Anyone interested in playing a game in my comments? I thought of a pretty good opening sentence. Please add a sentence at a time in the comments to create a story.
Thunderclouds rolled in just as the sun began to set, reducing twilight's already short lease on the day.
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The family sat in the car, with the map open on the dashboard.
If only, Marc was along to help them decipher it, they might not be lost on the back roads of Colorado.
Of course, Marc's absence was part of the bigger problem.
The last fleeting moments of daylight were fading into the blackness of the surroundings.
Suddenly a car came speeding up behind them.
Joan looked around,sensing something...someone...but seeing only dense forest and not a single trace of civilization beyond the thin strip of black top, quickly blending into the dark night.
"Mom? Mom? I'm scared. Where's Daddy and what happened to the houses?" Jessie was on the brink of adolescence but right now her voice sounded far younger than her twelve years.
The thunder and lightning came in one blinding, deafening crash. Joan screamed to see a man standing in the middle of the road, his long coat flying behind him in the storm wind.
His face was the stuff of nightmares.
In the last row of the minivan, twins Abby and Mike began to scream, struggling against the straps of their carseats.
The stranger rapped against the driver side window in an attempt to get them to open the window.
Joan turned the flashlight on the man's face and gasped. "Marc! How did you find us?"
-- Gwyndolyn O'Shaughnessy
"Pure happenstance, my dear" said Marc in his very proper English accent.
There was a faint howling piercing the air. They looked at each other nervously, not sure whether it could be wolves or just the sound of the wind as the storm increased in intensity.
"Quick, get in the car, Marc. It sounds dangerous out there and at least we're in the warm together," presses Joan, looking around nervously.
Just then, a whirring noise, accompanied by blinding search light, signaled the approach of what appeared to be a low-flying helicopter.
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