The great T-web novel.

[DunnySaze]

Here's how this works. One person starts off by writing the first paragraph of a story, and whoever wants to can write the next, and the next, and so on. Paragraphs can be however long or short you like, and you are free to take the plot wherever you want.

I'll start ...

Gwendolyn had just come in from the rain to the ringing of the telephone. As she shook off her coat and picked up the phone, she paused to consider how long it would be before the water on her floor would evaporate, and if Fickles, her golden lab, would one again win the dog agility contest the following Tuesday. "Hello", said Gwendolyn, and she waited patiently for a reply. But before the caller could say anything suddenly a huge tree fell across the phone lines, cutting the connection.

[LeiLani]

Lei dropped the phone on the other end. "Darn, it went dead..." She looked outside. "This sure is a heck of a storm, and the weatherman said it would be sunny today..." She heard the doorbell ring. "Who could that be?" She looked outside.

[DunnySaze]

Outside was none other than Cyrus T. Periwinkle, Gwendolyn's long lost half-brother, twice removed, and 4th cousin to the friend of the neighbor of Lei. He knocked on the door once again, as he had also believed the weather guy and hadn't brought his mackintoshes and was drenched to the spleen.

[Dee Dee Warren]

The end

[Rubens]

The end

Awwww..DISAPPOINTED!! Doesn't anybody want to continue this brilliant creative idea??

Well I will, and it looks like I'm gonna have to check back in no less than a month to see if it goes on...


Lei answered the door to find Cyrus, standing on her speckled tile porch, dripping wet and gazing longingly at her crackling imitation fireplace. Lei was unaware of Cyrus' blood ties to her friend Gwendolyn, and only knew Cyrus as her neighbour's friend's 4th cousin, having met him at a Tupperware party Lei had hosted the previous fall. They had not gotten off to the best start, as Cyrus had commented negatively about the integrity of the pop-lids on the microwave proof containers. Still, there he was, standing forlornly, probably catching pneumonia, so she welcomed him in.

[DunnySaze]

Today @ 04:12 AM post located here
Rubens:

Lei answered the door to find Cyrus, standing on her speckled tile porch, dripping wet and gazing longingly at her crackling imitation fireplace. Lei was unaware of Cyrus' blood ties to her friend Gwendolyn, and only knew Cyrus as her neighbour's friend's 4th cousin, having met him at a Tupperware party Lei had hosted the previous fall. They had not gotten off to the best start, as Cyrus had commented negatively about the integrity of the pop-lids on the microwave proof containers. Still, there he was, standing forlornly, probably catching pneumonia, so she welcomed him in.

Cyrus stode (or was that strude?) hesitantly yet confidently into the house and attempted feebly to warm himself at the fireplace. The mere fact it wasn't real didn't seem to deter him, just as the fact that his hair wasn't real didn't prevent him from looking at himself in the mirror every morning in admiration, with a wink and a smile at the hairsuite stud that looked back. Lei went into the kitchen for a cup of tea. After she had her tea she came back to find Cyrus looking through the photo album that was on the coffee table. He was staring at a photo taken the year before at the greased pig wrestlefest and bar-be-que. It was photo of everyone together, happy for what was apparently going to be the last time. A tear rolled down his cheek as Cyrus remembered that day, and how Lei's inferior containers spoiled the leftovers the next day after that. They sat. They talked.

What next?

Does Cyrus tell Lei of his forbidden love for a cartoon character?

Does Lei go into the kitchen for another cup of tea?

Does Dee Dee cancel the thread?

Stay tuned!!

[themuzicman]

Just then, a space ship landed next to the house, and 5 glowing green aliens that looked like duck billed platypuses that walked on 2 legs. They started shooting at the trees, when Lei realized that they must have mistaken the trees as the source of intelligent life.

Lei reached for her MAC-10 machine gun, and aimed right for the ship....

[Solly]

...and then woke up.

[themuzicman]

He thought he was dreaming, until he saw the little green men standing over him with blasters in hand.

[johnransom]

Meanwhile, back at Gwendolyn's house, Gwen herself was regretting her decision not to get cable internet access. As it was, she had DSL instead and was feeling very disconnected, what with the phone lines being down and all. Thus, she was unable to check her favorite Web site, where for some reason people she didn't know were making up libellous stories about her friend Lei and the quality of her Tupperware products. Then, all of a sudden, the lights went out too. "Oh oh," thought Gwendolyn. "Power's out. Time to get a flashlight." Crossing the kitchen floor in the dark, Gwen did not see the water that had not yet evaporated. Suddenly, she slipped, causing her to fall painfully on her behind. Well, not so painfully, as it turned out, because she fell on top of Fickles, ruining his chances of ever competing in dog agility competitions again.

[JardinPrayer]

*Sheesh...I can't even figure out where to plug in here. Lemme know when you start over.

[Solly]

At which point she noticed lights moving vertical outside her kitchen window - "Wow, cool," she thought, "Just like in Close encounters. Must be the Utility company with a power lift to fix the cables". Suddenly, Frickles, with an agility he had only recently lost, disappeared through the pet flap of the door....

[Rubens]

Gwendolyn knew then that those lights outside were no ordinary lights. Fickles wasn't simply a hound with mere award-winning agility. He had been featured on Ripley's Believe it Or Not earlier that year, alleged to posess pre-cognative sense. When he scampered out that little flap, he was unusually frightened. Even with presumed injuries sustained in Gwendolyn's fall his flight was at such a speed that Gwendolyn braced herself for what may be outside. Trembling, she clutched at a frenchstick that she had bought several weeks earlier and never eaten, it was a solid as marble, and peeked through the curtain...

Meanwhile, Lei stared up at the duck-billed extra terrestrial with horrified fascination. Suddenly, one of them spoke, in English, in a squeaky, almost comical gutteral tone. It said; "Why the weapon, earthling?? We only came to shoot up a few trees..."

At that point, she wondered...where was Cyrus? Had they found him? Was he loose in the house? If so, could he and his hairpiece stage a heroic, Bruce Willis/ Die Hard style covert recovery of the situation? Or would he mistake one of the aliens for his favourite cartoon duck and be blinded by love? She waited in breathless anticipation as yet another tree exploded in showers of bark.

[Solly]

Outside, Gwen saw an amazing sight. Two alien spacecraft were floating just above the roof of her house. One was full of aliens in a state of obvious depression, and next to them, floating on a small platform, was another alien with a cap pushed back on his head, and writing in a small notebook. Behind him, yellow and green lights flashed intermittently on his spaceship. Traffic Cop!!. Just then, the alien stopped, and picked up a communication device and began speaking into it. Gwen heard talk, but not much else. Only the word: Trees.

[princesa]

then the alien traffic cop shook Gwen and said "wake up, you've been asleep in this thread for 7 years! all those "trees" mixed in with your brownies."