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sheldrake ([personal profile] tadorna) wrote2009-07-30 11:42 pm
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in lieu of an actual post...

A meme. List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns.




"Sure?" Gina asks Karen in the mirror.

Suffolk, April 1932

It was late September when Matt finally arrived back in England.

The sky is dark and heavy with rain, as though weather is still somehow appropriate at this juncture.

Everything sparkles.

What do you think time is, really?

The first thing he felt when he opened the watch was fear.

What's so great, anyway, when it comes down to it -- what is so bloody special about being human?

"That," says Russell, "was the worst threesome what I ever had."

It was exactly a year to the day since Noel Fielding had disappeared.

They lived in a flat above a chip shop, Colin and his mum, in a ragged, sprawling town on the edge of London.

We are in love!!

My friend and I were scientists in an unusual field.

He got the results in April, and his first thought was that he had no idea what to do with them.

When you've had a truly dreadful day, there's nothing for it but a hot bath and an early night.

A noise rang out, shattering the dusty peace of the little attic room.

She tries to ask him.

He always means it at the time.

One day Orlando had sex with Elijah.

In order to study an ecosystem it is necessary to consider the way in which organisms interact with each other within the ecosystem.

***

Patterns: Not really. Two Aprils, one September. A few questions. Some weather. Some places.

[identity profile] rebism.livejournal.com 2009-07-30 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
The second last one made me snort out loud at work.

[identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com 2009-07-31 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! Yeah, that wasn't one of the most serious things I've ever written...

[identity profile] purple-hazed.livejournal.com 2009-07-31 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
The second to last is the funniest, but otherwise, they all seem totally unique! Good stuff!

I miss your LJ posts but I understand how it's like when you mean to do something and don't get round to it!

[identity profile] justwolf.livejournal.com 2009-07-31 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I like all of them a lot.

[identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :)

I've still got some pictures to post, goodness knows when that'll ever happen!

[identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
Why, thank you! :)