Your task this week is simple:
I want you to come up with a single sentence.
Just one.
No more than thirteen words long.
This sentence is meant to be the end of a story. The last sentence.
You can deposit this sentence in the comments below.
Again: just one, please.
Not a whole story.
Just one sentence — the end to an as-yet-incomplete story.
Do this by next Friday, the 18th, noon EST.
Begin.
JR Fryer says:
Blood is fleeting, but words… words are forever.
August 11, 2017 — 11:34 AM
The Urban Spaceman says:
…and she closed her eyes as the woodchucks approached.
August 11, 2017 — 11:34 AM
Nicole Mabry says:
I picked up my pen and wrote the words, “I am a hunter.”
August 11, 2017 — 11:36 AM
mugg9j says:
So that’s where it ended even though it felt so unfinished.
August 11, 2017 — 11:38 AM
Kevin Wallace says:
Jamie left whistling, with her whiskey glass empty and damage in her wake.
August 11, 2017 — 11:43 AM
Patrick B. says:
The leprechaun meat spoiled after a week.
August 11, 2017 — 11:45 AM
JenniferShelby says:
Nice one.
August 11, 2017 — 12:39 PM
finite33 says:
It would never be enough, so she killed him with kindness one last time before blowing a hole in his chest, right through his heart.
August 11, 2017 — 11:47 AM
The Urban Spaceman says:
I can’t be sure because I ran out of fingers to count on, but I suspect that may be over thirteen words. Just a smidgen.
August 11, 2017 — 1:11 PM
Carolyn Fritz says:
She licked the blood off her fingers, and smiled.
August 11, 2017 — 11:50 AM
Jim Woods (@jimwoodswrites) says:
I dig that!
August 11, 2017 — 4:22 PM
mrsmarisolriddell says:
Silence blanketed the meadow.
August 11, 2017 — 11:50 AM
lbahr8 says:
They will soon discover that an ending is the beginning of another adventure.
August 11, 2017 — 11:53 AM
misterangstrom says:
Josiah picked up the knife and quickly pushed it up into his belly.
August 11, 2017 — 11:53 AM
Chuck Hoey says:
Squeezing his arm with my hand, I wept.
August 11, 2017 — 11:53 AM
TB from MN says:
“It wasn’t the ending she’d hoped for, but it would do for now.”
August 11, 2017 — 11:54 AM
lbahr8 says:
His last words to her were, “Hold my beer and watch this!”
August 11, 2017 — 11:54 AM
Kaytee says:
I loke this one. I can totally see this ending.
August 11, 2017 — 1:18 PM
Kaytee says:
I meant to write *like* I’m clumsy on a phone.
August 11, 2017 — 1:19 PM
powerjacob says:
As much as he wanted it to be so, he knew this wasn’t the end.
August 11, 2017 — 11:57 AM
M. Fay says:
He closed the door behind him, and turned to face the flashing lights.
August 11, 2017 — 12:09 PM
StarNinja says:
The dance floor beckons!
August 12, 2017 — 9:33 AM
JenniferShelby says:
I guess there were original ideas left after all.
August 11, 2017 — 12:14 PM
angel011 says:
And they all lived happily until the bomb fell.
August 11, 2017 — 12:15 PM
Anastasia F says:
The world outlines in gold and green, leaving behind awful memories.
August 11, 2017 — 12:19 PM
Eva says:
Anyway next time, watch what you say, she could’ve killed you for it.
August 11, 2017 — 12:30 PM
Schwebs says:
She shut the shed door thinking “he’ll always be there for me”.
August 11, 2017 — 12:31 PM
court Loomis says:
Big Stu’s teeth shined bright in the Oklahoma sun, “Deal, Lucy Louise.”
August 11, 2017 — 12:47 PM
Nancy Dorman-Hickson says:
It turns out tomorrow was not another day after all.
August 11, 2017 — 12:51 PM
Sam Brady says:
The man in Black fled across the Desert, and the Gunslinger followed.
