"Well, crying isn't gonna bring your dog back . . . unless your tears smell like dog food. So you can either sit there crying and eating can after can of dog food until your tears smell enough like dog food to make your dog come back or you can go out there and find your dog."

- Homer J. Simpson
Let's Write A Story!

The Rules: Click comments and add one sentence of your own. You can only write one sentence at a time. Add as many as you like, just never right after yourself.

I'll start:

Slim had never before seen a creature look so angry.


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Comments on "Let's Write A Story!":
1. jen - 01/24/2005 3:33 am CST

The little hairs stood up on the back of his neck in fear.

2. Bob - 01/24/2005 4:02 am CST

He had not heard that sound in a long, long time.

3. DLE - 01/24/2005 5:06 am CST

After hissing back at the basilisk that squirmed and shrieked in his hand, he called out to the owner, "Amanda, will you please get over here and take this thing?";"0

4. Jared - 01/24/2005 5:15 am CST

"It's all yours now, Dad," Amanda yelled back, keeping her distance.

5. Andy - 01/24/2005 6:08 am CST

Holding the basilisk, he wondered why he'd ever allowed himself to take that PetSmart employee up on the whole "once-in-a-lifetime-after-Christmas sale" in the first place.

6. Chris - 01/24/2005 6:53 am CST

Oh, well, he might as well stop fretting about it, especially since he long ago ran out of dead ferrets to feed the basilisk and therefore had more important things to be concerned with at the moment.

7. Daniel - 01/24/2005 7:36 am CST

His mind frozen in fear, he suddenly came to this realization.

8. Stacy - 01/24/2005 7:40 am CST

"I forgot to take the cake out of the oven," he remembered belatedly.

9. Chris - 01/24/2005 8:17 am CST

"Well, now isn't that just GRAND!" said the cab driver, who had been standing in the corner watching all of this happen, but who could no longer stand idly by.

10. gina - 01/24/2005 8:50 am CST

"Give me the basilisk! Get that cake out of the oven, I am starving!";"0

11. Jared - 01/24/2005 9:17 am CST

"And tell my writers to stop using adverbs!";"0

12. Raindream - 01/24/2005 9:33 am CST

The cab driver walked up to him, saying "What'd you do to make that thing hotter than the sun in a frying pan?";"0

13. Chris - 01/24/2005 10:13 am CST

"Ancient Chinese Secret (tm)" said Slim, who had just finished telling himself that he had to do his laundry when - if - he got home.

14. Shrode - 01/24/2005 11:42 am CST

Father and daughter climbed back into the cab after another failed attempt to release basilisk into the wild.

15. jen - 01/24/2005 12:38 pm CST

But the cab driver was nowhere to be found.

16. Jay - 01/24/2005 1:15 pm CST

His whereabouts might be ferreted out of the basilisk, given time, or he may have been frozen by that baleful gaze and been covered in blizzard-borne depths of winter wonderland.

17. Bill - 01/24/2005 1:16 pm CST

They heard a faint, gurgling sound, coming from somewhere behind the car.

18. Jay - 01/24/2005 2:01 pm CST

Slim thought "those storm drains sure are loud sometimes.";"0

19. Bill - 01/24/2005 2:06 pm CST

Suddenly, a look for horror stole over the daughter's face.

20. Rey - 01/24/2005 2:49 pm CST

The wrinkling of the basilisk’s nose and subsequent odor told its own tale.

21. Jay - 01/24/2005 3:46 pm CST

Meanwhile, the cake in the oven combusted, which was just as well, having long charred past edible, leaving Slim in the lurch for that aspect of his crazy sister's birthday party.

22. Josh Cohen - 01/25/2005 2:14 am CST

And he knew the kind of trouble that could cause -- last year, Slim's crazy sister had asked for a chocolate cake; the coconut frosting had led to the undoing of several distaff cousins that no one really missed very much.

23. Gator - 01/25/2005 3:09 am CST




24. Jay - 01/25/2005 5:04 am CST

One of those rumored yet seldom encountered sewer alligators lumbered along to investigate the proceedings, only to have a feral alley cat sneakily attack his tongue.

25. Chris - 01/25/2005 3:15 pm CST

"Cool." said Slim's daughter, although she just said it to get her mind off of the strange situation unfolding before her.

26. songstress7 - 01/25/2005 6:28 pm CST

Slim checked his watch - seventeen minutes until his sister's party, and still without a cake.

27. Jay - 01/26/2005 1:51 am CST

"Relax dad, there's a bakery," said Amanda, pointing down the street a ways.

28. Raindream - 01/26/2005 5:44 am CST

"Mother Divina's Gourmet Bakery and Pawn Shop, eh?";"0

29. Bryon - 01/26/2005 5:57 am CST

"We can get a cake and buy a used Gloc 9mm as a birthday gift for crazy Aunt Bertrice," exclaimed Amanda

30. gina - 01/26/2005 10:23 am CST

When they approached the bakery an old woman emerged from behind the counter and shouted, "We're closed!";"0

31. Jay - 01/26/2005 11:21 am CST

Amanda gasped, "Aunt Bertrice, what are you doing here!";"0

32. Chris - 01/26/2005 12:52 pm CST

"Well, as you recall, I retired from the French Foreign Legion last month, so this seemed like the natural thing to do." replied Bertrice, haughtily.

33. John - 01/27/2005 2:50 am CST

"Well, do you get an employee discount on baked goods?" asked Amanda.

34. stutte - 01/27/2005 6:13 am CST

Slim, putting his hand over his daughter's mouth, looked quizzically at Bertrice: "No, no I don't recall you even being in the French Foreign Legion, you told me you were fishing with...with...with Jacques Cousteau I think.";"0

35. Felix - 01/27/2005 8:43 pm CST

"I was in Special Operations", said Bertrice. "I was assigned to help Jacques on a case. You won't believe this, but he believed that basilisks really exist."

She laughed. "Of course, we didn't find any. Now do you want to buy something or just stand there?";"0

36. DLE - 01/28/2005 10:17 am CST

Jared gazed at the meandering manuscript with disgust and sighed, "My agent is going to soil himself if I attempt to turn in a story about basilisks, baked goods, and Jacques Cousteau.";"0

37. Jared - 01/28/2005 10:35 am CST

"Hmmm. But replace 'baked goods' with 'sushi' and 'Jacques Cousteau' with 'Steve Zissou,' and I'll have a winner on my hands," he thought, as the basilisk began to violently vomit.

38. Bill - 01/28/2005 10:40 am CST

Just then, Steve realized with growing horror that the Basilisk had just eaten both Amanda and Beatrice.

39. Jay - 02/06/2005 12:28 pm CST

Jared, observing impartially, declared in dismay "no, no, no... let him eat cake!";"0

40. Claire - 02/09/2005 7:12 am CST

Steve fished his slightly digested female relatives from the Basilisk's vomit and ran into the shop to retrieve a sufficient quantity of cake to sate its hunger

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