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[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | 1000 Years Later
Sai Benedict was tired, scared, and alone; his lab assistants hadn't turned up to work, which could mean only one thing - the Earth Military Council had rounded them all up. That meant it would only be a matter of time until the intensive interrogations revealed the location of his lab; even with the ... | Meanwhile in a Secret Room with 8 mysterious men seated around a table:
Man 1: Gentlemen, It seems we have extraterrestrial life forms in our midst.
Man 2: Well well, I smell an opportunity. While we have profited from selling weapons to the US military, ISIS, the Saudis and other groups we can give the aliens our "... | |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | "You mean... we're actually more advanced than you? How is that possible? You came all the way here from... where, again?" President Clarke asked.
"Ah, ha ha. No, not more *advanced*, per se," Admiral OJ Simpson responded with an uncomfortable chuckle and shifted in his seat. "Just better at... what was that phrase, a... | Meanwhile in a Secret Room with 8 mysterious men seated around a table:
Man 1: Gentlemen, It seems we have extraterrestrial life forms in our midst.
Man 2: Well well, I smell an opportunity. While we have profited from selling weapons to the US military, ISIS, the Saudis and other groups we can give the aliens our "... | |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | The Council slowly came to order. 3 species from different worlds, all of them peaceful and advanced, with a 500 year history of being the closest of allies.
And yet, this discussion might just break them apart.
Council Member Grak, tall and slender beneath the iridescent scales of his race, stood from among his de... | Meanwhile in a Secret Room with 8 mysterious men seated around a table:
Man 1: Gentlemen, It seems we have extraterrestrial life forms in our midst.
Man 2: Well well, I smell an opportunity. While we have profited from selling weapons to the US military, ISIS, the Saudis and other groups we can give the aliens our "... | |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | "You mean... we're actually more advanced than you? How is that possible? You came all the way here from... where, again?" President Clarke asked.
"Ah, ha ha. No, not more *advanced*, per se," Admiral OJ Simpson responded with an uncomfortable chuckle and shifted in his seat. "Just better at... what was that phrase, a... | 1000 Years Later
Sai Benedict was tired, scared, and alone; his lab assistants hadn't turned up to work, which could mean only one thing - the Earth Military Council had rounded them all up. That meant it would only be a matter of time until the intensive interrogations revealed the location of his lab; even with the ... | |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | The Council slowly came to order. 3 species from different worlds, all of them peaceful and advanced, with a 500 year history of being the closest of allies.
And yet, this discussion might just break them apart.
Council Member Grak, tall and slender beneath the iridescent scales of his race, stood from among his de... | 1000 Years Later
Sai Benedict was tired, scared, and alone; his lab assistants hadn't turned up to work, which could mean only one thing - the Earth Military Council had rounded them all up. That meant it would only be a matter of time until the intensive interrogations revealed the location of his lab; even with the ... | |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | I felt quite insulted. The aliens had come, seeking destruction. They had reviewed all of their known space and we were the answer, the only species stupidly dangerous enough to help them fight off the neverending aggressions of their enemy. That was public knowledge, the high powered broadcast they sent out upon their... | The Zoom of a warp drive, a measurement of exact strength of a vaccuum, (a tricky thing, measuring vaccuum's within a vaccuum!) heated and shook. A contraption built from scrap metal and crap from the outer rim of this solar system.
Kazim was grateful though. In one of the human's furthest reasing trashcan's there was... | |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | "You mean... we're actually more advanced than you? How is that possible? You came all the way here from... where, again?" President Clarke asked.
"Ah, ha ha. No, not more *advanced*, per se," Admiral OJ Simpson responded with an uncomfortable chuckle and shifted in his seat. "Just better at... what was that phrase, a... | The Zoom of a warp drive, a measurement of exact strength of a vaccuum, (a tricky thing, measuring vaccuum's within a vaccuum!) heated and shook. A contraption built from scrap metal and crap from the outer rim of this solar system.
Kazim was grateful though. In one of the human's furthest reasing trashcan's there was... | |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | "So, these guys could wipe you off the face of the universe," President Walter said with a wide grin. "And you could do nothing about? No death rays? Giant robots? Small robots? Nothing?"
Although his big black eyes were unreadable to humans, the President and the rest of the UN Security Council noticed the little gre... | The Zoom of a warp drive, a measurement of exact strength of a vaccuum, (a tricky thing, measuring vaccuum's within a vaccuum!) heated and shook. A contraption built from scrap metal and crap from the outer rim of this solar system.
Kazim was grateful though. In one of the human's furthest reasing trashcan's there was... | |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | The Council slowly came to order. 3 species from different worlds, all of them peaceful and advanced, with a 500 year history of being the closest of allies.
And yet, this discussion might just break them apart.
Council Member Grak, tall and slender beneath the iridescent scales of his race, stood from among his de... | The Zoom of a warp drive, a measurement of exact strength of a vaccuum, (a tricky thing, measuring vaccuum's within a vaccuum!) heated and shook. A contraption built from scrap metal and crap from the outer rim of this solar system.
Kazim was grateful though. In one of the human's furthest reasing trashcan's there was... | |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | "Alien life forms, we acknowledge your signal. We expect you will understand ours. Send the dimensions of your vessel or vessels so that we might prepare a landing location.
Our technology is such that any trade, information sharing, or negotiation must be done on the surface. Earth's many factions are unanimous on th... | The Zoom of a warp drive, a measurement of exact strength of a vaccuum, (a tricky thing, measuring vaccuum's within a vaccuum!) heated and shook. A contraption built from scrap metal and crap from the outer rim of this solar system.
Kazim was grateful though. In one of the human's furthest reasing trashcan's there was... | |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | "Technology for violence is – hum – a concept we cannot really grasp", the Simian said, averting General Serling's
eyes.
*Simian*… The general thought it funny that, when humanity found out that the aliens descended from the same
branch of the evolution tree as we did, we decided to call *them* simians.
*Like we ar... | The Zoom of a warp drive, a measurement of exact strength of a vaccuum, (a tricky thing, measuring vaccuum's within a vaccuum!) heated and shook. A contraption built from scrap metal and crap from the outer rim of this solar system.
Kazim was grateful though. In one of the human's furthest reasing trashcan's there was... | |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | "You mean... we're actually more advanced than you? How is that possible? You came all the way here from... where, again?" President Clarke asked.
"Ah, ha ha. No, not more *advanced*, per se," Admiral OJ Simpson responded with an uncomfortable chuckle and shifted in his seat. "Just better at... what was that phrase, a... | I felt quite insulted. The aliens had come, seeking destruction. They had reviewed all of their known space and we were the answer, the only species stupidly dangerous enough to help them fight off the neverending aggressions of their enemy. That was public knowledge, the high powered broadcast they sent out upon their... | |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | "So, these guys could wipe you off the face of the universe," President Walter said with a wide grin. "And you could do nothing about? No death rays? Giant robots? Small robots? Nothing?"
Although his big black eyes were unreadable to humans, the President and the rest of the UN Security Council noticed the little gre... | I felt quite insulted. The aliens had come, seeking destruction. They had reviewed all of their known space and we were the answer, the only species stupidly dangerous enough to help them fight off the neverending aggressions of their enemy. That was public knowledge, the high powered broadcast they sent out upon their... | |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | The Council slowly came to order. 3 species from different worlds, all of them peaceful and advanced, with a 500 year history of being the closest of allies.
And yet, this discussion might just break them apart.
Council Member Grak, tall and slender beneath the iridescent scales of his race, stood from among his de... | I felt quite insulted. The aliens had come, seeking destruction. They had reviewed all of their known space and we were the answer, the only species stupidly dangerous enough to help them fight off the neverending aggressions of their enemy. That was public knowledge, the high powered broadcast they sent out upon their... | |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | The Council slowly came to order. 3 species from different worlds, all of them peaceful and advanced, with a 500 year history of being the closest of allies.
