Use any one or more of these sentences to prompt your writing...
There are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
How all things start.
Old whiskey bottles with their bleached labels lying on the wet rooftop.
The river talked all night in the shoals.
My life is ghastly, he told the grass.
The cottonwoods went by like rows of bone.
I have been waiting for you for hours.
Does your brother dance well?
Why are you sitting here alone in the dark?
A little bit of common glass sometimes glitters like a diamond.
I see the man in the moon.
Mr. Jones bought a knife for his little boy.
Buy a paper from this boy.
Of all beasts he learned the language.
The two strangers were really Jupiter and Mercury.
A shaft of song, a winged prayer.
Iris always wore a chain of raindrops for pearls, and a cloud for a robe.
Thor didn't weave this verdant roof.
The meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie deep for tears.
I met a little cottage girl...
What kind of word?
Just a word.
Whatever. Hush.
Whisper it in my ear.
- Borrowed from old grammar texts and primers. Contributed by Vicky H.
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