Seven paperback, trade paperback, and hardcover books plucked one after another from my nearest bookshelf. First full sentence, page 21, from each. This is tres cool!
GOTHIC BLUES
They were faces, just passing, soon gone in the shimmering heat. If he ever scares me like that again, I'm going to break his neck. Nothing he did or said was unpremeditated. I don't blame him. But it's better that way. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. But I did make one terrible oversight.
My sources:
Joey Hill, Beloved Vampire
Steve Kluger, Almost Like Being in Love
Andre Aciman, Call Me By Your Name
Proulx, McMurtry, Ossana, Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay
K. A. Schuster, Acts of the Saints
Bram Stoker, Dracula
John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (large print edition)
7 comments:
Wow! Very cool, K.Z.! Your lines flow together well. You even end on a cliffhanger! And what eclectic sources. (Thanks for the link back to mine.) Best, Val
I don't usually "do" memes, Val, but this one looked like fun. I was amazed at how well the sentences came together!
Eclectic sources, yes. I have books all over the house, on shelving units or just lined up. In some spots, they're grouped rather sensibly; in others, kind of thrown together. The ones nearest my computer fall into the latter category . . . obviously. :-)
Holy crap. Yours sounds great. Mine was truly the ramblings of a psychotic mind. LOL
I think this is the best one I've read!
I think it was the Joey Hill and Bram Stoker sentences that gave it the eerie vibe. They're both wonderfully descriptive. And the cliffhanger didn't hurt, either.
I had to comment since you used a Dracula quote and my word veri is:
weedula Dracula's gardening loving gay son.
Or his permanently stoned son. One of the two.
:-D
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