Last week’s challenge: “Down The TV Tropes Rabbit Hole.”
This week’s challenge is short and simple — though perhaps not easy.
I want you to come up with the final sentence of a story.
One sentence. The last line.
Shorter is better than longer. No more than, say, 50 words, please.
Drop the line right in the comment section below.
By next Friday I’ll pick five that I really like and hand out some Digital Swag.
Then we’ll take those five and use them in the next challenge.
Y’dig? Y’dug? Y’DO IT.
Paul Baxter says:
There were no survivors.
July 5, 2013 — 12:04 PM
EllieDi says:
And that’s why I can never go back to the Proctologists’ Annual Convention and State Fair.
July 5, 2013 — 12:04 PM
alexanderthesoso says:
aww, cmon. no need to be an butt about it! I mean, an ending about endings!
July 5, 2013 — 12:44 PM
alexanderthesoso says:
also, it kinda circumvents the classic, Rectum? Nearly Killed him!
July 5, 2013 — 12:46 PM
S.W. Sondheimer says:
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Nice.
July 5, 2013 — 3:53 PM
Princess R says:
She buried it beneath the dirt, knowing that in time the ocean would rise and erase it from history.
July 5, 2013 — 12:04 PM
leilamarchi says:
She waited. (I love stories that don’t end at the ending, what can I say?)
July 5, 2013 — 12:05 PM
John E. O. Stevens says:
And once again, Fiddle-Faddle saved us all.
July 5, 2013 — 12:05 PM
Maria Nieto says:
She knew then, despite the throbbing ache of missing him, that her secret would be safe and her enemy destroyed.
July 5, 2013 — 12:07 PM
Matt Gessford says:
Then they tortured him with hot cookies.
July 5, 2013 — 12:08 PM
leilamarchi says:
That sounds like my kind of torture.
July 5, 2013 — 12:55 PM
Alessandro Miglio says:
The mini nova bloomed with no observers.
July 5, 2013 — 12:09 PM
Mark Gunnells says:
Then she pulled the poker out of her husband’s ass and smiled.
July 5, 2013 — 12:09 PM
Michael says:
“The problem is”, he said, looking over his shoulder, back to the house fire, “I didn’t know that an hour ago.”
July 5, 2013 — 12:09 PM
alexanderthesoso says:
That’s…. that’s really good. I like that.
July 5, 2013 — 12:44 PM
Kelsey says:
Love this one!
July 5, 2013 — 1:29 PM
jennyritz says:
This one is awesome.
July 8, 2013 — 5:24 PM
JMThomas says:
Agreed. This one is great!
July 9, 2013 — 10:01 PM
Michael Bentley says:
David looked up into the sky as his vision faded and thought, ‘At least I stopped this Apocalypse.”
July 5, 2013 — 12:10 PM
Earl Davis (@earlrdavis) says:
I’m scared and alone and I still hate fireworks.
July 5, 2013 — 12:10 PM
Jen @ The Well Read Fish says:
I hate fireworks and thought I was the only person on the planet that did!
July 5, 2013 — 1:04 PM
Kelsey says:
Very cool last line!
July 5, 2013 — 1:31 PM
Jeremy Kostiew says:
“Life goes on,” she said.
July 5, 2013 — 12:10 PM
Jessica McHugh (@theJessMcHugh) says:
His hand was hung from the lamppost for every citizen to see, but after that day, no one saw Gordon’s face around Sesame Street again.
July 5, 2013 — 12:11 PM
S T Cameron says:
The creature leapt at the hunter with an open mouth full of razor sharp teeth and quickly
turned the diner into a dinner.
July 5, 2013 — 12:11 PM
danielahampton says:
She stepped out of the doorway for the last time, humming the song her mother had taught her while the night came on.
July 5, 2013 — 12:11 PM
curiouskermit says:
I like it!
July 8, 2013 — 12:15 AM
Simon says:
She looked across the great hall from her dais and wept for the brother she thought she never loved.
July 5, 2013 — 12:11 PM
Eric says:
She collapsed breathlessly into the arms of both her lover and her husband.
July 5, 2013 — 12:17 PM
lverawrites says:
Life was easier before killing all the rabbits.
July 5, 2013 — 12:16 PM
thedrellum says:
When the walls finally talked, they talked of nothing at all.
July 5, 2013 — 12:16 PM
Jeb says:
This I like.
July 5, 2013 — 5:00 PM
TImothy WHitcher says:
It was more a river than a.strean and deeper than he ever could have imagined.
July 5, 2013 — 12:17 PM
John Hörnschemeyer says:
Anesthetized by the residual adrenaline, she fixed the bloodied stub of what had once resembled a finger, her ‘fuck you’ finger – one down, the easiest, and only four more to go…
July 5, 2013 — 12:18 PM
Michael says:
“The Aristocrats!”
July 5, 2013 — 12:18 PM
Cameron Mount says:
Hahahahaha.
July 5, 2013 — 2:23 PM
Justin D. Jacobson (@JustinDJacobson) says:
Dirk Phantom will return in … Phantom of the Soap Opera.
July 5, 2013 — 12:18 PM
S.W. Sondheimer says:
Lol.
July 5, 2013 — 3:54 PM
Mr Urban Spaceman says:
Trent lay down upon the cold metal table one last time and closed his eyes; his sole consolation that by his sacrifice would the world be saved.
