First Lines

WickedRestless said:
The moon is fully visible, for the first time that anyone alive can remember.
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Cool. I bet there was a great party thrown by the lycanthropes!

Galacticdefender said:
Two tall, thin figures stood before a vast window, their faces illuminated by light from the blue-green world below.
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I like this. I can see them, menacing in the eerie light.

ratsy said:
The lights came on and in the crowded room of prisoners there were two weapons in the middle of the floor. They all ran for the center of the room.
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"Forget the weapons and run for the woods! Find higher ground and water..."

Karn Maeshalanadae said:
In retrospect, I should have known better than to genetically engineer a chicken/skunk hybrid, but I was desperate...
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Yuk! I'm glad I had fish tonight!

Okay, let me try a few:


As more Gartran reinforcements arrived, Ernest pumped a shell into the chamber of his antiqe shotgun muttering: “Has anyone ever heard the saying ‘Like Custer needed more Indians?’.”

and

She continued to eat her meal in the fresh air; exactly as if the walls and roof had not disappeared.
 
Pause. The clouds stopped dancing, the sun nestled in the peak of the sky. Birds sat frozen in the blue expanse. I took a breath, put on my jacket and snapped my fingers. In the distance traffic could be heard. Play.
 
Alegoli Ligelia sat on a rotting chair in the darkness of a vaulted cell, deep below the streets of Florence; his only comfort a revolutionary theory.
 
Whether today, tomorrow, or ten years from now; someday, I was going to destroy the world. That's what they told me. That was why I ran.
 
Have you ever awoken from a night's rest to suddenly be accused by the entire world of something? I have. It's strange...I was sleeping peacefully the night of August 9th, 2023, and somehow, they blame ME for the disappearance of every cow on Earth...
 
Karn Maeshalanadae said:
Have you ever awoken from a night's rest to suddenly be accused by the entire world of something? I have. It's strange...I was sleeping peacefully the night of August 9th, 2023, and somehow, they blame ME for the disappearance of every cow on Earth...
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I have to comment on this. When I read the last bit I couldn't stop laughing. Well done, Karn.
 
Frustrated by my lack of progress, I sat back and looked at the blank screen. That was when the keys started moving themselves. You will die...tonight
 
I never believed people when then spoke of Grey Aliens. But there they were, standing at the foot of my bed. Staring...pointing at me....oh, my fly was open.
 
My name is Franklin Hershman. Today is the day everything changes; today is the day I start my life. If only I remembered to set my alarm clock
 
I suppose you want to know how I got this way. I wasn't always like this, in tattered clothes, drinking cheap whiskey from a bottle. I used to have it all. Fame, fortune, women, cars. But one day, that all changed. And let me tell you, if I could go back and do it again, I would not insult that leprechaun's beard.
 
“Ouch! Dammit!” My alarm clock blared away, as I struggled to figure out why I couldn't turn over.
 
"But what if you could?" she teased. "What if you could start all over again? Right from the beginning. All you'd need to do is to sign here..."
 
We all know how it went down. Adam and Eve, a garden, a snake and a mistake. Setting mankind up for wars, death and eventual destruction of the world. Well I have went back, from a future certain on the worlds demise. I have to stop her from eating the apple, at all costs. I am no Messiah, but I am all we have.
 
"The aliens are attacking Earth!"

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Come on, really?"

"Yes."

"Are you sure?"

"YES!"

"All right, hang on, I just woke up."
 
I woke up, showered, went to work, had lunch, drove home then went to bed. I did the same thing the next day...and the next...and the next. It felt like a time warp; the same thing every day. Until I saw her standing in my office, with her hair flowing like a river and a red dress that couldn't be anything but lipstick red. Before the month was through I would be missing the daily monotony...but not before some fun.
 
Hell isn't other people, it's the other people in my head.
 
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