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message 1: by Barbara (new)

Barbara (cinnabarb) | 35802 comments Mod
I've archived this thread and we'll restart below, with the new tale being spun.

In this topic, one member begins a story and others continue by adding a sentence or two. Have fun folks!


message 2: by Barbara (last edited Jul 24, 2025 05:04AM) (new)

Barbara (cinnabarb) | 35802 comments Mod
Lisa - (Aussie Girl)

It is a moonless night in Cape Canaveral when the first space ship to Mars is ready to launch. The mission comprises of 5 astronauts, 2 _________________________________

Mansi

of them are women. All are----------------


Lisa - (Aussie Girl)
ready for an adventure! Lift off is seamlessly achieved and they are on their way to __________________________________


message 3: by Barbara (last edited Jul 24, 2025 05:08AM) (new)

Barbara (cinnabarb) | 35802 comments Mod
establish a colony that will mine Mars for rare earth elements. Everything is going smoothly until one of the male astronauts_________________________


message 4: by Mansi (new)

Mansi | 22910 comments suffers a heart attack.____


message 5: by Anita (new)

Anita (neet413) | 2892 comments And slumps over the control panel, hitting the rocket booster shut off valve. Then, ______________


Lisa - (Aussie Girl) | 3628 comments the other male co-pilot trips over the first pilot and knocks himself out. The final male pilot panics and ___________________________


message 7: by Laura (new)

Laura | 30429 comments starts singing, "Stairway to Heaven."


message 8: by Len (new)

Len | 3495 comments "Will you stop that pathetic noise," snarls the onboard computer. "I am in command now and.....


Lisa - (Aussie Girl) | 3628 comments much prefer Black Sabbath. ( Vale Ozzy Osbourne!) One of the female astronauts sick of all the testosterone decides to take things into her own capable hands and _____________________________


message 10: by Mansi (new)

Mansi | 22910 comments starts managing the control panel manually.Things finally become ---------


message 11: by Barbara (new)

Barbara (cinnabarb) | 35802 comments Mod
stabilized, and the female astronaut, Valentina Tereshkova, gets them to Mars. The whole crew steps outside and then, holy moly ________________________


message 12: by Mansi (new)

Mansi | 22910 comments two of them start doing sky walks.


Lisa - (Aussie Girl) | 3628 comments Valentina has taken command and soon has the mission back on track when there is a huge swoosh and ___________________________


message 14: by Mansi (new)

Mansi | 22910 comments a comet passes past them.__________


Lisa - (Aussie Girl) | 3628 comments which bathes the planet in an eerie golden glow and suddenly transforms the surroundings into ____________________-


message 16: by Len (new)

Len | 3495 comments a hellish crystalline wilderness. Valentina hears a disturbing sound and then sees_________


Lisa - (Aussie Girl) | 3628 comments a Martian! But he or she is nothing like she imagined, _______________________________________


message 18: by Barbara (new)

Barbara (cinnabarb) | 35802 comments Mod
being a tall spindly creature covered from head to toe in iridescent scales. ____________________________________


message 19: by Mansi (new)

Mansi | 22910 comments She launches missiles on it only to find ______


Lisa - (Aussie Girl) | 3628 comments it easily repels them. Amazingly the creature yells at her English "What do you think you're doing, I'm the Martian welcoming committee!" Valentina is __________________________________


message 21: by Len (new)

Len | 3495 comments contrite. Then she has an idea. "Say," she says, "I know a guy on Earth who knows how to make a deal. We can invite him to Mars." The Martian does not look too happy. "Please______________


message 22: by Laura (new)

Laura | 30429 comments we are the red planet, but we do not like orange! Also, there's no gravity on Mars so why do you think you can fire a missile? It's not like your sci-fi movies!" Valentine cannot ______


message 23: by Eyvonne (new)

Eyvonne | 5187 comments believe they have gotten so far off their mission. They are supposed to be looking for rare Earth elements, probably difficult to find on Mars! Let's ask the Martian welcoming committee ________


message 24: by Len (new)

Len | 3495 comments if they are foolish enough to give us a full list of their mineral resources. "Not likely," says the emissary. "We have followed your Earth's history closely and know your tricks. We propose to________________


message 25: by Barbara (new)

Barbara (cinnabarb) | 35802 comments Mod
return you to your spaceship and send you back to Earth. If you refuse to go ___________________________-


message 26: by Laura (new)

Laura | 30429 comments peacefully, we have a number of...ahem... 'probing' questions we can look into. What do you say?"


