Years ago at school we played a little game on a very very long bus trip around NSW. The entire grade wrote a story. It was a ridiculous story, but it was still a story nonetheless. FWIW I cannot recall what it was about.
So anyway, it was a barrel of fun, and I thought here is as good a place as any to try and do it again.
The rules are simple.
(1) You contribute 1 line/sentence/paragraph whatever to the story,
(2) You don't kill off or otherwise end the storyline, leaving nowhere for the next person to take it.
Might add rule (3) you have to wait at least 7 posts or 3 days, whichever happens first before you post again, so as not to influence the direction of the narrative too heavily. The tale goes where it wants to go!
Shall I start? I won't give our protagonist a name just yet. Will leave it to the more imaginative heads among us. If perhaps you want to comment on the story maybe start another thread, and leave this one clean to keep the tale continuous.
West of the mountains there was a small outback town. And in that town lived young farmer, who could generally be found frequenting the local after a hard day's yakka.
It was on such an occasion he was with his mates, mindlessly having a beer and joking about his old man, when a sultry, sun-burned, freckled blonde walked into the pub. She looked around, gathered her bearings and approached the group. She said to him...
