Thanks to everyone who participated in the one sentence Hobart contest! The winner is:

Steve G
Marinda was clipping thorns from a rose bush in the back yard when the cell phone rang; when she reached into her basket of gardening tools, groping for the receiver, her hand came first to the revolver, and she lifted it out and put the muzzle to her ear, naturally and without irony, as though the gun had been calling all along and she had no choice but to answer.

Runners-up: Alicia Gifford and Vanessa Gebbie.

Read the entries here.