anybody up for a round-robin?

[JamesSavik]

Once upon a time I started a little round-robin story call Collision. It's last chapter is due out any time now. You see, I'm great for a chapter then... Oh well. Take a look at this and see what you think.

 

If we go forward with it and want to do another round-robin, there will be rules & structure but nothing that will cramp your style.

 

The genre: spy/thriller

 

Setting: New York, 2010

 

 

 

 

the Heat of August

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Chapter 1

 

Dean Kramer worked quietly at his desk that Friday afternoon. It was a steamy August day in the city made even more unpleasant by the two month long strike by city workers. Mounds of garbage rotting in the late summer heat gave the city an inescapable foul odor.

 

His monthly contract reviews were due and then he could look forward to a long weekend. Maybe he would take a boat out to the island or drive upstate. Some cool mountain air would do him some good after weeks of the sweltering, summer heat and foul mood of the city.

 

It would be good to get away for a few days. Things were tense with all the angry strikers, protestors and policemen running amok. Like most people busy with their own lives, he paid scant attention but it was past being a nuisance and was fast becoming a menace.

 

The day before Dean had found himself on the wrong side of a protest that had turned ugly. The police responded predictably with tear-gas, pepper spray and Billy-clubs. He had been lucky to get away with nothing worse than burning, stinging eyes.

 

No one was happy with the situation. The strikers were angry because many of them had been off work for six weeks or more and were starting to miss paying bills. It had started in late June but soon began to spread from the city workers to other unions who refused to cross their picket lines. Now half the city was shut down in a grim economic domino effect.

 

Thankfully, the Feds had invoked the Taft-Hartley Act which gave the Governor the power to forbid essential services to strike so the Police, emergency workers and truckers were still working.

 

His firm of forty-six programmers, analyst and engineers had been busy that summer. They had sixty open contracts and another one hundred seventy ongoing support contracts. As a matter of course, he went over every active project monthly reports to keep a handle on the firm

[Julian Alexander]

I like it, dont know if i could copy style though. Hehe

 

Jules

[Dio]

If we go forward with it and want to do another round-robin, there will be rules & structure but nothing that will cramp your style.

I like it, dont know if i could copy style though. Hehe

 

 

Can't wait to read it.

[Camy]

Excellent!

 

I'll play if you'll have me, though as Julian said style will be hard to maintain. That being said, it's bound to be an international plot - so the British Secret Service would be involved.

 

Camy

[JamesSavik]

The fun of a round-robin isn't about writing in a particular style.

 

It's about adding your own personal touches to a collective work.