The Jocose January Challenge!

Hannah Faoileán

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Happy New Year, and welcome to the first OPS challenge of 2026!

As we are all stepping out of the shadows of 2025 and into the bright lights of 2026, the challenge is to include the words "stepping out" in your one perfect sentence.

The rules are simple:

  • Each entry must be ONE sentence only, as defined by the basic rules of English grammar. We will notice if you squeeze unrelated clauses together and pretend it's a sentence, so please don't do it. Your entry will be disqualified and removed.

  • Don’t comment on other people's entries – this makes the thread far less readable. If you’d like to make a comment – or if you have a question – then please do so in the Café Life thread under the “One Perfect Sentence” prefix. I will keep checking the thread to answer any questions. If you have a question you don't want others to read, please private message me directly.

  • You can make as many entries as you want to, but only your entry with the greatest number of votes will win a place (and litbits).

  • IMPORTANT: You MUST make your entry anonymous by ticking the “Posting as Anonymous?” box. Entries that don’t do this will be removed.

Good luck and get writing! :writing-hand:
 
Stepping out of her skin, her serpent self slithered, a snapback to a sharper state.
 
So delighted he was to be stepping out into the soft-falling rain, a huge truck ran him over in the street.
 
The day she started stepping out with Sam, light spilled over the cobbled streets as Mardok’s ship fell from the starry sky.
 
‘Please,’ she said, ‘I can’t be stepping out into that.’
 
The creatures stepping out of my fevered brain would have given Kafka nightmares.
 
Stepping out onto the hot sand of the beach, she instantly burnt her feet and jumped back onto the cooler grass.
 
Stepping out of the past and into the future is a fresh new day full of unbroken promises.
 
Stepping out onto the boards of the stage, under the hot lights and in front of a full house, was the most nerve-wracking moment of Tessa's life.
 
Stepping out from under the shadows of her brother's favouritism shone a light on all of her warts.
 
Sam held his hands up, stepping out from his family and saying, "If you have to shoot anyone, shoot me."
 
Stepping out onto the ledge, he confronted his fear, and stepping off the ledge, he challenged his immortality.
 
Setting her now blood-free sword on the kitchen counter, and stepping out of her undercrakers to get some air to her nether regions, a great thud at the front door sounded.
 
Stepping Out, a bestseller, winner of awards, the reason she gave up her well paid job, but since waking with bloodstained hands, she hadn't written a single sentence.
 
Arms around a dreamboat on leave, stepping out in those days meant my best dress, rayon gloves pulled to my elbows, legs painted with gravy browning and a seam of eyebrow pencil, we jitterbugged and jived until Moaning Minnie sounded.
 
Stepping out onto the shiny waxed glittering Plaza Dance floor, our hearts begin to beat: how we dance, how we smile, how we spin our bodies in every way ‘til midnight, when our blitz of colour begins to eclipse, sending us back on to the cold wet grey streets, of our mundane lives.
 
Stepping out, red rained down on the snowy ground, my darling Celine slipping into the silence of eternal sleep.
 
Martha cut her tether, and stepping out of the airlock, marvelled at the beauty of the infinite cosmos before her, as her shipmates looked on in horror.
 
Jo notched her rifle at the bobcat sniffing Darling's crib, stepping out from the door's shadow, the breeze of the open french doors blowing the hair from her eyes.
 
Stepping out of the woods and into the clearing, he was alarmed at the depth of the fresh, many-clawed snow prints of the monster he’d been tracking, and realised he was far short of the necessary firepower… and then, too late, he saw it charging at him.
 
Me, the youngest painted wolf, and my three sisters, shoulder to shoulder, our front legs stepping out in unison, my hungry eyes soaking in the lush green landscape sprouting from the dust.
 
“That flirty Penguin hybrid with the fluttery feathers is stepping out with that big Orca guy with the psychedelic sunnies,” he whispered through clenched beak, “and the flibbertigibbet doesn’t have an inkling that previous generations of his ancestors preyed on, and consumed in orgasmic feast, previous generations of hers.”
 
She followed carefully clearing her throat with quickly crossing herself before stepping out onstage for her big aria.
 
Stepping out into the traffic like that was a reckless thing to do, but as the eighteen-wheeler bore down on me, honking its horn with futile urgency, I no longer cared.
 
I'm stepping out so slowly because I'm scared of what I'll find, scared in case you love me, and you'll say what's on my mind.
 
In retrospect, Samantha thought she’d been fantasising about murdering Jeffrey, cutting him up into small pieces, and leaving him in the trunk of his car since about the third week after she’d begun stepping out with him.
 
Stepping out of the plane, wind whipped at Alex's hair as she plummeted to earth, her stomach dropping as fast as her, tickling her crazy.
 
Brian locked his helmet into his spacesuit, stepping out of the airlock and onto red earth that reminded him of the red dirt he loved from home.
 
My therapist suggested trying to connect with people more so, stepping out of my comfort zone with a giant leap, I looked my victims in the eye before killing them.
 
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