April 21st, 2006

Friday First Five Sentences - 04/21/06

Posted in Writing, Friday 5 First Sentences, Fiction by n. mallory | .

It’s that time again.

  1. “Do you actually read Shakespeare or is he just sitting on your shelf because you think he makes you look intelligent?” the snooty man asked.
  2. If all hell was going to break loos at the office, couldn’t it have had the decency to wait until Monday rather than ruin a perfectly good Friday?
  3. Somedays it just wasn’t worth it to log on.
  4. It was really rather a long, boring story and this one is much more fun.
  5. Suri stretched one dew-covered wing as she wiped the sleep from one half-opened eye.

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  1. on April 21, 2006 at 1:05 pm

    Tamara said:

    Mason loved nothing more than practicing her harmonica on the crosstown bus.

    In the envelope, Maria found a lock of what she immediately recognized as Jacob’s hair, along with a plain white business card that said only, “Mathilde Waters, Ghost Hunter.”

    “Trust me,” said Tall Daddy, “trust me and perhaps we’ll let you live.”

    It was morning, it was raining, and to make matters worse, Hootie and the Blowfish blared at me from the alarm clock radio, exhorting me to just “Let Her Cry.”

    I found the stack of obituaries exactly where David had told me they would be, clipped together and neatly organized by date of birth.

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