We all know we’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover (yet, publishing companies spend big bucks on cover design/art and we all do judge them that way). But, the opening sentence(s)/paragraph(s) are fair game. So, when I stumble on a good opening (or remember one and pull it off the shelves), I like to throw it up here. I have 1.2 books to get through before I can read this one, but when I uploaded it to my e-reader tonight, I caught a glimpse of this and have had to remind myself of deadlines (and the need for sleep) so I didn’t press on.
Fort Grant, Arizona Territory
August 1877He’d never killed a man. Didn’t know what it would feel like. Didn’t know if it would turn his insides out. Turn him inside out. He didn’t know if he’d lay awake long into the night, afraid of what may come in his sleep, in his dreams. He didn’t know if he’d forever be followed by that dark cloud, a harbinger of his soul’s inevitable damnation.
He’d find out though.
Turns out killing a man doesn’t change you.
It just reveals the real you.
from Billy the Kid: The War for Lincoln County by Ryan C. Coleman
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