So, I brought this up to someone, I believe Keeper, as a joke a while back, and in an effort to spur on involvement around here, I think I'm going to start it and see if anyone is crazy enough to come along with me.

Let's write a story, as a community, four words at a time. No plan, no side-boarding, just a strange evolution of story. There are only three rules:

1. You may only post four words at a time. Hyphenated words, for our purposes, will count as one, provided they actually should be hyphenated.
2. No double-posting unless the thread has sat un-updated for 24 hours or more.
3. Be respectful.

So, I'll start, and anyone who wants to join may do so. Let's have some fun!

It was a dark

and mysteriously handsome man.
(feel free to ignore me on this. My impulse in these matters ends up making me want to just watch the world burn.)

He was standing near

(No, you're fine.)

a sapient green champsosaur

in the barley field.

He looked pleased, but

there was darkness in

his eyes as he

turned to his companion

and spoke. "I told

your mother I wouldn't

let you know, but

I think you deserve

to know the truth.

When you were born,

there, uh, was an

event of cosmical descrepancies

which turned you into

what you are now."