Snippet Story

The Beginning

Some people lose items regularly. One of my friends seems to be always misplacing his ID, wallet and phone. Me, on the other hand, does not misplace things often. That’s why I was at a loss when I did lose an important object – my phone.
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Honestly, it sucks losing something. I’m sure you can relate. You are sure it should be in a certain spot, and look that spot over once, twice, three times. By the fourth search in the same spot, you start going crazy. There’s no way it could be there after your fourth search!

I decide to wait till the next day to search the same spots again. No luck.

By the fourth post in the thread, I’m sure the readers can relate. We’ve introduced the who (myself), where (at home), when (Thursday night), what (the problem is the lost item).

Next step – giving up

This isn’t the way I imagined it going. I was sure I would find the phone at home the next day.

So I decided to move on, and replace it.

I parked in a new spot returning home and while walking up to the driveway spotted my phone facedown. It had fallen out of my pocket when I went out to warm up the car. When we were leaving I knew I didn’t have my phone in my pocket so I assumed it was at home.

I had looked in the vehicle but not under it!

Story Telling Principles

The story moves forward from the beginning, using a negative trigger to push us on in the search for the phone. The quest of the character is to find the phone. It is not successful and we move into the outcome which is replacing the phone.
In this case, the surprise happens after the resolution – when I find the phone.