August 11, 2017 — 12:58 PM
The Urban Spaceman says:
I see what you did thar!
August 11, 2017 — 1:12 PM
shadesofcyan says:
India took Kilo’s hand, “We do this together or not at all.”
August 11, 2017 — 1:06 PM
denmaniacs4 says:
We huddled low in the arroyo as wind wailed across the weeping sands.
August 11, 2017 — 1:12 PM
Gaille Robertson says:
He walked toward the 2nd street bridge through the swirling snow, a single tear glistening in the light of the street lamp, while somewhere, a church bell tolled two.
August 11, 2017 — 1:15 PM
murgatroid98 says:
She spread her wings and stepped off the cliff.
August 11, 2017 — 1:25 PM
Katrina says:
I love this!
August 11, 2017 — 9:43 PM
S says:
He screamed as she stuck knife again and again and again until his neck was just a mutilated piece of meat and there was a puddle big enough to turn the beige carpet red.
August 11, 2017 — 1:26 PM
Kaytee says:
They will never find me.
August 11, 2017 — 1:27 PM
Gail Marsella says:
The stench and smoke dissipated as wind mixed snow with the ashes.
August 11, 2017 — 1:38 PM
moteridgerider says:
They circled like vultures, but I had a last surprise waiting for them.
August 11, 2017 — 1:42 PM
Natasja says:
They would never know what she had done.
August 11, 2017 — 1:44 PM
Clark T. Carlton says:
Not with a bang, but with a mass farting of glittering fairy dust.
August 11, 2017 — 1:48 PM
Janet M Martin says:
Yes!!!
August 11, 2017 — 3:34 PM
Fred G. Yost says:
The cycle ended not with death, but the simple act of walking away.
August 11, 2017 — 2:18 PM
lbahr8 says:
While sliding beneath the waves he thought, “There really do be monsters here.”
August 11, 2017 — 2:31 PM
ladylovinherlife says:
Having no idea what she had become, they would regret having provoked her.
August 11, 2017 — 2:33 PM
Stephen Salgaller says:
The earth slowly recedes from view as the ship accelerates into outer space…
August 11, 2017 — 2:37 PM
lbahr8 says:
They were immobilized with horror as their children, eyes flat and dead, attacked
August 11, 2017 — 2:38 PM
Tom says:
As the ovation grew he thought, “Damn! Money really can buy happiness.”
August 11, 2017 — 2:48 PM
lbahr8 says:
The mushroom cloud grew before him while he laughed a final, “Well, fu…
August 11, 2017 — 2:49 PM
Caroline Clemens says:
“James, I finally found her, and the lady says she wants a lawyer.”
August 11, 2017 — 3:16 PM
lbahr8 says:
This can’t be the end! Everybody knows I never finish anythi
August 11, 2017 — 3:22 PM
Maximilian Bruno says:
On the tip of the branch above, his nightgown hung with the others.
August 11, 2017 — 3:24 PM
Janet M Martin says:
She turned and slowly walked away from yet one more inevitable dead body, wondering how she could avoid all contact with humans for the rest of her life.
August 11, 2017 — 3:26 PM
Janet M Martin says:
Crap, I didn’t read the instructions very well! Can this be my last sentence?
August 11, 2017 — 3:31 PM
Janet M Martin says:
Her private jet ascended as her successful defense attorney unknowingly drank the antifreeze.
August 11, 2017 — 3:40 PM
AshleyKagaoan says:
Hope never said goodbye. “I’ll see you tomorrow.” She said.
August 11, 2017 — 4:14 PM
Jim Woods (@jimwoodswrites) says:
He looked at the carnage, caught his breath, and walked out the door.
August 11, 2017 — 4:20 PM
Nicole Evans says:
Not how you imagined the beginning to the end of the world, huh?
August 11, 2017 — 4:39 PM
Janay Brun says:
The clouds of butterflies – swirling in their colors of a forgotten rainbow – survived.
August 11, 2017 — 4:53 PM