Monday, January 16, 2017

Task 16: The First Line

You must write a story that has a beginning, middle and an end. The story should be a minimum of one page long and must begin with one of the following first line:
1.  He sat absolutely still as the footsteps got louder
2.  He hadn't seen anything like it in twenty years of teaching
3.  There was a strange wailing sound coming from the next room
4.  He opened the door to find her standing there, crying.
5.  The footsteps were moving away
6.  The pen hadn't been worth stealing
7.  As she stopped to catch her breath, she looked back
8.  She was beginning to realize how far down in her memory she'd buried her teenage years
9.  She took a deep breath and said to her boss -
10.         He was stunned - the stranger in front of him looked exactly like the girl he'd been dreaming about 
11.         She was carried along by the crowd
12.          Please try to persuade him to come, for my sake
13.         She felt for the lock in the dark
14.         The text message simply said 'very clever'
15.          It would only be a fling - she wasn't about to break up the happy home
16.          They had to work together so they were going to have to learn to get along
17.          As he flicked through the letters, a small, handwritten envelope caught his attention and his heart began to thump
18.         He wanted her job and it would be easy enough to
19.         The two girls tried to open the rusty metal box.
20.         The pink glove lay on the ground, almost covered

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