Two-Person Story/Style

 
 
A story is a narrative, a series of related events told in an engaging way.  Sometimes writers tell of events that seem to be unrelated to the main plot, but can offer insight into the character or which at a later time become important.  Think of the light falling at the beginning of The Truman Show. 
 
So let's spend some time practicing turning seemingly unrelated events into a story.  I'll give you a series of events and you'll have 15 minutes to begin a story in which you'll begin to connect these events in some logical fashion.  After that time, you'll exchange with another student, read the story you're given, and continue it from there, trying to maintain the original author's plot AND style.  So you've got to pay attention to the style the other person uses so that you can imitate it.  Ideally, we shouldn't be able to tell where one person left off and the other started.
 
Ready to try it?  Here are your unrelated events:
 
A ringing phone.  A breaking mirror.  A man cutting himself shaving.