Creative Writing Exercise - An Alphabetical Story

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I was looking through some creative writing prompts today and stumbled on a recommendation of attempting to tell a story in twenty-six words, with each word starting with a letter of the alphabet. It isn’t just a random list of words, but a continuing narrative with each word adding to the sentence flow. Here I what I came up with. Arthur Bought Cigarettes Despite Everyone Fully Grasping His Intolerance Just Knowing Lit Matches Nearby. Out Puts Quickly. Really Smoking Tobacco Usually Voices Warnings. X-rays Yield Zero. I was aiming towards saying I was buying the cigarettes for someone else but I never quite got there. Interesting exercise to play with though. Arthur Chappell