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.
Aaron says:
He took off his fiery robe and horned helmet, and said to Cameron, “Here you go — you’re the devil now.”
July 5, 2013 — 1:00 PM
Lala says:
I really want to read that story now!
July 6, 2013 — 12:34 AM
Yob-Sodoff says:
“Bollocks!”
July 5, 2013 — 1:00 PM
Matthew Hockey says:
Only one of them came back up for air.
July 5, 2013 — 1:00 PM
Marsha says:
Afterall, he was only a wheat merchant and she was a Princess.
July 5, 2013 — 1:02 PM
Kenneth Jobe says:
And that’s why I’m listed on the Sex Offender Registry.
July 5, 2013 — 1:04 PM
Jen @ The Well Read Fish says:
She walked away knowing it would be the last time she would know her son.
July 5, 2013 — 1:04 PM
Jen @ The Well Read Fish says:
The twitching shadows marauded across the kitchen floor, but this time, Andrew reached up to the dangling chain and turned on the light.
July 5, 2013 — 1:08 PM
Joe Parrish says:
As he sat down to take a shit, the stall door was kicked open, and a gun was put to his head. “Fuck me” he said. BANG!
July 5, 2013 — 1:09 PM
Ryan Viergutz says:
That reminds me a lot of The Departed, which is excellent company in my view. 🙂
July 6, 2013 — 7:31 AM
Uri Emram says:
Her once fierce gaze fell to dirty soil as she dryly replied “As you wish”.
July 5, 2013 — 1:09 PM
Ed Brock says:
The newborn smiled, razored teeth glistening, and scrambled spider-like up his naked leg on route to his groin.
July 5, 2013 — 1:13 PM
Matt Gomez says:
I smiled as the tears fell on the faded photograph of my wife, drop, by bitter drop.
July 5, 2013 — 1:16 PM
Seth Boston says:
I stepped out of the time machine and saw her again for the first time.
July 5, 2013 — 1:19 PM
Tammy says:
She turned to walk back to the nursery, and he closed the front door behind him.
July 5, 2013 — 1:24 PM
Kelsey says:
The devil’s gone for now, but that doesn’t mean gone for good, and just because Reese fought for the angels today, that doesn’t mean she’ll fight for them tomorrow.
July 5, 2013 — 1:28 PM
edlyn says:
She broke an egg on the frying pan, pushed her hair back off her face. It splutterred. She came back to life.
July 5, 2013 — 1:35 PM
rileyhill says:
I had lied.
July 5, 2013 — 1:37 PM
steven schwartz says:
I squeezed my eyes tight as I smelled the gasoline splashing into my cell and heard the match strike and ignite.
July 5, 2013 — 1:38 PM
Rick Cook Jr says:
She smiled, stroked her child’s hair, and sang the forbidden song.
July 5, 2013 — 1:43 PM
Laura Libricz says:
I will never love again.
July 5, 2013 — 1:44 PM
Josh Roby says:
Once upon a time, there was a story so short, it was only a single line.
July 5, 2013 — 1:45 PM
Paul Baughman says:
‘File not found.’ blinked in the center of the screen.
July 5, 2013 — 1:51 PM
C. Cameron (@jazz2midnight) says:
He blinked as the first raven flew down out of the sun.
July 5, 2013 — 1:52 PM
Lyra says:
They each held one of the front paws, and they walked down the road with the rabbit’s corpse dangling between them like a child swinging from her parents’ hands, leaving ever darker dots of blood on the faded center line behind them.
July 5, 2013 — 1:53 PM
curiouskermit says:
interesting and disturbing! I wonder what the rabbit did?
July 8, 2013 — 12:24 AM
Lilita says:
And then, as if it hadn’t bothered him at all, he opened the door and left with a frightening smile on his face.
July 5, 2013 — 2:01 PM
Damien Kelly says:
Truth be told, I’m not sure any of them are actually dead.
July 5, 2013 — 2:02 PM
Rachel McGregor says:
Nice one.
July 5, 2013 — 3:07 PM
jdsfiction says:
At that moment I did what any rational person would have done, I closed the book and tossed it into the fire with the others.
July 5, 2013 — 2:04 PM
S.W. Sondheimer says:
That is a story I’d really like to read.
