The Big, Bad Short Story Challenge - Part 2
I've posted a couple of paragraphs of a new short story that I have started, and ask that volunteers finish it. Here's the way it works:
1) I post my couple of paragraphs.
2) Volunteer No. 1 puts the next couple of paragraphs on his blog, and leaves a link in the comments of this post.
3) After the link is posted in the comments, I will edit my blog and post it here.
4) Volunteer No. 2 follows the link to the next blog and picks up where Volunteer No. 1 left off.
5) This continues until the story is finished.
Each time the story gets updated, I'll repost it with a current date. Also, be sure to check out the other challenge: "The Corpse of Danny Kilgore."
Cheers!
Dusty Chambers looked up from his work just in time to witness the last sliver of the deep red sun disappearing into the horizon. As if on cue, the quartz halogen lights set up around the excavation site came to life, illuminating his find once more. The buzz that the lamps emitted bothered him no more than the cold that swept in to replace the sun's fading warmth. Dusty had been digging all day, patiently scouring away striated layers of packed dirt. He had worked through lunch, such was his concentration on the task.
Over the course of the past few weeks, Dusty and his crew of archaeologists had meticulously uncovered what they had thought would be a Native American village, but instead had been rewarded with something completely different. The entire top floor of a steel building now lay exposed to the elements. Dusty had earlier walked the perimeter of the structure, expecting to find a broken window through which he could enter, but found none. Intrigued, he researched the coordinates of his find, hoping to discover the nature of what had once been located here. Finding no information on the building, he continued the dig, wondering what circumstances would bury a building without raising reports of its disappearance.
EDIT:
Read Part 2 at Just a Girl, by Jean.
Part 3 at One Paradise View, by Greg Stewart
Part 4 at Pure Simplicity, by Earadriede
Part 5 at Life My Way, by Bozette
Part 6 at LunaStone's Celtic Rainbow, by LunaStone
Part 7 at The Blair News Project, by EthanM
Part 8 at Artistic Bytes from the Third Eye, by Jayne
Part 9 at Texas My Texas, by Texasbunch1
Jean has offered to keep the entire story on her site. Read the story from beginning to its current state by clicking here.
14 Comments:
Great writing, keep it up.
There was a definitive aura about the top of the structure, something almost seemed to be drawing him in. As if some force just under the surface were calling to him, beckoning him to its hidden secrets. he felt that once under its skin he would find answers to questions he hadn't yet pondered. There was definately something compelling about this discovery aside even from its odd location & mysterious circumstances. What was this place? How did it get here? It seemed almost otherworldly and he wasn't even sure what that really meant. All Dusty knew was that he was must uncover its tale and he must be the first to enter this thing which had no business being here in the first place.
Lost in his own musings, he thought he heard tiny clicking sounds emanating from a hollow sounding place just along the western edge of the semi-buried structure. It sounded so faint as to almost be missed but he was certain that something or someone had made those sounds from within. He started towards the sound just as it seemed to stop. He yelled for the other workers to cease all activity and then he stood as a statue and strained to hear any trace,........
Actually luv, I want to add it to its own page to watch it continue,...Let everyone who participates know it will be on permanent display on my site :-) with their links!
http://that-grrl.info/?page_id=76
You heard her, folks! Visit Jean's site to view the story in its entirety!
Dale
... his train of thought ceased as he read the information displayed on the sonar.
"There's a large space behind this wall. Make an entrance for us please!" Dusty shouted to the workers.
It took them half an hour to make a hole on the wall. Dusty formed a group of eight people including himself. Armed with flashlight and ropes the team entered.
Dusty looked around and he could see the smooth square stones formed the wall and the floor. They're in a square room about the size of American Football field. Their flashlight couldn't see the other end of the room. Dusty noticed that there're images carved on the wall. He went closer to the wall and trying to make sense of the images.
The images had certain similarity to the images carved on the Mayan temples in South America.
"We need to bring in an expert to interpret these," Dusty thought. He scanned through the images and he stopped at this one particular image. He saw this image from his books.
"Danger!" he thought. He quickly turned to his workers and shouted "Nobody move!" One of the workers however had stepped on something. They heard a click. The next thing Dusty knew his co-worker's head was rolling to his feet. The other workers stopped dead in their tracks and looked at the headless body on the floor.
"Everybody back up slowly. Back to the entrance. Out. Let's go!" shouted Dusty. The workers did what Dusty said. Once they were all out Dusty was the last one to move.
here's my url to the post:
The Big, Bad Short Story Challenge Part 4
well mine is a little short.
Sorry.
I have it posted http://bozette.blogspot.com/
Luna will take it from here.
My little piece (pt 6) is posted at:: http://lunastone.blogspot.com/2006/03/dig-part-6.html
lol..this is so cool bio! Wish I could be part of the story, nonetheless, you guys did a great job. CHEERS!
Darling,..I'm reconstructing my blog so the page has moved to:
http://that-grrl.info/?page_id=5
Fix the link doll! xox! I'm working on something completely different for my blog! I want t focus on my writing & opinions rather than personal babble! This kind of challenge is PERFECT so it stays FOREVER! {{{HUGE HUGS}}}
The webpage that my name should link to is the exact link to the story.
My contribution, Part 8, can be found here: http://www.jaynedarcy.us/?p=227.
Thanks for asking me to participate.
My humble little contrbution will be found here
http://www.blogcharm,com/texasmytexas/
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