugs. They have nicknamed us after one of the weakest, most easily killed beings on their planet. They created weapons against us much like what they use to kill the "bugs" on their planet. Horrible weapons. Weapons that melt and uncreate our bodies like fire undoing metal. Bugs, they call us. As ins... | Slowly, their fingers reach out. The first satellites, the eyes in the darkness. The sounds and transmissions. A beast is awakening. Soon it will roam. And it will be hungry.
We have watched them for long. That captured light that they cannot yet reproduce. Their entire history, every detail and sight, is available t... |
[WP] Humans have unified, but aliens are sitll refusing all contact (Even though we know they are there.) Largely left to our own devices, we become the most advanced technologically in the galaxy. It is getting harder for them to ignore us. | The battle cruisers and transport ships of Earth were sleek, grey and imposing like the classic pictures from the sci-fi movies they were so fond of. Large crests of different branches of the Navy and other space faring divisions were emblazoned on their sides as the humans took their first steps outside their known g... | The age of war was over... Or as the elders like to call it the era of immaturity. there hadnt been a war in over two hundred years. The year was 2517 we had solved every mystery to life that was available the only one that remained was space...why was it so quiet? we sent messages, drones, and even people, and yet not... | |
[WP] Humans have unified, but aliens are sitll refusing all contact (Even though we know they are there.) Largely left to our own devices, we become the most advanced technologically in the galaxy. It is getting harder for them to ignore us. | It didn't make any sense. Their civilizations were thousands, tens of thousands of years older than ours. Yet they never sought us out, barely even built colonies of their own, and avoided contact whenever possible. Once, one of our colony ships landed on one of their colonies (how were we supposed to know? It's no... | The age of war was over... Or as the elders like to call it the era of immaturity. there hadnt been a war in over two hundred years. The year was 2517 we had solved every mystery to life that was available the only one that remained was space...why was it so quiet? we sent messages, drones, and even people, and yet not... | |
[WP] Humans have unified, but aliens are sitll refusing all contact (Even though we know they are there.) Largely left to our own devices, we become the most advanced technologically in the galaxy. It is getting harder for them to ignore us. | "Welcome! To 2050 National Convention where we display humanity greatest technological advancement in the past year. And boy do we have a line up for you today!" the announcer spoke with overflowing enthusiasm, just gushing with glee, because he was told that they have finally arrived. Aliens, of all sorts of shapes an... | Once they had known Me. Once they were in My favor, and I in theirs. That was long ago. Time has past and those events are strangers. That time is now myth, a respite against the clawing dark.
I created them in the bargain. The bargain for a legacy that we thought would never come. An act of desperation. A final call... | |
[WP] Humans have unified, but aliens are sitll refusing all contact (Even though we know they are there.) Largely left to our own devices, we become the most advanced technologically in the galaxy. It is getting harder for them to ignore us. | Ambassador Lamott leaned back in the plush armchair of his ready room, The somber melody of Mahler’s symphony No.6 reverberated through every wall, well aged Scotch in hand, he sighed and looked despondently out of the panoramic window at the vast ocean of stars, as they seemed to drift by.
180 years young, he didn’t... | Once they had known Me. Once they were in My favor, and I in theirs. That was long ago. Time has past and those events are strangers. That time is now myth, a respite against the clawing dark.
I created them in the bargain. The bargain for a legacy that we thought would never come. An act of desperation. A final call... | |
[WP]You've been finding a lot of loose change in your couch lately. It turns out it's the tiny speaking spider paying rent. | Bzzzt.. Bzzzt..
A hand darted out from beneath a tangle of blankets, groping blindly across the surface of the end table next to the bed.
Bzzzt.. Bzzzt..
A man sat upright and flung the covers away. He wiped the sleep from his eyes.
Bzzzt.. Bzzzt..
A groan escaped his lips. He picked a small flip phone up off the... | My best friend is a spider named Gerald.
I know, that probably sounds loony. How can anyone be friends with a *spider?*
But this one talks!
I met him about a year ago. I’d just moved into my apartment, and since he’s a shy fellow he didn’t introduce himself. In fact, he hid, and honestly, I don’t know if I ever w... | |
[WP]You've been finding a lot of loose change in your couch lately. It turns out it's the tiny speaking spider paying rent. | As I lay sprawled out on the sofa, perspiring in nothing but a pair of moist boxer shorts, I was far from a pleasant sight but it was summer in Britain and the temperature was peaking to record heights. I'd already had two cold showers, drank several glasses of chilled water, and had two fans blowing warm dry air on me... | My best friend is a spider named Gerald.
I know, that probably sounds loony. How can anyone be friends with a *spider?*
But this one talks!
I met him about a year ago. I’d just moved into my apartment, and since he’s a shy fellow he didn’t introduce himself. In fact, he hid, and honestly, I don’t know if I ever w... | |
[WP]You've been finding a lot of loose change in your couch lately. It turns out it's the tiny speaking spider paying rent. | Bzzzt.. Bzzzt..
A hand darted out from beneath a tangle of blankets, groping blindly across the surface of the end table next to the bed.
Bzzzt.. Bzzzt..
A man sat upright and flung the covers away. He wiped the sleep from his eyes.
Bzzzt.. Bzzzt..
A groan escaped his lips. He picked a small flip phone up off the... | I opened the door and stepped into my apartment. Kicking off my shoes, I reached for the lights, flicking them on without looking. I emptied my pockets onto the small table near the door, and headed for the couch. It had been a long day, and I really just needed to zone out for a while. I stood at the end of the co... | |
[WP]You've been finding a lot of loose change in your couch lately. It turns out it's the tiny speaking spider paying rent. | As I lay sprawled out on the sofa, perspiring in nothing but a pair of moist boxer shorts, I was far from a pleasant sight but it was summer in Britain and the temperature was peaking to record heights. I'd already had two cold showers, drank several glasses of chilled water, and had two fans blowing warm dry air on me... | I opened the door and stepped into my apartment. Kicking off my shoes, I reached for the lights, flicking them on without looking. I emptied my pockets onto the small table near the door, and headed for the couch. It had been a long day, and I really just needed to zone out for a while. I stood at the end of the co... | |
[WP]You've been finding a lot of loose change in your couch lately. It turns out it's the tiny speaking spider paying rent. | As I lay sprawled out on the sofa, perspiring in nothing but a pair of moist boxer shorts, I was far from a pleasant sight but it was summer in Britain and the temperature was peaking to record heights. I'd already had two cold showers, drank several glasses of chilled water, and had two fans blowing warm dry air on me... | Bzzzt.. Bzzzt..
