First line of a book I started (teaching) this week:
It was a pleasure to burn.
- from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
First line of a story/chapter I wrote (or started writing) this week:
First of all, it helps if the guy is big.
- from "How to Get Your Ass Kicked" (a chapter in my WIP)
First line from a story I read this week (and loved):
Limp, the body of Gorrister hung from the pink palette; unsupported--hanging high above us in the computer chamber; and it did not shiver in the chill, oily breeze that blew eternally through the main cavern.
- from "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison
What about you, fellow travelers? What first lines have you read or written this week?
4 comments:
Gorgeous lines.
As I'm working on NaNoWriMo I refuse to reveal any lines period. ;)
"Dawn was no help." - Bradbury, A Graveyard for Lunatics
"When he dreamed of Gaia, he saw her as before, striding across ashen sands in moonlight, casting inviting glances over a sheer white shoulder." - chap.9 of my WiP, Progeny
Aw, Cate. C'mon and play...
Evocative WIP, Milo.
"His Majesty's necro-alchemist clutched the dead man's jaw with one hand and dug long bony fingers into the cadaver's mouth."
From "The Butterfly Assassins" by Camille Alexa
(Because obviously I would be reading Push of the Sky this week.)
As for me, ugh: "Tom situated his lantern in a shallow pile of dirt at the edge of the grave."
Yeah, I'll have to work on that.
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