Well, here you are, served up fresh and hot from the grill of creativity. (The metaphors, they flow from my fingers with the ease of a lemming slipping over a cliff at horde time.)
Ron was unbelievably quick on the draw (pen? keyboard?) with a tale of sublime familial interaction.
Kenju almost got a story going...and we're still waiting for the rest of it.
Bobo got right to the heart of things while burning some appliances.
DB Grin introduced what may be the newest action hero to the world.
And Tiff mixed "reverence and horror" (thanks to Bobo for that phrase) in her 500 words.
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Next up?
This:
No rules this time either. Write what you like, and tell us that you did. For remember the Irish proverb: "He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you" which sounds positively lovely, doesn't it?
