One More Step

Twenty-six authors start from the same opening sentence and each takes it somewhere different. This anthology collects the results: twenty-six stories with no characters, settings or plots in common. The only thing they share is their first line.

The book works as a side-by-side comparison of how individual writers handle identical material. Emma Scott, Ginger Scott, K. L. Grayson, L. K. Farlow and T. K. Rapp are among the contributors. Every author was featured in The Bookworm Box charity during 2019.

No story connects to another, so the stories can be read in any order, one at a time. Tone and genre are not fixed by the shared opening, and each author sets their own. Readers curious about how a writer's mind works will find the same prompt answered twenty-six ways.

Each author donated their story to the collection. All profits, 100% of them, go to the charities that The Bookworm Box supports through its readers.