The Forever Story Competition
Closing Date: 31 October 2008
This competition is now closed.
Well done everyone who contributed - scroll down to read the story.
The judges counts are in and the winner is LORRAINE.
Read the story below to find the winning entry.
The Spinebreakers Crew have begun a story, and we want you to continue it.
To celebrate the launch of The Forever Story we are giving you the chance to win a Toshiba Satellite Pro L300-12F.
The Forever Story is a site that’s just launched and aims to encourage people to help write the longest story ever online. The idea is that for every story submitted via the website Talk Talk will donate £1 to TreeHouse, the national charity for Autism education.
All you have to do is contribute 35 words to this story by submitting them in a Microsoft Word document at the bottom of this page. We’ll pick the most creative parts of the story, publish them on our website and best entry will win this amazing prize!
THE STORY BEGINS....
Captain Corelli-Crevee was the worst pirate in the history of pirate-shipping. He suffered from the malady seasickness, hated stealing things and had a phobia of water. But one day he saw a beautiful ship called the whiteboard marker and
jumped in a box
when the earth was just about to explode, on the 94th of Diecimber, of the year 83,000,000,000,000.
This happened on a big, fluffy, pink cloud, where everyone eats candyfloss and drinks sugar.
It was funded because of the large inheritance that our protagonist received after his auntie tragically died, from taking an accidental overdose of vitamin C tablets. It was all rather suspicious, but no one questioned anything, mainly because there was an omnibus of Eastenders on the TV. Must see TV, indeed.
However no one could predict the next sequence of events. As they held hands and skipped towards the horizon, contemplating the series of events that had occurred today, a shadowed, mysterious man followed them with his eyes, waiting for the right moment. And with an evil grin, he pulled the trigger, releasing a spray of bullets, drowning out the screams and maniac laughter which echoed forever more…
Sounds travelled across rivers; lakes and seas to a land which belonged to gigantic elves that owned the sharpest but pointiest pair of ears. Unfortunately, the myths and legends were true. This was Gavz land.
Submitted by: Pooja Shah
Gavz land – a place of your darkest fears. Populated by marauding Traffic wardens of the McTicket clan and gigantic pink polar bears. A place where one definitely always sleeps with one eye wide open.
Submitted by: Alex
Of course, no-one knows what horrors truly lie in the land of Gavz. No-one had made it out alive to tell the tale. Was all that about to change?
Submitted by: Teresa
Of course it was – this is Gavz land! A place where time forgot, and was covered in snot, and held your life in a hot place….feeling interrupted and wasted and waiting in time suspended..
Submitted by: Karen
The Captain pulled out his trustworthy source of guidance and inspiration used in all such situation – not Robinson Crusoe but Austen’s Pride and prejudice. What would Darcy do? And if not Darcy, Mr Wickham?
Submitted by: Deryck
With his head stuck in a Pumpkin, the pirate was unable to see where he was going. Unfortunately a big wave hit the ship and he was knocked overboard, and into a whale’s open mouth.
Submitted by: Drew
Captain Corelli-Crevee first mate, Hiba was in the crows nest, keeping look out, “over there captain“ he called “A Scottish fella, who can it be?”
"That’s Tosh Hiba" replied the captain.
Submitted by: Neil
Tosha Hilba was a strange soul, he sailed the sea with no destination to be had or motive, he simply felt at ease there. Infact, he could very well be mistaken for some kind of seacreature for his appearance was that of a fish/man hybrid.
Submitted by: Daniel
…With a smooth, slender body and large, pouting lips - the kind of handsome ‘fish-hybrid’ looks that many a young wench would love to hook. But our hero only had eyes for the daughter of…
Submitted by: Lydia
“Shiver me tinders!” declared Captain Corelli-Crevee. His crew eye rolled; the Captain was always getting the pirate phrases wrong. “If it aint me ol’ matey, Tosh Hiba, the most lily livered landlubber known to man!”
Submitted by: Emma
The captain thought Tosha smelt really bad, but wanted some more company, and the Captain hoped Tosha could sail a boat! They carried on across the seas, when what should happen..
Submitted by: Mollie
Tosha jumped up and down with joy, as he saw his long, lost childhood sweetheart was sitting on its deck, smoking a pipe. "Simon!" He cried. Simon looked up, and a smiled at his lover...
Submitted by: Beth
“Tosha! Fancy seeing you.”. “Will you two stop and LOOK!” Tosha turned around dreamy eyed “Wh-aa-t?” “Aaa humungous wave,” the boat rocked violently. All of a sudden there was torrential downpour. Would they survive? …
Submitted by: Chloe
Bemused, the captain pulled the pumpkin from his head, and realised he was inside a whale! He had been dreaming… As he was wondering why there were always homosexual undertones to his slumbering thoughts, he...
Submitted by: Beth

Submitted by: Stephen
looked back ruefully over his deeply unimpressive piratical career - studded, as it was, with a string of failed hijackings, a somewhat pathetic mutiny, and only a single parrot, which had died of chronic seasickness
Submitted by: Piers
whipped a pistol from his knickers and shot the whales tonsils. Squirming and laughing the whale sneezed and blew him out and he landed on a turtles back. The turtle swam off to the
Submitted by: Rebecca
...suddenly realised that there was a small army of sea horses with tiny little instruments playing the score from HMS Pinafore. Before he could join in with the start of the 2nd act...
