killing time.

She came down the stairs, into the darkness of the foyer, holding her guttering candle before her. Around her, the shadows from the cheap chandler danced along the walls, stroking the painting of fruit with long, graceful fingers, like dark treetops brushing the sky. The aged, wooden stairs creaked, cold beneath her bare toes. A breeze drifted past her face, brushing past her face like invisible silk. Her candle fluttered. She held it higher, and looked around. She couldn't see the bottom of the stairs reach the grey-marbled floor; it looked almost as if the stairs disappeared into the floor, the marble a ledge that fell away. Her long white cotton nightgown, yellow from the light of the candle, felt loose around her shoulders. Taking another step, she brought the candle around to her left, bringing the picture of her late husband into it's flickering light. Suddenly, she gasped, almost dropping the candle.

...alrightly, someone else's turn now. First person to comment gets to continue the story. I'd suggest copying and pasting this, and continuing. Just don't change what's already been written.

Stupid washington post...

...The posting advised Internet cafe users to set up a proxy -- a software program that erases digital footsteps such as Web addresses or other identifiable information -- before Web surfing. "I advise you to carry this program in your e-mail and it should be with you anywhere you are," it said....
-washington post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/12/AR2006041201968_pf.html

No, damnit, a proxy is a piece of software (or, occasionally, hardware), that passes data for you. It does NOT erase digital footsteps, such as web addresses (which, unless you mean on your local machine, really isn't a "footstep") or other identifiable information: if you submit your name in a form, it won't strip that out. Some proxies are designed to do the above, but not all are.

::facepalm::