WIP – Opening lines

I hope your writing is going well. Been a busy week, so I thought I’d just share the opening paragraph from my work-in-progress (WIP).

Father is shaking me, whispering hot stale breath in my face. Run! I grab the satchel that he’s

handing me and don’t ask twice. I am only two steps behind him. I can smell the smoke before we reach

the town walls. I can see the light from the flames casting my long shadow into the night. We are not far

away enough when the screaming begins.

You can read a little more about this NaNoWriMo project in a previous post.

Would that make you want to read more? ;-)