Can we do another story? Please add a bit to the story whenever you feel like it.
Danielle staggered to her feet amongst the rubble that lay as far as the eye could see. Buildings, bridges, bodies; all mixed up with a heavy coating of gray dust. She coughed as some of the gray dust settled in her lungs. Her clothes were ragged and filthy. Her hair was matted. Her body was dirty and her stomach ached with hunger. She hadn’t eaten in days and she knew she had better find water soon. There was no sign of life anywhere. Plastic sheets flapped in the wind, and that was the only movement she could detect. She had crawled out from under a steel girder which had prevented her from being crushed in the shopping mall where she had been sipping a cappuccino several days earlier. Somehow, the girder had supported a triangle of concrete which had protected her. Other shoppers had not been so fortunate. Their crushed a mutilated bodies lay everywhere. She looked around. The devastation was not confined to the shopping mall. Where there had once been neat streets lined with offices, shops, movie houses and art galleries was now just a huge pile of broken slabs of paint and dust covered concrete and bricks. Partially crushed chairs and tables stood crazily in the middle of where the streets used to be. Smashed computers, copiers, fax machines, rumpled clothes, snapped paintings lay everywhere. All with a coating of the gray dust. Danielle was not sure how many days she had been under the rubble.
Posted by
Grim..., around May 2006:
I didn't like the ending =/
No, silly, that's not the ending : I was hoping you guys would each add your bit to the story, like we used to.