Your Story #139
Write the opening line to a story based on the photo prompt below. (One sentence only.) You can be poignant, funny, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story.
Prompt: Write the opening line to a story based on the photo prompt below. (One sentence only.) You can be poignant, funny, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story.
Email your submission to yourstorycontest@aimmedia.com with the subject line "Your Story 139."
No attachments, please. Include your name and mailing address. Entries without a name or mailing address will be disqualified.
Unfortunately, we cannot respond to every entry we receive due to volume. No confirmation emails will be sent out to confirm receipt of submission. But be assured all submissions received before the entry deadline are considered carefully.
Entry Deadline: CLOSED.
Out of nearly 100 entries, WD editors chose the following 12 finalists. Vote for your favorite using the comments section at the bottom of the page.
1. She has come.
2. Shaking her head and sighing, Janet thought, These visits from the Celestial Beings are becoming rather tedious.
3. The cataract surgery was successful—I could look through my own eyes again—until my vision cleared and I recognized the police officer waiting for me with handcuffs at the ready.
4. My brother’s paintings have taken a dramatic turn since he refused cataract surgery, saying he had always wanted to paint like the Impressionists.
5. No music, but I think we're entering the Twilight Zone, folks.
6. Trying to open her eyes following the accident, Jordan began to make out shapes in the blinding light, only to be filled with dread when the realization hit—it was everyone she had wronged in her past life.
7. The only thing I remember about the first time I died were three shadowy figures—walking toward or away from me, I do not know.
8. When the condensation cleared and I didn’t see myself in the mirror, I knew something had gone terribly wrong.
9. Time and space devolved into shimmering shards and kaleidoscopic colors as a low-pressure vortex lifted my dying body into the simulation portal.
10. As I came to, my eyes scanned the horizon for the familiar grey sky, soot stained buildings, and frigid streets but this was something else entirely; somewhere else, entirely.
11. Beth staggered out of the forest, blurry-eyed and woozy, just as a spaceship ascended from her troop's campsite, leaving behind empty tents and no believable explanation for the police.
12. Monique knew, looking at the grid-like sparks framing the super bright hole in the sky, that her life was never going to be the same.
