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#1 March 12, 2010 21:01:45

markbuckland
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The Giant Short Story

Right, we tried this in the wikis but the format wasn't really ideal for it.

The idea is that everyone writes a line that follows the last one and, eventually, we end up with a weird and wonderful piece. Shall we begin then? I'll lead off:


John awoke in his bedroom.

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#2 March 13, 2010 15:36:09

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The Giant Short Story

Confused and bleary eyed, he wondered why the woman next to him had stubble?

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#3 March 13, 2010 16:52:27

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In the morning light, he could see it was a thick, coarse growth, matching the colour and consistency of her underarm hair.

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#4 March 15, 2010 11:14:02

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he stood up and shook his head.

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#5 March 16, 2010 20:21:43

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He rubbed the ugly, bumpy stubble rash that had mysteriously appeared on his chin.

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#6 March 16, 2010 20:37:01

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He rolled reluctantly out of bed, and looked in the mirror.

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#7 March 19, 2010 01:49:19

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He saw the bed ridden sex casualty behind him roll over on their side, groaning along with the bed springs.

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#8 March 21, 2010 23:17:31

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david
He saw the bed ridden sex casualty behind him roll over on their side, groaning along with the bed springs.


After the intial hauntings of her distillery-strength morning breath, muscular tongue lolling out her mouth like an impotent chew toy, breasts resiliently clinging to the basketball jersey she had thrown on post-coitus, Johnny realised it might have been a trifle rash of him to bed his dead brother's wife hours after the funeral.

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#9 March 26, 2010 20:25:14

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the funeral had been a sad day and he was still dressed in black.

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#10 March 29, 2010 15:26:21

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John knew he had to get out of there right away; he excused himself, saying he was going to the shop to buy a fry-up and perhaps, some tattie scones.

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