story starters

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week: “You gave me an STD!” she screamed at him while shaking her clenched fists. They were so tight I almost thought she was fingerless. Other than screaming personal information in the street of Harlow, Indiana…

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week: “Remember when you could go to the store and by a little brown bag full of 1 cent candy?” “No, dad. A, I wasn’t around when there was 1 cent candy and B, I never…

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week: Mindy Lewis glanced at the daisy shaped clock on the wall. 5 p.m. In another hour her half brother would show up on her doorstep for the first time. She daydreamed different scenarios of how…

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week: Liz Hampton never had a problem asking her father for money. If the tank was low on gas, no problem. If she needed change for the laundry, no problem. Tuition, car payment. No problem. It…

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week: When I was eight years old I saw a spacecraft land in the field behind Mr. Coulson’s barn. No one believed me. Every night afterward for the next six years I would wait by my…

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week: “What do you mean you are married?” he said. I felt like I had been punched in the gut. He stepped away from me and raised his palms toward me. “What have we been doing…