Terrible Openings I Paid For

The opening of a book should break the reader apart completely – they should scream as another world bursts into the vacuum of reality. I push my paperback into my rucksack – I don’t care if the pages get damaged. My reflection scowls back from the window of the train – eight hours with nothing to do but drink polystyrene coffee and watch the moon sway over unseen countryside.

– Benjamin F Jones