June First Lines (26)

[khriskin]

The following are the first lines from all of the original fiction postings from the June 2006. These are friends-locked posts sorted under my Writing filter, as I have no desire to spam those on my flist who aren't interested. *grin*

Please comment on this post in order to be added to the filter or check out my archive: The Unforgotten Country over at EverydayDragons.com.

Note: The number is the date of the entry and the stuff in parenthesis is the genre and/or working title of the universe in which the story snippit took place.

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30 - "Do you think you could have done better?" (Science Fiction; StarCrossed)
29 - There was something in the darkness of the caves, something small and skittery, but the dragon hadn’t been able to pin down what it was (Fantasy)
26 - Sometimes the words didn’t come out right and she suffered through their jibes and friendly teasing. (Science Fiction; StarCrossed)
23 - She sometimes wondered if thunder was the way clouds talked. (Fantasy)
22 - A Listener could never force obedience; threats had little effect on the dead. (Fantasy; The Mists of Haiyts)
21 - There was nothing in the sky to lead him on, but on he went. (Science Fiction)
20 - "Never again, never." Sparrow glared at the wall, her back to Marc. (Science Fiction; Clockwork Sparrow)
19 - Being a caravan guard was not a terribly challenging job. (Fantasy)
18 - "Oh gawd," Alison glared at the townhouse. (Real-world/Urban Fantasy)
17 - The sun was a dim red disk, hanging in perpetual sunset along the western horizon. (Science Fiction; Carson and Ship)
16 - By nightfall they had only reached the ragged edges of the wood, where the trees still crept outwards into the star-lit prairie. (Fantasy)
15 - Mark decided it would be a learning experience, although he still wasn’t quite sure what he was supposed to learn from watching the apartment complex burn. (Real-world/Urban Fantasy)
14 - She had skipped a hundred times before, bouncing back and forth on the colonial cargo runs. (Science Fiction; Skipping Stones)
13 - Love is sweet and fleeting, and hatred is a wonderful motivator. (Fantasy)
12 - Some things by their very nature, were better left unsaid. (Real-world/Urban Fantasy)
11 - Adventures weren’t supposed to begin in the middle of the afternoon. (Fantasy)
10 - It was learning how not to think, that saved her. (Real-world/Urban Fantasy)
9 - It was an unhealthy obsession, but she didn’t care. (Science Fiction)
8 - "Grow damn you." (Science Fiction)
7 - The stone sucked the light from the room in a gasping sigh, sending the band deeper into darkness with each breath. (Fantasy)
6 - It seemed silly in retrospect, after all no one wanted people to be unhappy. (Science Fiction)
5 - Brownie was not a bad horse, he just wasn’t a very good horse either. (Real-wold/Urban Fantasy)
4 - If she had only planned ahead, she could have blamed it on Cilarni. (Fantasy)
3 - In the end, there was nothing I could do but watch her die. (Fantasy)
2 - Things were happening too fast. (Fantasy)
1 - She dodged left a fraction too late and the light sliced through her arm, cauterizing as it went. (Fantasy)

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