{"id":23143,"date":"2014-04-22T11:03:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T15:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=23143"},"modified":"2014-04-22T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T15:03:43","slug":"opening-line-challenge-faves-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/04\/22\/opening-line-challenge-faves-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Line Challenge: Faves & Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

The opening line challenge<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is always a fun one — and this time, we had ~500 entries (!!?), which took quite a bit of reading just to get through. BUT I DID, and lo, was rewarded by a great deal of awesome. I’ve picked my favorites below, but even still, had to pick three as winners.<\/p>\n

Those three are bolded and asterisked.<\/p>\n

Winners: write me at terribleminds at gmail dot com.<\/p>\n

Congrats! And well done, folks.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

* The deck of the airship swarmed with wild-eyed girls gnashing their teeth and pumping filth-covered fists in the air like tiny, bloodthirsty monsters.\u00a0\u2014 Jen Dornan-Fish<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/strong>Choices are the hinges on the door of Destiny and Fate is the bitch who slammed that door in my face.\u00a0\u2014 Silver James<\/span><\/p>\n

The crack in the wall appeared three days after they moved in.\u00a0\u2014 Ducky<\/span><\/p>\n

At first we thought we could control the fire.\u00a0\u2014 AE Lowan<\/span><\/p>\n

Because the dead do not sleep, Doctor Marie Fluette was reading at her desk in the library when she felt the great building shudder like a flea-bit dog.\u00a0\u2014 Aimee Kuzenski<\/span><\/p>\n

* I had won a kingdom through iron and blood but I had no idea what to do with it.\u00a0\u2014 Anthony<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Nobody suspects the girl who smiles.\u00a0\u2014 Allsnjill<\/span><\/p>\n

These hands have done things that this mind should never have allowed.\u00a0\u2014 Nick Nafpliotis<\/span><\/p>\n

Once upon a time, a girl fell in love with a mountain.\u00a0\u2014 Sean<\/span><\/p>\n

I met a man made of smoke today.\u00a0\u2014 JC Hemphill<\/span><\/p>\n

The fat ginger was leaking lies like a punctured wineskin.\u00a0\u2014 mtharpin<\/span><\/p>\n

Up until last week I thought the worst night of my life was when the O\u2019Connell brothers nailed my dad to a tree.\u00a0\u2014 Lee Thompson<\/span><\/p>\n

* I fed some ducks at your funeral.\u00a0\u2014 Allison Forsythe<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The opening line challenge is always a fun one — and this time, we had ~500 entries (!!?), which took quite a bit of reading just to get through. BUT I DID, and lo, was rewarded by a great deal of awesome. I’ve picked my favorites below, but even still, had to pick three as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-61h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23143"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23152,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23143\/revisions\/23152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}