Wednesday, January 28, 2009

First Lines of Books

1. Bright Futures by Stuart Kaminsky

Twelve hundred years before I drove my dying car into the parking lot of the Dairy Queen on 301 in Sarasota, saber-tooth tigers, mastodons, giant armadillos, and camels roamed what are now the high-end malls that house Saks, Nieman-Marcus, Lord & Taylor and twenty-screen movie theaters.