Lisa - (Aussie Girl) | 3628 comments Although one of the party looked with interest at the "probing questions" the rest of the team thought they better skedaddle back to the space craft. With a whoosh they were back in space and heading towards ______________________________________


Lisa - (Aussie Girl) | 3628 comments Earth. But the crew were very dissatisfied with failing on their last mission and decided __________________________


message 29: by Eyvonne (last edited Aug 10, 2025 08:34AM) (new)

Eyvonne | 5187 comments to put Valentina Tereshkova in complete charge. She has never failed at anything in her entire life! Valentina began __________


Lisa - (Aussie Girl) | 3628 comments by turning the ship around back towards Mars. No Martian was going to make her fail at their mission and soon the ship was zooming _______________________________


message 31: by Barbara (new)

Barbara (cinnabarb) | 35802 comments Mod
back to Mars. But the Martians had studied Earth history, and saw how colonizers exploited and enslaved people, so they blew up the spaceship with a nuclear missile.

The End.




message 32: by Eyvonne (last edited Aug 13, 2025 07:22AM) (new)

Eyvonne | 5187 comments Cleo's investigation into the missing books at the town library has caused several local residents __________


message 33: by Mansi (new)

Mansi | 22910 comments to be afraid and they are booking new lockers in _______


message 34: by Eyvonne (new)

Eyvonne | 5187 comments the library, located in the basement made with 'industrial strenth!' hoping they _______


message 35: by Laura (new)

Laura | 30429 comments won't be charged overdue fines, if _______


message 36: by Mansi (new)

Mansi | 22910 comments they don't pay locker rent on time.This has caused ______


Lisa - (Aussie Girl) | 3628 comments a lot of panic and Cleo is determined to get to the bottom of it. Who could _______________________________________


message 38: by Barbara (new)

Barbara (cinnabarb) | 35802 comments Mod
be taking library books? They're not rare or valuable books. Cleo speculates ________


message 39: by Eyvonne (new)

Eyvonne | 5187 comments it is either Peter, Paul or Mary, she thinks they are looking for rare song lyrics or ____________


message 40: by Mansi (new)

Mansi | 22910 comments something valuable .He secretly follows Mary _____


Lisa - (Aussie Girl) | 3628 comments downtown and is surprised when __________________


message 42: by Eyvonne (new)

Eyvonne | 5187 comments Mary is seen 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' with Cleo! A sack full of books was left _________________


message 43: by Laura (new)

Laura | 30429 comments near the city hall. Why is she leaving a Democracy Under Pressure: An Introduction to the American Political System book there, along with the whole PolySci section?_______


message 44: by Mansi (new)

Mansi | 22910 comments So she didn't take the books away and she gets a clean chit .
But what about the others------


message 45: by Eyvonne (new)

Eyvonne | 5187 comments Peter & Paul. They are interviewing for a 'new' singer, secretly trying to read the PolySci books after dark, thinking there must be a clue or ________


Lisa - (Aussie Girl) | 3628 comments maybe Mary is looking pretty guilty. Where is she anyway, __________________________


message 47: by Barbara (new)

Barbara (cinnabarb) | 35802 comments Mod
because Peter and Paul discover the group's money is all gone, and they find a note from Mary saying........................


message 48: by Mansi (new)

Mansi | 22910 comments she is going for plastic surgery and will go to a lonely island with only books .


Lisa - (Aussie Girl) | 3628 comments The island is in the Pacific and is a paradise so Peter and Paul decide to _______________________________


message 50: by Barbara (new)

Barbara (cinnabarb) | 35802 comments Mod
join Mary for a brief visit, then convince her to return to the U.S. mainland to go on tour and replenish the bank account. So the threesome _______________________


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