ongoing story line

[Ron-NY]

Let see how this twists and turns...I will start a story and everyone can add a few lines...should be fun! See what influence Julie has had on me...

It was a dark and stormy night as we camped out in the steamy rain forest of Borneo...thunder could be heard in the distance...suddenly the hairs stood up on the back of my neck, as I heard foot steps approaching. I knew for sure that it had to be......

[Brutal_Dreamer]

...the news I had longed to receive but, on some level, I feared the possibly that once again disappointment would send me back home empty handed. As the clomp of the foot steps rounded the corner of the stone path a silhouette of a large man appeared to us in a sudden flash of lightning. It...

[Piper]

Okay Ron, but know that you weren't the first!

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. . . just as quickly disappeared as the inky jungle night swallowed all light. I waited, straining to hear him approach, but my own quick breaths were all my ears could detect. If he'd brought the news, why couldn't he just step forward and say so?

[Lambert]

The Borneo rain always had the same puzzling effect on me, it involuntarily brought me back to my younger years as a circus monkey costume designer.
It seemed like eons ago but this was how I met "her" and the reason that brought me here to this forsaken jungle in the first place.
It all started in Hackensack a month ago as I was putting the final touches to a bejeweled ape bolero, I heard a loud knock on my studio door ...

[Brutal_Dreamer]

... since I normally like to work in the middle of the night, my first reaction to the knock at the door was one of puzzlement. Under the crack in the door, I could see the shifting shadows of someone's shoes cast from the stark hallway lights. Something about those dancing shadows made me uncomfortable, but I....

[ischel1]

put aside my natural skepticism and decided to answer the knock. I slowly made my way to the bolted wooden door and slipped the lock aside. Holding my breath and wiping the beads of sweat from my eyes, I pulled open the door to find....

[pavel]

a pizza delivery girl. Despite the coolness of the evening, perspiration dotted her forehead. Her movements were nervous and jerky. With a rushed "Here'syourpizzasir!", she thrust the pizza box she carried into my arms and darted back down the hallway and out the door. Puzzled -- as I had not even ordered a pizza -- I set the box on my kitchen table. A sense of foreboding touched me then. I slowly raised the lid and to my horror found .....

[ischel1]

A photo of "her" tied to a tree, in Borneo, surrounded by circus monkeys dressed in the very same costumes I had made. I knew then that my mission in life was to...

[Ron-NY]

..was to be an ex French patriot and to live the rest of my dismal days sowing while admiring my Encyclias, instead of being the adventurer of my dreams. But suddenly, I realized.....

[ischel1]

that time was running out and I must go to Borneo. So I booked a seat on the next direct flight to Balikpapan. Upon arriving in Borneo, my next task was to find a guide. I was introduced to a man named Slicer a former headhunter. At dawn the next morning we......