The Create A Short Story Comment Game
Let the create a short story game begin!
Do you need instructions? I didn't think so. But, just in case someone else does here they are:
You read the story as it unfolds in the comment section and add the next one, two or three lines. No, you may not write four that would be greedy.
And so the story begins....
Once upon a time there was a man with no name who fell in love with a mermaid with no past. Her beautiful spirit, her salt water scent, and the way she bashfully turned her head, all of this enchanted him. And on a brilliant July afternoon, on the shores of Thistleberry Bay, he declared his love. "I am a man with no name," he began, "and you are a mermaid with no past, but together we can....


forge the way to a fabulous future together, if only you will......
Posted by:kenju | July 30, 2007 at 10:38 PM
promise not call our children either Neptune or Ariel or.........
Posted by:Marisa | July 30, 2007 at 10:47 PM
create a story for your past, because when you do, the spell will be broken and you will have legs and we can live together! So she began weaving a story, creating her past which began.....
Posted by:Jennie | July 30, 2007 at 10:48 PM
...with a dream as all the best tales do. "My mother was a pirate queen," she began, "And my father was a sea god. They met when she tried to..."
Posted by:MissMeliss | July 30, 2007 at 10:57 PM
build a ship that would sail to the bottom of the ocean.
Posted by:Cristin | July 31, 2007 at 01:45 AM
It worked, but all the sailors drowned, for she had forgotten to. . .
Posted by:Mamacita | July 31, 2007 at 04:21 AM
...put the lid on. For thousands of years she drifted...
Posted by:Jo-less | July 31, 2007 at 05:10 AM
in an opium-induced haze, because her guilt-ridden soul couldn't get over how her father had...
Posted by:Hannah | July 31, 2007 at 06:13 AM
given her no history, no past on which to draw from experience. So she finally gave up the guilt, because she couldn't remember what caused it, and she......
Posted by:kenju | July 31, 2007 at 11:19 AM
basked on the rocks and combed her hair with a ragged shell. When she put the shell to her ear she heard a whisper and she swam in the direction of the sound to find.......
Posted by:rosemary | July 31, 2007 at 04:28 PM
That evil merwench Wendy who said...
Posted by:Used*to*be*me | July 31, 2007 at 08:42 PM