From Trent Reedy’s Divided We Fall: Burning Nation
“A tracer round sliced a bright red streak through the black night in front of me.”
“The Wayland Inn was behind the slums, on the west end of Knoxville.”
Kristen Simmons’ Article 5: Breaking Point
“Examination day.”
From Joelle Charbonneau’s The Testing: Independent Study
“Graduation Day.”
From Joelle Charbonneau’s The Testing
“Beth and Ryan were holding hands.”
From Kristen Simmons' Article 5
“Grace Somerfield was the first to die.”
From Alexandra Bracken's The Darkest Minds
“Jyn Erso hid in the dark.”
From Beth Revis' Star Wars: Rebel Rising.
“The tower, which was not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and the wind-gnarled trees of the marsh flats.”
From Jeff VanderMeer's The Southern Reach: Annihilation
“It was a dark and stormy night.”
From Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.
“It was the smell that began to drive Thomas slightly mad.”
From James Dashner's Maze Runner: The Death Cure
“‘I… I killed them,’ I stammered.”
From Eric Walters' Rule of Three: Will to Survive.
“I stare down at my shoes, watching as a fine layer of ash settles on the worn leather.”
From Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.
“I wake with his name in my mouth.”
From Veronica Roth's Divergent: Insurgent
First Sentence of a New World 