me and del were singing

[sab]

hey, I need an opening line. Any opening line will do. I'll take a bunch, if you've got 'em. I'm collecting.

Which is to say, I'm stalled at the beginning of this X-Files (yes, yes, I know) story I want to start. Start me off. We're in Scully POV, if that helps, but this opening line can be in any tense, any POV, any person, any time, anywhere. kickstart.

more is better than less. Write me a line. write me several lines. extrapolate off other people's lines. Prizes will be awarded, in the competitive style of "Whose Line is it, Anyway?"

Comments

[christhetoken.livejournal.com]

It was the fourth bear this season that had choked to death on a camper.

[christhetoken.livejournal.com]

Kung Fu Theater had nothing on this.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

i don't generally write X-Files, but um, how about:

When she heard the door open, she said, "I'm in the bedroom. I'll be ready in a minute."

Also, as an opening line I've used (it was a challenge) I offer "The night was moist."

HTH

[qowf.livejournal.com]

On rainy days, the basement smelled of must instead of might, of things that should be instead of things that weren't. On nice days it was her prison but when the sky was dark and the occasional D.C. snow was deep, it had the initmacy of the confessional, stale with sins only thought of but punished anyways.

[qowf.livejournal.com]

Not to try to compete for the prolific award that will go to our Token, but here's another one that goes the opposite way:

Scully laid her pen down on her desk. After hours of contemplation should could no longer deny the truth: Mulder really did have a big-ass nose.

[christhetoken.livejournal.com]

The twine ball had begun to unravel; tourist trade be damned.

[christhetoken.livejournal.com]

Nelson Mandela would never be the same after the incident.

[christhetoken.livejournal.com]

"I had to do it, Paul Winfield needed a taco," he said through bloody lips.

[christhetoken.livejournal.com]

He went down like a poleaxed steer, which was understandable, since I just hit him with an axe.

[noelleleithe.livejournal.com]

Fox Mulder had always hated answering machines.

(Eh, but it was the opening line of a story I will never write ...)

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

So far, kung fu theatre is winning. Now if only we could channel Chris' psychosis in a more productive direction... *g*

Okay, step two -- Scully is on her way to Mulder's house. That's what we know. tawk amongst.

I like your twisted point of view, Mike...

[noelleleithe.livejournal.com]

Another day, another bridge.

[se-parsons.livejournal.com]

It was like a nightmare where she kept having to repeat things over and over, but not. Of course she'd been there, done that. And now, apparently, was doing it again, because there was the highway exit she really didn't want, but needed to use if she was going to get where she was going.r

[mazily.livejournal.com]

Waking up to the sound of her clock radio blasting "My Heart Will Go On" in a continuous loop, Scully finally gave in to the obvious. The world was ending; the aliens had finally won.

[mazily.livejournal.com]

or, you know, for the thread we're actually on right now:

As her car radio continued to blast "My Heart Will Go On" on every station, Scully finally gave in to the obvious. The world was ending; the aliens had finally won.

[snark2]

As she swung first one foot, then the other, off the passenger pegs of Petey Paczkowski's green BMX Supa X, taking care to remember the broken heel her right shoe had suffered after the unfortunate hot dog vendor incident at 23rd and Frost, Scully made up her mind as she climbed the steps to Mulder's door: tonight, she would just shoot the mechanics at Brookline Ford and buy a whole new car at the Dodge dealer next door.

[fourteenlines.livejournal.com]

Some days were like drinking good wine with crackers and Cheez-Whiz: just not worth it.