The First Sentence Reader

Mun, Juhee. The Healing Power of Korean Letter Writing . New York : Ten Speed Press. 2025. Print. First Sentences: It's hard to find any...

Feeney, Alice. Beautiful Ugly . New York: Flatiron. 2025 . Print. First Sentences:   If all we need is love, why do we always want more? I d...

San Jose State University. Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest . (https://www.bulwer-lytton.com). San Jose, CA. 2022 . Online. F...

Baker, Russell.  The Good Times . New York: Penguin 1990 . Print First Sentences: My mother, dead now to this world but s...

Buchholz, Jason.  A Paper Son . New York: Tyrus 2016 . Print First Sentences: It was the day before the storm hit, the stor...

Stevens, Nell.  Bleaker House . New York: Doubleday, 2017 . Print First Sentences: This is a landscape an art-therapy patie...

Willett, Jincy.  Amy Falls Down .  New York: St., Martin's 2013 . Print. First Sentences: Because the Norfolk pine was heavy, ...