As part of this class, you are required to make a minimum of six contributions to the class collaborative story. The only requirement for these contributions is that each must be a minimum of three sentences long. That's it. You can scuttle the plot development whenever you want, but remember, you'll have to deal with the aftermath. Any story can only survive so many sudden plot twists, so many inconsistencies, so many shifts in perspective, and so many dream sequences. If this story falls apart and no longer reads as a story, the whole class will fail this assignment. I'm interested in what happens when the class polices itself, and I wonder what plot and characters we can develop (if any).

Now, this is the second go-round with collaborative story writing. I'm importing the rules we created in Cyberlit 1.0; if any of you want to change them, let me know, but trust me--it's a good idea to keep them.

Rules of the Story:

• It must cohere as a story (the Nick Clause)
• god removes double posts (that means I will take out posts that are accidentally posted twice by user mistake or techno-glitch)
• You may only post two paragraphs at a time (the Volleyball Clause)
• This story will be graded (for coherence, not creativity)

Given all that, I present the story. Or, read the first disastrous attempt and slightly more successful attempt.