Here's what you've REALLY been waiting for: the Adorable Editors' favorite opening sentences! We've got 9 winners instead of 10, because 2 of the editors chose the same sentence (which was fine with me). So that lucky person will get TWO editor critiques on the blog next week!
Without further ado:
THE WINNERS:
SCREEN NAME: Girl
TITLE: Little Devils
GENRE: MG Fantasy
The second worst feeling in the world is realising you've just done something mammothly, brontosaurusly stupid.
CHOSEN BY: Peter Senftleben
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SCREEN NAME: Hannah West
TITLE: J5
GENRE: YA Alternate History
Tacked to the wall in a wooden frame, a rustic little imposter amid much finer furnishings, our family portrait mocks us.
CHOSEN BY: Alison Weiss
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SCREEN NAME: Alexa D.
TITLE: FutureShock
GENRE: YA Time Travel
"They can take our freedom, but they can never take our French fries!"
CHOSEN BY: Stacy Abrams
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SCREEN NAME: KO
TITLE: Of Starshine and Ashes
GENRE: YA SF
She appeared in late afternoon, at the tree line where our mowed grass ended and the wild woods began.
CHOSEN BY: Gabrielle Harbowy AND Sara Sargent
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SCREEN NAME: Chris Bailey
TITLE: A Hundred Frogs, Even
GENRE: MG Contemporary
I would have given Mom a good-bye hug, but StepThad's arm rested across her shoulder, like the tow of them were glued together.
CHOSEN BY: Brett Wright
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SCREEN NAME: Veronica Bartles
TITLE: Twelve Steps
GENRE: YA Contemporary
There should be a support group for kids with perfect siblings.
CHOSEN BY: T.S. Ferguson
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SCREEN NAME: therealtwinmom
TITLE: Million Dollar Lunch
Genre: MG Contemporary
It was only the first day of food camp, and already Rome knew two things: one, there was such a thing as a mortal enemy, and two, it was going to be really tough to beat said enemy with a little sister at his side.
CHOSEN BY: Kat Brzozowski
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SCREEN NAME; jmce
TITLE: The Ups and Downs of Andrew Lane
GENRE: MG Contemporary
Andrew waited in the overwhelming silence, alert to any sound that would reveal an enemy attack.
CHOSEN BY: Greg Ferguson
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SCREEN NAME: Harper K
TITLE: Crash Days
GENRE: YA Literary Thriller
I believed in the healing power of parking garages.
CHOSEN BY: Claire Evans
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CONGRATULATIONS, ALL!
Winners: Please send me your first 250 words according to normal Secret Agent guidelines. I will have a normal submission window open; you may use email or the web form. The form will be open by this evening (at this writing, the site is down, so I can't set up a new contest), and will remain open until I have all 9 entries.
What a lovely surprise! Had forgotten about this as was busy cheering on my CP in another contest today. And so happy that parking garage one won, loved that :)
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