This time, when the phone rang, she let it ring.
18 Last Line Prompts Prompts
These prompts create a starting constraint, question, or situation. Use one as written, combine two, or change the audience, setting, objective, or limitation to make a new exercise.
Only then did he understand why the key had never fit any door.
At sunrise, the border was gone from every map except hers.
We left the porch light on for someone who was finally not coming home.
The signature at the bottom was mine, dated thirty years before I was born.
For the first time all winter, the station clock was correct.
He returned the borrowed coat with one extra button sewn inside.
The town kept the statue but changed the name on the plaque.
She closed the file without deleting it.
By noon, everyone had forgotten the storm except the people who had caused it.
The final page of the diary was blank, which was the answer I needed.
We took the long road home because there was no longer anyone waiting to punish us for being late.
The restaurant opened the next morning under both their names.
I mailed the confession to the person it would hurt least: myself.
When the elevator doors opened, the missing floor was there.
He won the argument and lost the reason he had started it.
I put the photograph back in the box, face down this time.
The last thing we heard from the old radio station was our own sign-off.