The task here is as simple as it is delicate, as difficult as it is complicated — go into the comments and write one sentence. No more. Just one entry. This sentence should be no more than fifteen words long. It will not be two sentences, but rather, just one. It needn’t be an opening line or a closing line. It need only be a sentence in a story that has not yet been written.
Then, next week, we will use these sentences to create a new story.
Length: one sentence, up to fifteen words, entered into the comment section below.
Due by: 8/19, noon EST.
Imagine your sentence.
Choose it wisely.
Write it down for all to see.
Daisy Blackwell says:
The need to be thought clever was perhaps his greatest failing.
August 12, 2016 — 6:25 PM
Tom Shaw says:
She sat on me for an eternity while the doc stitched up my cheek.
August 12, 2016 — 6:27 PM
doggiedude says:
Frustrated with the situation, he uttered a few curses.
August 12, 2016 — 6:43 PM
Patrick says:
We’re not a couple from a romantic movie, but we get the gist of it.
August 12, 2016 — 6:44 PM
Donna Hutt Stapfer Bell says:
it was a curious thing, to be midspace between the two of them.
August 12, 2016 — 6:47 PM
furyious says:
Wings don’t make the angel, and hellfire doesn’t make a demon.
August 12, 2016 — 6:55 PM
Sarah Jones says:
“Yours”, Jonathan sighed with his last breath.
August 12, 2016 — 6:58 PM
brokensea says:
“Like I said, it happens more often than you think.”
August 12, 2016 — 7:22 PM
zer_netmouse says:
She put the pillow down, and turned away.
August 12, 2016 — 7:22 PM
Michelle says:
She now knew how it felt when your internal organs were liquefied.
August 12, 2016 — 7:24 PM
bjkuhl says:
He reached across the seat
and grabbed her hand and tugged.
August 12, 2016 — 7:38 PM
Beth says:
Flicker, fade, expand again, and the flame burns steady, a tiny light against descending dark.
August 12, 2016 — 7:54 PM
lisacle says:
Here’s how I used your sentence. 😎 https://lisacle.wordpress.com/?p=801&preview=true
August 19, 2016 — 3:58 PM
Mike Suchcicki says:
That one revelation did nothing less than change the lives of everyone in that room.
August 12, 2016 — 8:01 PM
StarNinja says:
Ladies and gentlemen, behold the new Einstein of Crime!
August 12, 2016 — 8:11 PM
jademwong says:
“Einstein of Crime” may be my new favorite description 😀
August 12, 2016 — 8:48 PM
StarNinja says:
I know right? Glad you think so too.
August 12, 2016 — 9:19 PM
Laura says:
He stared at the conveyor belt, chocolates moving past, when something ripped the ceiling open.
August 12, 2016 — 8:16 PM
StarNinja says:
This is exactly how my Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Godzilla crossover fan-fiction starts!
August 12, 2016 — 8:21 PM
Laura says:
Yours too?? 😉
August 12, 2016 — 8:26 PM
kirajessup says:
“I remember the sound of her voice. Her face though…”
“Is blurry, isn’t it?”
“Yes.”
August 12, 2016 — 8:31 PM
kirajessup says:
Oops, didn’t read the rule. Naughty… Okay, trying again:
“I remember the sound of her voice, but her face is… blurry, a pixelated picture.”
August 12, 2016 — 8:34 PM
Doug Daniel says:
The bodies burned.
August 12, 2016 — 8:33 PM
Prominis says:
She watched the blood splash out across the room, like a delicious fountain of hemoglobin.
August 12, 2016 — 8:50 PM
StarNinja says:
Is it really a simile if that’s literally what it is? Your sentence is making me wax philosophical! Nice work!
August 12, 2016 — 9:13 PM
Prominis says:
I think it’s actually arguable, because there does remain the question of whether you consider blood delicious, as most people are inclined to think that blood spurting out is a sign of bad things, for whatever misguided reasons.
August 13, 2016 — 11:05 AM
cbeadedesigns says:
True, but “she” is not most people. My opinion (not that you want it), get rid of the “like”.
August 16, 2016 — 9:45 AM
Richard Patton says:
I am embraced by the dust.
August 12, 2016 — 9:16 PM
Kem Royale says:
Put your boot up a Droid’s reboot.
August 12, 2016 — 9:29 PM
Leena says:
He was fluent in money and grumbling…and so far, it had been of service.
August 12, 2016 — 9:31 PM
Cathy Rakov says:
“I saw blood, yep, guess it could’ve been catsup dripping from his nasty-ass skull.”
