First line meme
(Stolen from everyone.) Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a drabble or ficlet with the same first line and leave it in my comments here.
Extra points for anyone who:
+ Writes crack, humor, smut, a crazy crossover, or completely flips the tone of the first sentence around by the end of the ficlet (i.e. writing a gen ficlet based on any of the sentences that contain the word “sex”).
+ Doesn’t read the original before they start writing
+ Changes the fandom - double points if you manage this on the fandom-specific ones
+ Responds more than once
As always, anyone is welcome to respond. And write whatever fandom you like-I don’t have to know it! Just go where your muse leads, my little flying monkeys.
Non-fandom specific
(01) I can’t tell you what to do.
(02) He’s not sure what he’s supposed to do.
(03) The smoke curls, burning snakes, painting a mountain aflame and a river frozen into vapor.
(04) “Quick-I need a haiku.”
(05) “Terrible habit, you know.”
(06) “You will submit,” he said, tracing a line of agony along her back.
(07) It is a holy moment.
(08) First time he saw it he snorted something unpleasant out of his nose.
(09) The morning dawned early, showering the sun down the crags of the mountain.
(10) The lights glinted like strings of stars, extemporaneous bridges that linked the sentinel stands of brush that bordered the east end of the lawn.
(11) Stung, like the time he’d held a handful of bees, too panicked to let go and spent a whole month walking around with tender finger bones.
(12) Fellow had his hat low, like he was fighting off the sun, hunched down and in, all shades of brown from his hat to coat to wrinkled paper bag.
(13) “Sheee-it, that’s hard.”
(14) You say it when you’re alone, and he’s half-drowsing on the couch.
(15) This is how it began: she smiled at you.
(16) There’s something to be said for dying.
(17) Just a sack of useless flesh, now.
(18) “Surrender to destiny, my ass.”
(19) It is nothing more than the smell of her, and you are undone.
(20) THWUMP.
(21) “Have you ever sucked dick before?”
(22) “You suck dick like some kind of Harry Houdini.”
(23) “Partner sex?”
(24) “You know, I didn’t realize that clean sex was possible until I met you.”
(25) When you’re fifteen and horny, almost anything seems like a good idea, which must be why he let Mark from Social Studies talk him into this bathroom.
(26) Touch me touch me touch me touch me touch me.
(27) “Aaaaaaaaaaa-CHEW!”
(28) “We gotta figure out a way to get this woman off my back.”
(29) Earthquake spores. Seriously.
(30) Lands are not far away when they’re in your mind, Mother tells you.
(31) The papers crinkled under his face, jarring him back into consciousness.
(32) “Can you believe flowers bloom here at this time of year?”
(33) Fingers alight solar flares on their entranced path, curved up a spine and then trickled down, exploring valleys of want and mountain ranges of sensitivity, over the sensuous inland expanse of the shoulder, coming to rest at the place where high meets low, where cool meets warm, and a balance is met.
(34) Bare:
Peter’s sixteen and feels like an idiot.
Brokeback Mountain:
(35) John looked him-washed-out, run-down-didn’t know what was so special about him.
(36) Lureen might have been a lot of things, but stupid was not one of them.
(37) “Never reckoned t’see you in an apron, Jack,” Ennis purred, sliding up close only to be stopped short by a whack on the head with a dripping spatula.
(38) Dead Like Me:
“Mason, you stupid son of a bitch.”
DC (SR and BB)
(39) CLARK’S SHIP: *starts beeping madly and desperately hitting the brakes* OMFG we’re about to hit something!
(40) When he was fifteen, Clark Kent tried to cure cancer.
(41) “Gotham will be realized.”
(42) “I’ve wanted to fuck you like this from the first day you showed your boy scout face in Gotham,” he said, hoarse, breath exhaling vaporous in the night, hot as a brand on Clark’s ear.
(43) Gotham gave Jimmy the creeps.
(44) Ugly Betty:
“I’ll kill you and steal your wardrobe,” Amanda hissed at the model who was eyeing Daniel.
