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.”
“My wife, Megan, wrote an e-vite to our dinner party that was like Megan herself: funny, sharp, and a touch mysterious.”
From James Patterson and Richard DiLallo's The Store
“Someone must have bitten off her nose.”
From Lex Thomas' Quarantine: The Loners
“Deep in the green-glowing bowels of a Chinatown seafood market, down a dead-end hallway lined with crab tanks, we crouched in a puddle of dark the light-eater had made, watched over by a thousand alien eyes.”
From Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: The Conference of the Birds
“The Wayland Inn was behind the slums, on the west end of Knoxville.”
Kristen Simmons’ Article 5: Breaking Point
“She’s sitting at the bus stop checking the likes on her Instagram feed and doesn’t even notice the man with the gun until he’s almost next to her.”
From Adrian McKinty's The Chain
“It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.”
From Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders
“Examination day.”
From Joelle Charbonneau’s The Testing: Independent Study
“Niko’s eyes flashed to our faces, one by one.”
From Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14: Savage Drift
“Sweeney gave me a little too much lead on the pass.”
From Trent Reedy’s Divided We Fall
“Graduation Day.”
From Joelle Charbonneau’s The Testing
“Twenty-five years ago, I killed my mother.”
From Sarah Zettel's The Other Sister
“Beth and Ryan were holding hands.”
From Kristen Simmons' Article 5
“Mark shivered with cold, something he hadn’t done in a long time.”
From James Dashner's The Maze Runner: The Kill Order
“By midnight the snowfall would reach a foot, just shy of breaking Aspen’s one-day record set more than forty years before.”
From Trish Harnetiaux's White Elephant
First Sentence of a New World 