
The following are the first lines from all of the original fiction postings from the May 2008. 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*
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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.
_____________29 - Cassian was the first were Matt had ever really met.
(Realworld/Urban Fantasy; Everyday Wolves)28 - "So," David eyed the assembled teenage caped crusaders with something akin to alarm, "I don't suppose anyone outside of the fictitious Iron Man is concerned about PPE?"
(Realworld/Urban Fantasy)27 - "I only bit him a little."
(Real-world/Urban Fantasy)26 - When the ship left, four Advisors remained behind.
(Blackguards and Plaster Saints)25 - Liz carefully surveyed her reflection in the mirror, it wasn't often that she got a chance to prepare for a first contact.
(Science Fiction, Apocafic!)20 - Twin Ponds was a tiny town, but it had always been tiny; little more than a collection of houses in the midst of unbounded prairie.
(Science Fiction; Blackguards and Plaster Saints)16 - Oracle jars are a living necromancy; half stasis pod, half organic computer.
(Horror/Dark Fantasy; Rise and Walk)14 - "Tell me a story."
(MuseFic)13 - "I can't believe I let you talk me into this."
(Realworld/Urban Fantasy)12 - Highways wound through the abandoned countryside like fractures, carving the land into easily defined territories.
(Science Fiction)11 - "Kindly put that down and step away from the particle accelerator."
(Fantasy/Superhero)10 - Loss is something you can't escape on the plains.
(Fantasy)9 - Oddly enough, battling evil didn't seem to actually require any combat skills.
(Urban Fantasy; Tales of the Drunken Unicorn)8 - He isn't a man yet --isn't
real in the eyes of the Family-- so when he follows them into the caves, they say nothing.
(Horror/Dark Fantasy)7 - Wynne wasn't sure what she'd expected, after all she'd never been out of the city back in her world, but it certainly wasn't the rambling white-washed expanse of the Sheppard's compound.
(Fantasy; The Nine Kingdoms)6 - "It's been three days, we should have heard something by now, right?"
(Urban Fantasy; Everyday Wolves)5 - For the first week they were awake, the ship's inhabitants simply let them wander.
(Science Fiction; Blackguards and Plaster Saints)4 - "Did it occur to anyone to at least check and see if I was still breathing?"
(Urban Fantasy)3 - "So this is a dream."
(Urban Fantasy; Everyday Wolves)2 - A story isn't supposed to start with 'And they all lived happily ever after'.
(Fantasy)1 - Jack sat in the beanbag chair in Sam's dorm room watching her gather what appeared to be completely random items.
(Urban Fantasy; Tales of the Drunken Unicorn)_______________________________
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