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briandmyers  ·  3814 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are some great short stories?

This is out of place, but - my wife's favourite first line (not from a short story though), is from "Earthly Powers" by Anthony Burgess :

    It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.