First Line Monday!

Welcome to a fresh start! Here are some quick first lines -- an easy and fun way for some quick writing and brainstorming. Sometimes a story comes from them, and sometimes it's just cerebral pushups. Either way, enjoy, and I'd love to see yours.


Grandma Flora loved to read the family's tea leaves at breakfast on New Year's; she'd not only gotten two spinsters married, broken three bad engagements, encouraged Homer to buy a watchdog, she was making a bit of cash on the rare occasions her darjeeling told her which pony at Bay Meadows to put her money on.

George sucked in a breath and looked doubtfully at the bag, which seemed awfully light for $3000.

"It's not fair! Last year Stevie got to see guillotine, the cockfight, and the ambulance chasers. Why can't I go see the mudwrestlers today too?"

Howard hunkered down beneath the table, trying to be as still and small as possible, but his tail wagged in spite of itself -- soon someone would drop something, and Howard was sure it would be one of the triplets (just learning to eat with a spoon), or Uncle Joey (who had been drinking spiked eggnog without the nog in it).

I actually met my soon to-be-ex-husband in court, but everyone thinks we met on that wine-tasting tour of Napa.