Great stories all of them! Maybe next time I’ll guess :)

bother. i was doing so good. now i’m 3 for five.

this was fun, wasn’t it? i didn’t expect it to turn into such a big thing. what can we make out of so many people just dying to tell big whoppers? :D not a damn thing i guess other than people like telling stories. and you my friend are among the best. it’s no wonder you had us fooled.

glad you didn’t see the dead body. that was icky.

Drat!  The old reverse of the reverse whammy trick.

i should have known:  a dead body in literature is NEVER true.

ah, well, a lesson for another time.  thanks for the reading, danman.

It was funny trying to figure out the psychology of this game - was the most outrageous the most likely lie, was the most outrageous impossible to make up? Good stories!

they were all superbly written.  great read, even though i now know never to trust you, for i was one of the fooled.

Okay, actually one of the jeremy entries was my wife.  I may not be a daily reader, but you have come highly rcommended.
BTW dead >= dead give away.

anyhoo

Jeremy and Jules, that was fine work to see through my red herring - but in terms of being a dead giveaway, this story was true, as were two others I read during the game that involved death (a mouse and a hedgehog) - the only thing false about this story is I did not myself experience it.  So I’m not sure how I’d apply the dead >= dead giveaway rule, unless I wanted a free copy of Reckoning or Workingman’s or something…