There is so much creativity here in Steemit, it just blows me away how many talented and amazing people there are here.
It got me thinking.
Wouldn't it be great to see if we could create a short story using the creativity of Steemit.
The rules are simple :
- You must upvote and resteem this post.
- You write the next paragraph of the story in your comment.
- The reply with the most upvotes on their comment after five days (Friday 30th July) is the winner and their paragraph is added to the story.
- The winner will also recieve a share of the total upvotes of this post.
First Line
He stood up and looked out of the window.
Good luck everyone!
He no longer concerned himself with the sickly amber light that seeped through the panes. Whatever radioactive death the mysterious star that had replaced the sun brought, it would not reach them in time. Picking up his binoculars, he let his gaze fall to the ocean, stretched out hundreds of feet below their dream home: A glass palace built into the side of the cliff at a cost of $123.6 million. The not-quite-humanoid creatures that had crawled from the sea on the third morning following the arrival of the new sun, had made their way a good 100 feet up the rocks now. The tentacles that dripped from below cold, steel shark eyes, reached out probing the stone for handholds. They would be here within hours. He looked back toward his wife, huddled on the Italian leather sofa, arms about their small son. Her own eyes were as cold as the creatures' climbing the cliff wall. He knew what she was thinking. I wanted a house in the mountains.
Did you see @rhondak's contest, deadline tonight? https://steemit.com/contest/@rhondak/post-those-flash-fiction-stories-3-2-1-now
I did! My hubby is home for the weekend after working away all week but I may try to get something entered. Thanks for the heads up!
Very nice, it is going to be a hard decision to decide among these ones!
Thanks! This is fun lol. @horrorguyian should check it out.
Please forgive my confusion.
He stood up and looked out of the window is the only line to go by in writing the next sentence? So I would not be following up on these lines:
The prison bars against the cloud filled sky perfectly mimicked his garment. One more day until freedom.
He was extremely surprised when a Lamborghini crashed through it into his kitchen.
The weather was great but the zombie apocalypse kinda sucked, so he unpaused the 24 boxset and settled back down...
He stood up and looked out of the window. The man striding up the lane had his father's wide shoulders and pillars for legs, the same wide and purposeful stride. This was not his dad. Not with that hat and coat. Head tilted down to shed the misty rainfall, hands in his pockets, he was a familiar stranger. As if sensing the face at the window, the man raised his head and lifted his hat with his thumb. Even from afar, those eyes held something he knew he didn't want to catch.
Good lines, the first line is to go after the "He stood up and looked out of the window" line :-) By the way I really do like you next line, I'll chose the next line at the end of the week.
The only other thing to be eligible is to resteem the post.
To be honest, I've had the idea of writing a novel or short story one line at a time, by different people to see what happens, I'm looking forward to seeing what comes out of it.
Actually it dose work although i am not sure about doing it with steemits system may take some thought..... me @Kathieletalis , @suzannemarsico67 and a couple others have been doing it for years on facebook and the story is still going ... its a good hobby and fun...... it also gives us good ideas and keeps the creative juices flowing .... the interaction the twists it all assists us in developing writing skills... writing on the fly...not knowing what the other person is going to write... keeps it exciting.
Good points, to be honest, it is just a bit of fun,. I haven't written any fiction since In was at college, I might enter a paragraph :-)
And then someone can hardfork the story on their own when they don't like where its going :D!
But surely my optimism and naivety will protect me against such a tragic event ;-)
I voted for the second 'The man striding up the lane had his father's wide shoulders and pillars for legs, the same wide and purposeful stride...'
He stood up and looked out of the window... Why did he insist on stopping at that bar ?... he thought to himself as he turned and gazed upon her as she lay sleeping on the bed ... She was beautiful and she was his type ....but who the hell is she?.... what had he done? ...the whole night was a total blur... and why was he wearing a wedding ring?...
Like it, nice twist :-)
He stood up and looked out of the window. The last of the suns rays still held a nasty bite. Cloaked in shadow and shielding his delicate skin beneath his trench coat, he waited impatiently for the sun to disappear behind the golden etched buildings of the city below.
Upon the bed last nights supper lay drained, her wide dull eyes staring blankly across at him. A trickle of remorse rain across his chest. He didn't usually kill, but last night he needed to heal a wound, a deep gash, left by the hunter's blade. He had only narrowly escaped further injury, by his fast wits and the luck of bursting into the female student's apartment.
Now it was just a matter of waiting for dusk to fall across the streets. Then he planned to run and escape this city and it's hunter's and never look back.
@kathieletalis love it, thank you so much for the paragraph.
He stood up and looked out of the window. Two years ago, the view was green. Fields of corn stretched out as far as the eye could see. It was all dust now, the sparse clouds overhead still hoarded their life-gift.
Two years ago he had a wife.
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He was extremely surprised when a Lamborghini crashed through it into his kitchen.
Great lne :-)
The weather was great but the zombie apocalypse kinda sucked, so he unpaused the 24 boxset and settled back down...
Nice zombie theme
Why thank you.
Oh, no, zombies...? I've never fathomed the fascination of so many millions of people with zombies. Vampires, werewolves, YES, but zombies, ugh, ugh, never.... this is just me. I am a trivial minority in my aversion to zombies. With rotting flesh, arms and legs falling off, worms clinging.... no. no. no. Sorry.
Maybe it's your revulsion to them that makes them a good horror trope, if thats that the authors intention was.
True. There's that. Also, I once dreamed I found my dad in the attic, playing mad scientist, reanimating his dead father (Grandpa!!) -- and then there's that story "The Monkey's Paw," and the knock at the door. Horror is awesome, but the walking dead with maggots dropping from their rotted flesh, that's just gross. The most horrifying horror, to me, is "The Shining," in which a trusted and loved husband gradually descends into madness. Because that really happens. The ghosts, the rivers of blood, meh. The husband: TERRIFYING.
Oh wait! I do get it. Zombie novels and movies allow people to shoot and kill people who really are nonhumans, the way evil nations wage war on people they label as animals, sub-humans, less than human. Hitler declared the Jews sub-human. Zombies give us a human-ish target to exercise all these military actions against with a clean (sort of) conscience. Still. I'm about to delete that gif... it won't stop playing.
WHY am I not able to delete it? I hit "edit" and I highlight and hit "delete" and the zombie gif will not go away. Errrrghhhhhh
So it tried delete. "Cannot delete a comment with replies."
I kind of like the gif ;-)
@carolkean, I think you should enter the competition and write a line :-)
The prison bars against the cloud filled sky perfectly mimicked his garment. One more day until freedom.
Like it, cool melancholy prison vibe, could go anywhere from here.
Remember that the reply with the most upvotes on their comment after five days (Friday 30th July) is the winner and their paragraph is added to the story.
At the moment @jrhughes is ahead
@jrhughes (2 votes)
@carolkean (1 vote)
@hndmarshall (1 vote)
@kathieletalis (1 vote)
@horrorguyian (1 vote)
@wisbeech (0 votes)
@holoz0r (0 votes)
Please get your friends, followers and anyone else to vote on your reply if you want the honor of being the first paragraph in the Steemit novel :-)