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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.
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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.
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Senda
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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.
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Ripples
Chapter 24 of 45
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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.
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mkaeleigh
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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.
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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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First Sentence
Your best, most gripping first sentence to start a story. Hook the reader as fast as you can.
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annu_scapannu
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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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First Sentence
Your best, most gripping first sentence to start a story. Hook the reader as fast as you can.
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JimLamb
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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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First Sentence
Your best, most gripping first sentence to start a story. Hook the reader as fast as you can.
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rays
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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.
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dctezcan
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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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Your best, most gripping first sentence to start a story. Hook the reader as fast as you can.
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AJAY9979
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Best Served Cold

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

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