Winners: EDITORS' CHOICES

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.