August 12, 2016 — 9:33 PM
Lauren Elizabeth Walsburg says:
It was never more than a moment; striking and enlightening in its singularity.
August 12, 2016 — 10:40 PM
leslieartist333 says:
It stuck to his soul with the stinking grab of dung on new Tony Lamas.
August 12, 2016 — 11:19 PM
Sophie Giroir says:
There it goes.
August 12, 2016 — 11:30 PM
john freeter says:
The seconds slipped by as I recorded my last will and testament
August 12, 2016 — 11:59 PM
haden says:
Each tick of the clock drew louder, creating a deafing blow to his ears.
August 13, 2016 — 1:08 AM
warjna says:
You’d think I picked up some cat and rubbed it all over my clothes, f’godssakes!
August 13, 2016 — 1:11 AM
annwjwhite says:
An unusual dragon, gold and furry, was tearing through the canned goods in my pantry .
August 13, 2016 — 1:38 AM
Mr David R Lewis says:
This is awesome as a sparking off point- and exactly 15 words as well!
August 15, 2016 — 5:31 AM
Eileen says:
Great!
August 15, 2016 — 12:41 PM
SamKD says:
It -is- awesome and I -did- use it as a sparking off point: http://samkdsonlinepace.blogspot.com/
August 24, 2016 — 4:10 PM
Norma Parfitt says:
I said ‘It doesn’t have to be this way’, but it does, it really does.
August 13, 2016 — 2:29 AM
Emily says:
Watch, just a couple more drops of ketamine and a new soul will be born.
August 13, 2016 — 4:16 AM
Fred Cannon says:
Katy’s once sparkling blue eyes were the only things missing from the crime scene.
August 13, 2016 — 4:30 AM
tambra nicole says:
There’s nothing like death to make you feel alive.
August 13, 2016 — 4:53 AM
Denise Esse says:
Everyone was gone.
August 13, 2016 — 5:04 AM
Heidi Sussman says:
It’s still dark in New Jersey at 5 am.
August 13, 2016 — 5:41 AM
SamKD says:
Lived in NJ and my heart still belongs there so of course I had to use your sentence http://samkdsonlinepace.blogspot.com/
August 24, 2016 — 4:12 PM
decayingorbits says:
I threw the last carcasses in the Dead Hole, and heard a voice from the bottom: “More please.”
August 13, 2016 — 6:20 AM
folkool says:
Hell yes. This one is money.
August 19, 2016 — 2:19 PM
Joe Turner says:
‘Holy shit! Is that a…’
August 13, 2016 — 7:14 AM
SamKD says:
Yes, it is. I used your sentence here http://samkdsonlinepace.blogspot.com/
August 24, 2016 — 4:12 PM
Mozette says:
She looked down at her shaking hands to find she held a smoking gun.
August 13, 2016 — 8:24 AM
Meg says:
And then I discovered why monkeys do not always make everything better.
August 13, 2016 — 8:57 AM
misterangstrom says:
This one made me chuckle. Nice!
August 15, 2016 — 7:58 PM
Debb Bouch says:
Shrouded in white, garlanded with marigolds, she lies on brushwood waiting for the cleansing flames.
August 13, 2016 — 9:25 AM
lisacle says:
Here’s how I used your sentence. 😎 https://lisacle.wordpress.com/?p=801&preview=true
August 19, 2016 — 3:57 PM
Domonique Franklin says:
To conquer death the creator could not become lost in the illusion of their creations.
August 13, 2016 — 10:14 AM
Jeoff says:
We found it in the cornfield.
August 13, 2016 — 10:22 AM
Stacia says:
“I love you,” she said, but her mouth was a straight line.
August 13, 2016 — 10:38 AM
Domonique Franklin says:
I mean: To conquer death the creators could not become lost in the illusion of their creations
August 13, 2016 — 11:17 AM
Internet ResearcherSurajit Sarkar says:
Everything is possible and impossible at the same time: that is what we live with.
August 13, 2016 — 11:17 AM
denmaniacs4 says:
I squeezed her as tightly as I would a lemon; juiceless, she collapsed into pulp.
August 13, 2016 — 11:35 AM
Russell says:
Last night I dreamt you were still alive.
August 13, 2016 — 12:39 PM
Rhys says:
The pieces of the smashed astrolabe lay glittering on the floor.
August 13, 2016 — 3:04 PM
Shawn A. says:
The events of the prior day convinced me that my god’s wrath was terrible.
August 13, 2016 — 3:28 PM
ReneeBradshaw says:
She assumed she was edible, but withered and drifted away before anyone took a bite.
August 13, 2016 — 4:53 PM