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...?)
One of the taller creatures jumped to his feet, picked up two furry-footed companions, and threw them (clothes and all) into the water.
“Quick: gather them in before they escape downstream… yahoo, dinner!”
The fish were, if truth be told, making no attempt to escape, but the current WAS beginning to chivvy them towards the exit.
Having wisely decided that the stream was too cold for a full bath, they opted for soaking their aching feet in it.
Several fish rose to the surface of the water. By a strange coincidence, all of them surfaced belly-up.
They hadn’t gone 8m before Jon tripped over a pair of intertwined snakes (one of which [whom?] he and Aisha recognised as Amy, though they couldn’t place the other one).
But our readers will be eager to know what was happening to the inter-racial (though highly biased towards shorties with hairy feet) band upstream. After all, the Earth revolves around its Middle, and this disparate fellowship was engaged on the most important Quest in the history of Humanity, er, Interspeciality… or – at any rate – Hairyfootity.