Try these creative writing prompts this week to start a new short story.

story starters

1. It was unlike anything Meghan had ever seen before.

2. It wasn’t like Jennifer to run away.

3. Keeping a secret like this all to herself was too much for anyone to expect of Laura.

4. Carl was 88, widowed, and lonely. He had made up his mind to do something to ease his loneliness and now he needed to take that first step.

5. Julia looked at her husband in disbelief. “We’re moving where?” she asked, not sure she had heard him correctly.

6. The brochure called it “a fall foliage extravaganza” but Veronica knew this trip would me much more than that.

7. “I’m sorry to have to tell you this,” said the man on the other end of the phone.

8. “You give up too easily,” said Mark. “Just keep trying.”

9. It was lost…gone…stolen…and Susie had no idea what she would tell her mother. The truth? No way. It would break her heart.

10. “Do something, Hannah!” said Josh. “Don’t just stand there!”

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