Keep It Going

For today's posts, we will be writing a chain story. I will start us off with the prompt below. The next person to post will pick up writing where I left off and will stop without finishing the story so the next person can pick it up. At the top of your story paragraph, please write "responding to [name]" so we will know to whom you are responding. If students respond to the same person's paragraph, we'll just see this as a "choose your own adventure" situation, and the next student may respond to either post. 

Please write at least one paragraph and make it easy for the next student to follow you. In other words, don't start writing in Klingon or about the intricacies of particle physics or the like. In the same way, accept what the previous writer has established: if the main character is an elderly woman in the previous paragraph, don't switch her to a world-famous member of a boy band in yours.

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My heart is pounding and my hands are slippery with sweat. I can barely hold on to the unfamiliar steering wheel as I careen down the darkened roadway. Headlights in my rear view mirror are getting closer, and I take my eyes off the road for a moment to gauge the distance. No, no, no . . . I feel the back end of the truck start to fishtail and I'm being thrown from one side of the bench seat to the other as we crash deep in to the steep woods on the side of the road.