A hand darted out from beneath a tangle of blankets, groping blindly across the surface of the end table next to the bed.
Bzzzt.. Bzzzt..
A man sat upright and flung the covers away. He wiped the sleep from his eyes.
Bzzzt.. Bzzzt..
A groan escaped his lips. He picked a small flip phone up off the... | |
[WP] You make a surprise visit to your grandmother's house. Much to your surprise, upon arrival you find her locked in highly skilled combat with multiple assailants. | Nana snapped the man's arm in three places -- a warning for him. When he failed to take the hint, however, she snapped his neck -- a warning for the others.
The dozen or so jumpsuit-clad goons charged at the ancient woman in pairs or trios, only to collapse in shattered, similarly grouped heaps. Her grandchildren wat... | Real talk here—I was never really fond of my grandmother.
...Man, that really makes it sounds like I dislike her, doesn't it? Lemme rephrase that; I've always been ambivalent towards my grandmother. It's not really due to any particular fault of hers, it's just that I've always been pretty unattached when it comes to ... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | He had awoken, expecting to take the world by storm once again, to reap havoc, watch the world burn as his influence incited kingdoms to war, men to kill, women to betray, and brother to murder brother.
He missed those days, a whisper here, a vision there and the people of ancient times became his puppets.
Not in thi... | Today I will show the world. My power.
I am done with the grey gloomy boredom.
Today I am going to play devil. I scare
my own minions in a prank. I savagely
rip open the chest of my stuffed toy.
Today I will change your world. I rise
onto the surface of the concrete jungle. I conquer ... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | The Lord of Plagues was buried deep below the surface, left to rot, surrounded by the unholy filth that emanated from him. But he was not dead, he was sickness personified, mortality was unknown to him. The land around him withered and died, nothing would grow, even animals would avoid the area.
After millennia, the e... | Today I will show the world. My power.
I am done with the grey gloomy boredom.
Today I am going to play devil. I scare
my own minions in a prank. I savagely
rip open the chest of my stuffed toy.
Today I will change your world. I rise
onto the surface of the concrete jungle. I conquer ... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | **"I AM RELEASED! YOU HAVE UNDERESTIMATED ME FOR THE LAST TIME, MORTALS!"**
The spectral body that unfurled like smoke from the darkness of the tomb bellowed with a terrible, terrible voice. It sounded both at once like a million anguished cries, and the whispers of the dead. Almost every single one of the archaeolog... | Today I will show the world. My power.
I am done with the grey gloomy boredom.
Today I am going to play devil. I scare
my own minions in a prank. I savagely
rip open the chest of my stuffed toy.
Today I will change your world. I rise
onto the surface of the concrete jungle. I conquer ... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | "Cower, before me mortals! FOR I AM RISEN!" I bellowed
But there was very little cowering.
"Cool costume, dude. Did you make it yourself?" One of the oddly attired mortals asked, daring to address me
"I SHALL REND YOUR FLE-... Sorry, costume? What... This isn't a costume, this is my ceremonial armour." I responded, ... | Today I will show the world. My power.
I am done with the grey gloomy boredom.
Today I am going to play devil. I scare
my own minions in a prank. I savagely
rip open the chest of my stuffed toy.
Today I will change your world. I rise
onto the surface of the concrete jungle. I conquer ... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | It rises from its slumber. The dust of millennia cascading from its form. It fixes its yellow eyes to the wall, crude depictions of its terrible history. It smiles and turns its attention to the newly formed cracks in the wall of its prison. The ancients had been careful to seal it tightly. Not even light could penetra... | Today I will show the world. My power.
I am done with the grey gloomy boredom.
Today I am going to play devil. I scare
my own minions in a prank. I savagely
rip open the chest of my stuffed toy.
Today I will change your world. I rise
onto the surface of the concrete jungle. I conquer ... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | He had awoken, expecting to take the world by storm once again, to reap havoc, watch the world burn as his influence incited kingdoms to war, men to kill, women to betray, and brother to murder brother.
He missed those days, a whisper here, a vision there and the people of ancient times became his puppets.
Not in thi... | "You're kidding me."
"I wish. Check the cameras for yourself."
"But... you've gotta be kidding me."
"Just look."
More than a little perturbed, Lucas walked over to the holo screens to look in on their newest guest. As he approached, his aural implant stopped filtering the audio coming from their guest's containm... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | The Lord of Plagues was buried deep below the surface, left to rot, surrounded by the unholy filth that emanated from him. But he was not dead, he was sickness personified, mortality was unknown to him. The land around him withered and died, nothing would grow, even animals would avoid the area.
After millennia, the e... | "You're kidding me."
"I wish. Check the cameras for yourself."
"But... you've gotta be kidding me."
"Just look."
More than a little perturbed, Lucas walked over to the holo screens to look in on their newest guest. As he approached, his aural implant stopped filtering the audio coming from their guest's containm... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | **"I AM RELEASED! YOU HAVE UNDERESTIMATED ME FOR THE LAST TIME, MORTALS!"**
The spectral body that unfurled like smoke from the darkness of the tomb bellowed with a terrible, terrible voice. It sounded both at once like a million anguished cries, and the whispers of the dead. Almost every single one of the archaeolog... | "You're kidding me."
"I wish. Check the cameras for yourself."
"But... you've gotta be kidding me."
"Just look."
More than a little perturbed, Lucas walked over to the holo screens to look in on their newest guest. As he approached, his aural implant stopped filtering the audio coming from their guest's containm... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | He had awoken, expecting to take the world by storm once again, to reap havoc, watch the world burn as his influence incited kingdoms to war, men to kill, women to betray, and brother to murder brother.
He missed those days, a whisper here, a vision there and the people of ancient times became his puppets.
