Works in Progress First Lines

Because I haven't done this in awhile.

He leaned into the young woman, gently caressing her cheek with the barest feather-light touch of his fingertips.

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Sharisha sat still, waiting for the tree spirit to appear.

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I didn't know the old man was handing me Excalibur.

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You probably have not seen the troll living inside the walls of the Lowry Hill Tunnel.

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Sari sat in the nearly deserted fast food restaurant, idly munching on her soggy fries and watching the young mother with her two children across the room.

(ETA: 29 Aug 2010: I figure out last night that the scene this is in will actually come second or third in the story, instead of first, so I guess it isn't a first line anymore.)

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Donel had not meant to kidnap the Hag of Kilmarra.

Works in Progress First Lines

Because I haven't done this in awhile.

He leaned into the young woman, gently caressing her cheek with the barest feather-light touch of his fingertips.

#

Sharisha sat still, waiting for the tree spirit to appear.

#

I didn't know the old man was handing me Excalibur.

#

You probably have not seen the troll living inside the walls of the Lowry Hill Tunnel.

#

Sari sat in the nearly deserted fast food restaurant, idly munching on her soggy fries and watching the young mother with her two children across the room.

(ETA: 29 Aug 2010: I figure out last night that the scene this is in will actually come second or third in the story, instead of first, so I guess it isn't a first line anymore.)

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Donel had not meant to kidnap the Hag of Kilmarra.