My sentences not doing it for you, why not try someone else’s on for size?
Extra points for anyone who:
+ Writes crack, humor, smut, a crazy crossover, or completely flips the tone of the first sentence around by the end of the ficlet (i.e. writing a gen ficlet based on any of the sentences that contain the word “sex”).
+ Doesn’t read the original before they start writing
+ Changes the fandom - double points if you manage this on the fandom-specific ones
+ Responds more than once
As always, anyone is welcome to respond. And write whatever fandom you like-I don’t have to know it! Just go where your muse leads, my little flying monkeys.
Non-fandom specific
(01) I can’t tell you what to do.
(02) He’s not sure what he’s supposed to do.
(03) The smoke curls, burning snakes, painting a mountain aflame and a river frozen into vapor.
(04) “Quick-I need a haiku.”
(05) “Terrible habit, you know.”
(06) “You will submit,” he said, tracing a line of agony along her back.
(07) It is a holy moment.
(08) First time he saw it he snorted something unpleasant out of his nose.
(09) The morning dawned early, showering the sun down the crags of the mountain.
(10) The lights glinted like strings of stars, extemporaneous bridges that linked the sentinel stands of brush that bordered the east end of the lawn.
(11) Stung, like the time he’d held a handful of bees, too panicked to let go and spent a whole month walking around with tender finger bones.
(12) Fellow had his hat low, like he was fighting off the sun, hunched down and in, all shades of brown from his hat to coat to wrinkled paper bag.
(13) “Sheee-it, that’s hard.”
(14) You say it when you’re alone, and he’s half-drowsing on the couch.
(15) This is how it began: she smiled at you.
(16) There’s something to be said for dying.
(17) Just a sack of useless flesh, now.
(18) “Surrender to destiny, my ass.”
(19) It is nothing more than the smell of her, and you are undone.
(20) THWUMP.
(21) “Have you ever sucked dick before?”
(22) “You suck dick like some kind of Harry Houdini.”
(23) “Partner sex?”
(24) “You know, I didn’t realize that clean sex was possible until I met you.”
(25) When you’re fifteen and horny, almost anything seems like a good idea, which must be why he let Mark from Social Studies talk him into this bathroom.
(26) Touch me touch me touch me touch me touch me.
(27) “Aaaaaaaaaaa-CHEW!”
(28) “We gotta figure out a way to get this woman off my back.”
(29) Earthquake spores. Seriously.
(30) Lands are not far away when they’re in your mind, Mother tells you.
(31) The papers crinkled under his face, jarring him back into consciousness.
(32) “Can you believe flowers bloom here at this time of year?”
(33) Fingers alight solar flares on their entranced path, curved up a spine and then trickled down, exploring valleys of want and mountain ranges of sensitivity, over the sensuous inland expanse of the shoulder, coming to rest at the place where high meets low, where cool meets warm, and a balance is met.
(34) Bare:
Peter’s sixteen and feels like an idiot.
Brokeback Mountain:
(35) John looked him-washed-out, run-down-didn’t know what was so special about him.
(36) Lureen might have been a lot of things, but stupid was not one of them.
(37) “Never reckoned t’see you in an apron, Jack,” Ennis purred, sliding up close only to be stopped short by a whack on the head with a dripping spatula.
(38) Dead Like Me:
“Mason, you stupid son of a bitch.”
DC (SR and BB)
(39) CLARK’S SHIP: *starts beeping madly and desperately hitting the brakes* OMFG we’re about to hit something!
(40) When he was fifteen, Clark Kent tried to cure cancer.
(41) “Gotham will be realized.”
(42) “I’ve wanted to fuck you like this from the first day you showed your boy scout face in Gotham,” he said, hoarse, breath exhaling vaporous in the night, hot as a brand on Clark’s ear.
(43) Gotham gave Jimmy the creeps.
(44) Ugly Betty:
“I’ll kill you and steal your wardrobe,” Amanda hissed at the model who was eyeing Daniel.
My sentences not doing it for you, why not try someone else’s on for size?