Not in thi... | Name Redacted was furious. You lay dormant for a few centuries too many and suddenly he'd lost all of his potency. Oh, he had all of his powers but he couldn't use them anymore. As soon as he'd risen in fire and death from his tomb under their precious Eiffel Tower he'd heard the comforting screams and crying. But it'd... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | **"I AM RELEASED! YOU HAVE UNDERESTIMATED ME FOR THE LAST TIME, MORTALS!"**
The spectral body that unfurled like smoke from the darkness of the tomb bellowed with a terrible, terrible voice. It sounded both at once like a million anguished cries, and the whispers of the dead. Almost every single one of the archaeolog... | Name Redacted was furious. You lay dormant for a few centuries too many and suddenly he'd lost all of his potency. Oh, he had all of his powers but he couldn't use them anymore. As soon as he'd risen in fire and death from his tomb under their precious Eiffel Tower he'd heard the comforting screams and crying. But it'd... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | **"I AM RELEASED! YOU HAVE UNDERESTIMATED ME FOR THE LAST TIME, MORTALS!"**
The spectral body that unfurled like smoke from the darkness of the tomb bellowed with a terrible, terrible voice. It sounded both at once like a million anguished cries, and the whispers of the dead. Almost every single one of the archaeolog... | The Lord of Plagues was buried deep below the surface, left to rot, surrounded by the unholy filth that emanated from him. But he was not dead, he was sickness personified, mortality was unknown to him. The land around him withered and died, nothing would grow, even animals would avoid the area.
After millennia, the e... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | A dark monolith rests at the top of a snow frosted peaks of Delani. The glyphs covering the great stone begin to pulse ominously with a red glow. A massive explosion pushes away the wonderfully white scenery revealing the black charred remains of rock underneath. Shards of the unknown element litter the mountainside me... | Exfalcior had slept beneath the Doom Trench for thousands of years. It had seen civilisations rise and fall, rulers die and their bones turn to dust. Its ancient maw craved blood of the humans who walked above the surface and disturbed its sleep.
As the planets aligned in the sky, the binding runes faded from the preh... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | When the red bones appeared and burned through the ganges delta, it convinced many that their ancient gods had forsaken the world, casting them off to be consumed by death and ruin. Villages, and then cities were burned to the ground trying to stem the tide, but the disease only seemed to spread with chaos following i... | Exfalcior had slept beneath the Doom Trench for thousands of years. It had seen civilisations rise and fall, rulers die and their bones turn to dust. Its ancient maw craved blood of the humans who walked above the surface and disturbed its sleep.
As the planets aligned in the sky, the binding runes faded from the preh... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | A dark monolith rests at the top of a snow frosted peaks of Delani. The glyphs covering the great stone begin to pulse ominously with a red glow. A massive explosion pushes away the wonderfully white scenery revealing the black charred remains of rock underneath. Shards of the unknown element litter the mountainside me... | All told, Vritra had a very successful 5,000 odd years. He had taken a break from the world just as the Indus Valley civilisations collapsed and he deserved it. Few humans knew who he was, but there they were, continuing to speculate, wonder and theorise why the Indus Valley collapsed. And some of them were right: weat... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | When the red bones appeared and burned through the ganges delta, it convinced many that their ancient gods had forsaken the world, casting them off to be consumed by death and ruin. Villages, and then cities were burned to the ground trying to stem the tide, but the disease only seemed to spread with chaos following i... | All told, Vritra had a very successful 5,000 odd years. He had taken a break from the world just as the Indus Valley civilisations collapsed and he deserved it. Few humans knew who he was, but there they were, continuing to speculate, wonder and theorise why the Indus Valley collapsed. And some of them were right: weat... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | They called it Ebon, an ancient power born in darkness, surrounded by a mantle of night’s own gloom. It attacked swiftly and ravenously, devouring man and animal alike without discretion.
The rare survivors all spoke of the same horrifying events. Villagers travelling by torch and moon’s light would encounter sudde... | All told, Vritra had a very successful 5,000 odd years. He had taken a break from the world just as the Indus Valley civilisations collapsed and he deserved it. Few humans knew who he was, but there they were, continuing to speculate, wonder and theorise why the Indus Valley collapsed. And some of them were right: weat... | |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | When the red bones appeared and burned through the ganges delta, it convinced many that their ancient gods had forsaken the world, casting them off to be consumed by death and ruin. Villages, and then cities were burned to the ground trying to stem the tide, but the disease only seemed to spread with chaos following i... | A dark monolith rests at the top of a snow frosted peaks of Delani. The glyphs covering the great stone begin to pulse ominously with a red glow. A massive explosion pushes away the wonderfully white scenery revealing the black charred remains of rock underneath. Shards of the unknown element litter the mountainside me... | |
[WP] Every night I tell my girlfriend a bedtime story by the end of this one I'd like her to be my fiancé. | Long ago, a beautiful young woman with [brown] hair and eyes the color of [the finest chocolates in all the kingdom] went into the forest to gather berries. She was a beloved lady in the village, the pinnacle of grace, charm, and wit.
She never went far, as the berry bushes lined the forest's edge, just within the vie... |
The Prince and the princess
There once was a prince who loved a princess. But it was not to be, because this princess was already betrothed to another. But this prince could see that this princess was not truly happy. She was married to a dragon and her and that dragon were able to sire two children together. But as... | |
[WP] After you die and get to heaven you see a small paper sign on the pearly white gates. It reads "Please use other door." There are no other doors in sight. | I blinked a few times. Dying was disorienting. I was glad to see light and feel a warm breeze. It didn't seem like hell. I even saw telltale pearl doors in the distance. Of course, all this could just be chemicals running through my brain as everything finally shut down, but that attitude didn't get you anywhere. I sta... | Ted looks around for a moment for this other door. He looks around the free-standing Pearly Gates to see if maybe this other door is on the other side. Nope. He then pulls on a bit of cloud. like someone lifting up a rug or table cloth. Nothing.
"Well damn," Ted announces. "I knew this religion thing was bunch of bolo... | |
[WP] After you die and get to heaven you see a small paper sign on the pearly white gates. It reads "Please use other door." There are no other doors in sight. | "Oh, I get it," Frank sneered. "It's *Hell.* Great." He muttered under his breath. "Knew I shouldn't have skipped church last sunday." But then, how could he have known he'd be having a heart attack before he had any chance to repent?
Come to think of it, how did he *know* he'd had a heart attack? He had been sleeping... | My eyes shot open, and I staggered forwards.
I was… dead? Muddled thoughts and flashes of the crash churned in my head. I checked my hands; tentatively felt my chest, arms, and legs. There was nothing broken.
I *felt* fine. Felt fantastic, in fact.
I took a look around me. Blankness like miles of white canva... | |
[WP] After you die and get to heaven you see a small paper sign on the pearly white gates. It reads "Please use other door." There are no other doors in sight. | Andrew Nosely was a serious man. He did things in a promptly, tidy way and always followed the rules.
He had a routine that he followed precisely everyday. At 5:00 am he would wake up. There was no need for an alarm clock, such a chaotically noisy thing would ruin his morning!
First Andrew would get dressed. Left soc... | My eyes shot open, and I staggered forwards.
