First Lines Meme

Via korman , a meme where writers post the first sentences of their works and works in progress.

Complete but unpublished

Secret Paths
"This can be our world," said Kerstin, "It's about time we made our own world."

Erina Hearn and the God of Death
It was the scream that caught Erina Hearn.

The Land of Dreams Gone Bad
The parties have all gone on too long
and the girl who hid too well
peers out of the cracks, waiting for the game to end.

(No one specified prose!)

Reading the Game
It can be disconcerting for the player of role-playing games to read a novel or watch a film and see her hobby depicted in a way that she barely recognises.

(No one specified fiction!)

In Progress

Necromance
As she stepped into Martin Place, the clocks were striking six and the dead men were closing in.

Cursebreaker
"In all my time as a cursebreaker, this is the single most apalling mess I have ever laid eyes on."

The Cat's Cortege
See the Mademoiselles Felix approach along the crowded hall; young, slim and neat in black coats and white gloves, huge eyes glancing this way and that.

The Hand of Shepenwepet
On the third day after her death did they bring the Lady Nefetari to the Place of Beauty and Hor the master embalmer was greatly wroth.

Thelema Dwight: Occult Secretary
From out of the east, as the sun approaches the horizon, Thelema Dwight approaches the door.