Choose a genre and write an original worst closing sentence for a novel.

 

Contest Results

 

Overall Winner:

From the Mystery Category:

Please send $14.99 to sneakyauthor.com to read the last chapter of this amazing, twist filled mystery.

— Nichole Chase, author of Mortal Obligation (The Dark Betrayal Trilogy)

 

 

Category Winners:

Horror/Thriller/Suspense: 

His manic laughter cackled and boomed through the empty mansion like the cackling of a giant demonic chicken, or the sound a mysterious chef would make, clashing a ladle against a pot in a menacing, booming fashion as he chased the chicken through empty, dusty hallways, footsteps thudding like the thud of the chicken’s heart as it realized death was reaching out its hand for its tail feathers, causing it to put on an extra burst of demonic speed that sent the fowl bounding up the dusty, cobwebby stairs that rose up and up and up, until they finally reached heaven, where the demonic chicken burst into a conflagration of shrieking flame in the presence of God.

— Christopher B.

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Mystery:

But Nigel, you twit, we don’t employ a butler.

— Helen Hanson

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Romance/Chick Lit:

“Sorry I couldn’t come with you,” Maggie yelled after Jack, as the form of his perfectly sculpted body fell away from her toward the chasm at the bottom of Lover’s Leap, “but I have a hair appointment in the morning that I absolutely cannot miss if I hope to anything with this rat’s nest.”

— Scott Nagele, author of Temp: Life in the Stagnant Lane

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Science Fiction/Fantasy:

The dragon, on the other hand, lived happily ever after.

— Sailor Tom

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Literary Fiction/Drama:

The raindrops fell, slowly, singly, diving through the cold November air like the pale shards of Sarah’s broken dreams as they each bore to the uncaring Earth a tiny portion of the emptiness, the loneliness, and the slight discomfort of gas pressure that filled her entire being with a growing sense that she was somehow one with the Universe, uncaring though it might be, and also that her MasterCard payment was now three days late.

— Frank from Mississippi

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