Opening Sentences That Make Like A Big Bum And Fan Out--

I remember having a conversation a few years back with a woman about writing stories. She said she had lots of great ideas , but that she could never come up with the perfect opening sentence.

If she could just write an opening line, she could write a great novel and sell millions of copies and move to Beverly Hills and throw swimming pool parties where all the women who ever appeared on Seinfeld as his girlfriend would show up and tell her how fabulous her taste in patio furniture was.

But because of that opening line, here she was stuck in Podunk, trying to sell real estate to poor people with goats.

Now her plight concerned me just a little bit, so I tossed out some opening sentences that would have made great stories, only they were not quite what she was looking for. (I think she was looking for a free ride to Beverly Hills’ pool parties- I suggested she take one of them bus tours.)

I had such a good time opening up stories without actually having to write them, that it gave me some ideas.

If I wrote some opening lines, would some blogger take that line and add a line to it? Would they then pass it on? Would others follow suit? After fifty lines, would it be a story and would it ever come back here? Would people get a kick out of contributing to a mass-written story?

Who knows?

Every time I try and start some kind of blogger thingy it falls flat on the skillet and fries into crispy little bits of nothing.

So I am not very optimistic.

But if you are brilliant and want to display your brilliance, here are three opening sentences to three different possible stories. Notice the number (1) at the end of these sentences. Take one of these sentences, write your following sentence, and then number it (2). See? Then ask your readers to add a sentence, on their web page, and they write (3) after it. The story is done after (50) is reached. Hopefully, somebody will send it back here for shits and giggles.




A- The late day sun struck the Mercedes at the most inopportune of angles, spreading a sheet of intense light across the dirty windshield.(1) http://aeleope.blogspot.com/

B-When I was still living at home, a Southern gentleman stepped onto our front porch, knocked, asked for my mother and then ran off with her.(1) http://aeleope.blogspot.com/

C-Some of the ugliest humanoids you ever want to see, come from the planet Xeroid, where everyone’s basically an ass, and they all look like copies of each other. (1) http://aeleope.blogspot.com/

ADDENDUM- My blogger pal CHEESY just sent me these two flattering pictures of me and my dog when we met for a chat on the beach.

All I can say is, thank God I'm a big old fella, or I sure would look just like one.

Singleton decided that the party was to be in my comment box, and so, there is a story started in there. Meno decided to join in. What are the rest of y'all waiting for, Christmas in Israel? There is a story started and it needs you. BYO BTW...