Group writing project: “This is Awkward”

A couple of days ago, my brother Jerry posted a short-short story titled "Visitor in the Night" on his blog, Muddled Ramblings and Half Baked Ideas. It's a sweetly ironic little bit of fiction that ends with the line, "This is awkward."

One of the responses to that post was another nifty short-short, also with the same concluding line.

During the second half of 2008, the venerable Tillerman ran a series of group writing projects on his blog, Proper Course. He challenged his readers to write a blog post about a particular topic, and then he summarized and indexed the responses for everybody to share.

In that spirit, I have decided to start my own group writing project. Write a short-short story that ends with the line "This is awkward." Post it on your blog and then put a link to it in the comments here. Periodically, I'll index the results. You can see my entry for the project below.