Beads on a String
Oxlin’s suggestion, from an idea she found on another website, from which she copied the following rules.
1. Each person tells a true story from their own experience. (Obviously, we can’t tell if you’ve made things up. That is between you and your conscience.)
2. Keep it brief; we’re looking for vignettes and koans, not epics
3. Each story has to be linked to a previous anecdote by some shared concept, some common theme or element.
4. Cite the element you’ve used as a link. Try to go for solid links: physical objects, specific words (punning encouraged).
5. This is a multi-stranded string of pearls. A single story can spawn more than one successor, and an anecdote can combine more than one antecedent.
6. Poetry is, of course, encouraged
7. Do I need to mention that this is a non-political thread? If your story is political, try not to make it partisan.
Date: December 30, 2008
Categories: Experiments, Fiction, poetry, and fanfiction
). However, I did occasionally spend the night at my Grandma’s house, mostly to get her to stop saying that I never came over, and because I’d never admit that I was afraid of sleeping in a strange house!
We collapsed into giggles and vowed never to forget it.
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