Original story - ideas for first sentences by Sasha Johnson https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8 Anonymously post your first sentences for the class to see, so we can start to brainstorm ideas en-us 2016-10-11 19:57:51 UTC 2017-10-16 20:02:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png "Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs." jn23 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129963322 -Lynda Barry, Cruddy]]> 2016-10-11 20:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129963322 "They shoot the white girl first." jn23 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129963512 -Toni Morrison, Paradise]]> 2016-10-11 20:01:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129963512 "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." jn23 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129963761 -Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina]]> 2016-10-11 20:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129963761 "The magician's underwear has just been found in a cardboard suitcase floating in a stagnant pond on the outskirts of Miami." jn23 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129963960 -Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction]]> 2016-10-11 20:03:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129963960 "In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together." jn23 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129964641 -Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter]]> 2016-10-11 20:06:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129964641 "I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination." jn23 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129965182 -Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness]]> 2016-10-11 20:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129965182 "The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut." jn23 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129965741 -Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow]]> 2016-10-11 20:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129965741 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978242 "And then there were two".

]]> 2016-10-11 21:10:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978242 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978275 2016-10-11 21:10:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978275 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978487 "Her parents told her that she would suffer for the rest of her life if she chose to be with him."]]> 2016-10-11 21:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978487 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978686 "How could you I thought you trusted me, I hate you"]]> 2016-10-11 21:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978686 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978848 "She had lost her voice."]]> 2016-10-11 21:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978848 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978882 "You will never live a normal life again".

]]> 2016-10-11 21:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978882 "Just after he died, he sat up" https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978914 2016-10-11 21:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978914 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978988 2016-10-11 21:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129978988 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979060 "They got married a couple of months after that."

]]> 2016-10-11 21:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979060 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979233 And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

]]> 2016-10-11 21:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979233 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979309 2016-10-11 21:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979309 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979317 as the bullet flies past, clipping my ear

]]> 2016-10-11 21:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979317 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979415 And then, at that moment my eyes were opened and the truth was the only pi]]> 2016-10-11 21:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979415 thot https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979525 "i pulled out my gun and shot the harlot]]> 2016-10-11 21:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979525 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979532 "I hate you". Lucy then slaps Jim leaving a red imprint on his face.]]> 2016-10-11 21:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979532 send bleach https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979658 2016-10-11 21:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979658 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979815 I heard loud banging, at that moment i started to run.]]> 2016-10-11 21:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979815 he got fat and died alone https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979863 2016-10-11 21:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/129979863 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002045 "Something bad is happening! what do i do?]]> 2016-10-12 00:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002045 as the noise started to fade, she yells "the whole time it was you wasn't it?" https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002104 2016-10-12 00:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002104 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002477 Why does this hurt so much?]]> 2016-10-12 00:54:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002477 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002496 I'm so sorry mum!]]> 2016-10-12 00:54:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002496 Chur https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002511 '''And it begins."



]]> 2016-10-12 00:54:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002511 RUMBLE RUMBLE, and the noises began..... https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002594 2016-10-12 00:55:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002594 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002659 Sometimes the happiest smile isn't coming from the happiest people]]> 2016-10-12 00:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002659 Yo https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002702 As i watched him walk away, a stray tear ran down my face. "Im sorry"]]> 2016-10-12 00:56:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002702 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002705 "I didn't know it was her mum, i swear" she says as she watches her mum pick up the shovel.]]> 2016-10-12 00:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002705 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002759 all it took was a word to make the girl cry 

]]> 2016-10-12 00:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002759 Yo https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002806 The whispers of the ni]]> 2016-10-12 00:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002806 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002844 they shot Falafeli Nganefui and the earth started to rumble]]> 2016-10-12 00:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002844 Yo  https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002881 "Oh them darn children, always causing havoc in them fields" ]]> 2016-10-12 00:58:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002881 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002964 soaring through the n ight sky]]> 2016-10-12 00:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002964 Yo https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002999 I laid under the white moon. Thinking of a better time. A better place]]> 2016-10-12 00:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130002999 Ch https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130003031 "We're soaring through the night sky, like we had just been blown into an oblivion."]]> 2016-10-12 01:00:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130003031 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130003204 Faleusi teke ha'u is dead and we're all dead]]> 2016-10-12 01:02:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130003204 Yo https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130003206 "You're just like your father! " I turned to Karen as she grabbed Thomas by the scruff of the neck]]> 2016-10-12 01:02:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130003206 Yo https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130003285 Her lifeless body swung. Her face faded of all color. Her once rosy red cheeks now a pasty white. I never thought i would say goodbye]]> 2016-10-12 01:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130003285 Chur https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130003375 I open the door and hear a dripping sound, i go check the kitchen it's not that. I paused for a while but the sound continues, i go to tell mum and dad but as i open there door. ]]> 2016-10-12 01:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130003375 I woke up https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130003651 2016-10-12 01:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130003651 why are there rings on saturn? because god put a ring on it. https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130003796 Saturn was NOT a single lady ]]> 2016-10-12 01:08:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130003796 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130004073 The sins if the past will become your present]]> 2016-10-12 01:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130004073 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130004188 Im not who you thought I was........... I'm Batman

]]> 2016-10-12 01:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130004188 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130004430 you have all heard the phrase "Keeper of of the keep" well it's true]]> 2016-10-12 01:13:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130004430 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130004587 ''Show me your scars'' he said.
I said 'Why'?
He said 'I want to see how many times you needed me and i wasnt there' A tear rolled down his cheek


]]> 2016-10-12 01:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130004587 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130004971 I told him i was pregnant... he ran away

]]> 2016-10-12 01:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130004971 sup https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130005039 why does this always happen to me?]]> 2016-10-12 01:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130005039 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130005045 Guys in need to tell you something.... I killed my mother

]]> 2016-10-12 01:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130005045 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130005096 The end!]]> 2016-10-12 01:18:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130005096 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130005335 She drank a pack of vodka cruisers a night

]]> 2016-10-12 01:19:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130005335 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130005503 Things are getting wild in Caillou's house]]> 2016-10-12 01:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130005503 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130005748 When i reached my destination, it was wet and soggy

]]> 2016-10-12 01:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130005748 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130291770 2016-10-12 22:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130291770 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130617908 2016-10-13 22:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130617908 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130617920 She whispered in my ear 'I want to ]]> 2016-10-13 22:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130617920 https://padlet.com/jn23/jr1i6v5n1i8/wish/130617995 We all know your dirty little secrets......

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