When the lights came back on…

This volume closes in —

— places have written into this volume. One light each. A country lights up the first time somebody writes from it, and flares whenever another line arrives.

A story written by everybody, thirty characters at a time. You get one line — then it belongs to somebody else for two days. It's slow on purpose: read what's already there, think about where it's going, and add something worth the space. How it works

Bringing up the story…

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The joining word and the punctuation are free — neither counts towards your thirty.

Your country required

Your flag goes into the story after your words, and stays there for good.

I am a human being Sorry to ask. The bots kept trying, and honestly their thirty characters were dreadful.