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STORY STARTER
‘It had been fifteen years since the sun had last risen.’
Write a short story that begins with this line. Is it real or metaphorical?
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It had been fifteen years since the sun had last risen. It’s been fourteen years since the madness of this sun forsaken town started. On June 28, 8193 was the first morning the sun didn’t come up, for six months we kept hope, hope that light would come again. Then January came round and any hope we had was lost, the Town Elders declared we should adapt, and adapt we did, we brought I lights to amp...
It has been nearly two decades since the sun had last risen. Two decades since the Moon Queen claimed our planet as her own and shed her light on our homes. She destroyed the Sun Kingdom like it was an ant hill, banishing warmth forever.
Today marks eighteen years. Of what, I’m not really sure. To the Moon Queen and her people, it means a successful eighteen years of another planet conquered. To...
It had been 15 years since the sun had last risen. Summer was a as cold as winter. Yet, it was not as cold as humanity’s future.
Ever since that day, the people of earth had been living with the lights off. The evil people no longer worked in the shadows, because one large shadow had consumed the earth.
15 years ago, Nimue Kratos made a deal with the moon god. Before that deal, her name was Al...
It has been 15 years since the sun has last risen. The world has fallen into total darkness. It all started in 2025. The world had decided to harness the energy of the sun by connecting it to a device that drains all the power from it. It worked well for a couple years, the sun still thrived while we drew the energy out of it. That all changed in 2030, the sun started to stop glowing. There was s...
It has been fifteen years since the sun has last risen. People got used to living a life in darkness. In this short amount of time the human race has developed scotopic vision, the ability to see in the dark. Even though the world once held cities filled with dazzling lights, now no one even dares to hit a light switch. With their scotopic vision comes a price. The brightness of unnatural light ma...
It had been
Fifteen years
Since the sun
Had last risen
Age comes and goes;
but those moments in life
make it seem as if time
were just another part
of travesty.
I remember
the sadness
in her eyes
which were also
filled with rage
and acceptance
My reality
was shifted —
One mistake
Caused a difference
Between us
A blade’s dance
caused our deaths...
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Candle 8:
For an hour, we visit rooms accessing materials we can use to survive. With the recent loss of two of our ‘family’, we haven’t been able to do much of anything. I can note the hurt in Warren’s eyes.
I finally break the silence, “You doi...
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Candle 4:
Half-dozed, something touches me. I’m too melancholy and tired to turn over. The finger urgently presses my shoulder again. “What,” I whisper. I brush the cloudiness from my eyes.
“I see a something in the dark,” Moore frets in his ordin...
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Candle 2:
As the first candle dies, we light another to heat our food. The lids slide off with a satisfying shlurp. I open a can, and the sterol bean scents waft into the air. I offer the metallic pieces to the members of the group. Moore a...
It had been fifteen years since the sun had last risen.
There had been no more smiles or water that glistened.
There had been no more picnics or long days at the beach.
There had been no more days where hope was within reach.
Others found this change hard, but not I.
For all I had to do was yell out a cry.
This cry went for my daughter, a girl with red hair.
Her eyes were brown and her ski...
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