July 5, 2013 — 12:19 PM
Graham Milne says:
Sheathing his sword, he glanced down at the soldier’s bisected face and grinned. ”You got off easy.”
July 5, 2013 — 12:21 PM
thelittlefluffycat says:
The house was filled with possibility – it was like the smell of fresh bread, baking.
July 5, 2013 — 12:22 PM
David Wohlreich (@wallrike) says:
I quite like this one.
July 5, 2013 — 12:30 PM
Aiwevanya says:
The wind still whispers, but only the raindrops hear.
July 5, 2013 — 12:23 PM
curiouskermit says:
nice – has a sort of post-apocalyptic feel. I’d love to read it!
July 8, 2013 — 12:19 AM
Robert Griffin says:
He looked at me, flashed a not entirely trustworthy smile and said two words :”Christ Franchise”.
July 5, 2013 — 12:23 PM
Ryan Viergutz says:
That is delightfully warped.
July 6, 2013 — 7:28 AM
Wanderer says:
Cale threw his last cigarette overboard and grinned at Jack—Jack always told him smoking would kill him; they both turned back to watch the mushroom cloud bloom like a noxious gray flower over what was left of New York City.
July 5, 2013 — 12:25 PM
C. Brian Hickey says:
After the hell they’d been through, all the blood and terror of the last three days, they were safe, but no longer whole–as they clung to one another, they knew things could never be the same.
July 5, 2013 — 12:25 PM
J.B. Brooklin says:
She left the room, taking the sun with her. At least that’s how it felt.
July 5, 2013 — 12:26 PM
David Wohlreich (@wallrike) says:
And Sares, liberator of the Vaies mines, slayer of the Casvenni, champion of Warren, lifted his blood-darkened axe and hurled it into the sea.
July 5, 2013 — 12:28 PM
nuyangwriter says:
“That went well, didn’t it?”
July 5, 2013 — 12:29 PM
C. Cameron (@jazz2midnight) says:
I like this one. Somewhere between Baldric and Winston Churchill.
July 5, 2013 — 1:56 PM
erimeh says:
With those words Thomas tucked the mallard under his usable arm and exited the bar.
July 5, 2013 — 12:30 PM
Christopher Rierson says:
For the rest of her days, “four nuns in a Yugo” would remain a sad and lonely punchline unable to find its joke.
July 5, 2013 — 12:30 PM
S.W. Sondheimer says:
“So,” Loki asked, a wicked gleam in his eye, “DO you have Prince Albert in a can?”
July 5, 2013 — 12:31 PM
jdsfiction says:
And I’m laughing about it all over again- good show S.W.! 🙂
July 5, 2013 — 2:00 PM
S.W. Sondheimer says:
🙂 wait until you see the story it’s spawned… World War I, zombies… gods… And the man himself.
July 5, 2013 — 2:11 PM
jdsfiction says:
I love me some zombies, I look forward to it!
July 5, 2013 — 4:58 PM
Michelle says:
“Next time, wear the Superman boxers.”
July 5, 2013 — 12:33 PM
chrisradant1949 says:
He saw the light and moved towards it, knowing at long last that wheelchair mountain climbing was not for Harold.
July 5, 2013 — 12:34 PM
Danielle Smiley says:
They sat in companionable silence then, still covered in the gore of the battle, knowing that it was only over for now.
July 5, 2013 — 12:37 PM
David says:
They never did find the orangutan.
July 5, 2013 — 12:40 PM
Vyrrk says:
As the darkness fell, they realized that they may have won, the world had lost.
July 5, 2013 — 12:42 PM
Happiness is Not a Disease says:
“Orange Fuckers, are you ready now?”
July 5, 2013 — 12:43 PM
Matthew Hockey says:
Then again there’s some of y’all out there who’ll probably still say that ape had it comin’.
July 5, 2013 — 12:47 PM
emilia says:
So she kept putting her feet forward, slowly, one after the other, propelling herself foot-by-foot from all she’d known before.
July 5, 2013 — 12:48 PM
darleneaubol says:
He glanced at his daughter over his cup of coffee, “When I die bury me next to your mother, and if she doesn’t like it she can get up and move!”
July 5, 2013 — 12:48 PM
Russ Appelt says:
I looked down at the ruined city below knowing it was all my fault.
July 5, 2013 — 12:48 PM
D. W. Coventry (@DWCoventry) says:
She watches the dead girl flee into the darkness, a single blood-smeared footprint on the asphalt the only proof that it wasn’t a dream.
July 5, 2013 — 12:49 PM
alexanderthesoso says:
At that moment, everywhere across the world, the lights went out.
July 5, 2013 — 12:50 PM
alexanderthesoso says:
Shit, ignore this one Chuck. This is the last line to The HAB Theory. just realized it. UGH!
July 5, 2013 — 3:05 PM
Jason says:
Throughout the zombie jihad against the humans there remained but one who could walk amongst the day dwellers and it was he who was chosen to bring the end.
July 5, 2013 — 12:51 PM
mark matthews (@matthews_mark) says:
For the rest of his life he’d never fail to genuflect at the alter, but refused to take the holy communion ever again.
July 5, 2013 — 12:53 PM