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  • Home
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Photo Albums
  • Testimonials
  • Giveaways
  • About
  • Lila, A Short-Short Story
  • The Bakken Blade
  • The Sienna Sand
  • The Douala Sunset
  • The Adventurer
  • Great Opening Lines

It’s hard to get lost when you’re coming home from work.

-Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley

It was the bright yellow tape that finally convinced me my sister was dead.

-The Damage Done by Hilary Davidson

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

-The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped the girl off the bridge.

-Darker Than Amber by John D. MacDonald

When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.

-Firebreak by Richard Stark (a.k.a., Donald E. Westlake)

When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.

-The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley

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