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message 1: by Ben (last edited Apr 20, 2016 12:57PM) (new)

Ben Mariner A while back, I saw a book giveaway on Facebook and to enter you had to help build a story by writing ONE SENTENCE based off what the person before you posted. For Example:

Greg: It was a dark and stormy night.
Dharma: The thunder shook the house, rattling the pictures on the wall.

Yes, I did just make a Dharma and Greg reference. You're welcome.

Anyway, make sense?

You can post as much as you want, but you have to wait until another person posts before posting again. No two posts from the same person in a row. And, as always, be mindful and respectful of everyone else. Nothing graphic or offensive. And remember: One sentence only!

Now let's write a story. I'll start things off!


message 2: by Ben (new)

Ben Mariner Topher McNamara's last day on Earth was anything but normal.


message 3: by Noah (last edited Apr 20, 2016 12:47PM) (new)

Noah Nichols (nanmanme) At approximately 6:10 in the morning, he woke abruptly to alarming shrieks. The blood-curdling yelps sent chills down his spine. When he came to, Topher McNamara looked outside with hesitance. The visual just made it worse. Several dogs were being ripped apart by a pack of werewolves. And there was nothing he could do about it.

Oh yeah, and who could possibly forget about those hideous aliens invading?

Topher couldn't. No one could.


message 4: by Ben (new)

Ben Mariner Noah wrote: "At approximately 6:10 in the morning, he woke abruptly to alarming shrieks. The blood-curdling yelps sent chills down his spine. When he came to, Topher McNamara looked outside with hesitance. The ..."

*GASP* rule breaker! That's ok, we'll work off of that.


message 5: by Ben (new)

Ben Mariner Topher's first thought was of his parents, but it quickly turned to his baseball card collection.


message 6: by Noah (last edited Apr 20, 2016 01:06PM) (new)

Noah Nichols (nanmanme) Ben wrote: "Noah wrote: "At approximately 6:10 in the morning, he woke abruptly to alarming shrieks. The blood-curdling yelps sent chills down his spine. When he came to, Topher McNamara looked outside with he..."

Doh. Sorry, Ben! I didn't read that part about graphic violence.

Proceed to the immersion...


message 7: by Noah (last edited Apr 20, 2016 01:12PM) (new)

Noah Nichols (nanmanme) He couldn't quite get over the fact that baseball was on its way out. America's favorite pastime? Not anymore. Cell phones were every American's pastime now. And that's precisely why the aliens came down from the sky to eviscerate the human race in the first place.


message 8: by Riley, Viking Extraordinaire (new)

Riley Amos Westbrook (sonshinegreene) | 1511 comments Mod
Ironically, the aliens carried cell phones with them everywhere they went.


message 9: by Noah (last edited Apr 20, 2016 01:18PM) (new)

Noah Nichols (nanmanme) But they claimed that their devices were only used for so-called emergencies. It's funny how we're all alike at times, even with differing planets at war with each other.


message 10: by Christina (new)

Christina McMullen (cmcmullen) Topher had a cellphone once...






...once.


message 11: by S.J. (new)

S.J. Abbo (abbobooks) | 32 comments But he trades him for the precious baseball card, which he, unfortunately, drop in the toilet that morning!!!


message 12: by Dwayne, Head of Lettuce (new)

Dwayne Fry | 4443 comments Mod
Topher, tears in his eyes and shaking over the potential loss of the baseball card and only friend, pulled his notebook out of his pocket and began to scrawl in his wormy little handwriting, "gadzooketh and pish posh! Me beloved Wonky Belonky rookie trading card hath landeth in the privy! 911 911 911!"


message 13: by M.L. (last edited Apr 20, 2016 04:38PM) (new)

M.L. | 1129 comments What a relief when Topher realized it was not his baseball card at all, but a photo of a political candidate, he-who-must-not-be-named, which the toilet promptly reverse flushed and by so doing morphed it into something unforeseen.


message 14: by Dwayne, Head of Lettuce (new)

Dwayne Fry | 4443 comments Mod
It was McBern, his mother godfairy, whom he had not seen since he was eight.


message 15: by Christina (new)

Christina McMullen (cmcmullen) "Tophy?" McBern cooed in a voice that sounded like sandpaper scraping across a biker's stubbled chin. "Little Tophy? Is that you? Oh you is gonna pay for what you did!"


message 16: by Dwayne, Head of Lettuce (new)

Dwayne Fry | 4443 comments Mod
Christina wrote: ""Tophy?" McBern cooed in a voice that sounded like sandpaper scraping across a biker's stubbled chin. "Little Tophy? Is that you? Oh you is gonna pay for what you did!""

