Best opening lines

[BASSI]

Slugs by Shaun Hutson


The slug's eye stalks waved slowly as it moved towards rthe crimson lump on which several of its copanions were already feeding as they slithered onto the meat and buried the long central tooth in the flesh and rows off sharp teeth moving back and forth like rasps as it chewed off pieces of meat, enjoying the new coppery taste of blood.

[jay o2 waster]

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

-Hunter S. Thompson

[Despare]

Somewhere, to what remote and fearsome region I know not, Denys Barry has gone.

[AsylumSeeker]

Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping....Christmas...thing: dragging garland, ribbon and sleigh bells, oozing eggnogg, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.

The Stupidest Angel, Christopher Moore

[Herbert West]

The great gray beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.


The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

[stubbornforgey]

'can't remember the author'

A story from N.Z
Hinemoa


The room filled with sunshine that spread evenly over the sleeping girls hair, as if protecting her from the outside world.
She smiled in her slumber as she tossed like a fairytale princess..relishing the moment when she was to get a taste of her 1st kiss. from her prince.
Her eyes closed..her tiny head tilted and her lips were in readiness .it was all too surreal..when all of a sudden she felt a stinging pain on her face.
'get up you lazy fucken whore' ..her eyes flew open and instead of her prince ..it was her father pulling her from her makeshift bed made from beer crates..
instead of golden rays of sunshine..there was nothing but stale darkness...