I have not done one of these in over a year so I thought I should get back at it.
Basically, I took the opening sentence in Bold, and wrote for ten minutes and this is the story I got.
Feel free to give me any opening sentence suggestions you might have!
The night before the
wedding, a friendly ex-convict gets trapped in a parallel universe.
“Arr! And what
brand o’ grog will ye be having, matey?” The man behind the bar glared at Mark with his one good eye,
the other being hidden behind a patch.
“Uh,” Mark stared at the man, distracted by the way the room
was spinning. “I’m lost! Could you tell me how to get back to
the Holiday Inn Express?”
“Arr! There be
no holidays here in Barnacle Town.
Now if ye don’t be wanting no grog, it’ll be best if ye leave!”
“Huh?”
Something sharp ran along Mark’s inner thigh. A woman purred, “Hello sweet
oyster!” Mark turned and came face
to face with an olive skinned woman, her hair pulled back in a Jolly Roger
bandanna. She was stroking his leg
with her hook hand. Mark jumped, stabbing himself.
“I’m sorry,” he muttered. “Excuse me!”
Mark limped to the far end of the bar, cursing himself for being a lover. It was the first time a woman had
touched him in any way since he’d been arrested for tax evasion, and he had
almost castrated himself.
That evening had also been the first time he had drunk liquor
since going to jail. Relatives
kept buying him shots at the hotel bar because he was his brother’s best man,
not that any of them would have looked him in the eye when he had been arrested. Mark had finally insisted that he had
to leave. He had staggered out of
the bar to go to his room but had somehow found himself on the street. There had been a shimmering mist and he
had wondered through it and somehow found his way in this weird bar where
everyone either had an eye patch or a parrot on their shoulder.
That was when the truth crashed down on him like a
cannonball to the face. “AW SHIT!” He shouted. “I’m in the pirate dimension!”
Mark sprinted out of the bar and to his relief saw that the
shimmering mist still covered the sidewalk.
He was about to run through it when he stopped himself. What exactly was he running toward? Probation, an ex-wife who hated him,
and relatives who thought he was a joke.
Mark took several steps back and considered the situation. He could
go home to all his miseries….or he could stay here in the pirate dimension.
The mist drifted away, and Mark turned around to walk back
into the bar. Five minutes later
he ran out hand in hook with the olive skinned woman. They danced down the street under gas lamps and a marquee
promoting the new play, Accountants of
the Carribean: Curse of the Out of
Order Fax Machine.
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