Stories tagged “news”

  • SWTP News: Jan 1

    This is SWTP News! We have footage that shows President Whatsisname kicking kittens. We can only assume that The President has invented a new sport, Kittenball. Only someone with great intelligence could invent such a game. We expect to get the rules i...

  • Michael Jackson: Human and Oh So Mortal

    It just doesn’t seem real, yet. Maybe because they just keep repeating the same things. All of these tributes…I feel like any minute now, he’s gonna jump up and say “gotcha!” But in my heart, I know he won’t. “...

    • Author: Laine Grey
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 3 out of 5

  • We'll Know In the Morning

    Tell me Tell me Whisper gently What happened Far off, last night Tell me Tell me Rooster crowing Why is the sun Red this morning?

  • Journey to The Center of Your Soul

    Your parents call you out of bed To tell you of a morbid dread. Cooling blacks and Soothing blues to help numb up and block the news. You tremble from your toes to head and try to sort out what they’ve said: You try to cry with heart of lead, And...

  • To the Rescue

    A woman’s scream. He heard it and, after a quick calculation, knew where it came from: three blocks down, in a dead end alley. As usual. He looked around the office, no one was around. It was after office hours, after all. Quickly changing into h...

    • Author: J. Rein B.
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Sorrowful News

    I stumbled through my appartment door to find Shawna standing there, eagerly awaiting my answer. I didn’t even have enough to energy to speak, I simply began silently sobbing. Shawna quickly embraced me, holding me as tight as she could as I crie...

    • Author: Elice
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.

  • In Real Time

    From a transmission on FOX News, October 31, 2009: “We are just receiving word that a nuclear warhead has just been detonated on American soil. The—the bomb seems to have gone off over Washington. It appears that the entire federal district...

  • The Good For Nothing Detective: The Case Of The Streaker

    “Detective Jones, I must say your office has that smell of alcohol.” “I thought I would try a new scent of cologne, do you like?” “Oh Detective you know what woman truly loves, a man so strong and so bright smelling like a cheap bar on a la...

  • Don't like shoe shopping.

    This is the Ficly County Headlines Police are investigating today the apparent homicide of a man in Ficly County. His body was found thrown into a dumpster truck in an alley behind the WestMorning Shopping Mall. Police say they have little to go on so ...

  • Film at Eleven

    The first known case happened on live television. It was the local news show. The news anchor, Lena Hansen, was a pretty little thing—a petite brunette who always got very good ratings, especially among the male demographic. Her co-host, Dan Just, wa...

    • Author: Throat Wolf
    • Posted over 2 years ago.
    • 4 out of 5

  • Bad News

    “Let me just tell you,” she said, “When you say bad news I think, the roof is on fire, the dog has gone blind, the repo man has come by to take the car, the police are looking for aliases. This is not bad news. I will be over in twent...

    • Author: Mars
    • Posted over 2 years ago.

  • Reporting Live II (Mature)

    “Spill it” I said. The stranger turned his head and smilied. Not a real smile; doubt he’d smilied in years. But one of those cocksure smiles a man gets when he’s seen to much to live and drank to much to care. “Alright. I&...

  • Reporting Live III (Mature)

    Bartend’r set the beer down with a soft clink. I threw a craw[ EDITOR’S NOTE: Orlo, most people still call them five doller bills. Don’t ask why, but next time you send in a vocal file, take a minute to clean it up, ok? It looks like ...

  • Reporting Live IV (Mature)

    Wit’ a new bottle in hand, he shot me another cocksure smile. “Alright then. As I said, Pa was a news man. Liked to go out into the undead streets and ‘report’. He was with a family friend, Arge, when they were ambushed. Only Ar...

  • March 15th

    So. March 15th. It was a Monday. I had college and was up mega early at the crack of dawn, like every other weekday. As I was sitting eating my breakfast in front of the TV, the programme vanished, bringing up instead the emergency news thing that I...

  • Time Warp

    He woke to the burning sensation on his tongue, as he looked through the hazing fog. People stood around in a circle shouting, not knowing how long he was passed out for he reached for the table. Falling over as his reach wasn’t close as he thoug...

  • She Brought the World with Her (Sequel, anyone?)

    When the reporter arrived in town, none of us knew who she was. She didn’t speak to anyone for days. The weather had been cold and wet, that feeling of early Spring written all over the trees, the roads out of town just opening for the first time...

  • Ashes Ramain: Chapter One;; Part 2

    Before me now stood a large black man. A bead of sweat dribbled down my temple as I gulped what could have been my last breath. The creature opened his gaping mouth, “I am sorry, truly sorry to tell you this, but the corporation is having to make...

  • I never watch the news

    Until I am the news. Go to YouTube. Type in: Perth Fire / Bushfire There’s not much up there yet. Look for anything dated today or yesterday. Do you see those houses and trees that are burning? That bridge which just burned down? That’s the...

    • Author: JayDee
    • Posted over 1 year ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Regards & Regrets

    Captain’s Log, Ship’s Day 8452 We’ve received another missive from our friends back home. They’ve packed as much information into it as they could have, but it was still a very terse transmission. Apparently, there are stillR...

  • The Return of Backyard Bob

    Captain’s Log, Ship’s Day 8453 Great news today—Backyard Bob came out of his coma at about 1300. He was a bit disoriented and more than a bit stiff—after all, he’s been a coma for eight months—but seemed otherwise al...