STORY STARTER
Without planning or drafting, write the opening page of your story.
We will revisit this prompt at the end of the month to see how your ideas and skills have developed!
War On Safton
“I’m leaving.”
The words of the Chosen One rang out across every station in the city. Every radio, every television, every cell phone. The entire country tuned in to the heartbreaking words of their Savior.
“I won’t be returning home again until one of two things happen. Either you turn against your neighbors, plunging yourselves into a civil war, and destroy yourselves in the process, or you all sit down and realize what I’ve been preaching to you for the last decade.”
“But what if the prophecy?” A worried voice rang out from the crowd before him, voicing what everyone must’ve been thinking. Their hero laughed, his shoulders tensing and betraying his anger.
“The one that says your Angel will return and bring forth an era of peace and prosperity? There is no room for your hatred and prejudice here. I’ll fulfill that prophecy still, even if it means destroying the planet and rebuilding it from the rubble to do so.”
Nothing in the history of Safton had ever bathed its people in the icy blue panic his words brought, as he turned and walked away from the podium and his people. Not one person moved to stop him or uttered a word to make him stay. The broadcast cut, and with it started the chaos. Why would he abandon them so suddenly? What was he thinking? And most importantly, who would save them now?
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