Single Line Story Tag

Well, guess what? It’s time for another story tag!

Today’s tag is all about brevity—in fact, it’s a challenge to put an entire story into a single line! I was nominated several months ago to participate in the Single Line Story Tag challenge, and this week I’m finally taking on the project.

I happen to be a writer who likes my stories long, so this activity had it’s stretching points! But it ended up being a lot of fun, too.

Single Line Story Tag Rules

1. Thank the person who nominated you.
2. Write 5 single line stories that fall under any of these genres.

• fantasy
• romance
• thriller
• mystery
• western
• contemporary
• historical
• drama
• dystopian
• adventure
• sci-fi
• paranormal
• young adult

3. You can choose the 5 genres that are easiest for you, or you can challenge yourself to try something new!
4. Nominate 5 blogger/writers who you’d love to see participate and leave an open nomination for all writers!
5. You can do this challenge more than once.
   

   

Five Silver Spoons

I happen to be an heiress, in a small way. I am the inheritress of a case of souvenir spoons, collected by my grandmother—and her parents—from all over the world during the past seventy years.

When I sat down to write these single line stories, I decided to use these spoons for inspiration. I set a timer for five minutes, rushed to the spoon case, chose one spoon, brought it back to my desk and pounded out a story until the timer went off.

Surprisingly, it worked!

You can see the five spoons I chose in the image to the left. And here are my five silver spoon stories—dedicated to my Gran.

A Mystery

Adrianna turned the tarnished spoon slowly in her hand, eyes tracing the narrow swath of bright silver just below the College of Music crest that formed the handle, when suddenly like a bolt of lightening came the answer—the mark hadn’t been made by a human hand; that tiny strip of silver had been preserved bright and clear by the bracket in the case where it had hung for over fifty years!

A Fantasy

A tiny red lobster on the Nova Scotia beach was all he saw, until the lobster turned, blinking keen black eyes, and said, “Hey, there! Welcome to Peggy’s Cove!” and Jake realized he had just begun the most incredible adventure of his life.

A Romance

“Two thousand years,” Jeanie’s eyes traced the silver letters on the banner, Christmas, Y2K, and suddenly a warm, swelling, satisfied lump rose up in her hungry heart as she realized she was reading the greatest love-story of all time—the story of a Christ who had sought, rescued, and treasured His bride through two thousand years.

A Historical

(Make that AN Historical if you prefer.)

Out of the quivering foliage, the orange walls of the square pagoda rose firm, unshaken, and Yuuto drew a trembling breath of relief—he had read in the newspapers of far-away St. Paul’s, standing firm through the smoke of the bombs, but for him, the most precious place on earth was this one—the building behind which he had first heard the missionary’s gospel—the building which, thank God, was still standing as yet another red-streaked morning crept up over the eastern hills.

Tagging—YOU!

Thank you very much, Rebekah Morris of Read Another Page for nominating me for the single sentence story tag. What a fun idea!

Now for my own nominations. This is always the hardest part of a tag for me! Today I had a wild idea, so I’m going to try it and see how it goes. My five nominations are:

1. A reader who is still in high school. (Or has been in high school within the last six months.)
2. A reader whose name starts with L. (That letter was totally randomly generated—I assure you I don’t have a particular person in mine!)
3. A reader who lives in a western state. (No, I don’t have a definition for that one—if you consider your state western, go for it!)
4. A reader who loves teaspoons. (Or anything else dainty, delicate and old-fashioned!)
5. A reader who is over 40. (Or will be over 40 in the next 365 days.)

If you fit into one of these categories and are willing to take on the single line story tag challenge, let me know in the comments section below. Every challenge participant who signs up through the comments section will receive a PDF of a totally-new, never-published short story featuring a couple of characters from As the Heavens Are Higher!

And as mentioned earlier, there is always an open nomination for any non-tagged blogger who wants to dive into this challenge, too! There is no limit on the number of times you may complete the challenge.

Hope to hear from you! Have fun writing your own single line stories!

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