This is Creative Writing 101

Erin and I have enrolled in a creative writing class. Our homework last week was to write the first line of a story, not the whole story, one line only. Then the whole class put them in a box and withdrew someone elses, now we have to finish that story.
I wrote a few but settled on "It was the most grotesque thing Ross had ever seen, and he'd been a plastic surgeon for twenty years". It was relatively well received by the class.
Erin's was "Albert had a recurring dream that he was being attacked by a flock of angry pigeons". Also producing a few laughs.
In return I received " 'I married an ex-monk, if that helps' ". I'm thinking, buddhist monk, Japan ... Something along those lines.
Playing tour guide to Bruce and Carol today. I hardly slept again last night.