First lines meme

First lines meme, via rolanni:

The idea is that you post a rundown of the first lines of all your in-progress work. Through a mystical process not unlike that by which the irritation of a grain of sand encourages an oyster to produce nacre, thus creating a pearl, this causes the universe to encourage growth and formation of a completed story.


The mystical process may be working already: some of the lines that follow had not yet been written when I began this post. (The works to which they attach were in progress, just in a non-linear fashion that had not yet intersected their beginnings.)

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