Having Problem Passing Values between Activities

I am currently working on Interactive Story but the name that I type in the main activity is not appearing on the story activity vie. Below is the code in both the main activity and the story activity. Each time I run the app the String "My Friend" is appearing in the log output. I am using API level 23. I am stuck and I would appreciate any assistance.

//Code in the main activity

public class MainActivity extends Activity { private EditText mNameField; private Button mStartButton;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    mNameField = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.nameEditText);
    mStartButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.startButton);
    mStartButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            String name = mNameField.getText().toString();
            //Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, name, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            startStory(name);
        }
    });
}

private void startStory(String name){
    Intent intent = new Intent(this, StoryActivity.class);
    intent.putExtra(getString(R.string.key_name),name);
    startActivity(intent);
}

}

//Code in the story activity public class StoryActivity extends Activity {

public static final String TAG = StoryActivity.class.getSimpleName();
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_story);
    Intent intent = new Intent();
    String name = intent.getStringExtra(getString(R.string.key_name));
    //To avoid a hard crash add the following
    if(name == null){
        name = "My Friend";
    }
    Log.d(TAG,name);
}

}

Output from Log 06-28 22:57:15.314 2624-2634/org.myowndomain.myname.interactivestory I/art: Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 13389(1927KB) AllocSpace objects, 9(208KB) LOS objects, 65% free, 1327KB/3MB, paused 5.825ms total 43.203ms 06-28 22:57:15.701 2624-2766/org.adventist.nzu.musondas.interactivestory D/OpenGLRenderer: Use EGL_SWAP_BEHAVIOR_PRESERVED: true 06-28 22:57:15.938 2624-2766/org.myowndomain.myname.interactivestory I/OpenGLRenderer: Initialized EGL, version 1.4 06-28 22:57:16.920 2624-2624/org.myowndomain.musondas.interactivestory I/Choreographer: Skipped 48 frames! The application may be doing too much work on its main thread. 06-28 22:57:26.879 2624-2624/org.myowndomain.myname.interactivestory D/StoryActivity: My Friend 06-28 22:57:27.193 2624-2766/org.myowndomain.musondas.interactivestory E/Surface: getSlotFromBufferLocked: unknown buffer: 0x7f49942d36c0 06-28 22:57:27.196 2624-2766/org.myowndomain.myname.interactivestory D/OpenGLRenderer: endAllStagingAnimators on 0x7f4993ba8800 (RippleDrawable) with handle 0x7f4993bb79e0