Noting a bunch of #FirstSentences from Faulkner's short story collection, *Knight's Gambit*, which I started poking at a few days ago.

Here's the first few from "Smoke," the first story in the collection:

"Anselm Holland came to Jefferson many years ago. Where from, no one knew. But he was young then and a man of parts, or of presence at least, because within three years he had married the only daughter of a man who owned two thousand acres of some of the best land in the county, and he went to live in his father-in-law's house, where two years later his wife bore him twin sons and where a few years later still the father-in-law died and left Holland in full possession of the property, which was now in his wife's name."

#WilliamFaulkner #Bookstodon #KnightsGambit