Monday, February 2, 2009

Prompt #11: Beginnings

Pick one of the following first sentences as the germ of the opening paragraph to a story:

...The Superior Wallcoverings Wildcats were playing in the Little League Championship game and I wanted them to lose."

...Graves had been sick for three days when, on the long, straight highway between Mazar and Kunduz, a dark blue truck coming toward them shed its rear wheel in a spray of orange-yellow sparks."

...The girls were searching Arleen's room and had just come upon her journal."

...He did not have friends.

...He had a weird growth along his dorsal fin and that gape-mouth grimace you see in older fish.

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