"Beejeebers, McBern," Topher said while slobber ran onto his bib, "I got no moolah for what to pay for that with."


message 17: by S.J. (new)

S.J. Abbo (abbobooks) | 32 comments But wait, in that exact moment, Topher remember something what strange old man, who gave him baseball card, says to him: "When time come...


message 18: by T.L. (new)

T.L. Clark (tlcauthor) | 727 comments (wait; one sentence at a time, right?)

"...Aliens will save the human race from the killer werewolves, and you will be their guide."


message 19: by Ben (new)

Ben Mariner (yes, ONE SENTENCE at a time, folks)

Topher waved his arms at the aliens desperately trying to flush themselves down his toilet since he knew he couldn't speak their language.


message 20: by Noah (new)

Noah Nichols (nanmanme) Just then, Topher felt sympathetic toward the little green aliens trying to escape by any means necessary...and he realized that he should opt to save the pair of them, and together, just maybe they could defeat those mangy werewolves.


message 21: by T.L. (new)

T.L. Clark (tlcauthor) | 727 comments He picked up the plunger and started using it on the aliens with all his might, in a desperate attempt to flush them to safety.

(hmmm...pleasant story this!?)


message 22: by Ben (new)

Ben Mariner Amid the gnashing teeth and tearing claws, Topher managed to slip from the grasp of a werewolf and bolt for the door.


message 23: by Noah (last edited Apr 22, 2016 01:07PM) (new)

Noah Nichols (nanmanme) "WAIT! We aren't the bad guys here..." one of the werewolves said.


message 24: by Nik (new)

Nik Krasno The leader werewolf turning into a literary agent announced: "He's an indie, not that tasty anyway. Let's devour some bestselling dude."


message 25: by Dwayne, Head of Lettuce (new)

Dwayne Fry | 4443 comments Mod
And no one really missed John Grisham all that much.


message 26: by Denae (new)

Denae Christine (denaechristine) | 167 comments Because Topher helped the aliens take down all the cell phone towers.


message 27: by India (new)

India Adams (indiaradams) | 66 comments Then used the dismantled metal to build a space ship.


message 28: by Noah (last edited Apr 22, 2016 05:41AM) (new)

Noah Nichols (nanmanme) And oddly enough, that collaboration would spring forth the beginning stages of the most bizarre how-to reality series ever to be shown on HGTV.


message 29: by Ben (new)

Ben Mariner But, unfortunately, the show was hosted by Guy Fieri for some reason unbeknownst to the world at large.


message 30: by Grace (new)

Grace Crandall (gracecrandall) | 79 comments His insistence that salsa splattered across citing boards could double as 'art' was the cause of great distress to many decorators, though the trend was later taken up by a great many avant-garde artists, and soon became a national phenomenon.


message 31: by Noah (last edited Apr 22, 2016 10:26AM) (new)

Noah Nichols (nanmanme) Mr. Fieri, known for his charismatic and overtly frosty spikes, of which he always tried to pass off as actual hair follicles, later revealed on a very special episode of Space Shippers that he was in fact, an alien that had been sent down to earth to go undercover many years ago.


message 32: by Ben (new)

Ben Mariner No one was surprised.


message 33: by Nik (new)

Nik Krasno Aliens' celibacy was almost over and once this knowledge spread, the clichéd but so real tension filled the air


message 34: by Noah (last edited Apr 22, 2016 12:04PM) (new)

Noah Nichols (nanmanme) Especially taking into consideration that Guy had been infamous for proclaiming during several episodes just how superior alien machinery was compared to "these know-it-all human nothings that are killing this planet" and for sporadically talking in strange, unknown languages at will.


message 35: by Angelmovingonup (new)

Angelmovingonup Wjesus | 33 comments The Werewolf agents, feeling personally scorned, declared to destroy anything made by Topher or the aliens that would help them escape the planet.


message 36: by Grace (new)

Grace Crandall (gracecrandall) | 79 comments The werewolves, however, had sadly failed to contact any local news stations or post their declaration on social media, and the fateful announcement went largely unnoticed.


message 37: by Angelmovingonup (new)

Angelmovingonup Wjesus | 33 comments So after learning of the senseless act of destroying all the cell towers, the werewolves developed a code that would cause all the devices to explode on their command from a remote location, seriously injuring all but Topher who no longer carried a cell phone, making him bend to their will and not the aliens'.


message 38: by Nik (new)

Nik Krasno The last hero of the telecom biz, honorable engineer Johnny sacrificied himself while restoring some of the cells and jamming aliens' telepathic network with his extremely morbid thoughts


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