speaking of raw, unadulterated sewage:

"Several hundred tons of industrial waste slip into existence above the Wapesano River. With no one nearby to serve witness, they plunge unceremoniously into the water, stealing a swath of riverbank as a souvenir of their becoming."

Forgot about #FirstLinesWednesday but it's very timely today!

If she had wings. If she could simply run to the window, extend her wings and fly away from all this pain and misery. But she had to be born with arms. Arms and a mind too sharp to escape her own thoughts.

#FirstLinesWednesday

This & every Wednesday, share the first lines of your #WIP (or of a chapter or perhaps even of your favorite book) with the hashtag #FirstLinesWednesday

Let's make this a chance to meet writers across all instances

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The bus jerks, fighting a pothole. This part of the city isn’t ugly, mostly forgotten and filled with things built by people who died long ago..."

#FirstLinesWednesday

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#FirstLinesWednesday #FirstLinesThursday ?!

“I feel my need fracture like innocence. Delicate as a fever-chill—as the hot flush of blood that rushes beneath the cold rime of my skin—I buck, and I crack across my chest.”

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"Sarah Patrick was her real name, although you, dear reader, may know her by another."

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“It’s just a duck pond,” Jonathan said, gesturing in what he assumed was the general direction of the landmark in question.

The woman behind the counter sniffed. “No ducks. Can’t be a duck pond if there’s no ducks.”

“Good point,” Jonathan agreed. “So, just a pond then.”

“No ducks,” the woman said again as she tallied his order. “Nothing ever swims in it. No animal in its right mind would go near it. Only people. But then I suppose I’m repeating myself.”
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"It’s hard to ignore your name when you hear it enfolded in a hiss."

#FirstlinesWednesday

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#HoneyedScentOfIron
#fantasy #ya

oh is this a thing? I love first lines a whole lot. and last lines. and most of the lines in the middle. but especially first lines.

"Tourists always expect the bottomless marsh to be more exciting than it is."

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'As above, so below,' was a precept taught to magus children on the first day of Magic Theory class: that heavenly bodies moved in lockstep with earthly ones, and invisible bonds wove together the whole of existence in a rhythmic dance.

https://readformandvoid.com/the-nullweaver-cycle/those-who-create-and-destroy/chapter-one/

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'It had been a trap and the detective had barely escaped; his enemies were now chasing him through the sewers.'

That's the opening line of my ongoing #cyberpunk book, available as a web novel at the moment (see my profile for details).

Someone suggested we use the "first lines Wednesday" tag to get to know each other, and I think it's a neat idea.

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