Challenge
Opening Sentence
You know how they say the first few lines of a novel or short story are the most important ones, as they should grab the reader's attention? Well, here is a challenge for you: share with us no more than 3 sentences of your either already existing or soon to be written novel/short story, and let us guess the plot.
The most impactful one will be crowned the winner.
(Please no more than 3 sentences & remember to have fun!)
“Forty Meters Down and Counting”
“Forty meters down and counting,” the staticky voice of one of the ground team operators hissed and crackled into my earpiece.
“Copy that, Ground Unit Two, standing by,” the surveyor replied over similar static to all units. Even at forty meters down into the chasm, we were drenched in darkness, and only when the floodlights of the industrial elevator flashed on with a loud whoosh were the close stone walls of the cavern barely visible.
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