From Start to Finish

I like a good challenge and have been thinking about various ways to stretch the limits of my own imagination.  Here's what I've com up with. For the next two days I will be accepting story starters and finishers on my blog. What's a story starter or finisher, you ask? It's one sentence – an important sentence. It's the first sentence or the last sentence to my next short story and I will share it exclusively on my blog.

All you have to do is comment on this post. Include your offered story starter or finisher (please indicate which it is) and your name and where you hail from. I will randomly select the story starter and finisher and try my best to come up with 3,500 words in between that ties it all together.

I'm up for this challenge…are you?