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...?)
[Good Lord: now she’s discovered the dwarves, aka dwarfs!]
For some reason entirely incomprehensible to a more discerning observer, a large proportion of the populace believe those wearing spectacles to be intrinsically more learned than the average; it was not the one they named “Doc”, however, but another of the diminutive mineworkers – one with a happy demeanour – who undertook to explain the situation to Aisha.
“If you had asked that question in Spanish, Italian, or, indeed, any of a large variety of languages – though not, I hasten to add, French or German – it would have been clear whether you were addressing it to one dwarf or several. The ambiguous meaning of the term ‘you’ in English obliges me to lay the following information before you: to wit, that we are all brothers and share a common domicile.” – Jane Austen
Now, the pickpocket (or, in this case, pickfeet) sub-option would be rather risky in this crowd, especially considering the fact that she was naked. Mugging was right out, given the numbers; and breaking and entering held its own disadvantages… hmmm…
“You wouldn’t, by any chance, be in need of a maid, would you?” she asked the dwarf with the delectable boots, who immediately sneezed.
[@ Victoria: I was trying for a full day to think of how I could follow onto Jane's last contribution. Thank you SO much for handing me this wonderful cue!]
Aisha had three other options open to her: seduction, violence, and theft. Her natural preference was the central one, but, hey, these might be little guys but there were SEVEN of them, armed with picks and shovels… and Jon wasn’t the most trustworthy of allies.
With seven of them, seduction wasn’t a number she could be sure of pulling off without having to actually deliver the goods… so that left theft.