And yet, this discussion might just break them apart.
Council Member Grak, tall and slender beneath the iridescent scales of his race, stood from among his de... | "So, these guys could wipe you off the face of the universe," President Walter said with a wide grin. "And you could do nothing about? No death rays? Giant robots? Small robots? Nothing?"
Although his big black eyes were unreadable to humans, the President and the rest of the UN Security Council noticed the little gre... | |
First time posting here | [WP] The daughter of a mafia boss is assigned a body guard the same age as her to attend school with her for added protection. | My family isn't the most normal family, in fact we're more like a clan... of body guards. I mean we're mostly like every other family with just a few differences. I love my parents and siblings, and they love me. My cousins, aunts, uncles, and so on and so forth are all really close to each other. I guess most people w... | Maria Canaj stared at the man her father, Enver, was claiming was for her own protection. He was about her age but he did not look as if he came from Albania. "Father, who is this man? He does not look as if he is from Tirana." Her father smirked. "My dear Maria, that is because this man, Giorgi, has been loaned to me ... |
First time posting here | [WP] The daughter of a mafia boss is assigned a body guard the same age as her to attend school with her for added protection. | Two small palms slammed down upon the rich mahogany desk. "Why the hell would I need a bodyguard at school?" I looked up from my newspaper to see my daughter leaning forwards, her eyes just as fiery as her words.
I calmly folded my paper before answering. "Because you are my daughter."
"What the hell does that ... | Maria Canaj stared at the man her father, Enver, was claiming was for her own protection. He was about her age but he did not look as if he came from Albania. "Father, who is this man? He does not look as if he is from Tirana." Her father smirked. "My dear Maria, that is because this man, Giorgi, has been loaned to me ... |
First time posting here | [WP] The daughter of a mafia boss is assigned a body guard the same age as her to attend school with her for added protection. | Two small palms slammed down upon the rich mahogany desk. "Why the hell would I need a bodyguard at school?" I looked up from my newspaper to see my daughter leaning forwards, her eyes just as fiery as her words.
I calmly folded my paper before answering. "Because you are my daughter."
"What the hell does that ... | "Miss Shiratori, who is this man? What is this letter?" asked the tall boy in a suit.
"Oh, don't worry about it, Kenji. Only a classmate. Now, can you please stop... that?" replied his lady, winding a long strand of hair around her hand.
"....." came the silence of the boy choking before the two. It was an underclass... |
[WP] A rare coma experience allowed one man to think for "a million years", though only one day passed on earth. He just woke up. | "Good morning Jonathan. How do you feel?" the nurse said cheerily. The nervousness in her voice showed, the superficial smile and the pristine white uniform.
I had woken up.
"Put me back in." It wasn't a statement, or request. It was a command.
"...I'm sorry Mr. Sunder? You've been in a coma fo-" It must have b... | I can't remember what precipitated my endless hell. Sometimes I knew that something was wrong, that *this wasn't real*, but other times I let myself be pulled under the waves of insanity. It was a beautiful feeling to let go. That helped the passing of time. There were times where I went hundreds, thousands of years de... | |
[WP] Tell us about how you encountered a lovecraftian horror at work today | "Hey, honey," my wife said without looking up from her book. "How was work?"
I dragged my feet across the room and collapsed in my chair. "Miserable. You remember Ted got a new job a few weeks back? His replacement had its first day today."
She smiled. "'It'? You must really not be fond of them."
"That's what it is!... | "Welcome to McDonald's. What can I get for you?" I recited with the enthusiasm of someone being told they have incurable cancer.
The voice that seeped through the outside speaker and into my brain-choking headset was one of senescence and confusion, "Yeah, I'd like to get me one-a them poh-tae-toe cakes and a senior ... | |
[WP] Tell us about how you encountered a lovecraftian horror at work today | "Hey, honey," my wife said without looking up from her book. "How was work?"
I dragged my feet across the room and collapsed in my chair. "Miserable. You remember Ted got a new job a few weeks back? His replacement had its first day today."
She smiled. "'It'? You must really not be fond of them."
"That's what it is!... | With a kick in my step and a smile broad across my face I strolled down the hallway. With a wink I said hi to the receptionist.
"Morning Kelly!"
"Morning Ryan" she beamed back
I kept walking and ran into my coworker James.
"James! Wonderful day we're having isn't it?"
"I guess it is! Great to see you Ryan!" He rep... | |
[WP] In 2019, massive unrest sweeps across America. Its 2038, you're a history teacher...tasked with teaching the 2nd American Civil War. | **Jesus. This textbook has it wrong. Way to sugar-coat the truth assholes** I thought.
"All right students: turn to page 262, The American Disagreement."
**Disagreement, it was a fucking bloodbath.**
"Tommy, why don't you read the first paragraph aloud, popcorn style"
"Ok, sir... *clears throat* the Amerrrr"
"A... | "Alright class, quiet down."
Mr. Davis stands in the middle of the room, wearing Roman armour for one of his other classes. Kids finish their gossip and make their ways to open seats. Mr. Davis pulls a Trivial Pursuit card out of the card holder.
"Oh, how fitting," he mutters. "Who was the President of the United Sta... | |
[WP] In 2019, massive unrest sweeps across America. Its 2038, you're a history teacher...tasked with teaching the 2nd American Civil War. | "Hey, Jordan, could I pick your brain a bit?"
"Sure Kat, what's up?"
"Well, I'm starting to teach Chapter Two..."
"Ooh, the war. Dicey."
"Yeah, it is, but that's not my problem at the moment. I'm just not sure where to start. It only happened twenty years ago, the kids will know so much already. I just don't wa... | "Alright class, quiet down."
Mr. Davis stands in the middle of the room, wearing Roman armour for one of his other classes. Kids finish their gossip and make their ways to open seats. Mr. Davis pulls a Trivial Pursuit card out of the card holder.
"Oh, how fitting," he mutters. "Who was the President of the United Sta... | |
[WP] In 2019, massive unrest sweeps across America. Its 2038, you're a history teacher...tasked with teaching the 2nd American Civil War. | "Thomas, what was the cause of the first revolutionary war?"
"Taxation without representation."
"And what exactly does that mean, Brittany?"
"The British wanted the Colonies to pay for their wars, without letting them vote on anything."
"Absolutely right. What was the cause of the second revolutionary war?"
"A co... | "Alright class, quiet down."
Mr. Davis stands in the middle of the room, wearing Roman armour for one of his other classes. Kids finish their gossip and make their ways to open seats. Mr. Davis pulls a Trivial Pursuit card out of the card holder.
"Oh, how fitting," he mutters. "Who was the President of the United Sta... | |
[WP] In 2019, massive unrest sweeps across America. Its 2038, you're a history teacher...tasked with teaching the 2nd American Civil War. | Teaching controversial topics is something that every history teacher has to do eventually. It's usually the more recent things that I worry about teaching though. Nobody cares about the right and wrong of the Norman Invasion of England in 1066, but the Second American Civil War is still a hot topic, despite the f... | "Alright class, quiet down."
Mr. Davis stands in the middle of the room, wearing Roman armour for one of his other classes. Kids finish their gossip and make their ways to open seats. Mr. Davis pulls a Trivial Pursuit card out of the card holder.
"Oh, how fitting," he mutters. "Who was the President of the United Sta... | |
[WP] In 2019, massive unrest sweeps across America. Its 2038, you're a history teacher...tasked with teaching the 2nd American Civil War. | "Thomas, what was the cause of the first revolutionary war?"
