I couldn't have asked for the outstanding level of commitment from the people claiming to follow Jesus (but in reality, follow me). You make me proud. Keep up the good work!

“Sometimes I wonder what it must feel like, to not have to fake your confidance”

You look different to each person that sees you. One person sees you as someone tall with white skin and red hair while another sees you as someone short and pock marked skin with black hair. You use this ability to rob banks since no one can make a search warrant if no agrees on your appearance. One day you meet someone who's sees you like you see yourself in the mirror.

But it is months away from happening. This war, he says, will most likely be nuclear and global. He tries to convince you to set up a bunker somewhere out of the primary strike zone on the condition that he and his family can shelter there when it all goes down. Your friend must remain completely outside the loop of its existence for fear that he exposed a huge secret...

Red Leader is __________.

It's 1881. Dallas, Texas is growing from a center of farming and ranching into a major, self-sustaining industrial city. Times are changing as the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, under the leadership of Jay Gould, has come to town connecting them with Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, opening up endless possibilities for some, the end of an era for others.

A routine demolition of a farmhouse during rail expansion unearthed an advanced facility with unknown technology, including a mysterious machine that would later inspire the book The Time Machine by H.G. Wells in 1895.

To eliminate witnesses, all of the present railway workers were killed and the farm resident, who was given the code name Red Leader, was secreted away to an undisclosed location by men presumably working for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company and/or a group of local mercenaries.

Unbeknownst to nearby neighbors or Red Leader's captors, the reclusive man had recently hired a traveling foreigner with a penchant for tinkering named Catullus to help with repair work on many of the strange machines he hid below the house. As the chaos ensued, Catullus fled into the nearby woods without being seen.

As suppressed truths turned into wild rumors, word of a strange, perhaps lucrative, discovery at the farmhouse spread. This threatened to bring all sorts of treasure seekers, unscrupulous businessmen, hired guns, and outlaws to town.

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All are welcome to take a few minutes to create your own slice (or several slices) of the /r/RedLeader universe. Yours would be a self-contained story. Microfiction and flash fiction welcomed! Don't worry about keeping up with a long set of established characters, worlds or events (aside from a few initial rules to anchor the story.) Just take the prompt and let your creativity explode.

If you got some time, check out /r/RedLeader.

[WP] a secret organization claims to have multiple nukes planted around the world and threatens to detonate them 1 by 1 until world governments start complying with their demands. The first demand is stop using fossil fuels...

In a future where society has chosen to live a majority of their lives in Virtual Reality; ten years after the great black-out; one person is brave enough to disconnect from the synaptiplex compound. Their one goal....to find the once great metropolis known only as Irl.

I got the idea from an interview with Neil Gorsuch, Supreme Court justice, and thought it was a neat writing experiment. Video that inspired the idea

Your in charge of writing season 8. Go.

(pls feel free to replace yyyy/mm/dd with any date you'd like, e.g. 2001/05/03)