Your Story #133
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 133."
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 almost 150 entries, WD editors chose the following 12 finalists. Vote for your favorite using the poll at the bottom of the page.
1. Cute, but this is not what you think it is.
2. Though the view from the stop sign reflected picturesque lifestyles, the residents of Gibson Drive hid a gruesome secret.
3. Nothing on this street had changed in the fifty-five years since I left for Vietnam except tonight I'm going to kill the three men still living there.
4. They laughed when he first proposed the idea in the board meeting—an immersive, virtual experience where one merely walked around a suburb as it once was—but as he reviewed the figures in his office looking out to the perpetually dark skies above, he thought, Who’s laughing now?
5. It wasn’t a zombie apocalypse or cordyceps; it was far more sinister …
6. This is the last picture I took of our neighborhood before my sister went missing.
7. She found the tree-lined street without a problem—thank God—but which house was the safe house?
8. The world ended at 1:27 PM on a Tuesday in late July, in a suburb in northeastern Illinois, and Francine Walters was the only person to notice because she was the only one at home.
9. “Just another Wednesday in Suburbia America,” Stacy says cheerfully as she swings her hammer down at the stake poised atop the sleeping vampire’s chest.
10. Here I am with a heavy heart, taking a final look at the street where I have spent precious time with Danny before I say goodbye to him and leave our forbidden love behind.
11. There is something deeply disturbing about my obsession, thought Michael as he sat in his truck at the corner of her block, for the 47th time in 12 years, trying to catch a mere glimpse of her.
12. I was 8 years old when I discovered what Mr. Michelli was keeping in his basement next door.
Since obtaining her MFA in fiction, Moriah Richard has worked with over 100 authors to help them achieve their publication dreams. As the managing editor of Writer’s Digest magazine, she spearheads the world-building column Building Better Worlds, a 2023 Eddie & Ozzie Award winner. She also runs the Flash Fiction February Challenge on the WD blog, encouraging writers to pen one microstory a day over the course of the month and share their work with other participants. As a reader, Moriah is most interested in horror, fantasy, and romance, although she will read just about anything with a great hook.
Learn more about Moriah on her personal website.
