First Lines

[ratsy]

Two things happened to me that morning so long ago. The first being the best omlette I have ever eaten. The second...I found out I could fly.

 

[Interference]

I'm outa here ...

 

[reiver33]

The man in the mirror was holding a gun to my head, but it wasn't my face, and I was alone.

 

[ratsy]

I sat in the police station watching a gruesome attack on a monitor. Who would do such a thing, I thought to myself. Then I saw the assailants face and though I had no memory of it, I understood why I was wearing handcuffs.

 

[Pyar]

Those goddamn old people just wouldn't stop crying no matter how much I yelled at them.

 

[clippedwolf]

"Stop."
Those were the last said over the radio before the bomb exploded.

 

[clippedwolf]

("That was the last transmission over the radio before the bomb exploded." Crap! That's what comes from posting on forums at 3 AM.)

I dropped my dinner tray on the cafeteria table, my news was too exciting to warrant a precursory greeting.
"They found a body in the service elevator shaft," I said, pulling my chair out and taking a seat.
The four guys seated at the table stopped mid-chew and gave me blank stares. "No s**t?" breathed Brian, the first to recover,"like, you mean, a human body?"
"Yeah," I said, playing it down, "that's what the smell in the lobby was. Cops are popping out of the woodwork. Guess it wasn't sewer lines after all."

 

[Cairo Faulkner]

Arthur Remorse had a wife called Wanda, a mistress called heroin, and a cat called George, but only two of these facts will concern us here.

 

[Interference]

Nice


The first thing I planned to do was the second thing I did. The first thing I did was leave town.

 

[Joey Sixknuckles]

Oliver was a gifted boy... But that was not what it was about him that caused such disquiet in all who met him.

 

[Ursa major]

(So it's a different Oliver twist, then? )




"Today Europa, tomorrow ... er .... Remind me, what's that big stripy planet with the red splodge called?"

 

[Dr.Jackson]

He wondered how he would explain this to her, the words he would say, how they would change everything. A smile danced across his face as the edge of the cliff approached, the bomb that he grasped in his arms was reaching the end of its countdown. She's safe, he thought as he jumped.

 

[nj1]

Happiness is usually short lived no matter how optamistic you may be. If your lucky, maybe you'll be happy for a few hours a day, maybe a whole day, seldom more if your really honest, there's always something around the corner of your life waiting to bring you down with a bump. Sometimes those bumps are so bad, you'll feel you may never be happy again. Here's mine.....

 

[Granfalloon]

"You can take that mask off now Zortletweep; They're gone. Besides, I can't stand to look at it much longer."

"Yes Kremefgrackle. These... er... 'Human' beings are horribly frightening to observe, aren't they."

 

[FionaW]

"Are you sure?' Tiel sagged against the doorframe, staring at Dyral.

 

[reiver33]

My heart stopped.

 

[Granfalloon]

The floor of the craft disappeared. The moments of free-fall that followed radiated shafts of unparalleled emotion through Mezshen's body. The line between fear and excitement was razor thin. After moments that seemed suspended in time, and yet rushed past intensely, the impeller kicked in and he was cruising at roughly 440 meters/sec at 45 degrees to the planet's surface.

 

[haylesthompson]

Flying is great, until what you thought was sky, was just clouds reflected in glass.
Yep, crashing into windows is painful.

 

[nj1]

You can't afford to let your emotion get the best of you when you dealt in death. His old teacher, the assasin master, had taught him well. Tonight however things had changed, his target wasn't some unknown dignatry grown fat at the trough of power, or some minor noble with dreams of granduer. This time the target was someone he had known before he was chosen, someone he had loved and sworn to protect...

 

[Fireback]

Ah, I have a few of these.



[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]In the cool morning air, the screaming of a slave receiving the a morning lash echoed through the mist. A fitting wake up call to the city of Meruse.[/FONT]


[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The sky above was beginning to turn black. Thunder heads from the east rolled in, bringing with them a chilling wind that caused the trees to sway, not violently, but strong enough to shake loose the thin layer of snow that had gathered from the previous evening's fall.[/FONT]


[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]At first I thought I was dreaming when I opened my eyes. The strange groaning of wood on wood and the harsh sun of the day assaulted my already dazzled senses. When I finally shook the last vestiges of sleep out of me and felt the cruel heat on my flesh, I knew I wasn't dreaming.[/FONT]

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