Select one of the following first sentences and begin a short story with it:

It was now lunch time and they were all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing had happened. (1)

At the Rackets Club they talked of nothing else the whole evening. (2)

At the end of the day Paul came into my room. pitched a bundle onto my table, and said. "There's the money. You won't be getting any more from me."(3)

It was Paul's afternoon to appear before the faculty of the Pittsburgh High School to account for his various misdemeanors. (4)

In her blue dress, with her cheeks lightly flushed, - her blue. blue eyes. and her gold curls pinned up as though for the first time - pinned up to be out of the way for her flight - Mrs. Raddick's daughter might have just dropped from this radiant heaven. (5)

The sky had been overcast since early morning; it was a still day, not hot, but tedious, as it usually is when the weather is gray and when clouds have been hanging over the fields for a long time. and you wait for the rain that does not come. (6)

That final spring at the State University a restlessness came over Myra which she could not understand. (7)

The door of Henry's lunch-room opened and two men came in. (8)

Match :

Tennessee Williams, "The Field of Blue Children.”

Earnest Hemingway. "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”

Earnest Hemingway. "The Killers."

Luigi Pirandello, "In the Abyss."

Anton Chekov. "Gooseberries."

Katherine Mansfield. "The Young Girl."

Willa Cather. "Paul's Case”

Case."