Today is the Ministry Fair and I'm supposed to promote the Writers' Club. The Writers' Club needs promoting since we currently only have three members, including me. Since I was doing this at the very last minute, I didn't have a lot of supplies--- so I went out a bought a bunch of fun-sized Lion bars (to draw the people in!) Lacking in flyers, I took what little paper I had and cut it into little strips. On one side I wrote the information about the Writers' Club, and on the other side I put "beginnings of stories" to stimulate the imaginations of potential members. Here are some of the random story beginnings I put on the papers...
(most of them I made up last night, but the starred lines are from famous novels, can you guess which ones?)

I can understand those who say they do not believe in ghosts, but they have never been in my house after midnight.

*Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

I don't think of myself as a demanding housekeeper, but I draw the line at a walrus in the living room.

I must admit that "being kidnapped by aliens" had not been the first item on my summer to-do list.

It was not without a healthy helping of trepidation that I began my first voyage into the depths of the Congo.

If a man speaks a positive word about Seamus O'Donnell, I am obliged to conclude that he has never met him.

*It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

"It's called a flux capacitor."

I dropped the anvil off of the Eiffel Tower, with just enough horizontal velocity to clear the legs. Three down, two to go.

Today seems as good a day as any for a voyage to the Moon.

*Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

For a woman the size of a thimble, a common house spider can be a formidable enemy.

The most difficult thing about living on Mars, is, for an Englishman, the deplorable paucity of decent tea.

*The was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

I awoke on the metro in a state of total disarray.

*All of this happened, more or less.

*Call me Ishmael.

*Ships at a distance have every man's wish aboard.

*The moment one learns English, complications set in.

*Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

It was a dark and stormy night...

When I received the plain, slim envelope among my bills and publicity flyers, there was no way I could have known that its contents would change my life forever.

I can't say that I would be good at being human, but I have always secretly wanted to give it a try.

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

*It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

Those who think that unicorns are hard to find are clearly those who do not know where to look.

The capacity for flight has much less to do with the details of fluid mechanics than with the willful suspension of disbelief.

Like all of the most successful emperors in history, I was a fraud.

I had always supported the reintroduction of wolves, in the abstract.

Do not put aluminum foil in the microwave.

They had always said it could never be done, which was precisely why we had to do it.

You think the world is an orderly place, controlled by the clockwork laws of physics--- but you are wrong.

The summer of 2013 was one I would never forget--- the summer I lost my hand, my heart, and my husband.

*During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland.

If the world really did have an edge, it would be in McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

They say that love comes when you are least looking for it-- which is why I had always remained on constant guard.

"Isn't it about time we buried your grandmother?" Grandfather said. I answered him the same way as always: "We'll have to wait 'til she's dead, Pawpaw."

Yay someone likes my music! Maybe you should come to see them when they play in Atlanta...hmm!
» middaymoon on 2013-09-22 06:01:24

I recognize some of these as lines from the middle of books (or movies.)
» middaymoon on 2013-09-22 06:06:07

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