I was… dead? Muddled thoughts and flashes of the crash churned in my head. I checked my hands; tentatively felt my chest, arms, and legs. There was nothing broken.
I *felt* fine. Felt fantastic, in fact.
I took a look around me. Blankness like miles of white canva... | |
[WP] After you die and get to heaven you see a small paper sign on the pearly white gates. It reads "Please use other door." There are no other doors in sight. | John had worked his whole life to get into heaven. He did all the right things, just like what the bible told him. He did not lust after worldly pleasures. He made sure to pray the first thing in the morning, thanking God for all the blessings bestowed upon him. Ten percent of his earnings are automatically transferred... | My eyes shot open, and I staggered forwards.
I was… dead? Muddled thoughts and flashes of the crash churned in my head. I checked my hands; tentatively felt my chest, arms, and legs. There was nothing broken.
I *felt* fine. Felt fantastic, in fact.
I took a look around me. Blankness like miles of white canva... | |
[WP] After you die and get to heaven you see a small paper sign on the pearly white gates. It reads "Please use other door." There are no other doors in sight. | There was already a large queue of people waiting outside the gates, which were locked shut with a chunky golden chain.
I gave the gate a rattle. There was no answer.
"It's no use," said one of the others. "They're closed."
"Closed?" I said. "How can heaven be closed? It's eternal."
He shrugged, and went back to ch... | My eyes shot open, and I staggered forwards.
I was… dead? Muddled thoughts and flashes of the crash churned in my head. I checked my hands; tentatively felt my chest, arms, and legs. There was nothing broken.
I *felt* fine. Felt fantastic, in fact.
I took a look around me. Blankness like miles of white canva... | |
[WP] Water is the most dangerous fluid in the galaxy. Earthlings drink it like it's nothing. | "Ma'am, I think you should come look at this." The crinkled old hag that sat at the console pointed with a green, bony finger to the screen.
"What am I looking at?" asked the green figure.
"Humans. Drinking. Water."
There was a silent pause as the entire room froze, the quiet squeaking of one fool with her headphone... | Faith by its very nature is absurd. Not in a way that implies it’s something not worth pursuing, but that by requisite it forces you to accept something you cannot see. To leap whole heartedly into something that you cannot definitively prove. And this is where it becomes something uniquely suited to the human conditio... | |
[WP] Water is the most dangerous fluid in the galaxy. Earthlings drink it like it's nothing. | The phone rang. Tim picked it up and swiped right to answer.
"Hello"
"Hello, Tim."
The voice was familiar but Tim had never spoken with his man before.
"Hello, Mr. President." He responded, doing his best to hide his excitement.
"I have the information your team requested and I'm willing to grant it to you. Th... | Faith by its very nature is absurd. Not in a way that implies it’s something not worth pursuing, but that by requisite it forces you to accept something you cannot see. To leap whole heartedly into something that you cannot definitively prove. And this is where it becomes something uniquely suited to the human conditio... | |
[WP] Water is the most dangerous fluid in the galaxy. Earthlings drink it like it's nothing. | The light fades in to reveal an important looking meeting room, a large circular table placed in the middle, with ten different looking creatures seated around it. In the middle of the table, an image of a blue and green planet is being projected for all the attendees to see.
Chatter fills the room, the different crea... | Faith by its very nature is absurd. Not in a way that implies it’s something not worth pursuing, but that by requisite it forces you to accept something you cannot see. To leap whole heartedly into something that you cannot definitively prove. And this is where it becomes something uniquely suited to the human conditio... | |
[WP] Water is the most dangerous fluid in the galaxy. Earthlings drink it like it's nothing. | "Thglwmp it is time for your powered down cycle."
Thglwmp writhed in its caretaker's grip. "Whyyyy?" Thglwmp asked plaintively.
"It is that moment in the cycle," said its caretaker.
"Tell me one more story, Caretaker Pthkw. Tell me the one about the Earthlings."
Pthkw buzzed impatiently. Well, at least it worked ... | Faith by its very nature is absurd. Not in a way that implies it’s something not worth pursuing, but that by requisite it forces you to accept something you cannot see. To leap whole heartedly into something that you cannot definitively prove. And this is where it becomes something uniquely suited to the human conditio... | |
[WP] Water is the most dangerous fluid in the galaxy. Earthlings drink it like it's nothing. | The phone rang. Tim picked it up and swiped right to answer.
"Hello"
"Hello, Tim."
The voice was familiar but Tim had never spoken with his man before.
"Hello, Mr. President." He responded, doing his best to hide his excitement.
"I have the information your team requested and I'm willing to grant it to you. Th... | "Ma'am, I think you should come look at this." The crinkled old hag that sat at the console pointed with a green, bony finger to the screen.
"What am I looking at?" asked the green figure.
"Humans. Drinking. Water."
There was a silent pause as the entire room froze, the quiet squeaking of one fool with her headphone... | |
[WP] Water is the most dangerous fluid in the galaxy. Earthlings drink it like it's nothing. | "Thglwmp it is time for your powered down cycle."
Thglwmp writhed in its caretaker's grip. "Whyyyy?" Thglwmp asked plaintively.
"It is that moment in the cycle," said its caretaker.
"Tell me one more story, Caretaker Pthkw. Tell me the one about the Earthlings."
Pthkw buzzed impatiently. Well, at least it worked ... | The light fades in to reveal an important looking meeting room, a large circular table placed in the middle, with ten different looking creatures seated around it. In the middle of the table, an image of a blue and green planet is being projected for all the attendees to see.
Chatter fills the room, the different crea... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | I threw on a dark suit, a somber tie (or at least the closest to somber I owned; like most college students, I'm not known for my extensive wardrobe). My dad was coming to pick me up soon. I paced the dorm entry way waiting for the familiar blue minivan.
