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REVERSE STORY ➡️ OPEN TO ALL WRITERS

📝 Min 50 · Max 100 words 
✒️ Reverse Story ✒️
✨ Start with the ending.
✨ Every sentence moves farther into the past.
✨ By word 100, we've arrived at the beginning.

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#1

Suspicious Timing

by BoJo
I open my eyes to find my hands tied behind me, the stiff wood of a chair back digging into my arms and back, making me ask myself, "How did I end up here?" The last thing I remember is driving my sister's car, but why would I be doing that? I push past the dazed feeling to recall her begging me to change cars, just for today, as if her life depends on using my jeep. She had shown up out of nowhere with a jacket for a present, taking pictures and saying how much we look alike.
2 votes
#2

The key beneath the oak

by Kayla Halsey
At dawn, she buried the key beneath the old oak. Hours earlier, she had locked the door for the last time. Yesterday, she discovered the hidden room behind her mother’s wardrobe. A week ago, she found her mother’s handwriting inside the walls. A month earlier, she began hearing footsteps upstairs. Last winter, she inherited the abandoned house. Years before, her mother fled it without explaining why. Before that, her grandmother sealed the attic forever. And long before any of them, a frightened little girl hid the key beneath the oak.
1 vote
#3

Burning Secrets

by lovetoread21
I stood by the burning castle holding a single rose, hearing screams within the flames, wishing I had the courage to run into the fire. I closed my eyes and when I opened them I watched my life go backward. I saw myself running through a secret passageway because Prince Arik helped me escape the clutches of a guard. I blinked back tears as I glanced up at my father pointing at me and ordering my arrest. Then my vision shifted to where this all started. Me finding a letter from my mother stating my true heritage.
1 vote
#4

The Unfolding Peace

by KaosKat
The clouds cleared as I stood on my porch looking towards the East. Five minutes ago, I stood in my kitchen watching the man I thought loved me walk out of my life forever. He couldn't see the chaos I went through each day to bring him peace. This morning we woke up; things weren't perfect, and I was tired. He believes it is because I have never really cared, when the truth is, I have cared way too much and have always wondered when I would get my own moment of peace that I fought for him to have.
0 votes
#5

Murder at Reno.

by Geraldson Willow
16 cowboys were killed at my father’s homestead just southeast of Reno, Neveda. It was so sudden. Those same cowboys were there 3 days earlier to buy up the property. Even through 10 days earlier there wasn’t a fence pole out there. We were from Philadelphia 5 months prior to that. Getting the offers of oil deeds because an estate sale left hundreds of these out literally to the wind where my father found one while cleaning the chimney. Weird because 22 years prior, my father was a pig farmer in Middlesex, England. It which, that was his brother.
0 votes
#6

The Halloween Invite (Very Hard to write)

by Denise Roca
At dawn, the house disappeared, leaving one pumpkin on steps. Police found thirteen costumes hanging in a bedroom upstairs. Nobody knew who they belonged to. Neighbors heard children laughing around midnight. The clock had stopped at 11:11. A candle still burned behind locked doors. Someone had written my name across the mirror. My little brother cried when he saw. He grabbed my hand. “We need to go.” We followed the orange footprints through the leaves. They started at our front door. A black cat dropped candy at my feet. Inside the wrapper was an invitation. My name was already signed.
0 votes