"Taxation without representation."
"And what exactly does that mean, Brittany?"
"The British wanted the Colonies to pay for their wars, without letting them vote on anything."
"Absolutely right. What was the cause of the second revolutionary war?"
"A co... | "Hey, Jordan, could I pick your brain a bit?"
"Sure Kat, what's up?"
"Well, I'm starting to teach Chapter Two..."
"Ooh, the war. Dicey."
"Yeah, it is, but that's not my problem at the moment. I'm just not sure where to start. It only happened twenty years ago, the kids will know so much already. I just don't wa... | |
[WP] In 2019, massive unrest sweeps across America. Its 2038, you're a history teacher...tasked with teaching the 2nd American Civil War. | Teaching controversial topics is something that every history teacher has to do eventually. It's usually the more recent things that I worry about teaching though. Nobody cares about the right and wrong of the Norman Invasion of England in 1066, but the Second American Civil War is still a hot topic, despite the f... | "Hey, Jordan, could I pick your brain a bit?"
"Sure Kat, what's up?"
"Well, I'm starting to teach Chapter Two..."
"Ooh, the war. Dicey."
"Yeah, it is, but that's not my problem at the moment. I'm just not sure where to start. It only happened twenty years ago, the kids will know so much already. I just don't wa... | |
[WP] In 2019, massive unrest sweeps across America. Its 2038, you're a history teacher...tasked with teaching the 2nd American Civil War. | Teaching controversial topics is something that every history teacher has to do eventually. It's usually the more recent things that I worry about teaching though. Nobody cares about the right and wrong of the Norman Invasion of England in 1066, but the Second American Civil War is still a hot topic, despite the f... | "Thomas, what was the cause of the first revolutionary war?"
"Taxation without representation."
"And what exactly does that mean, Brittany?"
"The British wanted the Colonies to pay for their wars, without letting them vote on anything."
"Absolutely right. What was the cause of the second revolutionary war?"
"A co... | |
[WP] In 2019, massive unrest sweeps across America. Its 2038, you're a history teacher...tasked with teaching the 2nd American Civil War. | Teaching controversial topics is something that every history teacher has to do eventually. It's usually the more recent things that I worry about teaching though. Nobody cares about the right and wrong of the Norman Invasion of England in 1066, but the Second American Civil War is still a hot topic, despite the f... | "Though the Austin Offensive initially took place on 2021, beginning the official 2nd Civil War, we can trace our roots back to 2019, during the San-Fran Riots regarding the California Water Shortages."
"Drought, professor. It was a drought."
"No one gives a shit, William. Sit back down."
---------------------------... | |
[WP] In the middle of the night, you are woken by a tapping at your window: branches. You turn to go back to sleep, then remember: there is no tree there. | Once, the wind whispered through the grass and the leaves at night and carried away the endless hum of insects and the soft sounds of nocturnal birds searching for their prey. A blanket of peace across a world sleeping fitfully through the hot muggy months of summer. The boy remembered smelling it come through the wind... | How did I end up here? No, I’m not offended – on the contrary, I’m glad you asked. I know you’ll probably think I’m crazy; but I guess I’m buying you a drink so you to listen to me, not act as my psychiatrist. So here goes.
I’m a thirty year old woman. It’s been a month since I was married – a month preceded by multi... | |
[WP] Hitler is getting tired of time travellers coming to assassinate him, so he travels forward in time to kill the inventor of the time machine, who travels back in time to kill Hitler. | "Activate...DIE ZIETMASCHINE."
"Yes mein Fuhrer, your will be done." One of the SS Officers slammed the red button. The twelve chronoystals began to vibrate, and the underground command center glowed in a phantasmal blue light.
Hitler laughed diabolically as the cobalt ball of energy began to consume him, clutchi... | Why do I drink? I drink because Hitler killed my father.
No no no I understand that Hitler offed himself over 300 years ago, it doesn't change the fact that he killed my dad last month.
You see my dad invented time travel, or at least he thought he did. He raved about it since I was a kid, worked on it every free mom... | |
[WP] You sit there and judge us? What the fuck could we have done any differently? You would have done the same thing. | Jim Bridger told us it would be smooth sailing, none of em Injuns, snows, and there'd be water aplenty. That lying bastard can rot in hell as far as I'm concerned.
Bryant knew. He wrote me back when we were still in Fort Britcher, but the bastard hid the letters, warning me to turn around and go another way.
We fol... | "You sit there and judge us? God mom you would of smoked weed too if it was offered by Conor, like he's so hot. What the fuck mom!? I could of been like 'No my mom would be so mad at me if she found out.' Then he would of thought that I was not his type! You would of done the same thing, or maybe you wouldn't of. You... | |
[WP] You sit there and judge us? What the fuck could we have done any differently? You would have done the same thing. | Silent. Everything is silent for an hour. Milk cartons are sprawled all over the place and I'm drenched in milk~~---~~ *everything* is completely soaked in dairy. The suspect? Nowhere to be seen, but he made sure to spare mercy on my dog. I finish my last bowl of cereal. I reluctantly let go of my spoon and I reach for... | "You sit there and judge us? God mom you would of smoked weed too if it was offered by Conor, like he's so hot. What the fuck mom!? I could of been like 'No my mom would be so mad at me if she found out.' Then he would of thought that I was not his type! You would of done the same thing, or maybe you wouldn't of. You... | |
[WP] Waiting for your train, a homeless man is trying to desperately tell you something very important, but all he says sounds like total gibberish. | Listen, all you proud and worldly people, listen to the tale of Charberus the Drunk. Heed my warnings so that you may heed his. The gods hate nothing more than hubris, and so they created Charberus. If you saw him on your way back home today, you'd walk across the street. He stinks, he's a gutter rat, he's a ramble... | It was Leo's day off and he'd just left work and was sick of working overtime. He thought about his ex-wife Taylor and his kids. He felt a lot of weight on himself. It was as though he was in a constant downfall. He needed to pull up somehow. The only thing he thought he could do to have fun is go to sleep. He had a bi... | |
[WP] Waiting for your train, a homeless man is trying to desperately tell you something very important, but all he says sounds like total gibberish. | Listen, all you proud and worldly people, listen to the tale of Charberus the Drunk. Heed my warnings so that you may heed his. The gods hate nothing more than hubris, and so they created Charberus. If you saw him on your way back home today, you'd walk across the street. He stinks, he's a gutter rat, he's a ramble... | Covered in soot and grime, a brown-skinned and slim man made his way over to Henry, mumbling something beneath his breath. Henry glanced at the man and back to the train tracks, hoping it would somehow be early for the first time in two decades. He smelled the man approach nearer, a strong and musty odor. Turning his h... | |
[WP] Waiting for your train, a homeless man is trying to desperately tell you something very important, but all he says sounds like total gibberish. | Listen, all you proud and worldly people, listen to the tale of Charberus the Drunk. Heed my warnings so that you may heed his. The gods hate nothing more than hubris, and so they created Charberus. If you saw him on your way back home today, you'd walk across the street. He stinks, he's a gutter rat, he's a ramble... | Jude tapped his gun, just to be sure it was there.
"Look you old koot, I said drop it! Leave me alone!"
The man in rags threw his arms out wide, "Rob is coming fly by wheels today! Bear in the holster!"
"What the hell does that mean?!"
He pointed at Jude's belt. Not at the gun, but at the badge concealed under his... | |
[WP] A man in dirty robes enters the hall and rather harshly asks the king to uphold his promise. As his advisor you ask the stranger who he thinks he is to command a king. To your surprise you are interrupted by a very pale looking king. | "You dirty ruffian! How dare you barge in the throne room and show such disrespect towards the king? If you don't leave immediately I'll be-"
"Stop it."
