It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.
Greg NaganTag: humor first-sentence opening-lines first-lines parody first-words
I am a vampire. Blood does not bother me.
Christopher PikeTag: opening-lines
The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.
Peter S. BeagleTag: humor opening-lines meat birds shoplifting
Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be
Téa ObrehtTag: opening-lines fiction compelling-first-words
It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.
Philip ReeveTag: opening-lines atmospheric intruiging
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
Franz KafkaTag: opening-lines
Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians.
Susanna ClarkeTag: opening-lines
I was looking for a quiet place to die.
Paul AusterTag: opening-lines
The first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor.
Daniel QuinnTag: opening-lines
Lok was running as fast as he could. His head was down and he carried his thorn bush horizontally for balance and smacked the drifts of vivid buds aside with his free hand.
William GoldingTag: opening-lines
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