All tagged Faulkner

First Lines, 06/12/18

First Lines, 06/12/18

Damien Willis
First Lines

First lines of the novel that debilitating pain left me unable to write today:

"He watched her, both of them sitting together on that wraparound porch in the sticky heat of an Alabama summer. Slowly, she sipped her lemonade, legs crossed on that wooden porch swing, expressing her innocence.

Like a character in a Faulkner novel, she batted her eyelashes in the shade of a 100-year-old front-yard oak, speaking only pleasantries — at first…”

First Lines, 01/16/14

First Lines, 01/16/14

Damien Willis
First Lines

First lines of the novel I won't write today:

"It was 7 a.m. on a Saturday in July when he dropped off his key. The Mississippi Delta was already hot; his tee-shirt clung to his back as he stepped out of the pickup and made his way up the dusty driveway to the front porch…”