"Everything begins with a story,” said Joseph Campbell. And, every story must start with an opening sentence.
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“The door to my office slid open. “Hello” I said, rising from my chair. “You must be my nine o’ clock.”
— The first sentence from “Red Planet Blues” by Robert J. Sawyer.
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“124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children.”
— The first sentence from “Beloved” by Toni Morrison.
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“Today, I’m five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I’m changed to five, abracadabra.”
— The first sentence from “Room” by Emma Donoghue.
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“A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.”
— The first sentence from “Glasshouse” by Charles Stross.
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“We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.”
— The first sentence from “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Magaret Atwood.
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