This is our collaboratively authored wiki story.  Each participant adds something to the story each day, in the following order:

Brett, Chris, Craig, Daniel, Newt, Tyler, Alex, Ali.

Each piece should be at least one full sentence long, but can be longer if you like.  Please leave one blank line (hit return twice) between the piece that precedes you and your piece but otherwise leave no blank spaces.

Muriel's reflections upon the depth of what she'd done were interrupted by a knock at the window.

Muriel peered cautiously out the window to see her dog Courage being strangled by a multi-tentacled duck in a bolo tie. -Chris