Question

Write a story opening about an attack or accident.
Follow these steps:
a) Describe what the character does now.
b) Refer to the recent past.
c) Explain what the character has been doing up to
this point.
d) Recount the key event.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The accident—the first one—occurred on the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving of my senior year in high school. It left one friend injured and one dead, and for a while afterward the whole thing seemed so surreal and impossible that all we could do—friends, family, anyone connected but not in the accident itself—was try to re-create the simultaneities of that evening, the first person at the scene, the shock of the couple at the nearby house from which the call was made for an ambulance