By Moristotle
Inspired by my fictional character Goines’ idea yesterday, I am today launching our new column, “Story Challenge.” Our plan is to provide a 100- to 200-word beginning for a story, and the challenge is for writers to continue the narrative, developing the characters and the happenings to...wherever the story (and each writer’s muse) leads them.
If you know my email address, send your submission to it, either in the body of your email or as an attachment. Alternatively, use the Contact Form in our sidebar. We hope to hear from a number of you in the not-to-distant future. Good luck!
In Goines’ honor our first story opening is the one he devised yesterday:
Betty beckoned Ray to step with her into the shade behind a tall van in the club parking lot. She had long admired this man Ray’s lithe, athletic moves on the tennis court, the sound of his laughter, his longish blond hair. What would it be like to borrow him for a night? Or a weekend!To see other Story Challenge columns for their challenging beginnings, go to this column’s Story Challenge tag.
“What is it?” Ray inquired, “What’s up?”
Betty grinned and paused her sparkling eyes on Ray’s designer tennis shorts, pausing until she was sure he noticed. “I have a proposition to put to you, Ray.
“And I should tell you that Joan” – Ray’s wife – “is putting the same proposition to Bill” – Betty’s husband, whom she had more than once caught admiring Joan’s serves and backhands.
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Come on now, writers, let’s get cracking!
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