"My lord?" I said turning towards my king. To my surprise he didn't seem angry at all. No... my king... His face was as pale as a ghost, he looked much older, and hi... | "That's it you rat tailed piece of garbage. I upheld my end of the bargain- I let the people think you were calling the shots for four years. Now you can pay up."
Who the hell did this man think he was? Certainly no peasant should be addressing the King in such a way. Dirty, tattered robes, greasy hair - This man look... | |
[WP] A man in dirty robes enters the hall and rather harshly asks the king to uphold his promise. As his advisor you ask the stranger who he thinks he is to command a king. To your surprise you are interrupted by a very pale looking king. | The stranger steps into the hall,
Disheveled, dirty, and shouting
*My liege, you must obey the call!*
*Who are you to command a king?*
The anger in my voice is clear
My liege's hand, bedecked with rings
Calls for silence, and I adhere
Shaking, he turns and faces me
And speaks through overwhelming fe... | "That's it you rat tailed piece of garbage. I upheld my end of the bargain- I let the people think you were calling the shots for four years. Now you can pay up."
Who the hell did this man think he was? Certainly no peasant should be addressing the King in such a way. Dirty, tattered robes, greasy hair - This man look... | |
[WP] Tell me how it feels to fall in love. | Some people say love happens in the blink of an eye. An instant so quick that if you blink for just one second, you just may miss it.
But I don't!
Here me out great redditor.
At first the body looks at the women of your dreams In a sea full of people at your local spot, it gasps, bolts of lighting to your heart, fo... | I was walking on this walk way bridge to work contemplating life and weather I forgot to turn off the oven before i left home when I saw her. She was walking on the footpath down below, weaving between all other people dressed in black. She was wearing a flowery skirt and dark nerdy glasses with freely flowing black ha... | |
[WP] Tell me how it feels to fall in love. | You ever see how people fall in love in, like, the movies?
Okay, so the protagonist is walking through the halls, minding his own business, probably trying to get to the next plot point, and...
There. She. Is.
The whole scene goes into slow mo. Maybe there's a pink haze over the entire scene. Something by *Explosion... | I was walking on this walk way bridge to work contemplating life and weather I forgot to turn off the oven before i left home when I saw her. She was walking on the footpath down below, weaving between all other people dressed in black. She was wearing a flowery skirt and dark nerdy glasses with freely flowing black ha... | |
[WP] Tell me how it feels to fall in love. | That... I think depends on the person. It is also far easier when you haven't suppressed and contained every feeling and part of who you are for so long that it takes active effort not to be nothing or empty.
But, let's say for now that falling in love is like a tea kettle.
Whether you're filling it with water or heat... | I was walking on this walk way bridge to work contemplating life and weather I forgot to turn off the oven before i left home when I saw her. She was walking on the footpath down below, weaving between all other people dressed in black. She was wearing a flowery skirt and dark nerdy glasses with freely flowing black ha... | |
That's not too confusing, is it? | [WP] Before one dies, they feel a patter of rain upon their head. You're out with friends with rays of sunshine upon your faces when a friend asks if anyone felt the rain just now. | I felt rain when I died. I saw the thunder and lightning so I stood in a field hoping to get hit. I was drunk, true. I wanted out. Maybe if God chose me I would have peace. | It was hot, far too hot to continue gardening in the summer heat like she always did in the morning. This heat was a sweltering breezeless heat and there wasn't much to be done about it. Aunt Nora sat by the window in her long calf length skirt and house shirt, tilting her head at the feel of any kind of relief.
E... |
[WP] 60 years in the future you're able to transfer your consciousness into a storage device waiting for technology to advance enough to have a medium to put it into. You regain consciousness to find yourself in a robotic unit set out at war against the Humans. | The last thing I remember was crying. Not me, I was going to go stoically. But all around me, people were crying. We were pretty sure we were going down for good. Some called us quitters. No one denied that the upload tech was anything better than experimental. And common folk really didn’t have any idea what they were... | Time has no meaning for the dead.
This is also true of the lifeless. Once the former, I suppose I am now the latter. I once was a man, and lived a normal man's life; was born, grew up, married and had children, grew old, and died.
Between the last two stages of my former life, I agreed to a procedure that would all... | |
[WP] 60 years in the future you're able to transfer your consciousness into a storage device waiting for technology to advance enough to have a medium to put it into. You regain consciousness to find yourself in a robotic unit set out at war against the Humans. | The last thing I remember was crying. Not me, I was going to go stoically. But all around me, people were crying. We were pretty sure we were going down for good. Some called us quitters. No one denied that the upload tech was anything better than experimental. And common folk really didn’t have any idea what they were... | She would knock on his door at 8am every weekend and they'd be out playing in the neighbourhood until lunch time, then back out till dinner, then back again for bed time. "We'd never thought those days would ever end"
Going fishing with her. He'd always find some way to turn his spinning reel into a huge rat's nest, an... | |
[WP] 60 years in the future you're able to transfer your consciousness into a storage device waiting for technology to advance enough to have a medium to put it into. You regain consciousness to find yourself in a robotic unit set out at war against the Humans. | The last thing I remember was crying. Not me, I was going to go stoically. But all around me, people were crying. We were pretty sure we were going down for good. Some called us quitters. No one denied that the upload tech was anything better than experimental. And common folk really didn’t have any idea what they were... | I made a choice. A choice that had contradicted seemingly one half of the worlds opinion on ethics in the year 2075. Some called it the pinnacle of human achievement. Some called it the ultimate breach of the laws of nature. A perversion of biology that would be the catalyst for our demise as a species. Both were right... | |
[WP] 60 years in the future you're able to transfer your consciousness into a storage device waiting for technology to advance enough to have a medium to put it into. You regain consciousness to find yourself in a robotic unit set out at war against the Humans. | I knew the truth as soon as I heard the whirring sound. It must have been more than a day since I woke up, and I thought I was finally safe, but the truth was just too cruel.
I don't know how long it's been since I died. I don't even remember my death, just the days leading up to it. I remember the nausea and fatigue ... | "Where am I?" I thought.
The last thing I could remember were the headlights swerving into my lane, and the loud blast of the airbag. I thought that I must be in the hospital, but this place seemed strange and foreign in a way that I'd never experienced before. I found that for one, the lights were off and yet I could... | |
[WP] 60 years in the future you're able to transfer your consciousness into a storage device waiting for technology to advance enough to have a medium to put it into. You regain consciousness to find yourself in a robotic unit set out at war against the Humans. | Now everybody says that nobody would want to live forever. You know, seeing everybody you know or love die while you continue to live being depressing and such. Poppycock.
As an adult, if you haven't accepted that everybody dies at some point, it's probably best you don't live forever anyway. As for myself, I want to... | "Where am I?" I thought.
The last thing I could remember were the headlights swerving into my lane, and the loud blast of the airbag. I thought that I must be in the hospital, but this place seemed strange and foreign in a way that I'd never experienced before. I found that for one, the lights were off and yet I could... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | No one expected Mass Spectrometry to lead to some level of empirical proof for a ... soul, for lack of a better word, but here we are. As leapfrog advances in improved isolation resolution, ion transmission and peak shape selectivity analysis, and expanded detection limits were made, it was only a matter of time until ... | We never fully understood how time worked. Forwards seemed inevitable, backwards an impossibility. We had been in space for just under 16 years, yet we have barely aged, if at all. I had left earth at the age of 35, now on the eve of my 56th birthday I look almost identical - save my new haircut.
We kept in contact wi... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | It's a little embarrassing now, thinking back, just how long it took us to realize what was happening. Why it was happening.
