by thenewgreen

The American Book Review has a list of their top 100 best first lines of a novel. My personal pick is #4 from one of my favorite reads, 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriele Garcia Marquez: Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

Let's pretend that we are setting out to write a novel and come up with our own first lines. Unlike the authors on the list you don't need to worry about coming up with what follows. How about it? Let's see some first lines.....

To set the bar low, here is mine:

Trapped beneath the tractor she tried to whistle; no sound would come.

I'd like to come up with some more. I think this could be a lot of fun. Shout-outs to those in the #storyclub but by all means everyone join in:

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