RULES: If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favorite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your discretion. Mention the title (and genre) if you like, but don't mention anything else. This is merely to whet the general appetite for your forthcoming work(s).


When he blew into his battered cornet this time, a spicy, fast-tempo rendition of "When the Saints Go Marching In" covered the field with notes as fat as Thanksgiving turkeys.

-- from The All Nations Team, a baseball novel


Funny what sort of insight one can get, flat on one's back, looking up at the gun-barrel of a mile-long vertical tunnel leading back to a world one has already abandoned, with the crushing weight of forest energy and muddy man bearing down on one's person.

-- from Dead Man's Rope, a blog novel