If everybody jumped off a bridge...

It may have been the weekend, but writers never stop. Consequently my inbox received a call for volunteers to take part in a chain story. Given I'm asking the youth of Mossel Bay to do the same, I didn't feel I could say no. The rules appeared simple. Each writer takes a paragraph (rather than a single line, because we are older than six). 'Okay,' I thought, 'I can do that.' However, there was a catch: each paragraph had to be in a different genre. 'Ach!' Genre fiction takes a special knack. Nor does genre fiction necessarily mean light. Lauren...