When we first began leaving the Earth, she was still a beautiful planet, well, as beautiful as she could be given the pollution that covered her surface, and sank deep into her core.
As more an... | We never fully understood how time worked. Forwards seemed inevitable, backwards an impossibility. We had been in space for just under 16 years, yet we have barely aged, if at all. I had left earth at the age of 35, now on the eve of my 56th birthday I look almost identical - save my new haircut.
We kept in contact wi... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | No one expected Mass Spectrometry to lead to some level of empirical proof for a ... soul, for lack of a better word, but here we are. As leapfrog advances in improved isolation resolution, ion transmission and peak shape selectivity analysis, and expanded detection limits were made, it was only a matter of time until ... | Earth was supposed to live a long and vivid life..
But never *this* long.
two thousand and twenty five years.
Earth survived and kept on pushing. Refusing to die when all others had left.
Mars.
Mercury.
Venus.
Jupiter.
Saturn.
All of them were gone except Pluto.
Pluto cried out for sister earth but was unhear... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | No one expected Mass Spectrometry to lead to some level of empirical proof for a ... soul, for lack of a better word, but here we are. As leapfrog advances in improved isolation resolution, ion transmission and peak shape selectivity analysis, and expanded detection limits were made, it was only a matter of time until ... | It was inevitable trying to keep the information a secret. It was on the internet in an hour and then the news stations shortly after. Some called out that it was a conspiracy, nothing more than a tall tale made by the government to keep the people under control. Others decided to capitalize on the opportunity, salutin... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | It's a little embarrassing now, thinking back, just how long it took us to realize what was happening. Why it was happening.
When we first began leaving the Earth, she was still a beautiful planet, well, as beautiful as she could be given the pollution that covered her surface, and sank deep into her core.
As more an... | It was inevitable trying to keep the information a secret. It was on the internet in an hour and then the news stations shortly after. Some called out that it was a conspiracy, nothing more than a tall tale made by the government to keep the people under control. Others decided to capitalize on the opportunity, salutin... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | It's a little embarrassing now, thinking back, just how long it took us to realize what was happening. Why it was happening.
When we first began leaving the Earth, she was still a beautiful planet, well, as beautiful as she could be given the pollution that covered her surface, and sank deep into her core.
As more an... | You know, I just worry these ideas are going to be pilfered at some point. This is an amazing idea for a movie or something. Is there any way to protect the people who thought of these wonderful prompts? | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | *Personal log, day Zero.*
Thirty years. That´s how long it took to build this ship. Fifty, if you count the construction of mankind´s first space dock, where the *Armstrong* itself was built. A colony ship. Fifteen hundred of Earth’s finest. And me. I kind of knew what to expect, but the shuttle ride was truly awe-ins... | You know, I just worry these ideas are going to be pilfered at some point. This is an amazing idea for a movie or something. Is there any way to protect the people who thought of these wonderful prompts? | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Year 2198.
"Captain!"
"Yes, Summers?"
"Message from the Cyrian High Council, Sir!"
"Well, don't stand there like a 3D McDonald's Sign, read it!"
Lieutenant Emma Summer coughed before starting to read the message, pausing once in a while to handle the difficult translation, being the only human to have mastered the... | You know, I just worry these ideas are going to be pilfered at some point. This is an amazing idea for a movie or something. Is there any way to protect the people who thought of these wonderful prompts? | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | They knew. The bastards knew this whole time and they never told us. And if they didn't know, they had to at least have suspected.
In the 46 years since man first walked on the moon, how many people have died? How many never even needed to, just so they "could be sure"? 46 years since they sent a group of men with var... | You know, I just worry these ideas are going to be pilfered at some point. This is an amazing idea for a movie or something. Is there any way to protect the people who thought of these wonderful prompts? | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Earth was just a quiz, and something is testing us. No other explanation suffices to explain what space has done to us.
The first crew to leave Earth's orbit spontaneously combusted in their shuttle shortly after passing the Lagrangian point. The clip that Earth received - only seven seconds of which contained flames ... | You know, I just worry these ideas are going to be pilfered at some point. This is an amazing idea for a movie or something. Is there any way to protect the people who thought of these wonderful prompts? | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Year 2198.
"Captain!"
"Yes, Summers?"
"Message from the Cyrian High Council, Sir!"
"Well, don't stand there like a 3D McDonald's Sign, read it!"
Lieutenant Emma Summer coughed before starting to read the message, pausing once in a while to handle the difficult translation, being the only human to have mastered the... | *Personal log, day Zero.*
Thirty years. That´s how long it took to build this ship. Fifty, if you count the construction of mankind´s first space dock, where the *Armstrong* itself was built. A colony ship. Fifteen hundred of Earth’s finest. And me. I kind of knew what to expect, but the shuttle ride was truly awe-ins... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Year 2198.
"Captain!"
"Yes, Summers?"
"Message from the Cyrian High Council, Sir!"
"Well, don't stand there like a 3D McDonald's Sign, read it!"
Lieutenant Emma Summer coughed before starting to read the message, pausing once in a while to handle the difficult translation, being the only human to have mastered the... | 40 years until I could possibly return home. That's how deep I was. At this point I really couldn't tell whether I was existing that far out into this void or if it was merely the depth at which my isolation had allowed my mind to drift...
I'd left loneliness far behind, that madness certainly took it's toll... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | They knew. The bastards knew this whole time and they never told us. And if they didn't know, they had to at least have suspected.
In the 46 years since man first walked on the moon, how many people have died? How many never even needed to, just so they "could be sure"? 46 years since they sent a group of men with var... | 40 years until I could possibly return home. That's how deep I was. At this point I really couldn't tell whether I was existing that far out into this void or if it was merely the depth at which my isolation had allowed my mind to drift...
I'd left loneliness far behind, that madness certainly took it's toll... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Earth was just a quiz, and something is testing us. No other explanation suffices to explain what space has done to us.
The first crew to leave Earth's orbit spontaneously combusted in their shuttle shortly after passing the Lagrangian point. The clip that Earth received - only seven seconds of which contained flames ... | 40 years until I could possibly return home. That's how deep I was. At this point I really couldn't tell whether I was existing that far out into this void or if it was merely the depth at which my isolation had allowed my mind to drift...
I'd left loneliness far behind, that madness certainly took it's toll... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Year 2198.
"Captain!"
"Yes, Summers?"
"Message from the Cyrian High Council, Sir!"
"Well, don't stand there like a 3D McDonald's Sign, read it!"
Lieutenant Emma Summer coughed before starting to read the message, pausing once in a while to handle the difficult translation, being the only human to have mastered the... | "They must know..." she collapsed onto her knees.
Rachel turned toward me on the NOVAK56, our interstellar spaceship, the 56th of its kind. The 55 that came before us were manned missions exploring our own galaxy. This time our mission was special. Travel to a planet core left after a violent supernova, in the outer ... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | They knew. The bastards knew this whole time and they never told us. And if they didn't know, they had to at least have suspected.
In the 46 years since man first walked on the moon, how many people have died? How many never even needed to, just so they "could be sure"? 46 years since they sent a group of men with var... | "They must know..." she collapsed onto her knees.
Rachel turned toward me on the NOVAK56, our interstellar spaceship, the 56th of its kind. The 55 that came before us were manned missions exploring our own galaxy. This time our mission was special. Travel to a planet core left after a violent supernova, in the outer ... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Earth was just a quiz, and something is testing us. No other explanation suffices to explain what space has done to us.
The first crew to leave Earth's orbit spontaneously combusted in their shuttle shortly after passing the Lagrangian point. The clip that Earth received - only seven seconds of which contained flames ... | "They must know..." she collapsed onto her knees.
