WSO writes a novel

WSO - let's team up and write a novel: one word at a time. I will document the responses within some kind of text document (along with the respective contributors)

This is going to be so badass!

I'll start: The first word is {I}, as in igloo

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Sometimes Freddy liked to sit in on lecture hall classes at the University. He had no interest in what was being taught but enjoyed seeing what the tuition-paying students did while in class. Today was Thursday and that meant information systems. Rachel was looking for skirts to purchase with her father’s credit card on lilypulitzer.com. Mike was cycling (alt+tab) between a Brazilian soccer stream and bovada.com. Jeremy was sleeping. Charls was using his gaming PC decorated with hammers and sickles to play Runescape with internet comrades. Professor Jure was speaking at them and 713 other students in the lecture hall. “Amazon is Amazon. Because Amazon is a big company, they require a lot of bandwidth. Their network infrastructure is some of the best in the B2B ecommerce business,” he said. The bell rang. Everyone got up and left. 718 more people in the town were intoxicated 30 minutes later.

 

It was a dark and stormy night when the gunslinger followed the man in black across the desert to where Colonel Aureliano Buendía's cat read the sign describing how Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we understood how the world ended.

 

If I was a farmer, WSO...

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Velit dolore qui consectetur id nihil ut quia sed. Nulla sunt repellendus repellat at. Autem tempore voluptatibus et inventore. Occaecati laboriosam in non rerum non quaerat error. Voluptatibus eum quas fugiat amet.

Aut earum quia ut voluptas. Iure accusamus reprehenderit illum ducimus nihil. Molestias eum accusamus distinctio consequatur.

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