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Dec-16-2013 18:22

Easy-peasy. Post the first half of a sentence (at least a few words). The next person finishes the sentence AND starts the next sentence. The trick is to create a *somewhat* cohesive story one sentence at a time. Well... half a sentence at at time, really. Think of it as role play - micro style.

For example, if I post:
"Knife at the ready, John waited until Joan's back was turned..."
the next person might post:
"to clean the dirt out from underneath his fingernails. He knew Joan detested..."

So let's begin.

Nov-15-2014 11:07

looked at him scathingly and said "Was there something you wanted, or did you just come here to leap about like a lunatic?" Shovel came to a halt and told the man that

Nov-16-2014 05:22

he was the only lunatic because he didn't like the jig, Shovel had done a first rate job, in his opinion. The man

Nov-23-2014 11:02

snorted and slammed the door. Shovel gave up the hut as a bad job and walked on, still dripping slightly from his dip in the river, until he came to a

Nov-23-2014 21:12

pink elephant. "Strange," he muttered, "I wonder if this is the effect of

Nov-26-2014 06:29

the pills (they were definitely pink), or whether he was painted by the One Tooth Witch whom I noticed lurking behind the baobab bonsai tree. I'm sure...

Nov-27-2014 14:52

the only way to find out is to ask the elephant himself." Shovel approached the elephant with the intention of ascertaining its reality and origins, when

Dec-20-2014 06:47

the One Tooth Witch emerged from behind the baobab bonsai tree carrying a brush and a pot of pink paint, thus enabling Shovel to utilise his considerable powers of deduction and saving him from having to strike up a conversation with a pink elephant. "Missed a bit," said the One Tooth Witch, dabbing carefully with her brush at a spot on the elephant's

Dec-22-2014 15:00

trunk. "I am painting every animal I see pink, for when