First Lines

[Boneman]

It was only when the snow cleared that they found Billy Akehurst's body.

 

[Rebell L]

"Don't get eaten, get even!" yelled the man in orange. He stood in front of a bright poster with the same slogan. Mary stumbled into the crowd and pushed towards the church door, where the orange man waved a sheet full of signatures. He caught her eye and held out the paper, "Join the exterminators?"

 

[reiver33]

Every one dies. Rewind.

 

[Rebell L]

I checked the kitchen calendar and dropped my tea, shocked. It was my turn to feed the chinchilla.

 

[GreenKidx]

I now stand before the ruined city and ask myself, "Was it all worth it?".

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Presents? What are those?

On my planet, I don't know what "presents" are. We don't give things to each other.

Because I am the only living creature on my planet.

 

[My Atomic Tales]

I didn't think I could die a second time. I was wrong...

 

[Jake Reynolds]

Death was noisier than I had hoped.

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

I had the strangest feeling that I had already been through this, but I know I've never been to Antarctica before.

And why was I duct taped without clothes to an iceberg?

 

[mad_iguana]

The monk stared in horror at his bloodied hands. Blood dripped bright crimson from the tip of the blade that lay on his open right palm.

 

[J-WO]

I sat down and crushed a nation accidently.

 

[clippedwolf]

Everyone dreams. Everyone I talk to about dreams thinks it's unusual I remember all of mine in cinematic detail. But I don't tell them that I will wake from nightmares with bruises and cuts I didn't go to sleep with. The faded blood stains on the sheets are my proof that I am not crazy, but if anyone were to ask--and they don't--I would say that those were nose bleeds.

 

[fitzchivalry]

Ever since I sneezed a frog out my nose, magic has been a big part of my life.

 

[GreenKidx]

Every vision I have ever had, has come to pass. Last night I saw the world coming to a fiery end.

 

[reiver33]

Sometimes the past has a name, a smile, a perfume. And sometimes it carries a gun.

 

[goldhawk]

The morning came hard.

 

[mad_iguana]

In my hole in the ground, I live by habit.

 

[soulsinging]

"the vodka burned going down, like only cheap vodka could. somewhere back across the pond, some kid just back from study abroad was surely swearing it was the best stuff he'd tasted, the stuff the real russians drank.

those that lived here knew better. this was what you drank when you were running out of options."

Others seemed to opt for intros so I did too... sorry!

 

[Talysia]

As the first stars began to appear, so did the moonsprites, ready to wreak mischief on a sleeping land.

 

[chrispenycate]

She glittered.
Outside the porthole, naked in the vacuum, like a silver-scaled fish against the jewelled velvet universe.