“The man in the powder-blue suit- which wasn’t powder-blue under the lights of the Club Bolivar- was tall, with wide-set gray eyes, a thin nose, a jaw of stone.”
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot, opening story in the Criterion Collection of every Raymond Chandler short story.
“Everybody all set?” Young Ross Jenkins glanced nervously at his two chums. “How about your camera, Art? You sure you got the lens cover off this time?”
Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein (1947)
THIS COULD HAVE OCCURRED [sic] nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak - the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning.
*YOUTH A NARRATIVE * Heart of Darkness & Other Stories. Joseph Conrad
“A small ship–a freighter–on a very large sea.”
And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings, by Madeleine L’Engle.
“London. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall.”
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
“Fine needle aspiration (FNA) plays an essential role in the evaluation of the euthyroid patient with a thyroid nodule; it reduce unnecessary surgery for patients with benign nodules and appropriately triages patients with malignant nodules for timely clinical intervention.”
The plot gets a bit hard to follow during Atypia of Unknown Significance but ultimately has a rewarding resolution.
“High above the tossing trees that were the roof of the world, the fierce white sun burned in a wind-swept sky.”
Unearthly Neighbors, by Chad Oliver.
“The two thirty-eights roared simultaneously.”
Moonraker by Ian Fleming (1955)
“On a cold morning in early October of 1946, Pete Banning awoke before sunrise and had no thoughts of going back to sleep.”
– The Reckoning, by John Grisham
“X - This day when it had light mother called me retch. You retch she said. I saw in her eyes the anger. I wonder what it is a retch.”
Yeah, it was more than one sentence. I couldn’t bring myself to cut it short.
What short story is that from, DB?
Born of Man and Woman, a most bodacious short story. You can read it here: BORN OF MAN AND WOMAN Richard Matheson X â This day ...
“Between eight and nine o’clock in the morning.”
The Stories of Anton Tchekov
Should introductions be considered, like with posthumous short story collections, or is the aim for relevant text by the writer(s)?
The manhunt extended across more than one hundred light-years and eight centuries.
‘A Deepness In The Sky’
Vernor Vinge
History has been described as one damn thing after another
Richard Dawkins–The Ancestor’s Tale
Thanks!
The latter, I’d say.
It was a hot, sticky night in Barcelona and all the good shores had the summer flu.
Limo by Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake
“Will Graham sat Crawford down at a picnic table between the house and the ocean and gave him a glass of iced tea.”
*Red Dragon *by Thomas Harris (1981)
“Lummox was bored and hungry.”
The Star Beast by Robert A. Heinlein (1954)
“Half an hour after Tim Jamieson’s Delta flight was scheduled to leave Tampa for the bright lights and tall buildings of New York, it was still parked at the gate.”