[meme] 10 first lines
Posted in order of reverse chronology and various stages of WIP, snippets, and "wtf when did I type this on my iPhone." I have just realized that I have nothing in my "Writing" folder of WIPs that is dated any more recently than 2009, fuck.
Post the first sentence of the last ten stories you've written.
1. On the tenth day, they eat the cat.
2. "Got a lot of them out today," Joseph said, squaring back his shoulders and squinting out at the deceptively calm water.
3. "My father had a habit of wanting to sound smarter than he actually was."
4. It takes fifteen hours to fly to the Philippines.
5. "Oooh, a mouthy one, are ya?"
6. A tribe of warrior women trapped an evil man in the body of a giant shark, which fucked innocent whales to produce bastard babies.
7. Two days in Carthak, and Rikash was already sick of the smell of incense.
8. After hugging every aunt and uncle in attendance, absently fobbing candied chestnuts on five nephews she didn't remember having, and extricating herself from the viselike grip of her grandmother (who had that matchmaking gleam in her eye), Tera finally burst out onto the balcony, pushing sweat-damp hair out of her face.
9. As little as he would like to admit it, Vexen is painfully aware of being expendable.
10. You aren't one, he said, calmly.
ETA: OH ALSO I AM A FOOL OF A TOOK and didn't tag my entries properly, so I actually forgot to include these two lines:
a) They're all alive, given a broad working definition of what counts as alive and assuming it includes "walking around with a gaping hole in your stomach and glowing like a troll-shaped nightlight," and "having about as much emotion as a plank."
b) Hawke is mocking him at the same time he's indulging him; of that Fenris is sure.
c) Sebastian stands uneasily with a glass of wine cupped in both hands, as though staring into its untouched depths could transport him to a world where his bride-to-be wasn't cussing out the seamstress who'd been sewing him clothes since he was five.
d) "My therapist," John says one night, after blisteringly desperate, adrenaline-fueled sex that's left him aching in all the good ways, "thinks dating you is a bad idea."
Post the first sentence of the last ten stories you've written.
1. On the tenth day, they eat the cat.
2. "Got a lot of them out today," Joseph said, squaring back his shoulders and squinting out at the deceptively calm water.
3. "My father had a habit of wanting to sound smarter than he actually was."
4. It takes fifteen hours to fly to the Philippines.
5. "Oooh, a mouthy one, are ya?"
6. A tribe of warrior women trapped an evil man in the body of a giant shark, which fucked innocent whales to produce bastard babies.
7. Two days in Carthak, and Rikash was already sick of the smell of incense.
8. After hugging every aunt and uncle in attendance, absently fobbing candied chestnuts on five nephews she didn't remember having, and extricating herself from the viselike grip of her grandmother (who had that matchmaking gleam in her eye), Tera finally burst out onto the balcony, pushing sweat-damp hair out of her face.
9. As little as he would like to admit it, Vexen is painfully aware of being expendable.
10. You aren't one, he said, calmly.
ETA: OH ALSO I AM A FOOL OF A TOOK and didn't tag my entries properly, so I actually forgot to include these two lines:
a) They're all alive, given a broad working definition of what counts as alive and assuming it includes "walking around with a gaping hole in your stomach and glowing like a troll-shaped nightlight," and "having about as much emotion as a plank."
b) Hawke is mocking him at the same time he's indulging him; of that Fenris is sure.
c) Sebastian stands uneasily with a glass of wine cupped in both hands, as though staring into its untouched depths could transport him to a world where his bride-to-be wasn't cussing out the seamstress who'd been sewing him clothes since he was five.
d) "My therapist," John says one night, after blisteringly desperate, adrenaline-fueled sex that's left him aching in all the good ways, "thinks dating you is a bad idea."