One day is never a way to start any piece of fiction. How about Friday?
Friday is too contrived - even more contrived is Friday the 13th. Superstition may have less to do with fiction than I originally thought. Superstitions are all about very specific circumstances that predictably provide open-ended outcomes that are supposed to be evil. So your character experiences a Friday the 13th. Or your leading lady walks under a ladder. Too contrived. Too predictable. The reader knows to expect something bad. It's like hitting your readers over the head with a literary sledgehammer device. There are better ways to foreshadow. I throw out a challenge:
Write a piece of fiction using Friday the 13th and make it exciting...unpredictable...engaging.
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