First Lines Meme
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firecatFirst Lines Meme
Rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. [I chose to interpret "lines" to mean "sentences".] Choose your favourite opening line. Then tag 10 authors!
tagged by: no one, but came across meme vialirazel
tagging: anyone who wants to do it
Note:
E-rated fics marked with *
Fics with Archive warnings marked with #
Maze was in South Los Angeles when she found her.
(*Remember Me New)
Loki comes from behind and tries to pull Maze’s legs out from under her.
(Hunter or Hunted)
"You gave me an Antichrist! How…nice!"
(An Antichrist. How nice!)
"I must commend your imprisoner," Lyndys the adventurer told the Princess.
(*To Break Your Bonds)
Demeter gives the belt to Persephone.
(βασίλισσα (Queen))
"Come down here and collect your stray, Wolfe," I heard Inspector Cramer growl into the telephone.
(*Bedside Manners)
"We are the same. Shadow is not," dead Laura tells dead Sweeney.
(*#This Is Not Our Fate)
Her wedding was to take place in three days’ time, and Rebecca was so anxious that she found it difficult to get to sleep.
(*#"The Paths We Take to Love)
Morticia is happy.
(*Weekend at the Museum)
"I heard Gossington Hall is on the market again," Jane Marple says to her friend Dolly Bantry, pouring her some tea.
(The Ghost in the Library)
Ripley lay in her cold, concrete cell aboard the USM Auriga, and remembered things that might as well have never happened to her.
(#The Queen Mother)
Chapman screws up his courage and approaches Cleese.
(This Is All For You)
Lucifer was the King of Hell, and he was supposed to stay there.
(*Dance. Music. Sex. Romance.)
It was the evening before the orchid convention was to begin, and Wolfe had determined I was incompetent.
(*Orchid Eve)
"Dream-like hallucinations in cryogenically suspended subjects" was the title of the article in the medical journal Cryo Sci, which had just come through on the latest transmission from Earth.
(Hush, Little Corpsicle)
The Queen had laid the eggs and left them to wait.
(The Golden Ovomorph)
"Two to beam up, Scotty," said Kirk into the communicator.
(*Transported)
Chloe was very surprised.
(*Silver-tongued Devil)
"Welcome to the shelter for stray kinks."
(Just Looking)
Thor had had similar dreams before.
(*#To Raise the Storm)
+patterns - Most are short. I see I mostly don't strive to make my first sentence per se compelling (as opposed to first paragraph or two). Some matter-of-factly set the scene. Others give a hint about the story's direction.
+favorite - The one from "The Queen Mother"
Rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. [I chose to interpret "lines" to mean "sentences".] Choose your favourite opening line. Then tag 10 authors!
tagged by: no one, but came across meme via
lirazeltagging: anyone who wants to do it
Note:
E-rated fics marked with *
Fics with Archive warnings marked with #
Maze was in South Los Angeles when she found her.
(*Remember Me New)
Loki comes from behind and tries to pull Maze’s legs out from under her.
(Hunter or Hunted)
"You gave me an Antichrist! How…nice!"
(An Antichrist. How nice!)
"I must commend your imprisoner," Lyndys the adventurer told the Princess.
(*To Break Your Bonds)
Demeter gives the belt to Persephone.
(βασίλισσα (Queen))
"Come down here and collect your stray, Wolfe," I heard Inspector Cramer growl into the telephone.
(*Bedside Manners)
"We are the same. Shadow is not," dead Laura tells dead Sweeney.
(*#This Is Not Our Fate)
Her wedding was to take place in three days’ time, and Rebecca was so anxious that she found it difficult to get to sleep.
(*#"The Paths We Take to Love)
Morticia is happy.
(*Weekend at the Museum)
"I heard Gossington Hall is on the market again," Jane Marple says to her friend Dolly Bantry, pouring her some tea.
(The Ghost in the Library)
Ripley lay in her cold, concrete cell aboard the USM Auriga, and remembered things that might as well have never happened to her.
(#The Queen Mother)
Chapman screws up his courage and approaches Cleese.
(This Is All For You)
Lucifer was the King of Hell, and he was supposed to stay there.
(*Dance. Music. Sex. Romance.)
It was the evening before the orchid convention was to begin, and Wolfe had determined I was incompetent.
(*Orchid Eve)
"Dream-like hallucinations in cryogenically suspended subjects" was the title of the article in the medical journal Cryo Sci, which had just come through on the latest transmission from Earth.
(Hush, Little Corpsicle)
The Queen had laid the eggs and left them to wait.
(The Golden Ovomorph)
"Two to beam up, Scotty," said Kirk into the communicator.
(*Transported)
Chloe was very surprised.
(*Silver-tongued Devil)
"Welcome to the shelter for stray kinks."
(Just Looking)
Thor had had similar dreams before.
(*#To Raise the Storm)
+patterns - Most are short. I see I mostly don't strive to make my first sentence per se compelling (as opposed to first paragraph or two). Some matter-of-factly set the scene. Others give a hint about the story's direction.
+favorite - The one from "The Queen Mother"
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