"The android whose name was Boy set out on an adventure."
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"The android whose name was Boy set out on an adventure."
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
This first line is from the first short story in this collection written by Sylvia Plath. This she wrote when she was 8. The start of this story also feels like a line from a poem and is a couple of paragraphs long with all the story ingredients. It‘s ending is wonderful and amused me.
The thief walked through rolls of milky fog, advancing warily to the base of a wall that rose until the fog swallowed it; his chameleon-web bodysuit mocked the opaline mist until he was a pale shade in the shadows.
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“As the farmhouse door flew open and the soldiers stormed in, Dora realized her first warm meal in months was actually a trap.“
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*(Somehow it doesn't feel like Friday, even though the calendar says it is.)
A warm, damp, starless night in the city.
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The bloodshot eyes of the detective met hers, the lines in his face carved even deeper than they had been when they'd first met.
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It's actually from Jo's latest book A Disappearing Act but it's not listed on Litsy yet.
In the year 1664, after I had pass‘d my several examinations in the University of Copenhagen, and had deservedly obtained the Character, which is there call‘d Laudable, by the Votes of my Judges, as well Philosophers as Divines, I prepared for my Return into my native Country; ...
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