Collaborative Flash Tie-in:

There is an event. A single action that triggers multiple flash stories. Like a gunshot in a quiet suburban neighborhood, a bomb in a busy market place, or a strange light in the sky viewed by many witnesses. The flash stories should always start with the action and can be presented from different perspectives and tenses.

No, I haven't. I was just starting a thread of possible Flash Fiction Exercises we could work on. If you start one wicked I'll join in the fun.

The first person picks an event, opens the flash with that event and writes their character's interplay and resolution. The next chapter, another author opens with the same, very first event and resolves their end. And so on, and so forth. Authors can post multiple chapters, each a separate story. It's not a contest, it's an exercise. And the event doesn't have to be destructive per se, just overwhelmingly significant. The closing of a local hangout, the first day of school, the maiden voyage of a cruise liner, the discovery of a new island by a passenger ferry.