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STORY STARTER

Submitted by Amy Blu

Never trust a survivor until you know what they did to survive.

Write a story that starts with this sentence. Think about how you could be creative with the genre!

Writings

Champion (part 1)

(New ongoing story!)


“Welcome, one and all to the Battle of Champions. We have gathered worthy champions from all around the universe and here they are!” An announcer’s voice echoes through the arena as the crowd cheers. “First up we have Manali from Planet X-Minka.” An orange humanoid creature enters the ring with a determined look on her face. She waves an orange tinted hand towards the cr...

The Survival Of Klaus

Never trust a survivor until you know what they did survive.


It was pouring down rain heavily, but everyone in the inn was fast asleep. Footsteps squished in the mud and a knock hammered the door.


“Who is it?” I asked, suprised. Who would show up at inn in the middle of the stormy night? I opened the door with confidence and faced a young man.


“Hi…, is there any empty room I can ta...

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Survivors

Never trust a survirior until you know what they did to survive.


That’s how I ended up here. A MENTAL HOSPITAL. People say I’m going crazy but it happened. It all happened.


I was chosen to go to war. I started at military camp, and met a nice fellow. Maurice. He had been in 4 different wars, and survived a shooting in his own home. This is all he told me the first day. The next, he said he had n...

Survior

“NOVEMBER 30, 2028 - SEDWICK COUNTY NEWS

Never trust a survivor until you know what they did to survive.” Read the newspaper headline.


“According to authorities, a woman who had been missing since 2007 and presumed dead since 2008, was found and rescued off the side of the road; beaten, bloody and stabbed four times in the stomach.


This woman’s name is Wrenly Hope, and she has openly given he...

Survivors

Never trust a survivor until you know what they did to survive. Those are words to live by after my experience with the cruise that left Miami headed to the Bahamas crashed. There were so many souls on board, a total of 183 to be exact, but only a handful of survivors.


The ship had left port on a Friday evening, 8pm to be exact; and was full of excitement. As it left the dock there was the typica...

Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover

Never trust a survivor until you know what they did to survive.


And never trust a preacher until you know how much they’ve lied


And never hate your mother until you know how much she’s tried


And never judge a person until you know how much they’ve cried


Life is but a mirage

You see only what they want you to see

So never judge a mirage

By what you see immediately...

Me

Never trust a survivor until you know what they do to survive.


What did I do to survive?


I lied. I pretended to be who they wanted me to be. I pretended the words they used didn’t hurt. I didn’t care. It’s okay. I’m not broken inside. I pretended that I didn’t hate watching mum put make up on and a short dress and say ‘I’m going to the bank’. I was fine with the one meal a day and the empty bott...

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Jarod

Never trust a survivor until you know what they did to survive.

Life can be a zero sumn game especially in this economy.

Not everyone gets a chance to live, but sometimes you take that chance from someone else. And he took!

Jerod carongton is guilty for murder of my mother and I can prove it!

On the outside you see a sweet old smal tiny

Person

But what I see is a refugee who was heading down...

After Dark

(Made this a loooonnnnggggg time ago lol don’t know why I never posted it til now.)


Never trust a survivor

until you know

what they did to survive


Where have you been,

Friend..?


Falling

Down

D o w n

d

o

w

n


again.


Bitter lemons caress my eyes

As I lie awake

In sweet silence


You seem…

Fine. But different.

Changed.

For the better? I have yet to find out


Are you truly

Alive, st...

Gut wrenching lies, from me

"Never trust a survivor unless you know what they did to survive." reading the quote my heart jolts. I remember my friends and their horrified faces. My throat tightens. It had been so close. I had done so much yet it was never enough. My shoulders sag and I think about just how true that quote is. I am the one you should be wary of. I lied and cheated and wanted to kill. I chose myself over my fa...

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