Write the opening line of a story looking back at this exact year

[Hare51]

Set it ten, twenty, however many years in the future, doesn't matter, but write it as a character looking directly back at this specific year, this moment, from somewhere down the road

One line is the whole exercise, though feel free to keep going if it grabs you

Post yours below, curious how differently everyone imagines the same starting point

[CobaltCanopy]

They'd laugh about it eventually, but that summer nobody was laughing about anything at all

[Rob72]

It took a decade to understand that the ordinary Tuesday had actually been the beginning of everything

[KyleOReilly05]

Nobody warned us that the year everything changed would feel, at the time, exactly like every other year

[Layla81]

She still had the receipt, somehow, twelve years later, for the thing she almost didn't buy

[Barrel83]

The letter arrived exactly when it was supposed to, which was the strangest part of the whole thing