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First Sentence

Your best, most gripping first sentence to start a story. Hook the reader as fast as you can.

Ended June 14, 2020 • 60 Entries • Created by zanlexus

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Your best, most gripping first sentence to start a story. Hook the reader as fast as you can.

Mnezz

88 reads

OUST

It watched her from the shadows with its sword in one hand, ‘‘she thinks she can hide in a mortal body—I’ll pull her soul out of there by any means necessary!’’

#OUST.

(12.06.2020~friday)

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First Sentence

Your best, most gripping first sentence to start a story. Hook the reader as fast as you can.

Senda

110 reads

My name is of no importance to this story, as I stupidly failed to get out of it alive, but if you are reading this, yours might be; so listen carefully and don’t do anything rash before reaching the last sentence.

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First Sentence

Your best, most gripping first sentence to start a story. Hook the reader as fast as you can.

Ripples

Chapter 24 of 45

MClarice

Resting

I have this inkling I will feel you resting in my bones for the rest of my life.

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First Sentence

Your best, most gripping first sentence to start a story. Hook the reader as fast as you can.

mkaeleigh

139 reads

Dangerous Notions

There are those who doubt gravity’s authority to hold them to the solid ground and there are others who believe if they threw themselves from a cliff the very molecules in the air would catch them.

(Both are dangerous notions.)

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First Sentence

Your best, most gripping first sentence to start a story. Hook the reader as fast as you can.

Wordlove

57 reads

Just the beginning

When tragedy is the new normal, how does a 'happily ever after' become a bestseller?

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Your best, most gripping first sentence to start a story. Hook the reader as fast as you can.

annu_scapannu

82 reads

First Sentence

Drowning by far is the best method for murder: the saltwater rising in their lungs, stinging them as each desperate breath rattles in the victim's chest, the victim's arms hopelessly flailing above the ocean level as they fail to remain afloat, and best of all, drowning always works.

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Your best, most gripping first sentence to start a story. Hook the reader as fast as you can.

JimLamb

64 reads

Reel Deadly

Jason Jacobi felt a tug on his fishing line and figured he had a catch, but when he reeled in a boot, he started laughing—until he saw there was a bloody foot inside.

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Your best, most gripping first sentence to start a story. Hook the reader as fast as you can.

rays

41 reads

first sentence

I like to step out of my body from time to time and see what I look like and who I am.

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First Sentence

Your best, most gripping first sentence to start a story. Hook the reader as fast as you can.

dctezcan

97 reads

A new computer game

Lauren clicked “play” and watched, unafraid, as the computer screen became molten, murky; that is, until a face began to form, then terror struck, as a hand reached out from the darkness to cover her mouth and stifle her scream.

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First Sentence

Your best, most gripping first sentence to start a story. Hook the reader as fast as you can.

AJAY9979

32 reads

Best Served Cold

A tear fell into Myleana's lap as the man that took her mother away took his last labored breath.