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hey thanks, bro. and thanks to those of you who have been reading my story and commenting on it. this is actually the second time that ive posted this story on the internet. i got some really great feedback about it the first time. unfortunately, i cant play the soundtrack i compiled on this site. maybe ill put the links to the songs later.

also, would anyone else be interested in working on their writing skills with me? i was thinking about starting a series of short stories along with some of you. maybe round-robin style or a bunch of short stories following a theme. of course you could add illustrations to your short stories. i would be willing to edit the stories for posting.

hmm, more on this later.

a paragraph or two might be okay, i suppose. what i originally had in mind was everyone contributing actual complete short stories which were about a common character or world. i have a couple ideas of what that could be that i will reveal later. for now i'll just say that both would be in the realm of 'tall tale'.

more to come later.

hey, everyone. i just posted the last chapter in the first act of SiaS. when i finish posting all the stories, i'd like to start a thread or two for everyone to participate in short story writing. what would you guys be interested in doing?

if you want, i can establish the world and core characters for everyone to play around with. what sort of world and characters would you be interested in?

recently, ive been thinking about writing short stories to add to the legend of the laughing man (from the short story by jd salinger. read it here: http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/salinger/laughingman.html

you might have heard the name before if you watch ghost in the shell where there is a villain named after him. if we went with this character it would be sort of a tall tale, with a larger-than-life robin hood-like mysterious central character in what is basically the simplified real world. the laughing man and his strange crew would have misadventures as they pull off their ingenius criminal escapadees, all the while staying out of the clutches of chinese bandits, tibetan pirates, and an obsessive french detective and his crossdressing daughter.

if you all don't like that idea, we can make our own world and partying heroes (or anti-heroes). all ideas welcome!

once those of us who are interested in this decide what we're going to do, i wouldnt mind be the editor. just send your short stories into me and i'll do all the spelling and grammar corrections so that everything looks nice and semi-professional. icon_smile.gif