Maybe we have done this before ~ not sure. smile
I wanted to write something ~ then suddenly thought of this little exercise.
It's a bit like the game of 'consequences'.
We each, in turn, write a few words ~ a few lines or a paragraph ~ which continues, logically, from the post before, in order to arrive at a complete story.

Simples!
Or is it?! smile

I'll start:

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose" - Benjamin Disraeli.