Writing Meme: Single Sentence

Ganked from limiinal.

Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations, no more than one sentence!

Oh jesus, this may take a while.

1. "You're simply the one who didn't die."

2. She nodded in agreement, placing her small hat with it's single black feather in the ribbon band on her head and walked away.

3. Those were the times I'd get ice cream before and after.

4. "That bastard, he told you I was crazy didn't he?"

5. "No, see, I am, but I also am not, but even though I really am I'd like you to not say I am, because bad things happen if you are, which I am, but not, and since I'm not really, but am, they don't."

6. But, anyway, I'm well aware of the ramifications of my actions.

7. How from the legs it would all bloom out from the inside of her thighs and circle around to curl and cup her cheeks.

8. "You will be less than deja vu to them, because they won't even remember if they forgot about you."

9. "You don't get to leave yet, you wait your turn like the rest of us."

10. You get shiny coppers like Arthur O’Hara, who truly (if you believe it) think that the system works, and in their favor no less.

11. She wears wildfire for clothing, and the dancing flames of a campfire as anklets and bracelets.

12. Grey silk whispered in flight as she turned and dropped.

13. The rock sat there, unmoving, but she didn't dare approach it, least it bite her.

14. Feeling your spine twist and snap is the worst part, but you get used to it.

15. Four years of planning, two of fighting, one night of depraved lust, and it was would all worthless if he decided he didn't like the color.

16. The scream was heard throughout the palace.

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I could do more, but then I'd just depress myself with how much I have open but unfinished. Not bad depressed, but just irritated-god-why-can't-I-finish-something annoyance.

5th Grade TimeWarp: Kareen

I dug this out of the depths of my flashdrive. The date is still on the word.doc 3-10-99. Wow. waitasecond, that was eighth grade for me, what happened there?

I forget what exactly the project was originally, I want to say we had to create our own, wait! that was it! the assignment was to create our own island, draw it out as well, and map out all the features. What I have here is the extra credit part, where you were to create the culture and people.

What I did with the first part was instead of a single island, I created an archipeligo. Thirteen islands, with four peoples and desperate cultures, and intersecting mythology. I was an ambishish child, which often got me into trouble come time to actually finish assignments.

Speaking of which, I never finished the extra credit work (I also lost the map). Don't remember why, but what's there is what I did do. Right as things were about to be thrown down too. Hell, I stopped midsentence, so that just shows how much I really into finishing it. Ah well, I cringe at seeing what I used to be, but still see hints of the style that would stay with me.

Rereading through it, I apparently was big on names. Because I made up as many I could apparently (but for some reason though "celtic" would fit right in). And used every one. Lots of info dumping at the beginning. Kinda makes me want to go back and rework everything. And the actual legend story at the end is something I'm keeping and want to rework into something better. The ideas are still decent... but this is just... I shake and hang my head in embarrassed shame.

( Kareen: where, with all the other names I had made up, at some point I thought Tanto was a good name for a island native and not at all racist )

Oh the suspense, it pulls at me so.