Add an opening line to the following photo.
Thanks once again to Bill Carito for being “the hand.”
Julie: Now, if they’d used the common sense that the good lord gave a goose, they would have bolted the door. But no, they didn’t want to get up and answer the door when their friends arrived.
Edith: “Gimme the knife, quick,” he whispered. “She’s got me by the back of the shirt!”
Barb: The hand model auditions were going terribly.
Jessie: After a recent spate of fires hotel management implemented an unorthodox, some might say excessive, new guest safety education program. The simple solution was for someone to call their attention to the evacuation plan mounted on door.
Sherry: The magician’s disappearing act wasn’t going as planned. This is the last time he was going to use his mother-in-law to book his shows.
Readers: Give us your opening line for a story based on this photo, or just say “hi” to be entered to win a hardcopy of Barb’s first published mystery, The Death of an Ambitious Woman. The giveaway is open to all geographies.
Jack’s fake disembodied arm gag was getting old. Wait …. that’s a real arm.
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I love it, Ginny!
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The question is: will that slot bar (or whatever it is called) hold?
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Exactly!
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“For the love of God, woman, open the doo…ugh!”
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Snort. Love it.
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“Honey, it’s me” (True story. Husband was a cop coming home to change clothes after a scrape with a drunk. I had his .38 pointed at the door when he said those words.).
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Wow!
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Barb’s line is the best, haha!!
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It cracked me up too, Grace!
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On my way back to bed after getting a drink of water, I heard the door open and a hand came around the edge. Being half asleep, I followed my first instinct and slammed the door as hard as I could – and then realized the hand belonged to my husband.
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Oops!
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Hi! I’m not very creative at any time of day, but considering I just woke up, I’ll just say hi and ty for the giveaway! Legallyblonde1961@yahoo.com
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Good morning!
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Must . . . get . . . inside . . .
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Love it!
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I always wondered how I would go out. Car crash? Rare disease? Old age? I never thought it would be like this. In a seedy motel room, at the beginning of the Zombie Apocalypse!
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Laughing! Great one!
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“Is there a body attached to that hand?”
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Ha! I have all sorts of images in my head!
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“I’ll show you ‘Do Not Disturb’!”
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Laughing!
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I wish I’d though of that one!!!
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I am just going to say hi as brain is not engaged yet. Will think of a great line in about 2 hours.
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Hi, Candy! Have a great day!
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I told you we shouldn’t have booked a room at Hotel Ghoul.
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Ha! Good one!
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Ian realised that the firedoor was way to heavy as his arm was trapped and the murderer was grinning at him from down the corridor.
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Ooohhh! Nice and creepy!
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On her shopping excursion to New York, Millie spent the morning shopping in the Big Apple’s most exclusive novelty shops and, delighted with her purchase, the afternoon trying out her new fake arm.
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Ha! Very funny!
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I was looking forward to our stay in the haunted hotel. I thought the arm in the door when we woke up in the morning was a bit excessive until I realized it wasn’t a fake arm.
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Ack!
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I just need to borrow your fire evacuation plan real quick. Mine was missing from my room.
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Perfect.
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Why am I standing here staring at his arm, when I should be finding away to get out before he gets in!
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Great one!
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Housekeeping seemed annoyed, but all we did was ask for more towels!
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Ain’t it so!
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Hi, I think all the good lines have been taken.
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Hi, Gram! They are so fun to read through!
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They always put the diagram on the wrong side of the door!
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I’m not a very creative writer, so I will just say “hi, have a great weekend.
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I thought room service arrived awfully quickly. Then it occurred to me–WE were on the menu.
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I can count on one hand how many times this has happened to me.
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After an hour of shelling pistachios for grandma’s biscotti, Anthony was desperate for a manicure.
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Just saying “Hi” from the other side of the door.
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