A Story Experiment
March 20th, 2010
To go along with the story theme this month, I had this idea to start a story and let you continue it in the comments. It could be like one of those campfire tales, where one person starts, tells a bit (a sentence or two or three) and then the next person picks up where the last person left off.
Let's give it a try! I'll share a piece of art (Leap) as a jumping off point, but feel free to take the tale in any direction you'd like. I'll start the first sentence in the comments and then whoever comes along next, feel free to write the next bit and so on. Have fun!
48 Responses
That morning, Emily put on her favorite pair of orange-striped socks.
Posted by: Leah | Mar 20, 2010 at 4:12 pm |
She always wore these socks when she set out on an adventure.
Posted by: ErinRichardson | Mar 20, 2010 at 4:26 pm |
She was so happy to have them on…jumping up high with energy…
Posted by: linda | Mar 20, 2010 at 4:27 pm |
that she flew up and over the sharp peaked houses, and finding herself flying over the city.
Posted by: Gina | Mar 20, 2010 at 6:07 pm |
Her left shoe almost slid right off as she soared into the air, but she’d done this enough times by now to know how to handle Slippery Shoes…
Posted by: Mona | Mar 20, 2010 at 6:26 pm |
Emily had dreamed of flying. But this was the first time that she had ever actually left the ground. What a feeling!
Posted by: Hudson | Mar 20, 2010 at 6:30 pm |
She was a natural and would one day open a flying school.
Posted by: juliet | Mar 20, 2010 at 6:41 pm |
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Posted by: uberVU – social comments | Mar 20, 2010 at 8:19 pm |
Or sometimes fly over the park and offer to return stray balloons that have left the grasp of young children.
Posted by: Jennifer | Mar 20, 2010 at 8:30 pm |
And then, she saw behind a cloud…
Posted by: Kim | Mar 20, 2010 at 8:45 pm |
A striped flying unicorn…or was it a zebra with horns?
Posted by: Vicki | Mar 20, 2010 at 9:07 pm |
She really could not tell what it was because she was amazed at the sight! She had never seen this before.
Posted by: Karen | Mar 20, 2010 at 9:13 pm |
The unicorn pranced away and she came upon a window, with prisms for glass, and she realized it was the beginning of a rainbow…
Posted by: Kelly | Mar 20, 2010 at 9:34 pm |
So Emily quickly scrambled over the arch, careful to tread only on her favorite colors, orange and indigo.
Posted by: Erin Prais-Hintz | Mar 20, 2010 at 10:35 pm |
As she stretched to the other side, Emily saw something she’d never seen before.
Posted by: Miranda | Mar 21, 2010 at 7:22 am |
A village in the sky. She loved her magical socks, not only could she fly but she could visit enchanted places.
Posted by: Susan Hemann | Mar 21, 2010 at 8:16 am |
As Emily approached the village she saw …
Posted by: Kay Oft | Mar 21, 2010 at 9:59 am |
Her only worry was that her mother would come looking for her and not find her in her room studying as she was told.
Posted by: jackie waligora | Mar 21, 2010 at 10:00 am |
But studying was not as much fun as flying. You didn’t see Unicorns, rainbows or flying zebras in school books. Floating on clouds….
Posted by: Sherrie Phillips | Mar 21, 2010 at 11:05 am |
Emily had to decide whether to visit the enchanting place over yonder or whether to slide down the remaining part of the rainbow to see what magic lay there? A pot of gold? Another part of her world or perhaps a whole new world…
Posted by: Meaghan Bonafyde | Mar 21, 2010 at 11:25 am |
Her curiosity getting the better of her (not to mention the thrill of the ride) Emily sat upon the rainbow and began her exciting slide that, to her amazement ended….
Posted by: Maron | Mar 21, 2010 at 1:07 pm |
right back on page 7 of her book. She was amazed that books can take you to far off places – places where one might see striped socks of flying girls, zebras with horns, rainbows of many colors, pots of gold, floating balloons. What else do these pages hold?
Posted by: Jane T | Mar 21, 2010 at 2:05 pm |
Before she had a chance to find out, there was a knock on the door. She recognized the secret pattern of it, but could it really be….?
Posted by: Sandy/Creations by Coleman | Mar 21, 2010 at 3:49 pm |
M t.v. ???
Oh.
My.
Goodness.
Gracious.
Holy Smokes.
Great Balls of Fire.
Emily has the chance to become a hip-hop dancing musical star !!!
