Great story openings in literary history

DerekJohnson

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.


The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.


Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested


Let us harken back to '03, a dirty rainy day in Gorst. PLSS was dumb enough to go into that little strip club, right at that big bend in the highway before Kitsap Way in Bremerton.

CaptainPJ

Where Fancy Feast floweth?!!

Do tell!!

PurpleJ

Could he get a $5 steak with all the fixins???

AEB

'Twas the best of times, Twas the worst of times.

PurpleJ

The chinquisition was in the hands of its enemies.

GrundleStiltzkin

OK!

RaccoonHarry

Call me Ishmael

PurpleBaze

RaccoonHarry said:

Call me Ishmael

Raghib or Qadry?

dnc

First off, welcome to our message boards. You're about to enter lively forums centered around college football.

TommySQC

DerekJohnson said:

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.


The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.


Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested


Let us harken back to '03, a dirty rainy day in Gorst. PLSS was dumb enough to go into that little strip club, right at that big bend in the highway before Kitsap Way in Bremerton.

kh83

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

PostGameOrangeSlices

PurpleJ said:

The chinquisition was in the hands of its enemies.

I fell, fainting, into the abyss

Swaye

Franny, light of my life, fire of my loins.

GrundleStiltzkin

kh83 said:

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

*chingler

ApostleofGrief

I WAS sick -- sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me.

PostGameOrangeSlices

ApostleofGrief said:

I WAS sick -- sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me.

OK!

ApostleofGrief

just so you know, orangeslices, I took a class once and you were supposed to write comments in general about some topic. The instructor would not do much other than skim it and write "OK!".

PostGameOrangeSlices

ApostleofGrief said:

I took a class once

oh ya?

JaWarrenJaHooker

I had never heard of Gorst before

theknowledge

"Oh, the strawberries don't taste as sweet and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!" Can't remember if it's the opener but one hell of a line. Reminds me of the team we follow. Race, true?

CuntWaffle

ApostleofGrief said:

just so you know, orangeslices, I took a class once and you were supposed to write comments in general about some topic. The instructor would not do much other than skim it and write "OK!".

Riveting