The Story book thread

[JANINE]

Ok now for a bit of fun...
I'm not sure if this has ever been done at all on the forum but its fun anyhow.

Basically what you have to do is think of something to add onto the end of what the poster above you has written and make it make sense so in the end we end up with some kind of story.

Its fun and it'll put our creativity to the test. no more then 3 lines each though.

Ok I'll start.

It was late on a very dark January night...

(ok now you take it from here guys and girls):)

[happygeek]

when Caroline arrived home from work.

[mattyd]

The wind touched down upon the shingles of the house while the gaslights fluttered in a copper haze.

[WaltP]

"Is that you, Caroline?" her husband called from his study.

[JJ___]

Caroline paused, worried at this sudden, unexpected kindness. He only ever did this when he'd done something he knew she'd hate. It wasn't a good omen.

[JANINE]

'What has he done now?' she thought to herself, going back to times past when he had been caught having an affair with his young secretary Jenna

[WaltP]

"Come in here, quickly" he called. Apprehensively, she walked to the open study door and took a deep breath before entering.

[kAtHicKa]

"Here, I've poured us both a Brandy", he said, "we're going to need it". Caroline was shocked! Her husband, Sherman, had been sober for nearly three years.

[JJ___]

"I'll get straight to the point," Sherman quavered, spilling a little brandy on the coffee table. "I went down into the toolshed yesterday. There was...a baby there."

[JANINE]

'A baby!!!' Caroline excalimed. How on earth did that get there I wonder??

[kAtHicKa]

"I don't know, but at least she is alive and healthy. Nicolas is caring for her now. Thank God I found her when I did.", Sherman sighed, then added reluctantly, "I have to tell you something, Caroline. The aspen trees in the witch's grove have been charred again."

[JJ___]

Caroline paused, slowly poured a large glass of brandy, and drank it down in ten seconds flat.

Then she fainted.

[kAtHicKa]

In the morning, Caroline woke up in her bed with a blood pressure cuff around her arm and Dr. Florence checking her pulse. She groaned, looked around to make sure her husband was not in the room and said to the doctor, "Sarah...

[WaltP]

"Hush, my dear. You seem to have had a shock and you need to rest," the doctor said. He placed a warm, caring hand on her forehead as he smiled at her.

[kAtHicKa]

"Yes, but what about Sarah... and the baby... and... and..." Caroline stammered, "th-the... w-witch's grove?"

[mattyd]

"The grove is no more. It is been cleared by Master Sorn and his underlings it seems; Master Sorn decided it was up to him to confront this problem and thus he did. Do not worry, Dear." Said she.

[kAtHicKa]

Sherman burst into the room, out of breath from running up the stairs, "The baby...", he panted with a horrified look on his face, "she sprouted wings!"

[mattyd]

"Aye!" Said Dr. Florence "Are the wings of flesh or are they of protoplasm? This is the most important question to ask yourself, Sir."

[kAtHicKa]

"Doctor, please, I'm not a biologist. Hurry, come look for yourself. Caroline, are you feeling better? Can you come with us? You really should not be left alone." "Yes", she said, pulling on her robe as she followed them out the door and down the stairs.

[mattyd]

And it did not take long for the group to discover the matter to be worse than they had feared; The baby had not only grown stately wings woven from flesh and scar, its eyes shown with the light of the purple-brown snake nests of old, the venom of ages of neglect filtering through its simpering glare. It spoke one word:

"Mother?"