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Not to be taken with humor-inhibitors.
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March 13, 2006
The Top 5 Rejected Opening Lines for Novels
(Part I)
- Cynthia was happy to have a few moments to herself -- moments that weren't being spent making out with Mexican carnival workers.
- As the chemical plant exploded behind me, I felt a drop of gooey wetness strike my neck -- perhaps the portion of Roger's brain that had such trouble remembering the liquid conversion for tablespoons in a liter when disarming a two-stage explosive.
- Space, that vast expanse of the infinite, majestic unknown, was no match for Mortimer Schlotnick's walk-in hall closet.
- Glenford had always wanted a woman with lips like slugs, but the way she fingered the salty rim of her margarita glass told him this was one woman who knew her way around the garden.
and the Number 1 Rejected Opening Line for a Novel...
- Lanny knew instinctively that if it were Fan Sale Day at every store in every country in the world and she had all the money in that world to buy every single one of those fans, they still wouldn't be enough for all the shit that was headed her way.
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Selected from 127 submissions from 45 contributors.
Today's Top Five List authors were:
- Michael Cunningham, Woodridge, IL -- 1 (15th #1)
- Travis Ruetenik, Hiroshima, Japan -- 2
- Lori Petterson, Fairfax, VA -- 3
- John Gephart IV, Harrisburg, PA -- 4 Website
- Jody LaFerriere, Leominster, MA -- 5 Website
- Tristan Fabriani, Passaic, NJ -- Topic
- Donald Junter, New Haven, CT -- Banner Tag
- Chris White, Los Angeles, CA -- List owner/editor Hall of Famer
- Big Daddy Kane, Brooklyn, NY -- Ambience (explanation)
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