Rachel turned toward me on the NOVAK56, our interstellar spaceship, the 56th of its kind. The 55 that came before us were manned missions exploring our own galaxy. This time our mission was special. Travel to a planet core left after a violent supernova, in the outer ... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | They knew. The bastards knew this whole time and they never told us. And if they didn't know, they had to at least have suspected.
In the 46 years since man first walked on the moon, how many people have died? How many never even needed to, just so they "could be sure"? 46 years since they sent a group of men with var... | I remember seeing Jerry's face through the window in my hibernation pod. He was slamming his fists onto it and although he knew it was soundproof, he knew it would trigger the auto awaking cycle. I blinked a few times, maybe thinking it was a dream. I tried to tilt my head to the right, forgetting i was strapped down c... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Those of us who volunteered to go to Mars were seen as brave individuals conquering the final frontier by some and idiots with a skewed perception of what life away from everyone would be like.
In reality, it was somewhere in between. The loneliness is worse than it seems. On earth, we would be isolated for maybe a f... | I remember seeing Jerry's face through the window in my hibernation pod. He was slamming his fists onto it and although he knew it was soundproof, he knew it would trigger the auto awaking cycle. I blinked a few times, maybe thinking it was a dream. I tried to tilt my head to the right, forgetting i was strapped down c... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Earth was just a quiz, and something is testing us. No other explanation suffices to explain what space has done to us.
The first crew to leave Earth's orbit spontaneously combusted in their shuttle shortly after passing the Lagrangian point. The clip that Earth received - only seven seconds of which contained flames ... | I remember seeing Jerry's face through the window in my hibernation pod. He was slamming his fists onto it and although he knew it was soundproof, he knew it would trigger the auto awaking cycle. I blinked a few times, maybe thinking it was a dream. I tried to tilt my head to the right, forgetting i was strapped down c... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | "Jesus, Earth -- you've been sucking humanity's life force this entire time?"
The holographic form the Earth had chosen -- a meticulously accurate representation of Nintendo's Captain Falcon -- furrowed its red-masked brow.
"Come on," said the Earth, "don't make me the bad guy here."
Supreme Commander Heathcliff ran... | I remember seeing Jerry's face through the window in my hibernation pod. He was slamming his fists onto it and although he knew it was soundproof, he knew it would trigger the auto awaking cycle. I blinked a few times, maybe thinking it was a dream. I tried to tilt my head to the right, forgetting i was strapped down c... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Director Michelle Wintermeyer was poring over the manifest for the next Mars transport when she heard a commotion outside her office door.
"You have to let me see her," she heard a man's voice say from the other side of the door.
"I'm sorry sir, but she's busy right now," said Michelle's assistant Gregory.
The direc... | I remember seeing Jerry's face through the window in my hibernation pod. He was slamming his fists onto it and although he knew it was soundproof, he knew it would trigger the auto awaking cycle. I blinked a few times, maybe thinking it was a dream. I tried to tilt my head to the right, forgetting i was strapped down c... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Earth was just a quiz, and something is testing us. No other explanation suffices to explain what space has done to us.
The first crew to leave Earth's orbit spontaneously combusted in their shuttle shortly after passing the Lagrangian point. The clip that Earth received - only seven seconds of which contained flames ... | Those of us who volunteered to go to Mars were seen as brave individuals conquering the final frontier by some and idiots with a skewed perception of what life away from everyone would be like.
In reality, it was somewhere in between. The loneliness is worse than it seems. On earth, we would be isolated for maybe a f... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Director Michelle Wintermeyer was poring over the manifest for the next Mars transport when she heard a commotion outside her office door.
"You have to let me see her," she heard a man's voice say from the other side of the door.
"I'm sorry sir, but she's busy right now," said Michelle's assistant Gregory.
The direc... | Those of us who volunteered to go to Mars were seen as brave individuals conquering the final frontier by some and idiots with a skewed perception of what life away from everyone would be like.
In reality, it was somewhere in between. The loneliness is worse than it seems. On earth, we would be isolated for maybe a f... | |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Director Michelle Wintermeyer was poring over the manifest for the next Mars transport when she heard a commotion outside her office door.
"You have to let me see her," she heard a man's voice say from the other side of the door.
"I'm sorry sir, but she's busy right now," said Michelle's assistant Gregory.
The direc... | "Jesus, Earth -- you've been sucking humanity's life force this entire time?"
The holographic form the Earth had chosen -- a meticulously accurate representation of Nintendo's Captain Falcon -- furrowed its red-masked brow.
"Come on," said the Earth, "don't make me the bad guy here."
Supreme Commander Heathcliff ran... | |
[WP] Write a story that ends with a seemingly unsolvable situation. Let a commenter write the ending. | It was a tuesday. He remembered she was partial to brunch on Tuesdays, but not from the Greek place. She hated Greeks -- thought they were filthy and far beneath her.
He took her to the little cafe off Le Mains, the one with the little birds that lit up and sang when young lovers passed under the awning. They didn't ... | I woke up.
*Several thousand feet above the ground.*
Dammit, that's the last time I fall asleep in-flight. I searched frantically for a parachute pack, but nothing. Not even a wingsuit. There weren't other falling passengers to grab onto in an attempt to slow our descent. Heck, I didn't even have a giant blanket to... | |
[WP] You and your entire extended family are all super heroes, except none of you know about each other's powers. That is, until one super awkward family reunion... | It was nice to get away from the city every once in awhile. Going to the countryside was always a warm welcome for Kyle, where he enjoyed spending time with all his aunts, uncles, cousins, and where there were hardly any worries. Sitting here, he really did feel at peace surrounded by his huge family. Kyle felt himself... | There were hundreds of people here, crowded into tight rooms in some little community center on the outskirts of town. Aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, grandparents - it was a sea of body heat and uncomfortable conversations.
Jack was sitting on the end of one of the couches situated in one corner of one of th... | |
[WP] MCing. DJing. B-boying. Graffiti. Only the Avatar can master all four elements and bring balance to hip hop. | A modified version of a poem I wrote in high school:
His origins unknown, a mystical man,
Created an art form to break from the bland.
Blessed with an element of rhythm so fluidous,
“If I add some beat breaks, I can flow with this.”
He was a DJ, an MC, an artist, and dancer,
Held the essence of Hip-hop and ... | https://soundcloud.com/part-time-tunafish/drop-it-like-its-korra
**Drop it Like It's Korra** | |
[WP] MCing. DJing. B-boying. Graffiti. Only the Avatar can master all four elements and bring balance to hip hop. | MC. DJ. B-boy. Graffiti.
Long ago the four nations lived in harmony.
Then everything changed when the B-boys attacked.
Only the Avatar, master of all four styles, could stop 'em.
But when the street needed him most, he vanished.
100 years later, me and my brotha Dre discovered the new Avatar, a graffiti arti... | https://soundcloud.com/part-time-tunafish/drop-it-like-its-korra
**Drop it Like It's Korra** | |
[WP]How did the crazy cat lady become the crazy cat lady? | A few months ago, or maybe years- it didn't really matter, but it was just after Thanksgiving, she remembered that much- Annica Barrows owned two cats. Just those two. As she lay on the ground, her face cooling on the wood floor, she could see feet pacing occasionally back and forth from the slit of light under her apa... | It all started at the shelter.
Susan walked into her local animal shelter, just to feed the cats, as she always had. She would walk to every cage and feed them cold turkey, and pet them a little bit, then walk away, sad, as the kittens meowed in sadness, as nobody would adopt them. Six years of this had gone to her hea... | |
Sort of like the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but with dragons. | [WP] A boy in a world of elemental dragons (Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind) receives a "useless" Air Dragon. | I
Marty of the Castelli family of the town of Draco, and above all, of short stature and shorter fuse, walked along a cliffside with head down and fists clenched.
