Wednesday, 9 November 2011

The Top 12 First Sentences: VOTE YOUR FAVORITE!

Which sentence do you think is the best hook?

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The letter arrived eight months after the funeral.0%
If everything goes according to their plans, I will be dead in three hundred and seventy days.0%
I have lived a life of deliberate anonymity.0%
The living are always bitching about how life sucks, how life ain't easy.0%
My sister killed me.0%
A few wobbles of the crooked wheel on the cart and she was in the meat section, cruising past pork ribs, chicken breasts, frozen shrimp, when suddenly the answer was right in front of her, shrink wrap0%
"You do know... I'd only eat you if I had to."0%
"Take me gently, Mr. Bently," Fiona said, reclining on an old desk while running her foot, still clad in a sensible black lace-up shoe, along the outside of Sean's thigh.0%
So this was the cannibal train, March thought.0%
It was not the first time she was found with fresh, warm, and sticky blood on her face, nor would it be the last.0%
Over the past twenty years the city of Haven had become anything but.0%
Most suppose golf is about life, not death—it is, after all, supremely difficult to manage a golf shot while dead...0%

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18 comments:

  1. Jennifer R Donohue9 November 2011 at 21:15

    Those are all very good first lines! I wouldn't hesitate to read further, if I picked up a book and saw one of those.

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  2. Daniel Swensen10 November 2011 at 05:04

    Didn't even make the finals! Bummer. But it's no wonder, there are some terrific lines here. I voted to my favorite -- congratulations to everybody. :)

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  3. Lyn Midnight10 November 2011 at 09:00

    Your entry got a couple of votes too and I liked it!!! :O)

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  4. Lyn Midnight10 November 2011 at 09:00

    I know right? The judges have done a marvellous job.

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  5. Angela Goff10 November 2011 at 09:06

    Exciting!! Wish I could vote simultaneously for about five of them.

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  6. Angie Richmond10 November 2011 at 09:20

    It was NOT an easy decision! Good luck to the finalist :)

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  7. Regina Grey10 November 2011 at 09:37

    So many awesome lines! I am completely flattered to be among them.

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  8. Justin Beeman10 November 2011 at 13:03

    Yeah!!! I'm in, but there are some lines that are just too great. Great job everybody!

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  9. zencherry10 November 2011 at 21:35

    Totally agree Angie. This was HARD.

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  10. zencherry10 November 2011 at 21:36

    I liked it too! :D

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  11. Stuart Nager10 November 2011 at 22:16

    thank you very much for picking my sentence to be in the top 12. This is really flattering with all the wonderful other sentences out there. Best of luck to all.

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  12. Lyn Midnight11 November 2011 at 11:55

    Good luck to you, Stu! Your sentence rocks. :O)

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  13. Lyn Midnight11 November 2011 at 11:55

    Good luck, Justin!

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  14. Lyn Midnight11 November 2011 at 11:56

    Thanks for playing and good luck! (It's my first contest, btw. *whee*)

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  15. Lyn Midnight11 November 2011 at 11:56

    I considered this but it would be too confusing. :D

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  16. Jenny11 November 2011 at 12:20

    Thank you, judges, for picking my sentence! This is so exciting ...everyone's sentences are fantastic and I'm flattered to be among them!

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  17. Ashley Nicole Wade13 November 2011 at 15:52

    I voted ^_^
    However, the shrimp is not in the meat section. Someone doesn't do the grocery shopping in their house ;-)

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  18. Maureen Hovermale14 November 2011 at 22:50

    Cannot wait to see who won! :D

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