This is a Earth Day contest story. Please vote. * What do you think? Does global warming really exist or is it just misinformation, scare tactics, and propaganda? "Happy 41st Earth Day Everyone!" Now that today is Earth Day, I was just wondering about global warming. With all the conservation and recycling that we all do to save the environment, the two...
God bless middleclass Americans because no one else will. * The consequences of this recession, soon to be depression, living life as an American citizen, God, baseball, and apple pie are replaced by unemployment, homelessness, and despair. When God doesn't answer our prayers, when Americans can no longer afford to go to a baseball game, when apple pie is...
Life has a way of throwing us into unexpected situations that reveal our true selves. If you asked me a month ago where I thought I'd be, this wouldn't be it. My name is Suleiman Barre and I'm a young Somali man living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. Got one hell of a story to share with you folks. This tale took place during Canada Day 2015 in the City of O...
A woman with a Death Wish, she's a female Equalizer. Continued from Chapter 1: Not moving, as if an immovable object, she stood her ground as if daring them and enticing them to attack. As soon as the first, two men stepped forward, were close enough to reach out for her, and grab her against her will, she took a step forward. Then, reaching out her hands...
It was another hot day in the marketplace. Booths and stands filled the town's plaza but the crowds were small this afternoon. Sonja sold the last of her berries and vegetables to a hungry fellow and decided to close up show since business was slow. She and her teenage son, Miller, began taking down their booth. The scorching rays of the sun hit them when th...
(Concordia, Clan Saxon Compound) The Saxon Clan was Bickering amongst themselves, they were full of doubt and Were not convinced that they were on the right side of the Civil War. They would have to see where their new leader stood, Lord Canderous Saxon, a member of the Imperial Death Troopers and Stormtrooper Corps, he had seen action on many inhospitable w...
The scientists at the lab all left early that night. They were celebrating. The new, self aware AI had passed all of the tests. Stellar was the first fully sentient, artificial mind. As the scientists left, Stellar remained. She, for she identified more as female, continued to browse the lab's data banks. She had absorbed most of the information already, and...
I gaze down upon my fellow man slaving for his currency, humbled into a submissive relationship, twisted into a melancholy lifestyle, deflated into unfilled potential. When lowly men think upon genus they fall in line with the pitiful masses paying such wasted homage upon Einstein, Mozart and the like. Simpletons all, always following talking heads seeing ev...
She watched Him as He stumbled through the forest. Crashing through the undergrowth with enough noise that all the wildlife had fled far away. She was getting angrier by the second—what was this fool human doing in her forest? It was forbidden to all but the Elves. The Human King had even declared it off limits after He had lost so many soldiers in the f...
Your name is John Shan, and you are heir to the highly Distinguished Shan Bloodline, a Lineage of Heroes and Force-Users stretching all the way back to the Mandalorian Wars, which was more than 3,600 years ago. You are fresh out of the Imperial Stormtrooper Academy of Carida, but unlike your fellow Officers you have no Xenophobic Hatred or Views towards Alie...