Creative Writing sentence starters

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Creative Writing sentence starters

The homework was to use a sentence starter to write a 300-word creative story

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Mystery & Suspense

The door creaked open by itself, revealing a room that hadn't been touched in years.

She found the note tucked into her coat pocket—she hadn't put it there.

The clock struck midnight, and the lights flickered off one by one.

"You're not supposed to be here," the voice whispered from the darkness.

He had only taken one step inside when the floor suddenly gave way beneath him.

Fantasy & Sci-Fi

The stars blinked out one by one, leaving the sky completely black.

A single feather drifted from the sky, glowing with an unearthly light.

The moment she touched the ancient book, the symbols on the page began to rearrange themselves.

"You've been chosen," the stranger said, pressing the key into my hand.

The dragon tilted its head and, to my utter shock, said, "You again?"

Romance

Their hands brushed against each other, and for a moment, time seemed to stop.

"I shouldn't be here," she whispered, but she didn't step away.

He had waited five years to hear those words, and now he wasn't sure what to say.

The letter had no name, but she recognized the handwriting instantly. 

Horror & Thriller

There was someone else in the house—I could hear their breathing.

The reflection in the mirror wasn’t mine.

The scratching at the window grew louder, even though I was on the tenth floor.

I woke up to find a note on my pillow: Don’t open the door.

Something was buried beneath the floorboards, and it was still moving.

Dystopian & Post-Apocalyptic

The last radio transmission repeated the same phrase: "Don’t trust the water."

The city lay in ruins, but the lights in one building were still on.

"The rules are simple," he said, locking the gate behind us.

I hadn’t seen another human in six months—until today.

The barcode on my wrist started glowing, and I knew my time was up.

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