There were some really good and diverse next paragraphs for the Steemit novel, but the winner was based on the person with the most votes and on that basis we have a winner.

@jrhughes - The Winner

with the most votes in his comment, @jrhughes wins :-)

He stood up and looked out of the window. He no longer concerned himself with the sickly amber light that seeped through the panes. Whatever radioactive death the mysterious star that had replaced the sun brought, it would not reach them in time. Picking up his binoculars, he let his gaze fall to the ocean, stretched out hundreds of feet below their dream home: A glass palace built into the side of the cliff at a cost of $123.6 million. The not-quite-humanoid creatures that had crawled from the sea on the third morning following the arrival of the new sun, had made their way a good 100 feet up the rocks now. The tentacles that dripped from below cold, steel shark eyes, reached out probing the stone for handholds. They would be here within hours. He looked back toward his wife, huddled on the Italian leather sofa, arms about their small son. Her own eyes were as cold as the creatures' climbing the cliff wall. He knew what she was thinking. I wanted a house in the mountains.

My thanks for what has been a really fun week, I enjoyed meeting new people and the work was really interesting to read, thanks again. I'd also be interested in hearing any ways that i can improve it or make it just more fun :-)

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Here are all of the other entries, my thanks again for a really interesting week and nice to meet you all :

@wisbeech - the zombie apocalypse

He stood up and looked out of the window. The weather was great but the zombie apocalypse kinda sucked, so he unpaused the 24 boxset and settled back down..."

@holoz0r - prison blues

He stood up and looked out of the window. The prison bars against the cloud filled sky perfectly mimicked his garment. One more day until freedom.

@horrorguyian - horror in the clouds

He stood up and looked out of the window. Two years ago, the view was green. Fields of corn stretched out as far as the eye could see. It was all dust now, the sparse clouds overhead still hoarded their life-gift.

@kathieletalis - vampires escape

He stood up and looked out of the window. The last of the suns rays still held a nasty bite. Cloaked in shadow and shielding his delicate skin beneath his trench coat, he waited impatiently for the sun to disappear behind the golden etched buildings of the city below. Upon the bed last nights supper lay drained, her wide dull eyes staring blankly across at him. A trickle of remorse rain across his chest. He didn't usually kill, but last night he needed to heal a wound, a deep gash, left by the hunter's blade. He had only narrowly escaped further injury, by his fast wits and the luck of bursting into the female student's apartment. Now it was just a matter of waiting for dusk to fall across the streets. Then he planned to run and escape this city and it's hunter's and never look back.

@hndmarshall - morning suprise

He stood up and looked out of the window. He stood up and looked out of the window... Why did he insist on stopping at that bar ?... he thought to himself as he turned and gazed upon her as she lay sleeping on the bed ... She was beautiful and she was his type ....but who the hell is she?.... what had he done? ...the whole night was a total blur... and why was he wearing a wedding ring?...

@carolkean - Family ties

He stood up and looked out of the window. The man striding up the lane had his father's wide shoulders and pillars for legs, the same wide and purposeful stride. This was not his dad. Not with that hat and coat. Head tilted down to shed the misty rainfall, hands in his pockets, he was a familiar stranger. As if sensing the face at the window, the man raised his head and lifted his hat with his thumb. Even from afar, those eyes held something he knew he didn't want to catch.

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