"So, you don't want me to come with?" my brown-eyed girlfrien... | I woke from a small bed to the menacing vibrations and sounds from my iPhone. I peered through my eyelids fighting the depolarized muscles fighting to keep my lids shut at my phone as I made a clumsy effort to hit the snooze button. I spun my head around to gather my surroundings, but the alcohol the night prior made m... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | And that's when I put two and two together. My grandmother after her sex change achieved internet stardom long before the rise of the you-tube pioneers. The hand made sign leaning up against the hand crafted mahogany casket about to be lowered into the earth gave remembrance to the memories. Bright red letters sparklin... | I woke from a small bed to the menacing vibrations and sounds from my iPhone. I peered through my eyelids fighting the depolarized muscles fighting to keep my lids shut at my phone as I made a clumsy effort to hit the snooze button. I spun my head around to gather my surroundings, but the alcohol the night prior made m... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | ever since I left Mexico, I always remembered how life in the countryside seemed to stay stuck in the past, specially in my childhood. it seemed like the steam engine never arrived to the rugged mountains of rural Mexico.
this has changed a little however, a sporadic wave of government genuinely trying to improve the... | I woke from a small bed to the menacing vibrations and sounds from my iPhone. I peered through my eyelids fighting the depolarized muscles fighting to keep my lids shut at my phone as I made a clumsy effort to hit the snooze button. I spun my head around to gather my surroundings, but the alcohol the night prior made m... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | I fidget in my seat and tug at the hemline of my skirt, trying to bring it past my knees. Grandma was very traditional and although she never said it, she had never approved of my dress sense. Today I look nothing like myself. My usual pastel colours have muted to black and grey in mourning. My mother sits beside me in... | I woke from a small bed to the menacing vibrations and sounds from my iPhone. I peered through my eyelids fighting the depolarized muscles fighting to keep my lids shut at my phone as I made a clumsy effort to hit the snooze button. I spun my head around to gather my surroundings, but the alcohol the night prior made m... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | I dreaded this day. We knew Grandma Mary had been going downhill for the last few years. Mom and dad didn't talk about it much, but we knew. The visits slowed after they put her in the home. A couple of my cousins and I would take turns visiting after school and taking her out to do her grocery shopping and run errands... | I woke from a small bed to the menacing vibrations and sounds from my iPhone. I peered through my eyelids fighting the depolarized muscles fighting to keep my lids shut at my phone as I made a clumsy effort to hit the snooze button. I spun my head around to gather my surroundings, but the alcohol the night prior made m... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | I was sitting in the front row of the church, watching the funeral procession as people paid their final respects. Most of the people here were academics, from top universities where she taught, her field of expertise was quantum physics.
One of the people, a woman I had never seen before broke out of line though a... | I woke from a small bed to the menacing vibrations and sounds from my iPhone. I peered through my eyelids fighting the depolarized muscles fighting to keep my lids shut at my phone as I made a clumsy effort to hit the snooze button. I spun my head around to gather my surroundings, but the alcohol the night prior made m... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | I left the printmakers and made my way down the street which was dark and oily looking in the evening's drizzle. I was bone tired, my elbow hurt from printing and I hated the insipid mess I had made that day. The green looked like the walls of a hospital corridor. I had torn the worst one up in a rage and the rest woul... | I woke from a small bed to the menacing vibrations and sounds from my iPhone. I peered through my eyelids fighting the depolarized muscles fighting to keep my lids shut at my phone as I made a clumsy effort to hit the snooze button. I spun my head around to gather my surroundings, but the alcohol the night prior made m... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | The morning started out very rough, all the hotels within an hour of our hometown had been completely booked so all the family had to stay at our house the night before the funeral.
I got up early to get ready and then went outside to sent on the porch and wait for my mom to say it was time to go. I had avoided socia... | I woke from a small bed to the menacing vibrations and sounds from my iPhone. I peered through my eyelids fighting the depolarized muscles fighting to keep my lids shut at my phone as I made a clumsy effort to hit the snooze button. I spun my head around to gather my surroundings, but the alcohol the night prior made m... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | I fidget in my seat and tug at the hemline of my skirt, trying to bring it past my knees. Grandma was very traditional and although she never said it, she had never approved of my dress sense. Today I look nothing like myself. My usual pastel colours have muted to black and grey in mourning. My mother sits beside me in... | I threw on a dark suit, a somber tie (or at least the closest to somber I owned; like most college students, I'm not known for my extensive wardrobe). My dad was coming to pick me up soon. I paced the dorm entry way waiting for the familiar blue minivan.
"So, you don't want me to come with?" my brown-eyed girlfrien... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | I dreaded this day. We knew Grandma Mary had been going downhill for the last few years. Mom and dad didn't talk about it much, but we knew. The visits slowed after they put her in the home. A couple of my cousins and I would take turns visiting after school and taking her out to do her grocery shopping and run errands... | I threw on a dark suit, a somber tie (or at least the closest to somber I owned; like most college students, I'm not known for my extensive wardrobe). My dad was coming to pick me up soon. I paced the dorm entry way waiting for the familiar blue minivan.
"So, you don't want me to come with?" my brown-eyed girlfrien... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | ever since I left Mexico, I always remembered how life in the countryside seemed to stay stuck in the past, specially in my childhood. it seemed like the steam engine never arrived to the rugged mountains of rural Mexico.
this has changed a little however, a sporadic wave of government genuinely trying to improve the... | And that's when I put two and two together. My grandmother after her sex change achieved internet stardom long before the rise of the you-tube pioneers. The hand made sign leaning up against the hand crafted mahogany casket about to be lowered into the earth gave remembrance to the memories. Bright red letters sparklin... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | I fidget in my seat and tug at the hemline of my skirt, trying to bring it past my knees. Grandma was very traditional and although she never said it, she had never approved of my dress sense. Today I look nothing like myself. My usual pastel colours have muted to black and grey in mourning. My mother sits beside me in... | And that's when I put two and two together. My grandmother after her sex change achieved internet stardom long before the rise of the you-tube pioneers. The hand made sign leaning up against the hand crafted mahogany casket about to be lowered into the earth gave remembrance to the memories. Bright red letters sparklin... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | I dreaded this day. We knew Grandma Mary had been going downhill for the last few years. Mom and dad didn't talk about it much, but we knew. The visits slowed after they put her in the home. A couple of my cousins and I would take turns visiting after school and taking her out to do her grocery shopping and run errands... | And that's when I put two and two together. My grandmother after her sex change achieved internet stardom long before the rise of the you-tube pioneers. The hand made sign leaning up against the hand crafted mahogany casket about to be lowered into the earth gave remembrance to the memories. Bright red letters sparklin... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | I was sitting in the front row of the church, watching the funeral procession as people paid their final respects. Most of the people here were academics, from top universities where she taught, her field of expertise was quantum physics.
