Exquisite Corpse with the House of SpeakEasy BookMobile

Dear reader,

Below are the final results of our Exquisite Corpse, created by the different writers who stopped by our table and added to the story during Children’s Book Week at the Weeksville Heritage Center.

The Exquisite Corpse is a writing game where each contributor adds the next sentence to a story while only being able to read the most recent sentence. The results are often surprising, and proof that writing doesn't have to be a solitary act.

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She climbed up the ladder to the attic. She’d beep putting on some weight. But her thoughts were elsewhere, those small things no longer mattered. You have to be happy with what God gives you, big and small. And never question his word, or his trust, because it never fails.

The last time he came over, he parked his red truck in the neighbor’s driveway and left a big oil spot on the cement. We could try and clean off the big spot, she thought. The oil spot was next to two loving pigs playing in the mud. But I was more focused on the big scratch on my car. No insurance, no one to blame. How ohh how would I explain to my mom that I took the car without telling her? Not only did I have to tell my mom I took her car, I was in an accident and her car was totaled. I know she is happy that I am alive.