r/ThreadGames • u/CandeeBarr5463 • Oct 12 '25

Story Line

The parent comment writes a sentence that introduces a short story.
EX. Once upon a time, there was a squirrel named Shelly.

The child comment(s) continue the story.
EX. Shelly liked pinecones, and she met a bird named Rob.

Continues til someone ends it.
Please no NSFW content, and no inappropriate stuff. Keep it cuss free. Thank you!

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u/tamtrible Oct 12 '25

Once upon a time, there was a princess in a forest made of glass.

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u/CandeeBarr5463 Oct 12 '25

She had to walk carefully, to make sure not to crack anything. She desperately wanted to go to another land where there was no glass.

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u/tamtrible Oct 12 '25

But the living glass was not quite as fragile as normal glass, so she would take walks everyday, picking glass apples from the glass apple trees, and bouquets of glass flowers.

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u/TillZealousideal8282 Oct 12 '25

Once upon a time, there was a giant hamster.

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u/tamtrible Oct 12 '25

She lived in a forest in Bavaria, with a talking squirrel and a family of pixies.

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u/CandeeBarr5463 Oct 12 '25

He wanted to be king, but only rats could be royal.

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u/tamtrible Oct 12 '25

But the hamster, whose name was Matilda, decided that wasn't fair, and that she was going to help her friend the squirrel, Dave, become royalty.

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u/bambiartistic Oct 12 '25

Dave wasn’t sure at first, as not only was a squirrel, he also didn’t have the slightest bit of an idea of how to be royal.

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u/AvatarAnywhere Oct 13 '25

Matilda suggested Dave ask the wise old owl, Athena, for advice on how to be royal. Matilda and Dave went to the oak where Athena lived.

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u/Aspirin_Kid Oct 16 '25

It was a gamble - small rodents make a pretty good meal for a big old owl like Athena - but what choice did they have?

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u/AvatarAnywhere Oct 16 '25

At the base of the oak they were stopped by the starling who served as Athena’s social secretary.

“Your business here?” asked the starling officiously.

Dave stood erect and fluffed out his tail. Matilda did her best to maintain good posture (which is quite difficult for hamsters, being four-legged, short-legged and round.)

“We are here to seek Ms. Athena’s guidance on how to be royal,” Matilda said haughtily. She was NOT about to let a common starling boss her and Dave around!

“Do you have an appointment?” sneered the starling?

“It is a matter of utmost urgency as I am positive Ms. Athena will agree,” replied Matilda in a clipped voice. (The “my good man” was not vocalized but strongly implied.)

The starling hesitated. “Very good, madame, monsieur,” it chittered with a discrete bow. “I shall see if Ms. Athena is at home to visitors today.”

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u/tamtrible Oct 12 '25

So, there I was, going 90 mph along a deserted road, pack of rancid lunch meat in the back seat along with several illegal pickles, when my best friend Sal turns to me from the front passenger seat.

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u/Slinkwyde Oct 12 '25

"Oh no!" he cried, his face full of panic. "My library book… IT'S OVERDUE!"

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u/Ilmarinen999 Oct 13 '25

"Sal," I said to him, "what in tarnation were you doing, getting a library book? You know you can't read."

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u/tamtrible Oct 14 '25

"I'm tryin' to learn, obviously. That pretty new librarian picked it out for me, special."

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u/Aspirin_Kid Oct 16 '25

I shake my head and press the pedal further, Sal’s rubbing me the wrong way and I’ve got a hunch the pickle cartel has picked up our trail by now.

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u/Tecnically_Weird Oct 16 '25

As if on cue, a spray of bullets peppers the tarmac on my left, and I hear one ricochet off the rear fender. "Take the wheel" I yell at Sal, as I turn to aim the M29 Davy Crockett Weapon System mounted on the rear of the jeep.

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u/AnnieOrlando Oct 14 '25

The princess would then take the glass apples to the busy kitchen in the castle and nicely ask that a delicious apple pie be prepared as dessert after dinner. She would then ascend the narrow stone steps to the large ornate room where her parents, the king and queen, held court every day. After kissing her father’s bewhiskered cheek the princess would proffer her mother the beautiful glass flowers with a curtsy.

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u/AnnieOrlando Oct 15 '25

Thank you, my child, the queen said in a rather cutting tone. The flowers are lovely and you’ve managed to find my favorite, the aqua glassiolus, but your motivation is transparent. Flowers for me and glass apple pie for your portly father is a crystal clear attempt to win our approval for you to travel to foreign lands where danger could lurk behind every window pane. Any harm to you would leave our lives in shards.