The whole story...in 5...ok 7 words...or at least part of it

[rickwith]

So we start a story...without an end. Each one of us adds a 5 to 7 word post, taking it anywhere we want.
Mondo, this is for you. So if you would be so kind as to christen this sucker...we will begin.

[MondoJohnny]

I woke up in ashes

[MiniCoopGuy]

, but had kicked its ass.

[rickwith]

The dead weight of a

[80sGeek]

nightmare gave way to morning

[MondoJohnny]

Laboured coughing sliced through space,

[rickwith]

bouncing off cracked plaster walls

[funkotronic]

setting my underwear on fire

[rickwith]

in an act of parasitic

[MondoJohnny]

,desperation for heat. I needed to

[rickwith]

isolate as much copper carbonate

[Mark Gardner]

as the lab would hold.

[rickwith]

My flaxen haired assistant pulled

[MondoJohnny]

at my sleave, but I...

[Mark Gardner]

was frozen to the spot.

[rickwith]

How could I have known

[Mark Gardner]

she wanted me

[MondoJohnny]

dead. No those days I...

[Mark Gardner]

knew better than to question

[MiniCoopGuy]

her loaded 9mm semi-automatic.

[Mark Gardner]

A gun! Pointed at me!

[80sGeek]

Just when I regained consciousness

[MondoJohnny]

and found myself covered in...

[Mark Gardner]

I was straddled, bemused

[rickwith]

, Ludwig van's sixth was pummeling...

[MondoJohnny]

through latent memories. I started...

[rickwith]

reaching for rosebud in a

[MondoJohnny]

chipped crystalware bowl, but remembering...

[rickwith]

my aversion to cyclical crystalware

[MondoJohnny]

I instead swept it off...