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CONTEST: 50 Words or Less
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Anikka
Anikka
Babelfish

Jul-18-2007 14:03

I've been wanting to do some kind of contest for a while now, so here we go. By the way, a huge thanks to Lady Emerald - she knows why. :-)

The rules of 50 Words or Less: Using a given opening line, you must write a story that uses 50 words or less. The opening line does not count toward your word total.

The rules of the contest:

* I will give a total of 5 opening lines. You may choose whichever line(s) you wish to use.

* You may write an entry for as many of the opening lines as you like, but only 1 story for each line. So, your maximum number of entries is 5. If you only like 3 of the opening lines, then write 3 stories. It's up to you.

* If you write multiple stories, they are not required to have anything to do with each other. On the other hand, you may link them into one overall story.

* Your story or stories must make sense. It also should be mystery-related, or be mysterious with a really interesting twist.

* Spelling and grammar DO count. Please. Spellcheck is our friend. (I realise that english is not everyone's primary language. It is usually not difficult to tell the difference between the grammar of someone writing in a not-ingrained language, as opposed to the grammar of someone who is too lazy to learn how to write properly.)

*All entries must be posted no later than 11:59 PM server time on July 28, 2007.

Now, you can't have a contest without prizes, right? Make sure you get those imaginations going! The winner will receive a three-month subscription (compliments of me) and a unique book for their detective (compliments of Ben). Sweet!

Your opening lines:

1. If I'd known how it would all end, I would never have started it.

2. The evidence was there, had anyone bothered to look.

3. Jimmy Donuts was just an old bum.

4. How had things even gotten as far as they had?

5. Tallulah shook her head in denial while her eyes opened wide with horror.

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48484848

Jul-20-2007 14:04

“How had things even gotten as far as they had? Maybe the police were right, it was suicide, not murder. No, the police are never right, if they were I’d be out of a job.” I guess I was potting about it. “I should go back to work.” I thought, yeah then I would solve the case. I went out.

Lailani
Lailani
Well-Connected

Jul-20-2007 15:33

If I'd known how it would all end, I would never have started it.

Tommy was murdered. Steve the 'Slug' knew who killed him, but wouldn't tell me unless I slept with him. I did. I solved two dozen more murders this way. Now I'm not only a top detective, I'm a whore too! Was it worth it? No.

Stooby
Stooby
Well-Connected

Jul-21-2007 11:23

Tallulah shook her head in denial while her eyes opened wide with horror.

The body before her was severely mutilated and his blood pooled all around her feet. She shook with shock and tears fell down her cheeks. Her fiancé was barley recognisable, his face badly beaten.

She gave a start as a hand touched her on her shoulder and she spun around.

Jimmy Donuts was just an old bum.

He hadn’t solved a case in years but he saw a way to earn some cash and get out of the gutter. The killer had practically tripped over him in her efforts to escape.

With breath stinking of alcohol he told Tallulah what he had seen and asked for cash.

How had things even gotten as far as they had?

Tallulah asked Jimmy. Her sister Sarah? Tallulah knew Sarah hated her fiancé for rejecting her and proposing to Tallulah but could she be capable of all of this blood, this death. Had her jealousy pushed her this far?

“No not my sister.” She said in a voice filled with disbelief.

The evidence was there, had anyone bothered to look.

Jimmy told Tallulah. He had lived on the bench opposite this house for nearly a year and had seen Sarah arguing on many occasions with Tallulah’s fiancé. Lately Sarah had become more and more emotional. Twice the police had been called.

Jimmy handed Tallulah a filthy hanky as she sobbed.

If I'd known how it would all end, I would never have started it.

Tallulah cried.

After the police had taken statements and arrested Sarah Jimmy raised the subject of cash again. Pride is all well and good but for a Sleuth down on his luck you have to take the opportunities when they come along.

He took Tallulah to dinner later that month.


Stooby
Stooby
Well-Connected

Jul-21-2007 11:24

Hope no one minds all 5 on 1 post, it'd a linked story and it made sense to make that clear. not including the 5 opening lines there are, I promise, 50 words per part.

AmazingAmanda253
AmazingAmanda253
Well-Connected

Jul-22-2007 01:09

If I’d known how it would all end, I would never have started it.

Taking apart this clock, that is. It was a mistake, as one could see from the gears, nuts, bolts, and general mechanical junk scattered in my general vicinity. The broken clock was a dead giveaway too. Why was I doing this? ‘Cause Captain Jim’s map was supposedly in the clock.


AmazingAmanda253
AmazingAmanda253
Well-Connected

Jul-22-2007 01:09

The evidence was there, had anyone bothered to look.

I was sure of it. Was I proved wrong. I had spent the last 4 hours carefully taking apart the old clock, searching for The Lost Treasure Map of the Notorious Captain Jim. Then, I found something! It was a map to a"run down liquor store on 32nd street.


AmazingAmanda253
AmazingAmanda253
Well-Connected

Jul-22-2007 01:11

Jimmy Donuts was just an old bum.

I couldn’t believe it. Tallulah had spent her savings on this clock. Larry told her that Jim’s map would be in the clock. Sure it was a Jim, but he was defiantly no Captain. We were supposed to make a fortune on this treasure. How long had we been searching?


AmazingAmanda253
AmazingAmanda253
Well-Connected

Jul-22-2007 01:12

How had things even gotten as far as they had?

We had spent the last three years looking for this map, searching yard sales, reading old books, checking with the city records. So much time spent on nothing. Then Tallulah got this tip that the map had been hidden in the old clock. I went to tell her what happened.


AmazingAmanda253
AmazingAmanda253
Well-Connected

Jul-22-2007 01:13

Tallulah shook her head in denial while her eyes opened wide with horror.

“No! It can’t be!” She shouted.

“We can’t do anything about it.” I said.

“Yes we can!” She shouted and pulled a gun.

“What are you going to do!?” I said bewilderedly.

“Where does Larry live? I’m going to find him.” She stormed out. I hoped Larry’s out of town.


AmazingAmanda253
AmazingAmanda253
Well-Connected

Jul-22-2007 01:16

By the way, there all one continus story.

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