And The Winner of Our New Year's Story Game Is...

Title: Bob the Flirtatious Rhino

     Genre: Romance

       Main Character: Bob

Rules of the Game: Each member starts a story on a sheet of paper. Every two lines, the author folds down one line and passes it on. The next person adds two lines, folds one down, and so on. When the page is full, the story is read aloud by its beginning author.

Contributors: Ian Barry, Sarah Barry, Anna Barry, Abby Barry, Peter Barry, Shepherd Barry, Hannah Barry, David Barry, Kristen Pinkerton, William Pinkerton

Bob liked to flirt with lovely rhinos. Sadly, however, he was very ugly and awkward. One day, he decided to end his rhino life, brief though it was. But before he did this dastardly deed, he went to the pizza parlor to drown his sorrows in chilies and pepperoni. While there, he saw a beautiful rhino and went to say hello. However, his strange mind was detestable to her high-spirited soul. She plotted to send Bob to Siberia, where he would be forced to make light sabers. But at the last minute, her mind was changed for the better. Both of them looked up to check the time of day in the stars and saw several piglets flying South. Now, with this portent in mind, Bob knew he must find an enchanted shrubbery that only grows on the top of a bald man's head in the middle of winter after he had shaved half his beard. So, Bob ran to Old Joseph, whom he knew to be a bald man. So, he concluded the magic shrubbery must grow on his head. He knew that with a magic shrubbery all the lady rhinos would fall at his feet. And fall at his feet they did. In fact, they followed him around saying, "Movie star! Movie star!" So he pulled out an AK-47 and tried to convince them that they should find other ways to flirt with the Flirtatious Rhino, because nothing good ever happened when they started flirting with the Most Flirtatious Rhino on earth. Things went from bad to worse, for many rhinos gathered to watch the great battle, and many rhinos fell that day to the heat and measles.