One of the people, a woman I had never seen before broke out of line though a... | And that's when I put two and two together. My grandmother after her sex change achieved internet stardom long before the rise of the you-tube pioneers. The hand made sign leaning up against the hand crafted mahogany casket about to be lowered into the earth gave remembrance to the memories. Bright red letters sparklin... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | I left the printmakers and made my way down the street which was dark and oily looking in the evening's drizzle. I was bone tired, my elbow hurt from printing and I hated the insipid mess I had made that day. The green looked like the walls of a hospital corridor. I had torn the worst one up in a rage and the rest woul... | And that's when I put two and two together. My grandmother after her sex change achieved internet stardom long before the rise of the you-tube pioneers. The hand made sign leaning up against the hand crafted mahogany casket about to be lowered into the earth gave remembrance to the memories. Bright red letters sparklin... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | The morning started out very rough, all the hotels within an hour of our hometown had been completely booked so all the family had to stay at our house the night before the funeral.
I got up early to get ready and then went outside to sent on the porch and wait for my mom to say it was time to go. I had avoided socia... | And that's when I put two and two together. My grandmother after her sex change achieved internet stardom long before the rise of the you-tube pioneers. The hand made sign leaning up against the hand crafted mahogany casket about to be lowered into the earth gave remembrance to the memories. Bright red letters sparklin... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | I fidget in my seat and tug at the hemline of my skirt, trying to bring it past my knees. Grandma was very traditional and although she never said it, she had never approved of my dress sense. Today I look nothing like myself. My usual pastel colours have muted to black and grey in mourning. My mother sits beside me in... | ever since I left Mexico, I always remembered how life in the countryside seemed to stay stuck in the past, specially in my childhood. it seemed like the steam engine never arrived to the rugged mountains of rural Mexico.
this has changed a little however, a sporadic wave of government genuinely trying to improve the... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | I dreaded this day. We knew Grandma Mary had been going downhill for the last few years. Mom and dad didn't talk about it much, but we knew. The visits slowed after they put her in the home. A couple of my cousins and I would take turns visiting after school and taking her out to do her grocery shopping and run errands... | ever since I left Mexico, I always remembered how life in the countryside seemed to stay stuck in the past, specially in my childhood. it seemed like the steam engine never arrived to the rugged mountains of rural Mexico.
this has changed a little however, a sporadic wave of government genuinely trying to improve the... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | I was sitting in the front row of the church, watching the funeral procession as people paid their final respects. Most of the people here were academics, from top universities where she taught, her field of expertise was quantum physics.
One of the people, a woman I had never seen before broke out of line though a... | ever since I left Mexico, I always remembered how life in the countryside seemed to stay stuck in the past, specially in my childhood. it seemed like the steam engine never arrived to the rugged mountains of rural Mexico.
this has changed a little however, a sporadic wave of government genuinely trying to improve the... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | The morning started out very rough, all the hotels within an hour of our hometown had been completely booked so all the family had to stay at our house the night before the funeral.
I got up early to get ready and then went outside to sent on the porch and wait for my mom to say it was time to go. I had avoided socia... | ever since I left Mexico, I always remembered how life in the countryside seemed to stay stuck in the past, specially in my childhood. it seemed like the steam engine never arrived to the rugged mountains of rural Mexico.
this has changed a little however, a sporadic wave of government genuinely trying to improve the... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | I left the printmakers and made my way down the street which was dark and oily looking in the evening's drizzle. I was bone tired, my elbow hurt from printing and I hated the insipid mess I had made that day. The green looked like the walls of a hospital corridor. I had torn the worst one up in a rage and the rest woul... | "It's him." That's what I heard someone say as I pushed myself through the crowd. Was I getting paranoid? I was almost sure of what I heard. Did these people know me?
I had a weird feeling ever since I had to get out of my car hundreds of meters away from the cemetery. The street was packed with people and here and the... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | The morning started out very rough, all the hotels within an hour of our hometown had been completely booked so all the family had to stay at our house the night before the funeral.
I got up early to get ready and then went outside to sent on the porch and wait for my mom to say it was time to go. I had avoided socia... | "It's him." That's what I heard someone say as I pushed myself through the crowd. Was I getting paranoid? I was almost sure of what I heard. Did these people know me?
I had a weird feeling ever since I had to get out of my car hundreds of meters away from the cemetery. The street was packed with people and here and the... | |
[WP] You arrive at Grandma's funeral to find thousands of people from around the world also in mourning. You are entirely unaware that Grandma had 16.4m followers on Twitter. | The morning started out very rough, all the hotels within an hour of our hometown had been completely booked so all the family had to stay at our house the night before the funeral.
I got up early to get ready and then went outside to sent on the porch and wait for my mom to say it was time to go. I had avoided socia... | I left the printmakers and made my way down the street which was dark and oily looking in the evening's drizzle. I was bone tired, my elbow hurt from printing and I hated the insipid mess I had made that day. The green looked like the walls of a hospital corridor. I had torn the worst one up in a rage and the rest woul... | |
[WP] Aliens arive on Earth. Instead of interacting with people they just begin to establish a colony on uninhabited land only talking to humans when they are forced to | The census manager raised his eyebrows.
"And we haven't conducted anything in this village because...?"
The local looked at him nervously.
"Well... Well, it's because this town didn't exist until earlier this month"
The manager scoffed and pointed his finger at the minor Suburbia.
"Are you kidding me? That's a... | Year 2026, the year it all began. I remember seeing the first Cube slowly approach Earth. And they kept coming and coming. One after another. First one landed on the Amazon. And when it left the following Cube landed on the same place.
We called them Cubes. Because, well, they were giant cubes. Once they land, they op... | |
[WP] Write a short poem/story that is either very happy or quite sad, but we have no idea which until the very last word. | I dragged the armless, legless man out of the trenches. The man was a plow, his bloodied stumps leaving looping furrows in the soupy dirt. My breath pounded like that of a malnourished oxen, dragging its way through a field ready to yield a crop of shrapnel corn and bloody tulips.
I could barely hear his breath when ... | " Hello, my name is Amir and I have been clean for 4 years." Loud applause echoed the room. Five years ago I joined the rehabilitation, it truly turned my life around. Now I give speeches to recovering addicts, trying to inspire them.
"My story starts 1996. A big day for my family. After working two jobs, for the most... | |
[WP] Write a short poem/story that is either very happy or quite sad, but we have no idea which until the very last word. | The sun was shining. It was warm on my face, and I squinted from the intensity of it. School had just let out, and I had nowhere to be. I wasn't headed in any particular direction. I was just aimlessly wandering the streets of my small town to kill time and take in the beautiful summer day.
In the distance I saw that ... | " Hello, my name is Amir and I have been clean for 4 years." Loud applause echoed the room. Five years ago I joined the rehabilitation, it truly turned my life around. Now I give speeches to recovering addicts, trying to inspire them.
