STORY STARTER
Submitted by A
The nausea crept up her throat from the pit of her stomach; the realisation that yesterday was real.
Use this sentence as the opening or closing line of a story or poem.
STORY STARTER
Submitted by A
The nausea crept up her throat from the pit of her stomach; the realisation that yesterday was real.
Use this sentence as the opening or closing line of a story or poem.
This was really good. The emotions and the language were fantastically done, very powerful. Especially that part about the red lights, it really helped me to understand the emotions of the woman. At the end though, it seemed that the third-person voice became an actual narrator that was talking to the reader. It felt a little unnatural. Maybe it was just me? Overall great job!! 👏
Oh my gosh!! This is so powerful. I loved the part about “her pain was more than a dictionary could contain”. It really speaks to me as a write, and the story drew me in quickly and didn’t let me go.
I do agree with Tom about the ages being confusing. I thought that he had physically killed her and that she was a small girl while he was older.
But I loved it so much!! “She didn’t care” over and over again was amazing! You could feel her pain.
Very sad piece here, Romi. I enjoyed some of the reflections in the beginning “it was more than the 26 letters of our alphabet could describe” for example!
Perhaps you could experiment with the action scene a little more. Rather than “she grabbed his shirt and she punched him” is there another way you could have put it? Perhaps something like: “she tried to hurt him in any way she could. She punched, she kicked, she tore at his clothes, but no pain she could inflict came close to what she was feeling inside.” I’m sure you can do even better than that.
I got a bit confused about the ages of the characters. Originally I thought Will was the protagonist’s ex-partner and had killed his daughter. It was only towards the end that I realised it was his school friend he’d been bullying and she eventually killed herself.
Rather than write metaphorically in brackets, is there another way you could have shared the gun metaphor without the need to clarify it?
Overall I thought this was well written :) good job!