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zarahemlaI've been having lots of fun writing drabbles for the first lines of other peoples' fics, so I present here some of mine in the hopes of getting drabble-age out of it.
I won't tell you the fandoms (though some are obvious) so you can just riff on it.
It's not a dark alley they meet in, but a vast, brightly lit ballroom in Los Angeles.
A ranchers son ought to be used to hardship.
They cut the rope from the saddle and let him fall.
Two days after Archie Kennedy died of his gut wound, and all the other officers of the Renown were cleared of charges of mutiny most foul, and one day before Captain Hornblower will sail the Retribution back to England, Horatio takes William out into Kingston Harbour and teaches him how to swim.
She looks at him with eyes that are, strangely, not blank, but electric.
Riley has only ten minutes with the nameless dead girl.
The leaves sigh around Alain, as if they're trying to tell him something, something so low and delicate that he will never hear it.
Bright is not stupid.
Freed from the stifling heat of the tavern, Jack stumbles into darkness.
The moonship's black corridors echo under Uther Doul's heels.
The train goes by every day, but it only goes one way.
We're watching the moonlight bounce off the New York City skyline.
I think I had him there, for just one minute.
In the arena of Krycek's head, he's playing chess.
I won't tell you the fandoms (though some are obvious) so you can just riff on it.
It's not a dark alley they meet in, but a vast, brightly lit ballroom in Los Angeles.
A ranchers son ought to be used to hardship.
They cut the rope from the saddle and let him fall.
Two days after Archie Kennedy died of his gut wound, and all the other officers of the Renown were cleared of charges of mutiny most foul, and one day before Captain Hornblower will sail the Retribution back to England, Horatio takes William out into Kingston Harbour and teaches him how to swim.
She looks at him with eyes that are, strangely, not blank, but electric.
Riley has only ten minutes with the nameless dead girl.
The leaves sigh around Alain, as if they're trying to tell him something, something so low and delicate that he will never hear it.
Bright is not stupid.
Freed from the stifling heat of the tavern, Jack stumbles into darkness.
The moonship's black corridors echo under Uther Doul's heels.
The train goes by every day, but it only goes one way.
We're watching the moonlight bounce off the New York City skyline.
I think I had him there, for just one minute.
In the arena of Krycek's head, he's playing chess.
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Date: 2004-10-06 04:33 pm (UTC)*
We're watching the moonlight bounce off the New York City skyline. "It's pretty from here," Rory says, and she's almost right. If I were standing on top of my car like in that R.E.M. video, spinning around with my arms outstretched, it would be a pretty view. But you can get arrested for doing that on the Henry Hudson Bridge, where we have been for half an hour now. In that time, we have moved approximately four feet.
"We're going to miss it," I say. "We're going to be in traffic for a week, and when we get there, there won't be any parking."
"We're not going to miss it," Rory says. "Dinner may have to be highly suspicious pizza, eaten while being cruised by gang members, but we will not miss it."
"How can you be so sure?" I say. "You're always so sure of things."
"We're still three hours early," she says, "and The Bangles would never let us down like that."
"Did you pay them off?" I say.
"No," she says, kissing your cheek. "But we are so adorably in love that they would sooner die than start without us."
I don't bother contradicting Rory. She's so good at believing in fairy tales that she makes them come true.
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