the first line of yer novel

The train left Paddington Station at 4.50 precisely, and Agatha, alone in her compartment, looked forward to a pleasant, peaceful journey.

When Edward came home from university unexpectedly, he was the one to find the corpse of his grandfather at the base of the stairs.

James felt his eyes being forced open by invisible fingers, and screamed as the levitating knife slowly forced it's way into his right eye, making it pop a gooey mess across his cheek. The knife held by invisible hands raised again, aligned itself with his left eye and lowered again. James held down by invisible bonds could do nothing to stop the knifes descent.

The police found him like that some 10 minutes later, having been called by a neighbour concerned by the shrill screams from inside number 9 and the first responder only just managed to run outside to throw up into the hedge at the sight of the knife buried up to the hilt in James's left eye socket.


(Sorry, first chapter - I tend towards the jollier stories)

i told the voices to pipe down, and for once they listened

@rookie54 said
i failed 12 times...

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times it was the age of... who cares?

@mudfinger said
It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times it was the age of... who cares?

You live where pot is legal...right?🤔

"TOM!"
No answer.
"TOM!"
No answer.
"What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!"
No answer.

The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service -- she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:

"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll --"

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Wrong place.

@divegeester said
Wrong place.

Was the what went through Danwarts mind when he saw Julio and Xiang standing there with miens that could freeze a volcano.

"They think it's funny when an 80-year-old woman loses 100 times in a row" Blanch said, as she kicked open the door to the crowded bingo parlor, raised her flamethrower, and lit the pilot light.

Rusty crawled out of the inferno his torso ablaze, i had a decision to make.......Piss on him or not, I walked away.

@ponderable said
Was the what went through Danwarts mind when he saw Julio and Xiang standing there with miens that could freeze a volcano.

should have been:

Was the thought that went ...