McSweeney's writer Dan Wiencek came up with a grouping of Thirteen Writing Prompts that killed me (thus the Zombie Matt is writing this now... Brains, tasty brains!), but one in particular stuck with me:
Write a story that ends with the following sentence: Debra brushed the sand from her blouse, took a last, wistful look at the now putrefying horse, and stepped into the hot-air balloon.
I would read any story that closed like that, and I hope that one or two people out there, when they submit their finished novels at the end of the month have taken that little bit of pithy writing to heart and used that line as their closer.
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OK... it must be my wasted mind... but that gets all kinda wrong ideas in my head...
No, I think you understand its implications fully.
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