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What is Angela up to now?

by Angela K. Durden
The Most Brilliant Woman in the World

Citizen Journalist.  Novelist. Author of other stuff. 

Business writer.  Songwriter.  Protecting creator's copyrights. 

What follows are first lines from a random selection of books off my shelves. Shall I weave them into a story? If the answer is yes, email me at angeladurden@msn.com or reply to this posting with a big fat YES! 

• Two very beautiful naked girls are crouched facing each other. 
• In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
• Franklin Fletcher dreamed of luxury in the form of tiger-skins and beautiful women.
• We keep contucci di Prato stocked in the bar at all times.
• Without warning, in the middle of the thirties, I had a breakdown of nerve.
• The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight.
• A man with a wooden leg walked along a hospital corridor.
• “Wouldn’t you like to go to church with me tomorrow morning?”
• In Whitfield, Nebraska, there are only three bars.
• You were born and were a happy child.
• Many survival case histories show that stubborn, strong willpower can conquer many obstacles. 
• George had always been a carefree person — or so he thought — until that afternoon in early October.
• Aliens suck at music.
• At one minute out, the Black Hawk crew chief slid the door open.
• Not so long ago, menopause was a word you did not say out loud in public.
• Why did he do it?
• Homicide investigation is a profound duty.
• Either this will ring bells for you, or it won’t.
• Being a lawyer is hard enough, but being a lawyer who from time to time writes sassy and irreverent commentary for the newspapers is to subject one’s self to flaying on two fronts.
• The Pilates method of body conditioning is a unique system of stretching and strengthening exercises developed over ninety years ago by Joseph H. Pilates.
• On an October Sunday afternoon, Jack Taft, innocently unaware that he was marked for death, sat slumped in Singapore Airlines’ first-class lounge. 
• Two young men on horseback.
• The house was a disaster.
• At airports, train stations, sporting events, and just about anywhere Americans congregate in significant numbers, signs posted by the Department of Homeland Security urge, “If you see something, say something.”
• Frank Borman brought three Russian cosmonauts and their interpreter to see Dolly.
• What matters?

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