Following on from what *
PonchoAndPinstripes has recently posted in her journal, I thought I might do this as well

Basic idea is you continue this story by writing the next part in the Comments box. And you simply follow on from the last comment that was posted (not by replying to what was posted, but just posting a new comment).
So I'll start.

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One evening, a young man, fresh out of art college, walked down the main road of a small town he'd moved to just the other week. He was---