Hook me in 20 words or less

[WingsOfTheNeophyte]

It was the inevitability of human drama she said, it all boils down to...

 

[WingsOfTheNeophyte]

"Atlantis was on Mars? You're kidding right?"

"Just... hear me out."

Nice, nice, I love sci fi

 

[NavyGuy7]

Actually, ten and a number. Unless you consider that "you'll" is really a combination of two words and therefore could be considered two words depending on how the word count is being measured and in that case it would be eleven words and a number.

"Well, aren't we just special?" she said in her superior voice.

((That comes from the Church Lady skit they used to do on SNL. LOL.))

 

[oncewaslost]

finally! something under 30 words!

An eye cracked and a low, dry voice issued from the woman on the ground. “Just because I'm lying here doesn't mean I won't destroy you.”

 

[NavyGuy7]

Whaddya mean, finally? I ALWAYS go under 20 words...when I'm thinking about it, anyway, lol.

 

[oncewaslost]

Whaddya mean, finally? I ALWAYS go under 20 words...when I'm thinking about it, anyway, lol.

i meant that i finally got something under 30 words.

 

[sunstruckdream]

well i know i'm guilty of some of the longer ones...*sheepish grin*...sorry...

 

[NavyGuy7]

WEll, that one was short....lol, jk.

 

[sunstruckdream]

haha yeah i'm getting better =p

...

"They said I'd had a breakdown."

 

[NavyGuy7]

I realized all of a sudden I was awake, beating up the body of the man I'd killed...


(That's from the game FarCry, you wake up beating up someone who had probably been there to kill you.)

 

[lawtonfogle]

"You know, I though Romeo and Juliet had it hard," the elder whispered to his listening sword. "Hai," it replied.

 

[NavyGuy7]

"That's the Japanese word for 'yes'," said the scholarly girl to the confused would-be date.

 

[MrBF1V3]

Makes one want to read more ...

Try this:

"God hates me," Alex said breathlessly.

B5

 

[amazed_by_grace]

It wasn't the first time she had awoken standing in her bedroom doorway, her shaking hands grasping her Sig Saur...

Heh, that's the opening line to an opening paragraph that I wrote for a similar challenge elsewhere!

 

[Tariel]

"Why aren't you dead?" he demanded, glaring at the young woman.
She smiled innocently. "Because you failed to kill me."

 

[sunstruckdream]

^^^ nice one =)

 

[Tariel]

^^^ nice one =)

 

[sunstruckdream]

He fixed his glare on me and took aim. "Drop your sword."
You idiot, I wanted to laugh. He couldn't have done anything dumber.

 

[Tariel]

A heartbeat. Emotion took over, I was consumed by the thrill. It was all I needed to kill a man.

(This one is actually a variation on the actual opening to a story I'm writing)

 

[Mabinogi]

Time? What was time? Reality? What was reality?
Slowly my brain fazed into darkness...