Posted by: Elizabeth Colvin | Mar 21, 2010 at 4:19 pm |
But I want to stay in the book a bit longer, thought Emily. Maybe if I close my eyes…
Posted by: Hudson | Mar 21, 2010 at 4:56 pm |
I will feel the energy of my striped socks again and this time they will take me to…
Posted by: Cheri M | Mar 21, 2010 at 9:04 pm |
the land where I will finally get to build my Flying School!
Posted by: sherry goodloe | Mar 21, 2010 at 10:09 pm |
Though Emily’s eyes were tightly closed, she felt herself slowly rising into the air once again.
Posted by: Jo | Mar 21, 2010 at 11:52 pm |
And when she looked below she saw a whole gaggle of giggling girls floating there. And they were wearing lemon lime striped socks and black and purple striped socks and pink and yellow striped socks and every imaginable combination of striped socks under the sun and moon and stars…
Posted by: Chris Zydel | Mar 22, 2010 at 1:38 am |
Emily stretched out her arm towards the girls.
Posted by: elizabeth | Mar 22, 2010 at 2:06 am |
And, they stretched welcomely toward her. It was like looking deep into a beautiful, stripey mirror…reaching and stretching toward those girls. Toward herself.
Posted by: aimee/mymidlifecreativities | Mar 22, 2010 at 7:01 am |
(welcomely=welcomingly)
Posted by: aimee/mymidlifecreativities | Mar 22, 2010 at 7:45 am |
And then she saw the big turtle with a purple and yellow shell. She’d never imagine a turtle like this before. Amazing!
Posted by: Wulfie | Mar 22, 2010 at 8:55 am |
As she got closer, she began to recognize all the beautiful stripey-socked girls. They were all of her friends in a magical land called Blogland.
Posted by: Heather Plett | Mar 22, 2010 at 9:21 am |
Since none of her stripey-socked friends had ever visited Blogland before they were scared and held each other’s hands walking closer to the……
Posted by: Peggy | Mar 22, 2010 at 11:41 am |
the gilt box. It was no bigger than a hedgehog and sunflower- yellow rays of light streaked out of the edges where the top met the bottom. They squinted in unison and held tight as they tiptoed into the glow.
Posted by: Linda H. | Mar 22, 2010 at 12:23 pm |
the last time she used the magic trampoline she could see over the house tops all the way to the sea. but on this rareafied morning she did not come back down , finding herself a float.
Posted by: sonja | Mar 22, 2010 at 3:46 pm |
She became caught in between two clouds that smelled remarkably like cotton candy. It was full of sparkly bits and she plucked one, smelled it and brought it to her lips.
Posted by: Titi | Mar 22, 2010 at 5:55 pm |
Sadly, the bit melted just as she held out her tongue. Never one to give up, Emily quickly deduced all she needed to do was boldly take a bite straight into the cotton candy cumulus.
Posted by: Tara | Mar 23, 2010 at 11:49 pm |
It worked. With her belly full of cotton candy, she felt contented and sleepy. Which was very bad timing. For she saw that the other girls had opened the glowing, gilt, box and out of it, comming quickly at them was a…
Posted by: Shayla | Mar 24, 2010 at 4:33 pm |
the most amazing white dove she had ever laid her eyes upon. As it spread its wings and came towards her…
Posted by: Erin | Mar 25, 2010 at 12:31 am |
Emily knew without a doubt that this was the moment that would change everything and there would be no going back!
Posted by: Barbra | Mar 26, 2010 at 11:51 pm |
Emily felt full of joy and hope. Everything would change when she embraced the dove. What would her new life look like ?
Posted by: Elizabeth Colvin | Mar 27, 2010 at 4:09 pm |
Emily knew from the bottom of her orange striped socks to the tops of the cotton candy clouds, that all was possible. She BELIEVED!
Posted by: Expressive Hart | Mar 30, 2010 at 2:25 pm |
She believed but she went on tip-toe, carefully so as not to scare the bird away. Timidly, she let one hand touch its sleek white feathers. ‘So pretty!’ She thought to herself. ‘I wonder if I can…
Posted by: priyanka | Apr 1, 2010 at 2:42 am |
The dove sat on her arm and the skin there started to become rainbow coloured, glittering scales…
Posted by: SanTanaGiRL | Apr 1, 2010 at 4:30 am |
…frightening her. Was she turning into a dragon? Or, would she get merged with the myriad shades of the sky? She made to shake the dove off but it looked into her eyes and…
Posted by: esskay | Apr 2, 2010 at 5:51 am |
she could see the shadow of a boy reflected in the dove’s eyes.The boy was drowing, or was he …
Posted by: tete | Apr 5, 2010 at 12:33 am |