The default setting in Q&As is "Recent". However, by clicking on "Popular", I came across this (the most popular thread ever on this forum, with 88 replies):
https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/question/view/192
It seems to have fizzled out some years ago, but I thought that I might revive the idea for a new generation of users on this forum.
NEW RULE: To prevent total hijacking, each entry may be a MAXIMUM of THREE (3) sentences!
Even when this thread disappears from the most recent page(s), please keep it in mind and return to it again and again. Let's see if we can write a novel-length work of beauty and originality! At least set a new record for thread length.
Obviously, styles will change. Genres may also do so. I will try my best to keep it from sliding into a Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter OR Twilight clone. (THAT's a gauntlet thrown down for some of you fanatics! This could be fun!)
p.s. If it's interesting, I'll ask others at La Gr@not@ if we can publish it. Prepare your CVs!!!
I'll begin:
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Aisha wiped the mud out of her eyes before plunging her head in the almost-freezing mountain stream.
"That Jon!" she muttered (filling her mouth with water, the rash girl), "He'll pay for this!"
Shaking her head caused myriad waterdrops to fly out from her long, red hair.
(to be continued...?)
[p.s. Thanks, Wilhelmina for not having an FBI-approved, hacker-proof e-mail provider. I must point out that Ms. Austen must have been adversely affected by the pounding she received with her own shoes, because she used the words "insensitive to" where she would normally - and correctly - have said "insensible of".]
A CIA agent (disguised all this time as the tree against which Prof. Wombat had raised his hind leg [and from whose branches Aisha had sprung]) broke his cover to say: “No, Ma’am! Not even Hillary Rodham Clinton – who is soon to (perhaps) [split infinitive, but what do CIA agents know (or care) about literary correctness?] hold the entire world’s security in her hands, and who is (according to Mr. Obama) ‘the most qualified presidential candidate in history’ (an opinion which you, Ma’am, will allow me and my colleagues to dispute) – is safe against e-mail hackery.”
Having broken his cover, he disappeared into the forest, muttering: “Democrats, you had your chance to vote for Bernie Sanders in the primaries… but you blew it!” and consoling himself with the fact that he had not been the only agent spying on the proceedings.
At this point in our narrative it is perhaps only fair to clear up a possible miscomprehension in the minds of some of our fair readers by belatedly coming to the defence of the marsupials’ reputation for alcohol consumption. It may be that some few are under the impression that a few tins of beer were enough to render them insensitive to their surroundings, but we must remind them that our antipodean friends had been travelling long and hard, and had also recently been consuming large quantities of “gooms”, which – for the sake of those unfamiliar with Australian dialect and who have not availed themselves of the proffered connection to Australian drinking terms – we shall reveal are drinks of methylated spirits commonly drunk by vagrants, further explaining that the kangaroo had partaken of these beverages to a greater extent than her academic companion.
Having shed light on that reason for her recent inactivity, it only remains to announce that the kangaroo now awakened from her refreshing repose in time to see the light of dawning affection glowing in the eyes of her newly-discovered drinking acquaintance.
(signed) Jane Austen
[Bloody Hell! Now she’s hacked MY e-mail account as well! Is no-one safe?]