first and last

[sidleypkhermit]

 

A delayed meme ganked from impala_chick: Share the first and last lines of the last five stories you have posted to AO3.

This sounded good since I've been wanting to get LJ up to date on my posted fic, and then I realized the fun twist that all five of my latest posted works were from writetomyheart — about which I'll explain at the end! Consider yourself tagged if you want to participate.

 

1. hear me call across the waves, if I don't come home tonight (Severance, Gemma Scout)

First: “Hello, world!”

Last: And where the hell did he go?

2. the fox knows many things (Wheel of Time [TV], Mat/Thom if you're reading it right:) )

First: “I’m all ears,” Thom said, settling down at the little table in his cabin. Mat sat opposite him, each of them holding a wooden bowl of hot soup and rationing out its warmth as the cold of the nighttime sea air was beginning to bring a serious bite.

Last: Thom put a light hand on Mat’s wrist. “If we live long enough,” he said, “you’ll hear it all.”

3. Lumon is Listening (Severance, original characters)

First: “I shouldn’t have let you use fire. It disrupted the unity of action.”

Last: She wondered what would happen right now if she got up on Mr. Stuart’s desk, spun around, and burst into flames.

4. From the Balcony (The Muppets, Statler/Waldorf)

First: “Let’s go home,” Waldorf said. It was a relatively quiet moment in the theatre, since Gonzo had requested complete silence for a daring escape act, and a couple people actually shushed him.

 

Last: “Well, then she must be way too good for the Electric Mayhem,” Waldorf said. “Forget leaving early! This I gotta see.”

5. one more for the road (Better Call Saul, Howard Hamlin/Cheryl Hamlin)

First: “Feeling better?”

Last: He feels Cheryl sigh, her face against his day-old dress shirt, her wiry arm around his waist. “Howard,” she says. “Nobody ever asked you to.”

 

The fun coincidence with this is that, as I mentioned, these were all for writetomyheart, a round-robin flashfic community where you must base the opening line of your fic on the closing line of the previous person's fic.

It's been responsible for most of my posted works on AO3 over the last couple years, it's a lot of fun, and for anyone who might be out there looking for things to do on LJ, guess what! They still use their LJ comm! (You can do it from genuinely wherever, but I can report that LJ is not yet deprecated.)

 

 

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Comments

[impala_chick]

I see you like starting with dialogue :) That's such a great way to put someone right into a story. Or maybe the previous stories ended with dialogue? Also, that writing game at writetomyheart sounds like so much fun!

[sidleypkhermit]

Thanks! A lot of the ending sentences I get in that game do tend to be dialogue, I think all five of these were. Some others in the past have just been so odd that I couldn't think of anything to do but try to turn the last couple words into a line of opening dialogue. :D