SciFi/Fantasy First Line Game

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The professor wondered how a robotic dog could have managed to defecate on the floor of his workshop...
 

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"The spy smirked, self-satisfied. “Deniam, so easy to fool.” "

Welcome to the game! However, this particular entry doesn't quite fit with the rules:

  1. Every post must contain a first line, even when replying to another post (as I am here).
  2. 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).
  3. 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!) ;)
 

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Fixing old post: The white woman, now a snake with crimson eyes, flicked her tongue in and out in anticipation of the kill.
 

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more first lines

Hell bent on revenge is no way to live your life, said Jessica as she pushed her father off the end of her sword. But its a good place to start.
 

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more first lines.

Being a zombie isnt as much fun as it used to be, said Jack as he retrieved his penis from the floor of the brothel
 

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I will never be married to more than one Tau Ceti squid farmer at a time, ever again.

I hate to quibble, but i like it better this way...

I will never again, be married to more than one Tau Ceti squid farmer at a time.

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No matter where I go in this miserable galaxy and how many new races I discover, I am always surprised how infatuated men are with their own dick.
 

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Yesterday, I would have said moving Japan eight feet on the globe in one swoop would be science fictional/speculative...

My entry:

The sky, which used to be blue, decided in a fit of change to be purple, instead.
 

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"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!"
 

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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.
 

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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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[FONT=&quot]The Chain of Fate spanned from the grip of darkness through the cosmos to the beckoning hand of the Giver of Light. [/FONT]
 

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First sentence of my WIP:

Nothing, Damián decided, could quite compare to seeing a man being torn apart by the unicorns in the arena.