From Nicholas Spark's Two by Two
“’Wow!’ I can remember saying as soon as Vivian stepped out of the bathroom and showed me the positive result of the pregnancy test.”
“It’s funny the things that get stuck in your head.”
From Jeff Hirsch's Black River Falls
“Dear Mr. Richard Gere, In Mom’s underwear drawer–as I was separating her ‘personal’ clothes from the ‘lightly used’ articles I could donate to the local thrift shop–I found a letter you wrote.”
From Matthew Quick’s The Good Luck of Right Now
“It’s been exactly a year to the day–today is my fifteenth birthday, by the way, and I like my cake chocolate with white icing, in case anyone cares–since I started running away, and about two and a half weeks since I’ve been on the run full time.”
From Hollis Gillespie's Unaccompanied Minor
“Dear Library Board, Enclosed is my contribution for the Wolf Creek Community Time Capsule Project.”
From Kate Messner's Breakout
First Sentence of a New World 