STORY STARTER
The first sentence of your story starts with ‘Birds circled overhead’.
Think about how the type of birds you choose can symbolise the themes of the story.
Darkness
Birds circled overhead.
Their colors looked absurd.
My hand in yours felt small.
And I was lonely.
And then you, suddenly,
called me “silly”.
Why did you?
For all my crying is in vain,
you said to me.
“No, they’re not different.
In dark, they are the same.
Things are exactly
how you see them.”
Why did you lie?
In darkness, you were different.
In darkness, my heart broke.
Why did you?
Birds circle overhead.
Their colors look absurd.
And I’m alone.