5 Words Only

[Patrick]

Since our community fiction project has died, I thought we would try something else.  I saw this being done on another site and I thought it looked fun.  It's still community fiction, but you're only allowed to add 5 words each post.

How it works
 Post only 5 words at a time
 Your 5 words must continue the story
 No fair double posting.
 No conversations in the thread, just your 5 words (otherwise the story may get lost)
 Pay attention to punctuation, if the last poster did not include a period, you must continue the sentence, etc.

I'll Start.
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The fire was finally starting

[audal]

The fire was finally starting to die down, but we

Like this?

[Patrick]

Yes, but don't include anything from the previous posts or else it will just get too long.  So your reply should have been:


to die down, but we

[Patrick]

continued to stick our smores

[joanjunkmail]

in the smoking ash pile.

(ps - could we consider copying the entire previous and pasting until it reaches paragraph length?  with the personal info on the sidebar, each post is much bigger than one line, so it'll become difficult to read quickly.)

[Patrick]

Bob looked up from his

[audal]

nearby foxhole and called out,

NOTE:  I have a suggestion that may open this up to a more cohesive narrative & flow.  But I'll defer final judgment to the creator.  The idea - let us fall somewhere in the 5-10 word range.  It'll let us define a scenario more succinctly.  With only 5 words, we may just be playing a game of posting prepositional phrases.

Two cents spent.

[elknutswife]

"Pete!  Where are you, buddy?"

[Emeraldsky]

A tuft of Pete's hair

[audal]

was still ablaze because of

[joanjunkmail]

his unnatural attraction to smores.

[Emeraldsky]

An onslaught of toxic fumes 

[Chelc]

mingled with the falling snowflakes

[Legionsynch]

and turned the air pink.

[audal]

The Snowman Contest was officially