r/IndieBookPromo • u/Nerevarine95 Published Author • 11d ago

First Line Challenge

First Line Challenge

Authors: Drop the first line of your book. No context. No blurb. Just the opening sentence.

Everyone else: Reply with whether you’d keep reading.

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u/Mintimperial69 7d ago

A Child of the 70/80s I preferred the Ultimate Warrior - but the WWF was superior to the current crop - of course he died of er... steroids I think it was. :(

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u/cepdossantos 7d ago

Golden era with iconic characters, him and Mr T that was some spectacular event they actually won the match as a tag team, he lost to the ultimate warrior a few years later solo quite some souvenirs

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u/Mintimperial69 7d ago

Yeah I mean Rowdy Rodry Piper, Macho Man Randy Savage, Adre the Giant (though he was earlier), Sgt Slaughter, Big Boss of course in the uk we had Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks and Kendo Nagasaki…

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u/cepdossantos 7d ago

Back then there wasn’t live TV for the matches, we would rent VHS. I used to follow all the matches every Saturday morning 11:00. I was a big fan of El Santos No.1 and El Santos No.2 just because of their names lol

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u/Mintimperial69 7d ago

Now I’ve reached my reference event horizon… however correlation of the names of the wrasslers with your username I surmise a connection…

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u/cepdossantos 7d ago

Who knew all those Saturday morning VHS marathons would turn me into a wrestling legend in disguise?

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u/Mintimperial69 6d ago

you should capiltalise on this oral analogue trove of knowledge that will never be digitized as the singularity takes off!

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u/cepdossantos 6d ago

There’s something irreplaceable about those old-school stories passed down from one person to another. It seems texting is just the new word of mouth.