Welcome to the game! However, this particular entry doesn't quite fit with the rules:
Every post must contain a first line, even when replying to another post (as I am here).
The first line must be one sentence. No more, no less. No making long garden-path sentences haphazardly glued together with semicolons; you will be caught and suffer the correction of the Duck-Master of the Game (badducky).
The line must be clearly one that opens a science-fiction or fantasy story. Dragons, robots, space travel, time travel, there must be some element of the fantastic to it.
Something more like:
My day took a sharp left turn towards the surreal when the target sat up, cursing under his breath as he stuck a finger into the hole I'd blown in his head.
...works. A spy isn't necessarily speculative or fantastic in nature. An unkillable immortal spy? A bit more speculative!
Hope that helps. And again, welcome to the game!
(ducky et al, the example given above is my first line for this entry!)
"We're all food for the conquerer worm eventually, Cynthia," said Bob as he crushed his cigarette out on the eye of the Golden Idol of Thothgar, "but we've got to get you home to Atlantis!"
The duck may object, as this is potentially written as more than one sentence. But the first one is legitimate on it's own, and I just love the second too much not to share it as a bonus as well.
The ink blurred and ran on the ancient papyrus in my hand, the demotic changing to recognizable English: ALEXANDRIA LIBRARY PASS, TRANSFER ALLOWED UPON BEARER'S DEATH, with my own name below.
Mother always called my new bride a demon, but it wasn't until the small horns appeared on our daughter's head that I began to wonder if she was right.
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