Twenty-one first lines meme
Late to the party as usual - here are the first twenty-one lines of my most recently written stories. A workman-like approach to scene setting seems to be the politest observation I can make.
1. So it’s this place again, Klaus thought.
2. When the phone went, Jim rolled his eyes.
3. There was a long line of traffic ahead of them, a long line behind, snaking down the desert road.
4. The fog was thick, even for fall in Cascade, creating crazy nimbuses that played with Jim’s sight as they walked down the road to the truck.
5. The crop smacks into Klaus’ shoulder with a vicious sting, and he makes a noise through his clenched teeth that’s the bastard child of a whine and a grunt.
6. I talked of many things with my Edward in those first happy weeks.
7. Jim examined his reflection critically and decided that, yes, he was going to do his father credit for his seventieth birthday dinner, and Jim was okay with that.
8. Blair leaned over the engineer’s shoulder, taking a look at the innards of the console open in front of them.
9. They panic for a while when they can’t find Taki, and the relief at discovering that he’s in Suguri’s room almost comically overwhelms their concern over his health, as they pass on the news.
10. He had his suit for tomorrow, resting on its hanger in the closet in Simon’s spare bedroom.
11. Jim leaned back on his couch and watched as Blair headed for the door.
12. Jim unlocked the door and stepped into the loft.
13. It’s a dream, which Steel knows, but it doesn’t lessen the irritation because what he sees isn’t right.
14. Blair straightened his collar.
15. Blair suspects that Jim started figuring it out even before they were lovers.
16. Alex needs the sea nearby, and Megan wonders sometimes if it’s because the roar and push of the waves is a giant white noise generator.
17. Blair sat cross-legged on the floor of his bedroom, curly hair veiling his face as he flicked through the book, apparently reading about five pages here and there, before he put it in the cardboard box to his left.
18. Hobbes has heard every ‘Lithium Bobby’ joke going.
19. Jim sorted through his tackle box, while Blair perched warily on a log, one eye on Jim, the other on the skinny boy nearly a hundred yards down the river.
20. "Methadone or nicotine patch?"
21. Blair smiled at the new concierge in the downstairs foyer and received a warily respectful nod, before he decided that tonight was an elevator night
This entry was originally posted at http://mab-browne.dreamwidth.org/286654.html. Comments are welcome there too. :-)
1. So it’s this place again, Klaus thought.
2. When the phone went, Jim rolled his eyes.
3. There was a long line of traffic ahead of them, a long line behind, snaking down the desert road.
4. The fog was thick, even for fall in Cascade, creating crazy nimbuses that played with Jim’s sight as they walked down the road to the truck.
5. The crop smacks into Klaus’ shoulder with a vicious sting, and he makes a noise through his clenched teeth that’s the bastard child of a whine and a grunt.
6. I talked of many things with my Edward in those first happy weeks.
7. Jim examined his reflection critically and decided that, yes, he was going to do his father credit for his seventieth birthday dinner, and Jim was okay with that.
8. Blair leaned over the engineer’s shoulder, taking a look at the innards of the console open in front of them.
9. They panic for a while when they can’t find Taki, and the relief at discovering that he’s in Suguri’s room almost comically overwhelms their concern over his health, as they pass on the news.
10. He had his suit for tomorrow, resting on its hanger in the closet in Simon’s spare bedroom.
11. Jim leaned back on his couch and watched as Blair headed for the door.
12. Jim unlocked the door and stepped into the loft.
13. It’s a dream, which Steel knows, but it doesn’t lessen the irritation because what he sees isn’t right.
14. Blair straightened his collar.
15. Blair suspects that Jim started figuring it out even before they were lovers.
16. Alex needs the sea nearby, and Megan wonders sometimes if it’s because the roar and push of the waves is a giant white noise generator.
17. Blair sat cross-legged on the floor of his bedroom, curly hair veiling his face as he flicked through the book, apparently reading about five pages here and there, before he put it in the cardboard box to his left.
18. Hobbes has heard every ‘Lithium Bobby’ joke going.
19. Jim sorted through his tackle box, while Blair perched warily on a log, one eye on Jim, the other on the skinny boy nearly a hundred yards down the river.
20. "Methadone or nicotine patch?"
21. Blair smiled at the new concierge in the downstairs foyer and received a warily respectful nod, before he decided that tonight was an elevator night
This entry was originally posted at http://mab-browne.dreamwidth.org/286654.html. Comments are welcome there too. :-)