Welcome to a new bi-weekly thread (every other Monday), where we play a fun game of telephone with a new story idea. Everyone is welcome, and encouraged, to participate (writers and readers!). All you have to do is comment with a sentence, or two, on what you think should happen next in the story. There are no rules (other than to keep it PG-13) and divergent storylines are allowed to occur! If you’d like to continue a particular storyline, reply with your addition to that respective comment to keep the thread going. At the end of the two weeks, the highest voted storyline within the thread will be canonized and later published for everyone to enjoy! All contributors will be acknowledged in the final post.

The first prompt is “What would you do if your lungs stopped working passively and you had to focus on taking each and every breath of air to survive?”

I’ll start since this is the very first one. No judgement or pressure. Just have fun!