"My story starts 1996. A big day for my family. After working two jobs, for the most... | |
[WP] Write a short poem/story that is either very happy or quite sad, but we have no idea which until the very last word. | *I am finally where I want to be*, I think to myself, as I wake up beside her. After all this time, it's still a bit of a surprise, a reminder of the college days when Lea would sneak into my room after I'd gone to sleep. Everything is soft and golden, from the morning sunlight to the strands of her hair on the pillowc... | " Hello, my name is Amir and I have been clean for 4 years." Loud applause echoed the room. Five years ago I joined the rehabilitation, it truly turned my life around. Now I give speeches to recovering addicts, trying to inspire them.
"My story starts 1996. A big day for my family. After working two jobs, for the most... | |
[WP] Write a short poem/story that is either very happy or quite sad, but we have no idea which until the very last word. | A simple silver bracelet
She holds it to the light
It gleams
She smiles
"I love it!" she says
She takes his hand
And holds it against her face
"You know me so well!" she says
She strokes his face
"I love you," she says
And places the bracelet on his bloodied chest
| " Hello, my name is Amir and I have been clean for 4 years." Loud applause echoed the room. Five years ago I joined the rehabilitation, it truly turned my life around. Now I give speeches to recovering addicts, trying to inspire them.
"My story starts 1996. A big day for my family. After working two jobs, for the most... | |
[WP] Write a short poem/story that is either very happy or quite sad, but we have no idea which until the very last word. | I take a seat on the grass, and tell him about my day
As usual he listens, he doesn't have much to say.
A great man a true one, the best father ever
He's supported me through all my endeavors.
He'll support me and my choices to the day I die,
He'll be there when i need to laugh, or even when I cry.
Of course, thi... | " Hello, my name is Amir and I have been clean for 4 years." Loud applause echoed the room. Five years ago I joined the rehabilitation, it truly turned my life around. Now I give speeches to recovering addicts, trying to inspire them.
"My story starts 1996. A big day for my family. After working two jobs, for the most... | |
[WP] Write a short poem/story that is either very happy or quite sad, but we have no idea which until the very last word. | The sun was shining. It was warm on my face, and I squinted from the intensity of it. School had just let out, and I had nowhere to be. I wasn't headed in any particular direction. I was just aimlessly wandering the streets of my small town to kill time and take in the beautiful summer day.
In the distance I saw that ... | I dragged the armless, legless man out of the trenches. The man was a plow, his bloodied stumps leaving looping furrows in the soupy dirt. My breath pounded like that of a malnourished oxen, dragging its way through a field ready to yield a crop of shrapnel corn and bloody tulips.
I could barely hear his breath when ... | |
[WP] Write a short poem/story that is either very happy or quite sad, but we have no idea which until the very last word. | A simple silver bracelet
She holds it to the light
It gleams
She smiles
"I love it!" she says
She takes his hand
And holds it against her face
"You know me so well!" she says
She strokes his face
"I love you," she says
And places the bracelet on his bloodied chest
| I dragged the armless, legless man out of the trenches. The man was a plow, his bloodied stumps leaving looping furrows in the soupy dirt. My breath pounded like that of a malnourished oxen, dragging its way through a field ready to yield a crop of shrapnel corn and bloody tulips.
I could barely hear his breath when ... | |
[WP] Write a short poem/story that is either very happy or quite sad, but we have no idea which until the very last word. | A simple silver bracelet
She holds it to the light
It gleams
She smiles
"I love it!" she says
She takes his hand
And holds it against her face
"You know me so well!" she says
She strokes his face
"I love you," she says
And places the bracelet on his bloodied chest
| *I am finally where I want to be*, I think to myself, as I wake up beside her. After all this time, it's still a bit of a surprise, a reminder of the college days when Lea would sneak into my room after I'd gone to sleep. Everything is soft and golden, from the morning sunlight to the strands of her hair on the pillowc... | |
[WP] ''Hold my beer'' - God | "I cannot bear to watch any further! Hold my beer and I'll get onto the field to whip some sense into them!"
Oh God, here we go again. To Him, I only said, "That is certainly wise, but You of all entities need to work in mysterious ways, for prestige and, uh, tradition."
"I stopped believing in the 'mysterious' minot... | It had been a long time coming. I mean, history is cyclical- right?
This has happened before, the lead up was the same, the characters the same in all but name, the rest of the pawns were in place.
This time round Trump was the president, Merkel was Chancellor. There was a potential rumour brewing in the East of missi... | |
[WP] ''Hold my beer'' - God | "Look mum! I drew this picture for you."
The little boy was beaming. He was clearly very proud of the rough drawing of the stick-figure family in front of a house. Bright yellow crayon was scribbled in the corner to depict a bright sunny day.
"Hold my beer kid," said the mother. She rolled her eyes at the amateur wor... | It had been a long time coming. I mean, history is cyclical- right?
This has happened before, the lead up was the same, the characters the same in all but name, the rest of the pawns were in place.
This time round Trump was the president, Merkel was Chancellor. There was a potential rumour brewing in the East of missi... | |
[WP] ''Hold my beer'' - God | "Descartes, hold my beer."
"Sir?"
"I'm going to make a golf ball so big I can't get a hole in one."
"But sir-"
"What? You think I can't do it?"
"Well, it is..umm."
"What exactly do you think, Mr. Decartes?" Pascal asked.
"Shut the fuck up Pascal. You're only here because you like to fucking gamble. Fifty bucks s... | It had been a long time coming. I mean, history is cyclical- right?
This has happened before, the lead up was the same, the characters the same in all but name, the rest of the pawns were in place.
This time round Trump was the president, Merkel was Chancellor. There was a potential rumour brewing in the East of missi... | |
[WP] ''Hold my beer'' - God | NASA was in a frenzy. They were looking at feeds from observatories around the planet.
"It's definitely on a straight collisions course. And it's monstrous. Must be... two hundred miles in diameter, easy."
"What the hell is it?!" asked the director.
"No one's got ideas yet. The frontal side seems perfectly circular... | It had been a long time coming. I mean, history is cyclical- right?
This has happened before, the lead up was the same, the characters the same in all but name, the rest of the pawns were in place.
This time round Trump was the president, Merkel was Chancellor. There was a potential rumour brewing in the East of missi... | |
[WP] ''Hold my beer'' - God | "Look mum! I drew this picture for you."
The little boy was beaming. He was clearly very proud of the rough drawing of the stick-figure family in front of a house. Bright yellow crayon was scribbled in the corner to depict a bright sunny day.
