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A fiction writer I have never been…

Written by Melody Jones

Friday, 16 July 2010 21:03

But now I’m thinking there may be a fiction muse in me yet. I just came up with a few opening lines.

Yeah. They need some work.

* If she'd known her day would end with jumping off a building, she'd have left the clowns at home.
clowns

* One more time. If her sister’s jack-ass husband said “you know what I mean” one more time, Mallory would throw a pie at his face. Any pie would do, but a pie with tall meringue peaks perfectly baked might have the most impact. You know what I mean?

* The ocean, grand and majestic, killed mercilessly. Perhaps only living things were capable of mercy, and therefore mercilessness.

* The act of dying was, for me, mundane and anticlimactic. I simply did not wake up one day. Well, that’s not quite accurate. I did awaken because here I am.

* I cannot abide bruised apples. She came into our kitchen with them and seemed not to notice. It was wrong of her not to notice. She knows how important pristine and unbruised apples are to me. But she will not make that mistake again. I cannot abide mistakes.

Yes, my opening lines took a decided turn toward the mysterious and macabre. Oh my.

Scary clown photo: stockxchng

Last Updated on Monday, 19 July 2010 07:30

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Saturday, 17 July 2010

I think some of these are pretty good.........It's always good to keep the brain working!

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