Just updating the journal to get rid of some unpopular lines, freshen out the submitted ideas, add a few more lines, and invite you all to do the same!

The idea: comment on this journal with an opening line (or couple of lines) then take one that's been posted, and write a piece of prose or poetry stemming from that line. You can write anything, it just has to start off with the line you chose! Then link it to me in a comment or a note, and hey presto, we've all had fun.

Also, I just posted a thread in the prose & poetry forums about punctation in poetry. If that interests you, then check it out here: [link]

I guess it's only fair that I should start:

'Your lips are my lips, but always apart'
     [link] by ~Noite-Bela (note: no, she didn't use it as a first line, but I'm sweet so it's allowed. FOR NOW)

'She turned off the tap'
     [link] by ^Hanratty-Stock
     [link] by me

'The first thing I saw this morning was a body fall from a high place'
     [link] by ~Le-Pain-Perdu
    
[link] by :develmara

'Then I woke up'
     [link] by =Cat-in-the-Stock

'Love is blooming, or dying'
     [link] by ~gab-goes

'I didn't go to bed until nine o'clock in the morning'
     [link] by *jsut

'Chirp, it's been twittered.'
     [link] by me
     [link] by `GaioumonBatou
     [link] by ~ivebeentired

'I have run out of coffee and am left only with grim determination.'
     [link] by `tExTuReMaTtIc
     [link] by ~Catspupil


'Dust of decades past danced in the warm rays that filtered through the cracked, grime-covered window panes'

'It began as a momentary tingling sensation, barely noticeable and easily ignored'

'It was forgotten almost before it had begun'

'The look you had in your eyes that day, I imagine I would have followed you anywhere.'
     [link] by ~ivebeentired

'Everyone thought it was a mistake'

'[name] begun to notice his memory fading. It started on the day [name2] walked into his shop, pockets full of coins.'

'Blue paint ran in between the cracks'

'Wet cotton clouds soaked in the sky'
     [link] by ~thegypsy-v1

'What it once was wasn't nearly as awful as it is now'

'I didn't have time to wipe'

'It wasn't easy to exorcise the liquor from her body'

'The word 'Slide' slid out her darkly painted lips on the wings of such pearly cigarette smoke'

'Both sole and soul were worn from the journey'