Early in the season there was idle chat amongst us about phones; and that exchanges had quaint names like Fitzroy and Acorn and Elgar and Viking; and our memories of using phones when we were younger; and things like having to book a long distance phone call in advance. You must remember that some of us are over twenty-one!<\/p>\n
From this emerged the idea of writing a group story with the phone as the theme.<\/p>\n
We are now under way with this story. The first chapter has been written and is now with the second writer \u2013 maybe even further by now. Each of us, in turn, will write a chapter to follow what has been written. Nobody knows when the story will arrive. Nobody knows what will have been written before it arrives.<\/p>\n
The rules? Only a few: that the chapter should be about 1500 words; that the beginning and end of each chapter should feature a phone; that each chapter should follow from what has gone before. Oh, and there\u2019s a tight deadline!<\/p>\n
The hope is that we will have finished the story by the end of May\/early June and it will be ready for circulation during the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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