Hook me in 20 words or less

[TexasBluebonnet]

He took in a sharp breath, his hands clenched in determination. "The end is always the beginning," he said.

 

[Ninjitsu14]

I stared at the job apllication before me, trying desperately not to jot down "vampire hunter" in past experiences.....

I stared at the large double doors before me. The end of my journey was just the beginning.

The floorboards creaked in the silence, as if to say, "Run! Away from here!!", but I didn't.

I stared at the dusty, leather-bound book before me. I never realized that book would consume the rest of my life.

 

[Lessien]

Everyone always said I should go with a name that makes people cower in fear. But "The Dark Lord Happy-Pants" has worked quite well for me, thank you very much.

 

[sunstruckdream]

I never should have read his letter. I should have burned it when I had the chance. But 'should,' as it turns out, is an empty word.

 

[Peace Eternal]

As a sentimental Villian, I credit my fabulous speaches to my High School Forensics coach.

 

[sunstruckdream]

As a sentimental Villian, I credit my fabulous speaches to my High School Forensics coach.

hahahaha!

 

[WESTERNdeitySIXmoths]

v1
when lightning strikes everything glows white, and the city looks, for that instant, like what i imagine heaven to be

v2
lightning strikes tease, and provide wispy, fleeting respite from my view of streets & streets of closed doors with lights on

v3
beneath, above, beside and between lightning strikes we pawed at the something with confused hands, like dogs exchanging diamonds

 

[Jeriel]

Once upon a time, I was dead.

I like that one

We could do nothing but wait, hope flitting nervously. The thundrous echo sounded, resounded, clapped in our ears . . . nearer . . .

 

[Doubtless]

lol. I think Poe stole a peek at this thread a long time before it ever existed:

"True!—nervous—very, very dreafully nervous I had been and still am! but why will you say that I am mad?"
~ The Tell-Tale Heart

Twenty words, no more no less.

My second go at it:

I have twenty words with which to tell you that you don't exist. Somehow, I don't think it will work.

 

[Peace Eternal]

Flying, I found, was not all that dangerous. It was the landing that killed me.

 

[Ninjitsu14]

Hmm....trying to think of another one.


Okay! Here we go.

Whenever I transferred to Sakaharu High School, I never thought I'd be embroiled in a war between werewolves and vampires.

Ha! Exactly 20 words.


Whenever I think of the legend that became my life, I never thought it would begin with my cat, Phillip

The words rolled off my tounge as I read the book. I felt a strange sensation, as my world began....

Sorry. Over 20.

 

[TexasBluebonnet]

Something woke her. Sitting up in the dark, she realized she was not alone.

 

[GreenWizard]

Ben awoke on the wrong side of his bed. That was normal except his bed was usually not an alley.

 

[sunstruckdream]

It happened for the first time when I was looking in the mirror.

 

[sunstruckdream]

Usually when you trip, you hit the ground - not fall through it.
Then again, I'm an anomaly.

 

[mochagirl]

"It was a dark and stormy night--" Or maybe not.

Seriously:

The first time I saw him, he was about to jump off a bridge.

 

[TexasBluebonnet]

It always happened this time of year. The phone would ring and she knew what she'd have to do.

 

[mochagirl]

Here are first lines from some of my stories. Some are a little over the word limit.

I maintain that it all came about because of the rain.

A park bench in Cleveland during the middle of December was not the best place to have an emotional breakdown, and yet, there she was, freezing her derriere off and too upset to care.

My sister and I have a complicated relationship. We didn't meet until my twelfth year was nigh over, and she was already eighteen years of age.

The cat was staring at him, its green eyes wide and knowing. But that was ridiculous--cats didn't know things.

I've been called many things in my life--a fortuneteller, a prophetess, even a sorceress--but I've never considered myself any of them.

"So what exactly did the creepy phone person say again?"

 

[TexasBluebonnet]

Footsteps crunched behind him. A shadow fell, and a scream lodged in his throat as a hand came near.

 

[sunstruckdream]

It always happened this time of year. The phone would ring and she knew what she'd have to do.

I like this one.