Sunday, November 13, 2016

Writing Prompt: The Chain Story: The Starting Line

By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy

This week’s prompt is a chain story! I’ll give you the first line, and someone else comments and builds off that line. Next commenter will build off that line, and so on.

In the event of two commenters posting at the same time and sending the story in different directions, just pick the line you like best, or try to incorporate both if you can.

"Well," Jessie said, "it's a start."


Let the fun begin.

5 comments:

  1. Paxton tightened the tape he'd stretched across the finish line, pinned it in place. "Unless she figures out what we're up to. Then I'm shoveling coal in Wyoming, and you're going to prison.

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  2. "It's worth the risk. After all the struggling he's been through, my boy has to win this race," Jessie said.

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  3. "It's worth the risk. After all the struggling he's been through, my boy has to win this race," Jessie said.

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  4. "What if he finds out you helped him?" Paxton fiddled with the tape, adjusting it one last time.

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  5. Jessie stared into his hands, and replied, "I promised him that he would win."

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