Story Thread

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fussbucket

119 pages

Posted
April 10, 2008 - 12:44pm

Story Thread

A little experiment.
Below I have begun a story in screenplay format that has yet to be written. The genre and characters are not defined in any way. Post your own follow up scenes sequentially, beginning where the last post left off. Hopefully, in the coming weeks we'll have the makings of a coherent story.

FADE IN:

EXT. COLD ROCKY SHORELINE -- MORNING

Wind-whipped seas disrupt the otherwise motionless environment. Grey clouds loom heavy in the distance. TARA, a fragile specter of a girl, looks out into the brooding sea, her back to a small cottage sitting atop a rocky cliff.

She will not be going back there.

Tara grips something tightly in her hand. Blood trickles slowly down her palm to her finger tips.

(continue story from here)

ScottMercer

104 pages

Posted
April 12, 2008 - 4:21am

RE: Story Thread

She slowly opens her palm to stare at the ceremonial dagger from her home planet. A single tear rolls down her cheek.

TARA
Goodbye, Aldebaran. Earth is
my home now.

She heaves the dagger into the windswept sea. Behind her, a lanky, shambling figure approaches. She hears him walking along the rocks. She turns to face him.

"Let's have some new cliches." - Sam Goldwyn
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