20 first sentences - a meme
Stolen from
kellenanne .
(Directions:) Post the first sentence of your last twenty stories. Are there any patterns?
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From the newest to the oldest.
1. When the man came to examine her, she was already long-dead. (unreleased, Bea)
2. When her father had asked her if she was nervous, Haruhi had smiled that unwitting, radiantly carefree smile and replied no, she was not. - Coming Up Roses
3. In this stark, bleached-bones hell, there is no such thing as a princess, but if there was it would be her. - Crowned
4. It was always in the nature of blood, violence, and shadows that it was conducted. - (in the) Dark
5. 'Harlot' is an old-fashioned term for a woman with little moral value, Rangiku thinks, still mute with shock. - So-Called
6. Kisuke has not said a word in five days. - No Regrets
7. Fear:
Used to be the swelling of her heart and the quaking in her insides that she experienced while she held tight to Tatsuki's hand and prepared to be dropped a hundred feet in a surely-suicidal plummet. - Fear (for him)
8. Here eyes have seen so much filth that they’re coated in it. - Sight (Beasts)
9. Itsuki has never considered himself to have particularly good hearing, but for the next six months of his senior year, he had never heard better. - Ashes, Ashes - prompt: listening
10. She feels tall. - If I Had Never
11. He looks suspiciously at the bento box. - Too Much (Sugar)
12. It was hard to find privacy anywhere in this shithole (although if Ichigo were to say that about her home - their home - she’d be the first to smack him upside the head with a sandal). - Hiyori's (Bad Luck)
13. She was rich, but money was no object. - Valentine
14. This is a love so strong it can overcome blood. - Blood
15. He had been humming a jazz tune when he first met her. - The Only Thing
16. He would never forget the way she looked, although at that point it was hardly even really her anymore. - Bloodlove
17. The city of lights is dim tonight, and a thunderstorm (C’est l’éclair et tonnerre, ce soir) drum, drum, drums. - The Rainy Season
18. “What is it?” - Baby Robot
19. Dirty. Dirty. Dirty. - Ashes, Ashes
20. There are ashes lying in the cradle. - Ashes, Ashes (unreleased, prompt: cradle)
kellenanne .
(Directions:) Post the first sentence of your last twenty stories. Are there any patterns?
.
From the newest to the oldest.
1. When the man came to examine her, she was already long-dead. (unreleased, Bea)
2. When her father had asked her if she was nervous, Haruhi had smiled that unwitting, radiantly carefree smile and replied no, she was not. - Coming Up Roses
3. In this stark, bleached-bones hell, there is no such thing as a princess, but if there was it would be her. - Crowned
4. It was always in the nature of blood, violence, and shadows that it was conducted. - (in the) Dark
5. 'Harlot' is an old-fashioned term for a woman with little moral value, Rangiku thinks, still mute with shock. - So-Called
6. Kisuke has not said a word in five days. - No Regrets
7. Fear:
Used to be the swelling of her heart and the quaking in her insides that she experienced while she held tight to Tatsuki's hand and prepared to be dropped a hundred feet in a surely-suicidal plummet. - Fear (for him)
8. Here eyes have seen so much filth that they’re coated in it. - Sight (Beasts)
9. Itsuki has never considered himself to have particularly good hearing, but for the next six months of his senior year, he had never heard better. - Ashes, Ashes - prompt: listening
10. She feels tall. - If I Had Never
11. He looks suspiciously at the bento box. - Too Much (Sugar)
12. It was hard to find privacy anywhere in this shithole (although if Ichigo were to say that about her home - their home - she’d be the first to smack him upside the head with a sandal). - Hiyori's (Bad Luck)
13. She was rich, but money was no object. - Valentine
14. This is a love so strong it can overcome blood. - Blood
15. He had been humming a jazz tune when he first met her. - The Only Thing
16. He would never forget the way she looked, although at that point it was hardly even really her anymore. - Bloodlove
17. The city of lights is dim tonight, and a thunderstorm (C’est l’éclair et tonnerre, ce soir) drum, drum, drums. - The Rainy Season
18. “What is it?” - Baby Robot
19. Dirty. Dirty. Dirty. - Ashes, Ashes
20. There are ashes lying in the cradle. - Ashes, Ashes (unreleased, prompt: cradle)