Ohwotthehell.

First lines meme, via truepenny and talkstowolves among other people.

1. At breakfast that morning the broadsheets informed Ethan that he and Crown Princess Denmarie were having a torrid secret affair: their simultaneous return yesterday was incontrovertible proof of the same. (untitled novel, formerly The Queen of Swords)

2. Time passes oddly when one is waiting to hang. (The Buccaneer's Queen, novel, needs retitling)

3. At sufficient remove a fleet engagement can seem a thing of beauty. (Invincible Constancy, novel, sequel to #2 above, probably splitting into two books)

4. Dover Reach was not a place one lingered. ("Accounts Payable," set in universe of numbers 2 and 3 above)

5. It was the last ship left in the port of Ostia; if its--no, the Terrans used the feminine to refer to ships, for no discernible reason--her captain did not prove amenable to allowing in the crew a young Vulcan woman who until today had never been closer to an ocean than approximately seventy-eight meters, she would concede defeat and return to Paris on the evening mag-lev. (untitled fanfic for treknovelfest, prompt #99)

6. It has taken me quite some time to find the resolve to commit the following even to these, the warded leaves of my journal, for the essential fact of my life is that words have power. (untitled short story, set in the Song Machine cod-ancient Japan universe I've been tinkering with)