Writing Prompts

- A single gunshot in a smoky bar was what started it all.

- If I hadn't seen it for myself, I never would have believed it.

- It was raining when she left the house.

- He remembered riding down this street with his father only a year or so ago.

- She pressed a hand to her heart, digging her nails into her chest as if it would ease the pain.

- Jack had a gun pointed at her forehead and a dark look on his face.

- Whatever it was, it was going to kill him.

- There was nothing so tempting as a locked door.

- She clutched the phone and tried to calm down as the doctor continued his explanation.

- He hated flying.

- Brooke was running late and had gotten halfway to work before she realized she had left her report on the kitchen counter.

- Her cell phone rang for the seventeenth time that morning, and she was tempted to launch the gadget straight into the Pacific ocean.

- If Jason hadn't spilled his coffee on the subway, the mugger would have gotten away.

- She reached out and slapped him upside the head for saying something like that.

- It was in that moment he knew he was going to die.

- 'Why did she say that?' he wondered.

- She had made the biggest mistake of her life.

- The snow was knee-deep and I was already late.

- If someone had told him that in two months he would be mud-wrestling runaway pigs in Ecuador, he would have laughed and called an asylum.

- It wasn't much, but it would have to do.

- She crumpled the piece of paper and flung it into the trash can with all of her anger behind it.

- He was completely oblivious to the fact that he was going the wrong way.

- If she had noticed, she didn't say anything.

- Francis saw her almost every day, but still he hadn't said anything to her.

- It was my fault that...

- Nobody had expected the murderer to be...

- She had never seen anything so...

- He didn't say much, but his rigid posture told her that...

- Her suspicions were confirmed when she caught them...

- Nobody had gotten hurt, which was surprising when you considered that...

- It wasn't fair that...

- If the car had stopped at the intersection, things may have...

- She dropped her suitcase and stared at the apartment, wondering if...

- The beeping of the heart monitor was slowly...

- If he hadn't known that she was telling the truth, he would have...

- He punched the wall out of pure frustration, glad no one could hear him as...

- I didn't expect him to react that way when I told him that...

- She clung to his arm fearfully as they walked towards...

- Everyone had already guessed what was going on by the time that he announced...

- If it had been up to me, I would have...

- When he finished talking, he turned to her and...

- She blinked when she realized...

- "You did WHAT with the money!?"

- "Does anyone else see that..?"

- "Uh.. no comprendo?"

- "This is your fault, you know."

- "Shut up, Antonio."

- "Hey! That squirrel stole my watch!!"

- "One tequila! Two tequila! Three tequila! Floor!"

- "How does that even make SENSE?!"

- "Your mom scares me.."

- "No, I'm a ghost. Of course it's me, moron!!"

- "I thought I told you NOT to go into that cave."

- "Hey, macarena!"

- "If you touch me again, I will have to kill you."

- "Geez, who could have done this?"

- "I see you, William Johnson!"

- "Shush!! Act casual and maybe he won't see us!"

- "I really hope you know what you're doing, Casey..."

- "My dear madame, did I ever tell you how much I despise that hat?"

- "Heads up, Jessica's on the warpath. I suggest you take the next flight to Venezuela."

- "What do I do?!"

- "Are we there yet, Mom?"

- "Idiot."

- "Nooo!! Not my garden!"

- "Seven billion people in the world and I get stuck with this one..."

- "How do you plead?"

- "Guess what?"

- "You did NOT just say that."