A jaw-lockingly sheer face punctuated at it's end by a decidedly large family of rocks that provided a margin between the stones and sea, it did not phase ... | In a time of the kings of old a pact was forged to end an undying war; upon every full moon a man and a dragon shall meld souls to live as one. Typically the two were joined at a young age it was easier on the minds of both as their ideals and morals would develop together. Every full moon the dragons brought a clutch ... |
Sort of like the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but with dragons. | [WP] A boy in a world of elemental dragons (Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind) receives a "useless" Air Dragon. | This turned out a lot longer than I expected!
The shrill screams of circling matriarchs in the vast skies above nearly made me turn back. I swallowed down my fear-laced bile and trudged on through the bramble and steep hills. The shallow lacerations on my hands and arms stung like the future lashes I'd receive fro... | The Fire dragons lived on the volcanic islands, where heat and fire-rock was constantly being spewed into the air.
The Water dragons preferred the rocky cliffs, where the thundering ocean sent a constant spray of mist to bathe their wings.
The Earth dragons stayed in the endless mountain ranges, where a labyrinth of ... |
Sort of like the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but with dragons. | [WP] A boy in a world of elemental dragons (Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind) receives a "useless" Air Dragon. | "A human will never choose you. Why would they want a stupid Air Dragon? Everyone knows you're useless."
His brothers and sisters were merciless in their taunting, cruel even.
He was the first Air Dragon born in centuries, long after they had been believed to have become extinct. Not much was known about them, sinc... | The Fire dragons lived on the volcanic islands, where heat and fire-rock was constantly being spewed into the air.
The Water dragons preferred the rocky cliffs, where the thundering ocean sent a constant spray of mist to bathe their wings.
The Earth dragons stayed in the endless mountain ranges, where a labyrinth of ... |
Sort of like the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but with dragons. | [WP] A boy in a world of elemental dragons (Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind) receives a "useless" Air Dragon. | "Wait, don't you mean you're a wind dragon?" he asked, only familiar with the four classic elemental dragons.
"I meant what I said boy! I'm an air dragon, from a long proud line of air dragons before me. We made air since before there was air. You're breathing what we wove since time immemorial," responded the dragon ... | The Fire dragons lived on the volcanic islands, where heat and fire-rock was constantly being spewed into the air.
The Water dragons preferred the rocky cliffs, where the thundering ocean sent a constant spray of mist to bathe their wings.
The Earth dragons stayed in the endless mountain ranges, where a labyrinth of ... |
Sort of like the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but with dragons. | [WP] A boy in a world of elemental dragons (Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind) receives a "useless" Air Dragon. | Ned came to an abrupt stop, gasping for breath. It seemed he had been running for ages, but glancing up, he noticed the familiar cherry tree that marked the halfway point from the Knight's Tower and his cottage.
"How could this happen", he inquired helplessly. "Everyone around me got a cool dragon", he lamented. Will... | The Fire dragons lived on the volcanic islands, where heat and fire-rock was constantly being spewed into the air.
The Water dragons preferred the rocky cliffs, where the thundering ocean sent a constant spray of mist to bathe their wings.
The Earth dragons stayed in the endless mountain ranges, where a labyrinth of ... |
Sort of like the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but with dragons. | [WP] A boy in a world of elemental dragons (Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind) receives a "useless" Air Dragon. | (Taking this away from the Avatar concept a bit)
The skin-and-bones youth of 12 years, 364 days, and 23.5 hours stood outside the carved oaken door in the earliest hours of the morning waiting for the sun to rise. He felt no urge to pace or fidget, instead watching the first rays of light settle over the village. Like... | The Fire dragons lived on the volcanic islands, where heat and fire-rock was constantly being spewed into the air.
The Water dragons preferred the rocky cliffs, where the thundering ocean sent a constant spray of mist to bathe their wings.
The Earth dragons stayed in the endless mountain ranges, where a labyrinth of ... |
Sort of like the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but with dragons. | [WP] A boy in a world of elemental dragons (Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind) receives a "useless" Air Dragon. | "A human will never choose you. Why would they want a stupid Air Dragon? Everyone knows you're useless."
His brothers and sisters were merciless in their taunting, cruel even.
He was the first Air Dragon born in centuries, long after they had been believed to have become extinct. Not much was known about them, sinc... | This turned out a lot longer than I expected!
The shrill screams of circling matriarchs in the vast skies above nearly made me turn back. I swallowed down my fear-laced bile and trudged on through the bramble and steep hills. The shallow lacerations on my hands and arms stung like the future lashes I'd receive fro... |
Sort of like the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but with dragons. | [WP] A boy in a world of elemental dragons (Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind) receives a "useless" Air Dragon. | "Wait, don't you mean you're a wind dragon?" he asked, only familiar with the four classic elemental dragons.
"I meant what I said boy! I'm an air dragon, from a long proud line of air dragons before me. We made air since before there was air. You're breathing what we wove since time immemorial," responded the dragon ... | This turned out a lot longer than I expected!
The shrill screams of circling matriarchs in the vast skies above nearly made me turn back. I swallowed down my fear-laced bile and trudged on through the bramble and steep hills. The shallow lacerations on my hands and arms stung like the future lashes I'd receive fro... |
Sort of like the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but with dragons. | [WP] A boy in a world of elemental dragons (Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind) receives a "useless" Air Dragon. | At twenty years of age, everyone receives their own dragon.
There are four types of main dragons. The most dangerous is fire, which are said to be born within volcanoes, their first sulfurous breaths igniting flames deep within their chests that will last for life. Then there is water, which wash ashore on the ocean... | Jun crinkled his nose as he cupped the scaly ball in his hand. Its body shimmered with an eerie green light. Meanwhile, it looked up at him with dull white eyes, the shade of cracked ice.
“Stupid and useless. That’s what you are,” he whispered under his breath. “Why couldn’t I get a cooler dragon? Like fire or earth. ... |
[WP] An explorer gets stranded in a place where anything edible is both intelligent and friendly. | A lone, starving traveler lay on the grass of a clearing, in the middle of a deserted island.
The scattered wreckage of his plane left him with very little supplies, so he was forced to improvise. Not exactly one for playing survivalist, he chose a more simple approach of bending leftover metal from the remnants of t... | Sez could not see any ending in sight, just mountains and mountains around him and they all look the same. He's confident he's been going in circles for a good time now, he can see his own footprints.
The sun has disappeared behind the mountains, and the night started to creep from the other side, he needs to call it ... | |
[WP] An explorer gets stranded in a place where anything edible is both intelligent and friendly. | A lone, starving traveler lay on the grass of a clearing, in the middle of a deserted island.
The scattered wreckage of his plane left him with very little supplies, so he was forced to improvise. Not exactly one for playing survivalist, he chose a more simple approach of bending leftover metal from the remnants of t... | The screams.
*THE SCREAMS*
They won't stop. When I got here, everything was a happy whisper in the back of my mind. I felt so great until I got hungry. There was a large family of fruit hanging near the jungle floor. They looked so tasty and juicey.
How did I know it was a family for fruit? I ate their daughter.
Th... | |
[WP] The tree had been a sapling when you'd been here last. | Walking up the hill Josiah Morgan could feel the ache of old age. Upon reaching the top he looks up. What stands before him is a sprawling weeping willow tree. The last time he sat here this tree was just a sapling, and he had just been a boy.
Forty eight years ago Josiah was only 16 years old, but he was in love. He... | “Hello again, old friend.”
The old man hobbled up to the tree and sat in the shade of it's massive branches.
“My, how you've grown! Just like me, eh? How long has it been? 50 years? 60?”
