...Let me set this up for you. Myself and three friends have a mailing list where we exchange various silly things that have absolutely nothing to do with real life or "major issues."
For example, all through 2001 KLS was re-capping her day-by-day romance novel office desk calendar, "Married By Midnight." Likewise, we also from time to time re-cap definitions from an on-line rap dictionary, and have lunch-time polls concerning such hot-button topics as whether or not Hildy sabotaged her own design on Trading Spaces in order to get Paige to give her extra money in the budget to buy new furniture. It ain't NPR, but clearly we're dealing with very important and very of-the-moment problems here.
In the midst of all this, One of us (JMG) proposed writing a round-robin Lifetime Original Movie after having sat through a two-hour LOM torture-fest starring Jeri Ryan that proved so bad JMG felt that she might need to write Jeri just to tell her that she had watched it, she was _that_ much of a fan. So far the task of writing has shown itself to be incredibly easy.
Each part is written by a different member of "MBTV4Supalazy," our mailing list, and the authorship of each will here be designated by our respective initials, JMG, AAB, TRVMB, KLS. Because of this style and tone may vary from section to section.
So, we begin Part One of "A Stanger In Town: The Making of a Lifetime Original Movie"

Part One : A STRANGER IN TOWN
by: JMG

A young couple from a small town have just been married, which we have seen with great rejoicing. Naturally, we have seen many details of the girl's mother fussing over the food and flowers while the bride and groom smile and sneak off for a walk together on the day before the wedding. They are sooooo in love. Now they are married and driving toward their inexpensive honeymoon destination on a stormy night. Oh no! Part of the bridge is washed out, and their car slides into the raging river!

The next day, the girl wakes in the hospital to learn that her beloved is presumed dead. They found scraps from his clothing snagged in the car, so it is certain he was trapped in there for quite a while as she was flung free to be saved. They haven't recovered the body yet, what with the raging flood and continued bad weather, but there's just no hope, says the sincere sheriff as he solemnly shakes his head.

Six years later, the same girl is laughing in a large, sunny house, playing with a small baby. Her handsome new husband comes home from work, kisses her sweetly, and smiles tenderly at the baby. They, as a family, are soooooo in love. They talk about how her mother is driving up from Smalltown for dinner tomorrow night, and we remember the fussy woman fondly. The girl agrees to pick up the dry-cleaning when she's out shopping for groceries tomorrow in preparation for the dinner.

Shopping, walking down the streets of a bustling but impossibly clean and friendly midsized town. Several people wave in passing, and Girl stops on the sidewalk to chat with a friend who coos over the baby. While friend is talking, Girl glances over Friend's shoulder and sees... A STRANGER IN TOWN. Is it...? Could it be...? No! Girl realizes that Friend is staring at her strangely, waiting for an answer, and Girl stammers that it is nothing, it was nice to see Friend, she has to go.
Girl hurries off in the direction she saw the stranger, but he is gone.



...to be continued...
DISCLAIMER: This fiction is property of its authors and has no connection with/to The Lifetime Channel or Movie Network or The Lifetime Original Movie beyond being a satire thereof.