Get Lost, Won't You?

I mentioned in my most recent post that I was starting a fun little event on my oldest Internet project, the fourteen-year old Yahoogroup Ghostletters. The idea was to invite people to play survivors of a plane crash on a deserted island, á la LOST. The big difference would be, as with Ghostletters itself, that all the participants would be historical or fictional characters, and certainly not limited to humans... or even earthlings.

Only a few days in and the event is already a roaring success! Not only have some pretty darn interesting characters showed up on the island, we now have four or fice different ways they got there!

Here's a sample:

1. There is a wookie starship that just made sure the airplane that crashed did not kill any of the passengers.


2. Watching them is some sort of secret military installation whose may be one of possible causes of the crash.


3. An Irish Republican Army soldier from the 1920s thinks an explosive he had in his duffle did the damage.


4. Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the famous Antarctic explorer, who was flying the plane, thinks one of the engines stalled.


5. A white cat owned by each and every one of Henry VIII's wives finds herself in an unusually large sandbox.


6. More than one of the other survivors floated in.. a medieval era healer was shipwrecked and a tipsy bottle imp came in a corked bottle of Irish whiskey.


7. A well-known Breton mercenary froma certain wonderful novel I could name thinks he is dreaming.


8. There are three nuns looking for people to help.


9. Three people just evicted from their Georgia rental house, which they trashed before they left, think they are in Florida.


10. And it's just a matter of time until more turn up.

Taking a swig from the whiskey bottle, the IRA soldier gets an unexpected mouthful of Chauncey the Bottle Imp, whose Irish patois is even thicker than his own. The Breton mercenary chalks the event up to it being such an odd dream.. and what is that flashing over on that hill? Sun on a sword blade? Or light reflecting off binoculars?

Now how can you resist? You can come and read and jump in when the spirit moves you. Or you can jump in now. Just go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ghostletters and get in on the fun.

We call it creative writing at its most engaging.. how about at its most just plain a gas?