"Hold my beer kid," said the mother. She rolled her eyes at the amateur wor... | "I cannot bear to watch any further! Hold my beer and I'll get onto the field to whip some sense into them!"
Oh God, here we go again. To Him, I only said, "That is certainly wise, but You of all entities need to work in mysterious ways, for prestige and, uh, tradition."
"I stopped believing in the 'mysterious' minot... | |
[WP] ''Hold my beer'' - God | "Descartes, hold my beer."
"Sir?"
"I'm going to make a golf ball so big I can't get a hole in one."
"But sir-"
"What? You think I can't do it?"
"Well, it is..umm."
"What exactly do you think, Mr. Decartes?" Pascal asked.
"Shut the fuck up Pascal. You're only here because you like to fucking gamble. Fifty bucks s... | "I cannot bear to watch any further! Hold my beer and I'll get onto the field to whip some sense into them!"
Oh God, here we go again. To Him, I only said, "That is certainly wise, but You of all entities need to work in mysterious ways, for prestige and, uh, tradition."
"I stopped believing in the 'mysterious' minot... | |
[WP] ''Hold my beer'' - God | NASA was in a frenzy. They were looking at feeds from observatories around the planet.
"It's definitely on a straight collisions course. And it's monstrous. Must be... two hundred miles in diameter, easy."
"What the hell is it?!" asked the director.
"No one's got ideas yet. The frontal side seems perfectly circular... | "I cannot bear to watch any further! Hold my beer and I'll get onto the field to whip some sense into them!"
Oh God, here we go again. To Him, I only said, "That is certainly wise, but You of all entities need to work in mysterious ways, for prestige and, uh, tradition."
"I stopped believing in the 'mysterious' minot... | |
[WP] ''Hold my beer'' - God | NASA was in a frenzy. They were looking at feeds from observatories around the planet.
"It's definitely on a straight collisions course. And it's monstrous. Must be... two hundred miles in diameter, easy."
"What the hell is it?!" asked the director.
"No one's got ideas yet. The frontal side seems perfectly circular... | "Descartes, hold my beer."
"Sir?"
"I'm going to make a golf ball so big I can't get a hole in one."
"But sir-"
"What? You think I can't do it?"
"Well, it is..umm."
"What exactly do you think, Mr. Decartes?" Pascal asked.
"Shut the fuck up Pascal. You're only here because you like to fucking gamble. Fifty bucks s... | |
Seemed cool. I hope you have fun with this one | [WP] You died, only to be revived centuries in the future. You don't know why you were chosen, and nobody will tell you. | "Vitals normalizing. Ease him in."
A muffled sound could be heard through the speakers near my bed. I was tired, I went to bed pretty late last night, studying for my final exam in chemistry. My bed felt different, and my sheets were thinner than I thought they were. I sat up and rubbed my eyes in the darkness. My... | With a scream of pain, caused by a sudden acception of electric pulses in the brain, Brian opend his eyes. He tried to move his body, only to find out he was strapped to some sort of table. Looking around the room as best as he could, without moving his head, he could see that he was in some kind of hospital room. Just... |
Seemed cool. I hope you have fun with this one | [WP] You died, only to be revived centuries in the future. You don't know why you were chosen, and nobody will tell you. | "I've told you, I can't tell you Jacob."
Jacob sighed and leaned back on the park bench, resting his head on a tree that lay behind them. He looked around, surrounded by complete peace. The garden that he sat in was breathtakingly beautiful, flowers of all colours were in bloom. The crystal clear water flowed gently d... | With a scream of pain, caused by a sudden acception of electric pulses in the brain, Brian opend his eyes. He tried to move his body, only to find out he was strapped to some sort of table. Looking around the room as best as he could, without moving his head, he could see that he was in some kind of hospital room. Just... |
Seemed cool. I hope you have fun with this one | [WP] You died, only to be revived centuries in the future. You don't know why you were chosen, and nobody will tell you. | "Vitals normalizing. Ease him in."
A muffled sound could be heard through the speakers near my bed. I was tired, I went to bed pretty late last night, studying for my final exam in chemistry. My bed felt different, and my sheets were thinner than I thought they were. I sat up and rubbed my eyes in the darkness. My... | The chair I rest on in my head,
Mirrors life I had while in my bed,
My thoughts so crystal that I fear,
A boat to dock close to the pier;
The air so soft rolls off my skin,
Standing still but stuck in a spin,
All I know is now brand new
Already old but still I grew,
... |
Seemed cool. I hope you have fun with this one | [WP] You died, only to be revived centuries in the future. You don't know why you were chosen, and nobody will tell you. | "I've told you, I can't tell you Jacob."
Jacob sighed and leaned back on the park bench, resting his head on a tree that lay behind them. He looked around, surrounded by complete peace. The garden that he sat in was breathtakingly beautiful, flowers of all colours were in bloom. The crystal clear water flowed gently d... | The chair I rest on in my head,
Mirrors life I had while in my bed,
My thoughts so crystal that I fear,
A boat to dock close to the pier;
The air so soft rolls off my skin,
Standing still but stuck in a spin,
All I know is now brand new
Already old but still I grew,
... |
Seemed cool. I hope you have fun with this one | [WP] You died, only to be revived centuries in the future. You don't know why you were chosen, and nobody will tell you. | "AHHHHHHHH!"
He bolted up in bed and fumbled in the dark for a light switch.
It took him a moment to check himself. "Computer, lights."
Panels in the ceiling and in the walls came up to a soft warm glow.
"A little brighter, please."
He was able to take his bearings and so he got out of bed. His shoulders ached, h... | The chair I rest on in my head,
Mirrors life I had while in my bed,
My thoughts so crystal that I fear,
A boat to dock close to the pier;
The air so soft rolls off my skin,
Standing still but stuck in a spin,
All I know is now brand new
Already old but still I grew,
... |
[WP] At the age of 18, everyone is given the chance to press a button with a randomized effect, or to turn it down and live normally. A positive effect and a negative one. The button is said to determine how your entire life will go, and there is no limit to what the button can propose. | I thought that turning down the button would keep my life from exploding.
I was right, but I was also wrong.
On my 18th birthday, the man with the box came around. He arrived in his impeccable black suit, with the perfectly knotted tie, and the formal black fedora that all of his ilk wore. The Man belonged to a speci... | "Ok, this is the moment of truth."
I said as I pressed the button.
I heard that there is a little chance of the button actually having a huge negative impact on my life. 90% of the cases were just a tiny event that had no repercussion on people's lives, so I decided that I might as well try my luck.
In hindsight, not ... |
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