Thursday, September 08, 2005

Surreal sentences

I saw this while netsurfing and thought it sounded like fun. [Obviously, since we even had this many books around, things are slow at the agency and Jon and I are bored]

Directions:
1. Take five novels from your bookshelf.
2. Book 1 — first sentence
3. Book 2 — last sentence on page 50
4. Book 3 — second sentence on page 100
5. Book 4 — next to the last sentence on page 150
6. Book 5 — final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph.
8. Feel free to "cheat" to make it a better paragraph.
9. Name your sources
10.Post to your blog.

Here's mine:
1 AWAKEN ME DARKLY - Gena Showalter
2 URBAN SHAMAN - C.E. Murphy
3 A.K.A. GODDESS - Evelyn Vaughn
4 STAYING DEAD - Laura Anne Gilman
5 CARPE DEMON - Julie Kenner

Midnight. The witching hour some say. Since it was 12:07 a.m. and I was standing over a dead body, I had to agree./ Just for a moment everything stopped. There was a rider astride the gray, arrested in motion by my scream./One blow. He sank onto stone at the base of Tour Melusine, bloody and unconscious./Oliver Frants would be quite proud of it. If he ever gave the matter any thought. /And, when you get right down to it, what family doesn't have one or two little secrets...?

And here's Jon's:
1 OVER THE EDGE - Jeannie London
2 CERTIFIED MALE - Kristin Hardy
3 A STRANGER'S TOUCH - Tori Carrington
4 HER PRIVATE EYE - Shannon Hollis
5 HERS FOR THE WEEKEND - Tanya Michaels

The woman moved as though she were making love, slim curves gathering and unfolding in a sinuous display/The stroke of tongue against tongue sent desire arrowing through her./Quinn, however, had some body parts that would solely appreciate the attention./He pulled the clip from her hair and fluffed the chaos of curls over the vee of bare skin at her nape just as her mother walked in the door./ "So would now be a good time to vote on whether or not we should make love? All in favor-" "Aye."

Jon thought it was hysterical that his ended up sounding like some kinky incest orgy.

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