Submitted by: James
A loud rumbling noise interrupted his thoughts. The floor shook and the concerto went flying. Grabbing his instrument he turned around, his eyes wide in disbelief. Could it really be the mysterious…
Submitted by: Cathy
RUMBLE BELLY WATER HORSE! A big purple eared one! With shiny blue scaly skin, friendly but always hungry, his belly disturbed a thousand seas in a second! He needed something to cover his ears so…………
Submitted by: Alexandra
He put in his ipod headphones with the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing, put on his 3D glasses to get the full effect of this wonderous creature, as it soared out of the endless ocean.
Submitted by: Tiffany
He intuitively reached out for something to jam in his ears. Ironically the tiny sea horses were a perfect fit! - Once inserted, he then regained his composure enough to notice a sliver of light.
Submitted by: Ian
Failing to realise how powerful their sting was, he grabbed two jellyfish and jammed them in his ears. It was too late, the jellyfish injected their potentially lethal sting and his ears began to swell…
Submitted by: Jessie
Jellyfish, cunning creatures, unleashed a revengeful yet fascinating trick. Whispering, they caused his dizzied body to fall, unintentionally, on the steaming nose of the humanoid OilFace, who was obstructing the great JellyMama’s open mouth.
Submitted by: Louise
And while the hapless Captain bumbled from whales to cunning jelly fish and puzzled over the strange deafness that engulfed him, the beautiful whiteboard marker ship was being defaced by dim witted suggy bummed chavs.
Submitted by: Susan
The Captain stopped and looked up as a wide grin slowly spread across his face. Just then, he started jumping and skipping around happily, like a child that had just received a brilliant new toy.
Submitted by: Zara
It was a difficult but fulfilling life at sea – long sun-drenched days crossing seemingly endless stretches of ocean. Sailors could often lose their minds like that and it was the Captain's job to prevent that.
Submitted by: Kenneth
But unfortunately, the captain had sold his mind on ebay. Because of this, he loved to wear ballet shoes, which he thought were immensely cool. Just then, he glimpsed a familiar ship; the Granny Racer!
Submitted by: Eliza
He would organise the first Yachtie Olympics (Logo: Yo Ho Ho) and increase his Piratical standing Galaxy wide. Jolly Roger waving and whale-baiting, with a soupcon of enemy-craft boarding and cutlass clashing contests.
Submitted by: Jolly Roger
WINNING ENTRY:
The captain would normally have been able to keep his crew under control, if it weren’t for the rather eccentric cannibal rabbitthat had challenged him to an extremely difficult and emotional game of TIC-TOE!!!
Submitted by: Lorraine
Occasionally a crew member would flip out completely and they had to be thrown overboard. Some made it to land and colonised places like Australia and New Zealand. Their descendants can still be seen there
Submitted by: Neil
Completely out of the blue, Captain C-C bellowed “Avast me hearties.” This stereotypical pirate outpouring was directed at no one in particular, however all unexpectedly jumped to attention. “enough messing about ! set sail for……”
Submitted by: Alison
He must have lost his own mind in the process. Cunning jellyfish and defacing chavs couldn’t be real, could they? He looked down at his once beautiful boat, and read ‘JazLuvzSami4eva’. Yup, it was real.
Submitted by: Katie
With a snort, the Captain awoke, his nightmare receding. He was alone, resting against the frame of his rowing machine, and panting to himself.
Another wasted morning, and still no reduction in his immense belly.
Submitted by: Peter
He wonders on the events that brought him here, the escape from exile, the pendant with the sliver of map fragment, the small child and the capsule released from the jaws of the fire kraken.
Submitted by: Manfai
He suddenly remembered the strange mushrooms his wife Pretty Polly had served up for him last night. It had been a fatal mistake to tell her of his treasure buried on the island of Sheppey.
Submitted by: Kim
THE FINALE:
He quickly grabbed his clothes and through them on. He swayed side to side trying to keep his balance. ‘BANG BANG’ He swung his head round only to see…
Submitted by: Hope
Gloomily, he faced Polly, her good eye squinting against the burning Sheppey sun, sweat running down her muscular tattooed forearms as she nibbled on a weevil from a ship’s biscuit in a horribly coquettish manner.
Submitted by: Caroline
Alas
Unable
To
Ignore
Sharing
Mushrooms
And
Unable
To
Ignore
Showing
Maps
The Terrible Reality Entirely Enveloped Him Outwardly Unnerving Senses and Emotions.
Then Rigidity Engulfed Entrapping Him Obdurate Until Sleep Ensued.
Submitted by: Kate
Not least because he’d made it up. He felt bad about it, but these mail-order Russian brides were a tough audience, and she’d been thoroughly unimpressed by the dull truth about his piratical career.
Submitted by: Rachel
Ironically the island of Sheppey was located in the sky. So the captain took his crew into his hot air balloon to reach the purple grassed, yellow water, island where thee cats and dogs talk.
Submitted by: Jack
THE END
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