One Perfect Sentence – November Challenge Starts Now!

[AgentPete]

It may not have escaped your notice (or there again, it may have escaped your notice, depending on how deeply engrossed you are in the current LiMoWriMo) that there’s been some political malarky, shenanigans and/or tomfoolery recently afoot.

What a great moment, therefore, to set you this challenge:

Write A Great Opening Sentence To A Political Thriller.​

The mission brief, should you choose to accept it, is simple. Write a killer sentence that hooks like a polearm. It can be as long or as short as you want it to be. The Rules are simple. Please remember to make your entry anonymously - tick the “Posting as Anonymous?” box to do so.

(Tip of the cap to @E G Logan for the topic suggestion!)

 

[Anonymous]

Guy Fawkes woke up as he does every year on November 5, but this year was different, and he began to claw the coffin lid, knowing he was needed now more than ever.

 

[Anonymous]

Crashing her arms against the Palace wallpaper, she wrestled her manacled wrists till they bled ... while the bomb attached to the unconscious Prince continued to count down into the silence

 

[Anonymous]

As staunch believers of democracy, our party have always believed the people’s will must come first, every voter’s vote matters, and it is our duty to ensure a fair ballot, by vetting every vote before it is counted, remember - not voting is a criminal offence.

 

[Anonymous]

The first lady knew it was too late for her to orchestrate a third attempt.

 

[Anonymous]

Junior Minister for Rural Affairs Rob Freedman-Reed had never been shot before, but he was curiously unsurprised when he was.

 

[Anonymous]

'Strictly speaking,' he hissed, dashing the blood out of his eyes, 'I believe we agreed on no real ammunition, did we not, Madam Prime Minister?'

 

[Anonymous]

The man in the crosshairs smiled at the baby sitting on his arm.

 

[Anonymous]

The crisp metallic snap as the clasps of the briefcase were undone set his teeth on edge, though it only contained a single thin piece of paper it held the weight to move mountains.

 

[Anonymous]

The president asked the White House legal counsel to leave the room when the campaign leaders and Speaker of the House arrived for the meeting.

 

[Anonymous]

Once Charlie had filled me in on what Project DOD was really about, I withdrew my letter of resignation that sat on the Secretary of Veteran's Affairs' desk and tore it up myself.

 

[Anonymous]

The continuous blood glucose monitor beneath the President's ribs told two stories: one to his doctor, and one to someone who wasn't supposed to exist.

 

[Anonymous]

She positioned herself on the periphery of the golf links, hidden in the dunes and tall, windswept sea grass, amused by the golfer's obliviousness and letting her target take his shot before she executed her own.

 

[Anonymous]

Beautiful vistas ahead, she encourages herself as she struggles up the desolate, dusty excuse of a trail with Gil, only to round a corner and stop and gawk at a man moving in the opposite direction; he's wearing a black suit, white shirt, black tie, and dark sunglasses in the 95 degree heat - that's something you don't see every day.

 

[Anonymous]

No one expected it to begin and end with the US National Forest Service, but maybe they should have.

 

[Anonymous]

The book 'I'm An Impostor' was due to be published two days before the presidential inauguration but Jo was already hiding in his cabin in the mountains.

 

[Bloo]

@AgentPete

I think the One Perfect Sentence link is pointing to the wrong spot. Should it be at the top of this thread like this ?

https://colony.litopia.com/threads/one-perfect-sentence-–-november-challenge-starts-now.15078/

Also...is there a way to highlight both OPS and Gift Membership side-by-side in the top banner ?

 

[Anonymous]

It is excruciating to go back into it all, to rake over the details, dispassionately list the events that led up to it; but this is the evidence my appeal depends upon.

 

[Anonymous]

"You are really ugly, and I forgot all these years, I forgot, or just ignored, the way anger distorts your face," Matthew said to his wife as she continued recording him.