First Lines Meme

[john_amend_all]

Memed from lost_spook:

Post the first lines of your 21 most recent fics.

1. "Immediate enforcement notice." Steel added a form to the neat stack on the table.
2. On the screen of the portable television, one flickering sprite dragged another across the finishing line.
3. For a moment, it seemed that Tegan had run out of things to say.
4. With quick glances, Treguard of Dunshelm looked around the Sultan's great hall.
5. "Are you nearly finished?" Zoë Heriot asked.
6. Ace had definitely selected the right destination — Terminal 8 — but as the personal transit pod approached the right stop, it showed no sign of slowing.
7. Martin McCabe sat down beside the hospital bed, and greeted the patient with a cheery "Afternoon, Charles."
8. "And this is the chapel," Lord Dark said.
9. According to its design specifications, the saloon of the spaceliner Emerald Star could comfortably accommodate a thousand people.
10. Zoë entered her override code and the inner hatch of the ventral airlock slid open.
11. "BERK!" the Thing's voice boomed from the upper reaches of the castle.
12. If he'd seen this building when he first started travelling with the Doctor, Jamie reflected, he'd have been struck dumb in awe.
13. "Hello? Can you hear me?"
14. "Well?" Steel asked.
15. Of the year 1940, barely a couple of hours remained.
16. Henry van Statten looked down once more at the calendar that lay on his desk.
17. To the casual observer, the two young women sharing a table at the Purple Dahlia Cafe would have seemed no different from the rest of the clientele.
18. Consciousness returned slowly and reluctantly to Liz.
19. No sooner had Inspector Neele closed the door of his flat behind him, than someone put her hands over his eyes and whispered "Guess who?"
20. "If you have any explanation for why you're chained to my daughter," Mr Chandra said, through gritted teeth, "I should like to hear it."
21. The change in the Doctor was obvious to Jo.

Number 6 is the one that to my mind needs recasting, but I think it's too late for that now.

And just to tantalise you, here are some with negative numbers:

• From wall to wall, the warehouse was stacked with cardboard boxes, arranged in the flawless grid that made things easiest for the machines that delivered or removed stock.
• To many people, it would have been a glorious day in North Wales: a lonely lake, high up in a secluded hanging valley, with the sunlit countryside stretching away below.
• Jane Hayward woke, and knew at once what the cause had been.
• The settlement of Jamesville towered above the dunes, looking like an ugly metal box someone had placed upside-down on the sand.
• It was a summer day in England, some time in the early years of the nineteenth century.
• When she stepped out of the TARDIS, Rose didn't see anything too wrong with her surroundings.

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