Openers
- She stands there staring at her feet and tugging at her shirt, unsure of what to say.
- Slowly, but surely, she opens the manila coloured envelope, her hands trembling and her heart racing as she does.
- The morning sun shines behind them as they stand there staring at each other, oblivious to the chaos all around.
- Rays of light pass through the enlarging opening as the door creeks open.
- Everyone knows that Mark lights up every time Jayne makes an entrance; everyone knows that Mark is in love; and everyone knows that Mark is not aware of it.
- Although it happens all the time, Leonard still gets taken by surprise.
- While she concludes that life isn’t quite like a movie-script ending, Michael steps into her life for the very first time and there her life begins like a written script for a chick flick.
- This story begins at the back of a dark alley where both Gayle and Sarah are seeking refuge from the rest of the world.
- Slowly, Liliane walks towards the railings, climbs over and stares down at the street, 20 stories blow her.
- The wind’s howling and rattling the windows, but neither of them hears the cacophony.
- Maurice is a rat, a very fat rat at that.
- The setting is perfect: everyone is in their positions and Sheila’s looking deep into Ryan’s eyes, just waiting for that blissful moment she says the words “I do”.
Vivian said,
October 27, 2006 at 10:13 am
Slowly, Liliane walks towards the railings, climbs over and stares down at the street, 20 stories below her. She trembles, but she is really tired of having such a life. Scenes of her parents quarreling, her brother fighting, her coming ‘O’level examiniation timetable and her recent health report begin to appear in her mind. Her tears roll down her cheek and drip down the 20 stories drop by drop like pearls. Liliane always believes that she has got the most miserable life, but no one knows about it. Though she appears to be an extrovert in school, always waving to someone she knows every other minute, deep in her heart, it is filled with sadness. She has been trying all sort of ways to end her pathetic life, but they always failed. This time, Liliane is determined to succeed. She looks at her health report and gets depressed even more, when she sees the word “depression”. She then leans forward, and lets her body fly down the building, with the pieces from health report. When the police arrives to see Liliane lying in a pond of blood. Hundred metres away from her, it is a health report of someone by the name of “Liliana”.
misterryan said,
November 6, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Number 7 should be your best sentence. It’s the most creative and witty of the bunch. The challenge is it’s jumbled. I wonder if there’s a way you can revise it to make it flow more smoothly.