July 5, 2013 — 3:51 PM
jdsfiction says:
🙂
July 5, 2013 — 3:53 PM
theviewfromtuesday says:
Oh now I’m intrigued…
July 6, 2013 — 1:35 PM
Dan Thompson says:
“Be good to her,” he said to me and walked off the edge of the world, never looking back.
July 5, 2013 — 2:06 PM
Cameron Mount says:
As the bullet entered Richard’s eye, all he could do was smile.
July 5, 2013 — 2:10 PM
brian says:
I stood from the rubble and ash still unfazed, still immortal, still alone.
July 5, 2013 — 2:13 PM
entrebat says:
Alex shifted uncomfortably in the newness of the flesh suit and finally came to the realization that one size did not fit all.
July 5, 2013 — 2:15 PM
Kayla says:
The final swing of her sword connected with the beast, her vision fading to black.
July 5, 2013 — 2:22 PM
Eric B says:
And that’s how it started.
July 5, 2013 — 2:24 PM
Serena Saint-Marceaux says:
He lowered his sword, gasping, and watched the blood seep through his shirt.
July 5, 2013 — 2:29 PM
Evan says:
Resigned to my imminent doom, I closed my eyes and opened my quantum umbrella as Zeus’ semen rained down in seven dimensions, sticky and impossible and oddly strawberry-flavored.
July 5, 2013 — 2:35 PM
Laura D. says:
The reaper leaned over and placed a last kiss upon his trembling lips, bathed him in the warm light of life, and then let gravity do the work as her scythe cut off his head.
July 5, 2013 — 2:44 PM
Captain Penelope says:
For a long while he stood, looking back to the Stone City from his paddle board at the shore, until he realized the city was no longer his home; and so with renewed eagerness he pushed off toward the Marsh Wings.
July 5, 2013 — 2:47 PM
angel011 says:
They are always hungry.
July 5, 2013 — 2:49 PM
Ruth Dupre says:
In the false winter light I saw a smile on Fraser’s face.
July 5, 2013 — 2:53 PM
Rachel McGregor says:
Mr Happy gave me a sympathetic look, though of course he was still smiling.
July 5, 2013 — 2:57 PM
Philip Harris (@SolitaryMindset) says:
Alice smiled and reached towards the switch.
July 5, 2013 — 3:05 PM
alexanderthesoso says:
As the last man died, the eyes of her creation lit, and the handsome patchwork face smiled at her in pure love and adoration.
July 5, 2013 — 3:07 PM
matthewclarkleach says:
It was as she plummeted past the fifteenth floor that she heard it, the distant ringing of a telephone.
July 5, 2013 — 3:24 PM
Cameron Mount says:
I’d love to read the story behind this one.
July 6, 2013 — 8:10 AM
everett87 says:
She didn’t know how she would leave or where she would go, but one thing was for certain; she was going to change her life… or die trying.
July 5, 2013 — 3:25 PM
Josh Atkins says:
Pete walked back through the door and closed it. He was needed at home, and the one in Ruined City was worth his time.
July 5, 2013 — 3:38 PM
Cindy Kump says:
“And that,” she said, snuffing out yet another cigarette, ” is why I am wearing my Mother’s underwear.”
July 5, 2013 — 3:44 PM
Lester Nieves says:
Bloody and in tears, he hoped for death to come for him, but it never did.
July 5, 2013 — 4:07 PM
curiouskermit says:
Is this a zombie tale? Even if it isn’t (I love zombies), I’d like to read the story that leads up to this. =)
July 8, 2013 — 12:29 AM
Lester Nieves says:
I’m not sure. The image just came to me… I’m very curious myself…
July 8, 2013 — 2:52 AM
Nikki says:
She was back to where she had started; the lovely park walled by skyscrapers yet limitless in possibility.
July 5, 2013 — 4:14 PM
chrisradant1949 says:
Re: Lester Nieves post “Bloody and in tears, he hoped for death to come for him, but it never did.”
If you mean it as a humorous punchline, I don’t think it’s funny enough. If you are serious about this sentence, there is the glitch that everything, everyone dies and it’s always coming for us.
July 5, 2013 — 4:18 PM
Fatma Alici says:
The truth sunk in, and he realized it was over.
July 5, 2013 — 4:42 PM
lewiscave says:
We will have to talk about a new human suit if they want me to come back, and these shoes…
July 5, 2013 — 4:43 PM