another long day in the dungeon

[idiosyncreant]

This is a meme; it was more interesting this time around. It's partly that I'm doing better with opening lines, especially for short stories, and partly that I've been doing a lot of short stories.


List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns. (And flist, I'd love your opinions on patterns you notice.)

1) Harry hated to run away from anything, but he would have made an exception for this garden party. {The Enchanting Miss Tetley}

 

2) Inuyasha's not a romantic. {Inuyasha Fic}

3) This is the story of Tohrya, of the far-coast Funayin—that is me. {Walk Eager}

4) On Friday, Jesse realized that the band was dead to him. {Precarious}

5) Aya had lived at least two lives already and was happy with the one she was in. {Coping Mechanisms}

6) Heaven wasn't the first to dread being brought to the Imperial School, but she would have sworn she hated the idea the most of anyone. {shoujo trope pastiche}

7) Jun Igarashi is one of those kids who's been popular in school for so long, it's messed with his mind. {The Make-Over Reject also a shojo trope pastiche}

8) “I won't keep that promise,” he said. {Prices}

9) Everett felt the SunLord come up the mountain, and grinned. {Sunschild}

10) The Ziggurat was cruel. {The Ziggurat}

11) Gene used a knuckle to touch the tickle on his nose, since his hands were grimy. {A Pain-Free Smile}

12) The magic was an accident. {Jump from a Window}

Break to Novels:

13) Silas Poisson was the most dangerous man in Muldable City. {The Carnie's Conspiracy}

14) Sheridan Carnie was left in Mr. Mandrake's parlor while Mama Graham and the magician talked his apprenticeship over. {Sheridan in Charade}

15) After another long day in the dungeon, Silas was being kept up by growing pains again. {Silas Escapes}

16) All his life, as long as he could remember, Christopher James had lived in the Tower. {The Return of Mr. Birch}

17) A shadow blotted out the work under Farthaen's hand. {Aolon: Street-Witch's Portrait}

18) "I have a bad feeling about this," I said at the mirror. {Backlash Girls}

19) The worst thing to happen to [MC] when he stole the diamond was that he didn't get caught. {The Pirate Penance: Book 1?}

Also: My Raven King yarn is done! Come look at it...