Falling 4 Fiction had this great bloghop contest where you post the first sentence from some of your chapters on one day, then the last from some of your chapters on another. I didn't do the contest, but I thought it would be cool to see what some of my openers and enders were, and if they were intriguing or not. SO, here are some from Save the Queen. And, yeah, some aren't just one sentence. lol
Hookers:
Ghuli awoke thinking she would be wandering aimlessly, undead with no one to pass her on to T’orre’s Energy, but she had survived.
Andyrsn came down the stairs, glanced over at his fellow watchmen and the temple scholar unconscious beneath multiple layers of dust, plaster and wood, and stopped walking. (Long doggone sentence.)
Ghuli awoke to the distant voice of the temple scholar calling for his sister. Brodie shifted beside her, sighed as she climbed out of bed, and left to answer him. (That sounds extra scandalous out of context!)
Andyrsn now had someone who was willing to play cards with him. (Hurray for Andyrsn!)
The Southern Continent of the Contagion: an ominous world none dared to touch.
Across the inhabited continents, those with the cursed eye hadn’t moved or made a sound since their fall.
Hangers:
He started back down the stairs with a warm smile on his face. (That, too, sounds scandalous out of context.)
Ghuli needed answers. She knew they must find the Great Scroll. Her life, more than this journey, now depended on it.
She looked up when she realized someone else was there, and her eyes widened when they focused on Andyrsn. Before he could do or say anything, she disappeared.
Cyan tried to move his mouth to identify the soldiers, but the one over him gently pushed his eyes closed.
He started back down the stairs with a warm smile on his face. (That, too, sounds scandalous out of context.)
Ghuli needed answers. She knew they must find the Great Scroll. Her life, more than this journey, now depended on it.
She looked up when she realized someone else was there, and her eyes widened when they focused on Andyrsn. Before he could do or say anything, she disappeared.
Cyan tried to move his mouth to identify the soldiers, but the one over him gently pushed his eyes closed.
They had to overcome on their own, surpass their fathers and survive all that would come their way. Ghuli’s life depended on them.
Ghuli closed her eyes, felt as though the wall was moving away, and she put both hands on it to go wherever it would lead her.
Conclusion: I should probably change one of those lines that ends with Ghuli's life depending on something even though they're in two separate books of the whole novel...and the ones that begin with Ghuli waking up, even though one was from unconsciousness and the other from sleep...
We shall see how that turns out. :)
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