I’m a sucker for fic memes. At random I picked twenty-one first lines, the only consistency being the fandom of Star Trek. Here we go!

1. Jocelyn shows up in the middle of Len’s shift at the hospital, corners him between two gurneys and without a word shoves divorce papers into his hands.

– A World of Crazy, AOS

2. “Tell me about your friend.”

– Things He Knows, AOS

3. The once white-and-red Tom Petty t-shirt was wet and mud-covered, somewhat torn, when they discovered him in the backyard of the abandoned Banner House.

– The Man in the Shed, J ‘N B Series #30, AOS

4. “Damn—” BOOM. “—it! Spock, I told—” BOOM. “—you not to provoke the dinosaur!”

– Always On the Run, TOS

5. Jim does a semi-conscious visual sweep of the mess hall, locates Doctor McCoy, and falls into the vacant seat across from him.

– And Dancing Equations in Your Head, AOS

6. He had wedged a tiny writing table under the single window in the room, a rickety affair from a nearby thrift shop, whose surface was riddled with grooves by some bored child with a penknife.

– For the Sake of Nothing, AOS

7. By the third colony in his nomadic travels, Sam has not yet discovered how to live with his memory of home.

– The Skiff II, AOS

8. High above, the last ember of sunlight gutters into darkness and silence descends.

– Trapped, The Drabble Bin #3

9. As their captain waddles up to the transporter pad and with great difficulty tries to climb the two steps to his proper beaming position, no one says a word.

– A Suitable Cause, TOS

10. Leonard buries Grandfather Tiberius’ soul in the attic.

– In the Keeping of a Spirit, J ‘N B Series #12, AOS

11. It’s not that they don’t talk about it.

– The Unhappy Holiday, AOS

12. “I would not have thought to act as you did, doctor. Truly, you are the most courageous of us all!”

– The Glory of the Sands, AOS

13. Jim sucks in his middle, lets go of the contracted muscles with a whoosh of air.

– 1-2-3, Old Like You and Me, AOS

14. Something has died in Leonard’s mouth.

– Sobriety, AOS

15. “Hello, Doctor.”

– invisibility, A Series of Laughs #4

16. Before Jim came back from the dead, he was crossing the wheat field behind the dilapidated barn on his Grandfather Tiberius’ property.

– The Woman and the House, AOS

17. The bright lights of the captain’s quarters keep the shadows at bay and Jim wide awake.

– Rest in Peace, TOS

18. Where are you running to, James?

– Sticks & Stones, AOS

19. The sun is setting, casting long shadows of the distant red rock bluffs across the desert.

– The Desert Children, TOS

20. Admittedly, the business of story-telling is not easy.

– Of House Guests and Winter Twins, AOS

21. A simple truth drove Leonard McCoy to Spock’s department: he did not want to be alone.

– An Absence Acknowledged, TOS

and…

BONUS! Can you guess which one-shot this is from?

Rain is drowning the streets.

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