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If you were to begin writing a horror story how would your first sentence or two start out?

Eg.. I heard those kinds of awful fearsome sounds that I never in my life would I ever want to hear again....

Posted - December 6, 2021

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  • 17614
    The silence was deafening.
      December 6, 2021 10:06 PM MST
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  • 2132
    It was just one of those mornings. Not a cloud in the sky, very comfortably warm and crystal clear outside. The perfect day for lounging with a coffee on your porch. This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at December 17, 2023 7:12 PM MST
      December 7, 2021 12:07 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Satan would be mad as hell if there was a day like that in the territory where he resides. This post was edited by Kittigate at December 8, 2021 10:04 AM MST
      December 7, 2021 12:11 PM MST
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  • 2132
    Then, he is responsible for Tuesday morning of the September of 11th in the year 2001.

    On Sept. 10, 2001, a cold front swept through the East Coast with rain and thunderstorms. Crystal clear, cool weather followed on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11.

    "Temperatures at 9 a.m. that morning were 65 in New York and 70 in Washington, and warmed to 72 and 76, respectively, by 11 a.m. Winds were out of the northwest at 6 to 12 mph in both cities, which served to blow smoke and debris from the disaster in Lower Manhattan into Brooklyn," senior digital meteorologist Nick Wiltgen said.

    This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at December 17, 2023 7:12 PM MST
      December 7, 2021 12:20 PM MST
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  • 13395
    I could not be sure because in the Bible it says 'the ways of the Lord are mysterious indeed'. So who knows what kind of thinking prevails among those denizens of the spirit world. But the event could have been an intervention by some supernatural force beyond any man's control.
      December 7, 2021 12:29 PM MST
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  • 2132
    Complacent blind sided ignorance. But it happened thus it happened!
      December 7, 2021 12:33 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Yup. Cannot deny that.
      December 7, 2021 12:35 PM MST
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  • 2132
    But giving twice to it, it would have been the perfect morning to suddenly exclaim What the devil!?:)
    Officially, it is estimated that 2,335 military personnel were killed on that terrible day of Pearl Harbor. The number breaks down as such: Additionally, 68 civilians also lost their lives that day.
    During the September 11 2001 attacks, 2,977 people were killed, 19 hijackers committed murder–suicide, and more than 6,000 others were injured. Of the 2,996 total deaths (including the terrorists) This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at December 8, 2021 10:05 AM MST
      December 7, 2021 12:37 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Terrible stuff!
      December 7, 2021 12:53 PM MST
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  • 2132
    One disaster after another. Ya!
    Pearl Harbor with Ben Affleck released May 2011! This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at December 8, 2021 10:05 AM MST
      December 7, 2021 12:58 PM MST
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  • 6023
    It was a bright day, with not a cloud in the sky.
      December 7, 2021 1:09 PM MST
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  • 1502
    "He suspected nothing, as he sat down and started reading this sentence."
      December 7, 2021 1:55 PM MST
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  • 23641
    You got me.  I'm ready to read more.   :)
      December 7, 2021 5:42 PM MST
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  • 1502
    Don't do it, Welby!!! 

    ;)
      December 8, 2021 8:33 AM MST
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  • 23641
    Yes, based on the thread here, I'm out of here!
    ;)
      December 9, 2021 6:59 PM MST
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  • 53524

     

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      December 7, 2021 7:14 PM MST
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  • 1502
    Hahaha, how did you know? 

    "... When, from the corner of his eye, he spotted the reflection of what seemed to be a man wielding a giant tilde, running towards him at sandwich-fueled speeds. But when he turned around, all he saw was a book on English grammar and punctuation, defiantly balanced upright in the hole it had burned into the earth."
      December 8, 2021 8:40 AM MST
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  • 53524

     

      I have an alibi, I was way across town when it happened, twelve people can vouch for me, I never even knew the guy, I have no motive to hurt him, my fingerprints and DNA can’t be found anywhere near the scene there, I don’t look anything like the guy in the video, . . .

    ~

      December 8, 2021 8:46 AM MST
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  • 1502
    "Suddenly, by some unseen power, the book flew open, and on the sixth row of the sixty-sixth page, written in sprawling red letters, was the word 'Grrrrrr.'"
      December 8, 2021 9:16 AM MST
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  • 53524

     

      OBJECTION!   Inadmissible evidence, Your Honor; we demand it be stricken from consideration for these proceedings because there are countless millions of English-speaking people worldwide who use that epithet all the time, it cannot be exclusively attributed to Randolph D Randolph! Furthermore, no audio recordings nor witness testimonies exist that connect the client with having uttered it on that particular day at that particular location in conjunction with this particular assault! The circumstantial manner in which opposing counsel is trying to base the charges as applicable to Randolph is crass and prejudicial! Grrrrrrrrrrrr.


    ~

      December 8, 2021 9:25 AM MST
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  • 13277
    Erroneous comma after "nothing."
      December 9, 2021 7:13 PM MST
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  • 1502
    Aaaahhh you'll have to explain that one to me. 

    Randy didn't seem to think it erroneous. What happens when the two of you collide?
      December 10, 2021 11:34 AM MST
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  • 13277
    No comma was needed because it wasn’t two independent clauses, and it flowed smoothly without the comma. And to answer your question about Randy and I colliding, it happens most often that I am right and he is wrong.
      December 10, 2021 11:46 AM MST
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  • 1502
    Now how come it's not "because they aren't two independent clauses"?
      December 10, 2021 12:55 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Because you wrote it in the past, so I used past tense. But aren't also is correct.
      December 10, 2021 1:01 PM MST
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