First lines

This prompt was originally published on the Storyslingers blogspot: click here for the unedited version

In August, 2012, we set a challenge for the group to come up with first lines to stories they've never written. Here are some selected opening sentences. Feel free to use any of these and write a story using it as a first line:

• She flounced past our drive straight into number 27, quite unmistakably the girl who we had buried only last Saturday afternoon.

• “Meet me by the Rowan tree at dusk and I’ll lead you to the boat.”

• Lars walked to the cliff edge, stones crumbled under his sandals and bounced down, popping to the shingle.

• He balled his fists and drank in salty air, eyes locked onto the straight line ahead where sky met sea.

• It was an in-between sort of day, a bit blue, a bit grey - the same colour as his eyes.

• Roland Boyle had been digging for spare change, but he didn't expect to find a razor blade hidden within his pocket lint.

• Everything I tell you is a lie, except for the parts that are true.

• They were paper people, born into words rather than bodies.

• The floorboards creaked and the shutters flapped like trapped souls against the windows; the house had been waiting for me.

• There was no sense, no logic, but she knew that if she spent another five seconds in that room, there would be no escaping it.

• He rocked gently as the words from his diary spiralled around him.

• The six members of the village committee stood staring at the bloodied carcass lying in front of them.

• The human heart is only capable of continuous blood circulation, and nothing more.

• The dogs are still gathering - last time I looked there were at least 50 of them outside my front door.

• Please believe me, it was not my intention to do this to you, of all people.