The Bonsai Story Tree Generator takes coherent text and turns it into... well, I'm not sure what. It's not GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) -- it's more like QIGO (Quality In, Garbage Out). Only, the garbage often makes a sort of strange, surreal sense... Judge for yourself. :-)
Why is it called the Bonsai Story Tree Generator? Okay, here's the history.
At each December holiday party of the Northern Colorado Writers' Workshop, members exchange gag gifts; the more unique the better (and nothing costing more than $13.13). In 1998 my entry was the Bonsai Story Tree -- a pencil with strips of paper taped to it in the shape of your typical Christmas tree, each with one sentence on it, generated mush from some software I wrote to turn readable text into text that almost makes sense. I'd fed in stories from the workshop during the year to generate the oddly garbled text. The instructions said to prune delicately at the words to create a story. :-)
(In January 2005, Bonsai'd text was published as chapter 34 of the hoax book, Atlanta Nights.)
I put up this web interface so others can create their own Bonsai Story Trees. Or just have a good laugh.