Last week I asked you for the last sentence of a story.
This week, I’m asking you for the first sentence of a different story.
How this will work is this:
Next week, I will pick ten of each, allowing you to then randomly choose from that selection for an opening and final sentence to a short story you’ll write.
But that means we need another sentence that will start this unwritten story.
So, get to doing that.
You again have one week.
Due by Friday, August 25th, noon EST.
Pop the sentence in the comments below. Please only one sentence, and keep it to under 13 words long. You may begin.
Anne Walker says:
Nova spread her wings, soaking in the new days’ rays before her flight.
August 18, 2017 — 8:41 PM
Linda Guerra says:
Panic rose in my chest when I realized I was inside a box.
August 18, 2017 — 9:05 PM
J. Rajasekharan Nair says:
Will she recognize me ?
August 18, 2017 — 11:10 PM
Topaz says:
She considered murdering him, but then realised it was his turn to do the dishes.
August 18, 2017 — 11:26 PM
Destiny says:
Nico couldn’t stop giggling.
August 18, 2017 — 11:29 PM
Golden says:
Simone cupped him in her hand. “You can cooperate, or I can squeeze.”
August 19, 2017 — 12:00 AM
denmaniacs4 says:
Sweetwater City never dreamed it would find itself off the beaten path.
August 19, 2017 — 12:46 AM
Emily L. Teeples Johnson says:
She was fairly certain that their waiter was secretly a cult member.
August 19, 2017 — 12:53 AM
Ethan Asplin says:
But why?
August 19, 2017 — 6:05 AM
L. K. Grant says:
The rumble of an engine chased birdsong through the wood and into silence.
August 19, 2017 — 6:08 AM
B. Blue Marbe says:
It was a dark and stormy nightclub.
August 19, 2017 — 6:13 AM
Danielle says:
Mabel was seven the first time she realized no one else saw them.
August 19, 2017 — 8:28 AM
Amy E says:
The demon murmured, “What would you have of me, holy man?”
August 19, 2017 — 1:21 PM
AshleyKagaoan says:
Guilt wasn’t punishment enough for the things he’d never done.
August 19, 2017 — 3:25 PM
Joe Dozier says:
You think that dead is dead; but, it turns out that is not always true.
August 19, 2017 — 4:10 PM
Incognitoscribblings says:
He dismembered the body and waited for the tide to come in.
August 19, 2017 — 5:16 PM
Janay Brun says:
The deer froze in mid-step unable to comprehend the landscape before him.
August 19, 2017 — 6:31 PM
Pizzafishjedi2 says:
“I told you this was a bad idea!” he shouted.
August 19, 2017 — 9:34 PM
Daniel M. Clark says:
“Executed? Me? Impossible,” said Melis the Fox.
August 19, 2017 — 11:28 PM
Skadu says:
In a dream you couldn’t feel pain, could you?
August 20, 2017 — 8:54 AM
Elodie says:
“I love you,” he said, leveling the gun at her forehead.
August 20, 2017 — 10:51 AM
Russell Appelt says:
Three days without sleep was the least of my worries.
August 20, 2017 — 11:26 AM
WJ Weems says:
Emotionless…stoic…robotic…no telltale signs of life.
August 20, 2017 — 12:05 PM
Clark T. Carlton says:
They invaded her coiffure by the thousands where they engaged in noisy intercourse.
August 20, 2017 — 2:08 PM
Dzina says:
The door opens and I shut my eyes tight pretending to be asleep.
August 20, 2017 — 3:06 PM
Maximilian Bruno says:
The blood on the hankerchief smiled at Jim.
August 20, 2017 — 3:47 PM
churnage says:
There were only enemy convenience stores from here to Brighton.
August 20, 2017 — 7:23 PM
decayingorbits says:
He read another screed from the condescending, smug blogger and new what he must do – but first he had to feed his rabbits.
August 21, 2017 — 7:46 AM
HB McCarthy says:
She knew she was fucked when the screaming stopped.
August 21, 2017 — 8:03 AM
annwjwhite says:
It was just a card game, the usual poker faces around a table.
August 21, 2017 — 8:12 AM
CM Harald says:
Only three people understood the Schleswig-Holstein Question – I was the mad one.
August 21, 2017 — 9:54 AM
Sam Brady says:
Mother always told me to watch out for the badgers.
August 21, 2017 — 10:41 AM
Matthew X. Gomez says:
My heart plummeted when the gun clicked on an empty chamber, a clear indication I was well and truly fucked.
August 21, 2017 — 10:50 AM
StarNinja says:
There are a lot of guns and fucks flying around this week, but I liked this particular variation.
August 23, 2017 — 9:59 AM
legreene515 says:
After the explosion, dust and debris clouded her vision as she blindingly looked for him. .
August 21, 2017 — 11:35 AM
Jeremy says:
The rusty fan blades slowed to a screechy stop, intensifying the vile stench.
August 21, 2017 — 12:44 PM
Skye says:
Dallas slammed on the brakes, threw open the car door, and fled.
August 21, 2017 — 4:12 PM
Helen Liston says:
When I think about my old life it feels as though I’m floating.
August 21, 2017 — 4:37 PM
Matt Shackelford says:
Upon surveying the carnage and destruction scattered about the room I chose carefully the words I used to address the small girl standing in the corner covered in the gore of human dismemberment.
August 21, 2017 — 5:33 PM
Michelle Baillargeon says:
She approached them slow and deliberate, letting them get the wrong idea.
August 21, 2017 — 7:43 PM
Amit says:
Staring at his broccoli Sid felt the deepest pangs of cannibalism towards his co-workers
August 21, 2017 — 10:18 PM
mannixk says:
“Is it dead this time?” the boy asked, nudging it with his boot.
August 22, 2017 — 12:15 AM
Adan Ramie says:
Watching the comedian on stage, the assassin was almost sad to have to snuff him out.
August 22, 2017 — 12:41 AM
kim blades, writer says:
Helen surveyed the older man with eyes narrowed in contempt.
August 22, 2017 — 11:58 AM
Unept says:
Penned in by bodyguards, Marty now realized the silver Mercedes with the jagged new gouge, bestowed by his car key, did not belong to his ex-wife.
August 22, 2017 — 12:10 PM
J.D. Brooks says:
The undead things made his stomach hurt, but the crow had to eat.
August 22, 2017 — 1:22 PM
aimeethere says:
I remember how the heat slapped me down and pressed me flat.
August 22, 2017 — 5:09 PM
jakashadows says:
What do you mean I’m the Antichrist?
August 22, 2017 — 8:14 PM
E.C. Perry says:
Some people don’t follow direction very well.
August 22, 2017 — 8:23 PM
peterjam says:
Never thought Satan himself would be at my feet, begging for his life.
August 23, 2017 — 12:17 PM
outrageousactsofwriting says:
Flagrant run the thieves, yet we can only see them when it rains.
August 23, 2017 — 3:11 PM