Great Opening Lines – and Why! (Mar 2020’s Great Opening Lines)

I wrote in Great Opening Lines and Why! (Part 3 Some Great Opening Lines) that Id share more great opening lines as I found them.

Arterial blood has sprayed onto the walls; the tannoy is breaking into a staccato and the student nurse, Linda, recalls a childhood wish for invisibility Terry Melias Tales from the Greenhills

has sprayed, is breaking, and recalls Ive written elsewhere that I need to know Melia sweated every word choice.