The old man sighed and rested his sore back upon the great wooden monolith.
“I remember gazing up at the heavens on t... | |
[WP] You ran it a thousand times, all data confirms it. In 24 hours, an undetected asteroid will collide with the Earth. You just destroyed the evidence. | "Hey Bob is me. Come on pick up I know you are there! Pick up the damn phone! This is important an asteroid is about it hit earth and I am the only one who knows about it! I have deleted all the evidence so know one knows!"
Well that got his attention, I knew he was there listening. And holy crap but I could do withou... | **May 4, 2018**
The distant sound of the bombs creates a constant rhythm top harmonize with beeps and rings of my machines. With the large cooling fans making a constant whrr adding to the cacophony, it almost reminds me of the house jams I used to listen to. I used to go every weekend to the bars and raves to hear ... | |
[WP] You ran it a thousand times, all data confirms it. In 24 hours, an undetected asteroid will collide with the Earth. You just destroyed the evidence. | "Oh, shit."
I stared at the monitor. This could not be happening.
"So, Ms. Apocalypse, what did you find?" asked Al, the manager of NASA's Pleiades supercomputer. He had just walked into the room, probably to tell me the time I reserved with the facility was over.
I hesitated, still trying to comprehend how much I ... | **May 4, 2018**
The distant sound of the bombs creates a constant rhythm top harmonize with beeps and rings of my machines. With the large cooling fans making a constant whrr adding to the cacophony, it almost reminds me of the house jams I used to listen to. I used to go every weekend to the bars and raves to hear ... | |
[WP] You ran it a thousand times, all data confirms it. In 24 hours, an undetected asteroid will collide with the Earth. You just destroyed the evidence. | *23 hours and 57 minutes.*
You watch the simulation one last time before clicking out of the program. Save simulation? No. Save data? No. Are you sure you want to empty the trash? This action cannot be undone. Yes. You shut off the computer, and its glass face acts as a mirror, reflecting the wideness of your eyes.
... | **May 4, 2018**
The distant sound of the bombs creates a constant rhythm top harmonize with beeps and rings of my machines. With the large cooling fans making a constant whrr adding to the cacophony, it almost reminds me of the house jams I used to listen to. I used to go every weekend to the bars and raves to hear ... | |
[WP] You ran it a thousand times, all data confirms it. In 24 hours, an undetected asteroid will collide with the Earth. You just destroyed the evidence. | *23 hours and 57 minutes.*
You watch the simulation one last time before clicking out of the program. Save simulation? No. Save data? No. Are you sure you want to empty the trash? This action cannot be undone. Yes. You shut off the computer, and its glass face acts as a mirror, reflecting the wideness of your eyes.
... | "Hey Bob is me. Come on pick up I know you are there! Pick up the damn phone! This is important an asteroid is about it hit earth and I am the only one who knows about it! I have deleted all the evidence so know one knows!"
Well that got his attention, I knew he was there listening. And holy crap but I could do withou... | |
[WP] You ran it a thousand times, all data confirms it. In 24 hours, an undetected asteroid will collide with the Earth. You just destroyed the evidence. | *23 hours and 57 minutes.*
You watch the simulation one last time before clicking out of the program. Save simulation? No. Save data? No. Are you sure you want to empty the trash? This action cannot be undone. Yes. You shut off the computer, and its glass face acts as a mirror, reflecting the wideness of your eyes.
... | *At what price humanity?*
Do you know what it feels like to want to die?
Probably not. You, who wake up, get dressed, emulate a mindless drone for petty cash, go home, whine about life - what do you know? You might as well be an animal, foraging about for scraps, concerned only about what you put in your mouth next.
... | |
[WP] It is your first time in Las Vegas and first time gambling. To your surprise gambling is actually really easy. You haven't lost and you've been playing for a whole day. | It's been a week since John had arrived in Las Vegas. He wasn't one for sweepstakes, but when his own daughter entered him to win, he couldn't help but go.
He remembered entering a massive, very tropical-like structure with flashy-bright lights. Many people stood around socializing in all sorts of odd apparel. Women i... | I couldn't believe my luck! Neither could the people around me. The dealer had begun to watch me for minutes at a time. I was sure that I would be asked to leave any second. I new I should cash out but this money was much needed. I haven't been in many Casinos and I had no idea how much money I had made. I think it mus... | |
[WP] It is your first time in Las Vegas and first time gambling. To your surprise gambling is actually really easy. You haven't lost and you've been playing for a whole day. | Never done one of these before, but the thought popped into my mind. Also haven't written anything in a good 10-15 years....
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"Would you like another refill Mr. Burbank?" stated the server as I finished off my previous one. I hadn't realized it until I finished my... | I couldn't believe my luck! Neither could the people around me. The dealer had begun to watch me for minutes at a time. I was sure that I would be asked to leave any second. I new I should cash out but this money was much needed. I haven't been in many Casinos and I had no idea how much money I had made. I think it mus... | |
[WP] 5 years ago Atlantis remerged in the atlantic ocean with all it's citizens still alive. Today Poseiden attends his first UN meeting on behalf of Atlantis | "The floor will now recognize the delegate from Atlantis."
With these words the normally bustling hall was suddenly as quiet as a church. Every representative watched the podium with rapt attention, eager to see the the delegate of the formerly mythical republic of Atlantis. Calling himself Poseidon his introduction t... | People thought the beginning was chaos. That was not chaos, merely talk! Military was there almost as soon as it popped up, UN thought itself in chaos an hour later; regular people found out soon enough.
The real chaos began when the roof was torn off and bright sunshine poured over the assembled leaders and senior d... | |
[WP] There is a place where the worst of humanity are kept. 4 miles down, 5000 guards, 500 prisoners, 1 way in, 1 way out. Welcome to Facility V, codename "Hell". | "The first thing they told me was to keep hydrated. Down this far the heat becomes impossible to bear, the fact we have to wear the goddamn armor makes the job hell. The name fits doesn't it.
Honestly I wondered why we did this, why not just kill the monsters and call it day? Well it gets complicated, y'know those st... | "How long is it gonna the until we get there?" I asked. We were in the elevator going down.
"Well," the guard said. There's quite a few prisoners. There's 5000 other guards. It's four miles down. We've got a few more minutes to go."
I was wondering what it would be like down there. Yes, I've heard stories, but every ... | |
[WP] Once every four years, in a top secret location all former presidents and the standing President of the United States gather with one goal. Roast the ever living shit out of the standing president. | Most of the time - almost all of the time - the old Masonic lodge, set deep within the Appalachian mountains and almost entirely hidden by vines after centuries of neglect - stands silent and empty. But once every four years, on an otherwise unassuming day in late July, it becomes the scene of alcohol-fulled invective,... | I sit down at a plain, round wooden table in the middle of a dark room. The only light is a bare lightbulb hanging above the table with a short chain used to click it on or off. I'm sure it's also attached to a switch somewhere by the door, or else someone's gonna burn their fingers trying to turn it off. The ring of i... | |
[WP] Once every four years, in a top secret location all former presidents and the standing President of the United States gather with one goal. Roast the ever living shit out of the standing president. | Most of the time - almost all of the time - the old Masonic lodge, set deep within the Appalachian mountains and almost entirely hidden by vines after centuries of neglect - stands silent and empty. But once every four years, on an otherwise unassuming day in late July, it becomes the scene of alcohol-fulled invective,... | George stared at his mirror and smirked, his smile vastly improved now that his dentures actually fit. He raised a nearby cup of win to the mirror.
"George, you're a namby pamby and everything you've ever done was either a dare or a popular choice."
He drained his cup, the smirk leaving his face. There was no way thi... |
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