My current writing assignment:  Write 50 unrelated “first sentences”.
How I’m taking it further:  Tell me which of them you’d like to see made into a short story in the comments on this post.

01. Apocalypse is the word people use to describe the end of the world, but what do you call it when the only world destroyed is your own?

02. What if the lie we were told was that the lie about the world was the lie.

03. Heroes are defined by their villains, just like great men are defined by the challenges they overcome.

04. I walked with death awhile, he was kinder than I’d anticipated.

05. Darkness approached, and when it was fully come I would leave to feast.
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