First Lines Tag Game
Rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favorite opening line, then tag 10 of your favorite authors!
Tagged by @circumference-pie in this post.
(Order: last updated, descending, year is the year I started writing the fic)
1. Hitomi and Nami sat at the Sunday breakfast table drinking their last tea. (Phantom Thief for Ran, 2020, #wip # dcmk #cat‘s eye)
2. The half-naked girl on the screen stirred. When she opened her eyes, they were unfocused; after a moment, they focused, flickered around the semi-dark room and widened at the camera for a moment. (Bait, 2021, #dcmk)
3. It’s the beginning of lunch break. Sonoko lets Ran’s mobile glide into the pocket of her school uniform. (Christmas Gift, prompt fic, 2020 #dcmk)
4. Sonoko sees Ran fall and crumble. Her opponent stops in mid-kick and looks at the referee in confusion. He hadn’t touched her? (You‘ll always have my back, #dcmk, #wip, #noir involvement planned, 2019)
5. She notices the blood on the snow first. Impact, blood, … She has been shot. (On the roof, 2020, #dcmk)
6. Hitomi was annoyed with her sisters. They kept bringing up the crush sub-inspector Asaya had on the male persona she had used to scout out their last heist. (Waking up, #cat‘s eye, #noir, #wip, 2020)
7. Takizawa Yui had agreed to add one more native speaker to the group of older foreign students on the Halloween rally for politeness’ sake. After two hours of it, she started to wonder if that had been a good idea. (Halloween in Tokyo, Halloween prompt exchange fic, 2020)
8. The heart monitor was beeping regularly, slow, Sera could hear it even through the closed door while a female officer frisked her. (Baited, #dcmk, 2020)
9. “I’m home” Kirika announces as she comes home from school. She throws her Karate Gi into the dirty linen. (Second Showdown, #dcmk, #noir, #wip, 2018)
10. Sera Masumi bangs the door behind her, starts down the steps, and stops. Hastily she turns and locks the door. Key in hand, taking two steps at a time to get away, she nearly runs into a dark shadow suddenly appearing at the foot of the stairs. (These are the days, #dcmk, #noir, #wip (really, I plan to finish that!)
11. (I‘ll skip that one, NSFW from the first sentence)
12. Vorsichtig bewegt sich Anke den steilen Weg zum Rosenfelser Hafen entlang. Heute, bei Vollmond, ist das eigentlich ein Kinderspiel - sie kennt die Strecke auch in tiefster Dunkelheit - aber die helle Nacht macht es auch wahrscheinlicher, entdeckt zu werden. (Entscheidung vor Ferienbeginn, a fix-it fic to Schreckenssteiner Vol 27, written sometimes in the 1990ties)
13. Jill scans the dance floor idly. The room is packed with dancing women. No one stands out. She holds her glass up to the bartender, who creates another nearly virgin Mai Tai for her. (In the Locket, #dcmk, #charlie‘s angels original series, 2018)
14. Sabrina looks up from her coffee as two people pass her table, bickering loudly. They sit down in the next niche. The women looked like Ran? (The gift of friendship, #dcmk, #charlie‘s angels original series, 2018)
Huh, 13 fics started since 2018, that’s quite a lot. A few one shots. Mostly series that tend to run on repeat in my head. Seems like I tend to jump straight into an action scene most of the time? I like writing present tense. And I tend to throw all my favorite characters together, never mind the timelines.
Favorite line? No. 5
I think I‘ll nominate @beedok, @faenova, @wie-kawaii-blog. Please tag me in the post if you decide to do this. I‘d like to read them.