"Pass-around," Story

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* Each person contributes a minimum of a sentence or line of dialogue and a maximum of a paragraph.
* Each person may introduce up to two characters per post.
* Each person may remove up to one character per post and it should not be the hero (at least not this early).
* Each person may not reply to its* own post.
* If the story was somehow shown on television, it should be permissible for the average person of 12 years of age.
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* Characters introduced here may not necessarily be major characters, although there should be one somewhere near the first post.
* The setting is for YOU to determine!

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As John looked outside while listening to the incessant drip of rain, he glumly continued his work. The last few days had seen only brief pauses in the storm that gripped his town.



* If, "it," sounds like it refers to an animal, imagine the number of angry responses for using, "he." There are languages where pronouns representing the 3rd person neuter do not exist, leading to the usage of the 3rd person masculine. Although this may sound offensive to the females in the forum, if I utilized those constructs, I would utilize them with the thought that to use, "he or she," is overly condescending and presumes that all females must be patronized. Likewise, I do not mind the usage of color descriptors toward my ethnicity because to use the politically correct variation suggests some level of patronizing supremacy.