First Chapter ~ First Paragraph #103

It's Tuesday . . . time for . . .

                                                      

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea, where bloggers post the first paragraph(s) of a book they are currently reading or planning to read sometime soon.

Today I'm featuring the opening from a book I recently borrowed from the library . . .

 

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Chapter 1

Amelia

My lungs clawed for air as though I were drowning.  I stopped, hunched over my grandmotherly cane, gasping.  The curved walk up from the parking lot stretched out before me longer than I remembered, steeper.  This is how it would be.  Every task more difficult than before.  Every step a public performance.

What do you think?  Would you continue reading? 

 

 

 

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