She Wanted to Save the World From A.I. Then the Killings Started.

Long ago on the radio, probably an NPR weekend show, I heard a discussion about how "and then the killings began" worked as a second line for just about any book. So the panelists recited opening lines from famous books, following up with "and then the killings began." E.g., It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. And then the killings began.

TL;DR

Besides, who cares?

The Little Engine that Could

"Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff. Ding-dong, ding-dong. And then the killings began."

The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him 'WILD THING!' and Max said 'I'LL EAT YOU UP!' so he was sent to bed without eating anything. And then the killings began.

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were-Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. And then the killings began.

"Call me Ishmael. And then the killings began." doesn't quite work.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. And then the killings began.

When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. And then the killings began.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. And then the killings began.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. And then the killings began.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. And then the killings began.

I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before. And then the killings began.

This creature has been examined by the foremost scientists of both Europe and the Americas and pronounced a man. And then the killings began.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And then the killings began.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. And then the killings began.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. And then the killings began.

I am Sam. And then the killings began.

The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn. And then the killings began.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. And then the killings began.

In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Broadview Avenue hill in New Rochelle, New York. And then the killings began.

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. And then the killings began.

On an exceptionally hot evening in early July, a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as if in hesitation, towards K. Bridge. And then the killings began.

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it. And then the killings began.

This is why I always loved the Datalounge. And then the killings began.

I once had a farm in Africa, then the killings began.

I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. And then the killings began.

Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. And then the killings began.

All happy families are unlike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own separate way. And then the killings began.

The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play, so we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day. And then the killings began.

In the great green room

There was a telephone

And a red balloon

And then the killings began

If she didn’t get access to vegan food, she might die. And then the killings began.

Maman died today. And then the killings began.

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. And then the killings began.

OP replies to herself a lot.

Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again. And then the killings began.

OP replies to herself a lot. And then the killings began.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. And then the killings began.

On a bright June morning two figures—one a tall girl and the other a child—could be seen climbing a narrow mountain path that winds up from the pretty village of Mayenfeld, to the lofty heights of the Alm mountain. In spite of the hot June sun the child was clothed as if to keep off the bitterest frost. She did not look more than five years old, but what her natural figure was like would be hard to say, for she had on apparently two dresses, one above the other, and over these a thick red woolen shawl. Her small feet were shod in thick, nailed mountain-shoes. And then the killings began.

For a long time, I used to go to bed early. And then the killings began.

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York. And then the killings began.

I could read these forever. Great job, DL! (And then the killings began.)

Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office. And then the killings began.

See Dick. And then the killings began.

Saturday, August 9, 1969

It was so quiet, one of the killers would later say, you could almost hear the sound of ice rattling in cocktail shakers in the homes way down the canyon. And then the killings began.

(It’s possible I didn’t understand the assignment)

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. And then the killings began.

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. And then the killings began.

r46 meet r27

In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. And then the killings began.

Sing, goddess, of the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles. And then the killings began.

The woman wondered what she had gotten herself into. And then the killings began.

Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own house in Welbeck Street. And then the killings began.

I don't do it for the money. And then the killings began.

Damnit, R35! You beat me to it.

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. And then the killings began.

I'm watching the last episode of Black Doves on Netflix. Sarah Lancashire's character just said, "and then the killings began." I about spit out my drink.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain–and most fools do. And then the killings began.

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it. "'And what is the use of a book," thought Alice "without pictures or conversations?'

And then the killings began.

The killings began. And then the killing began.

Fuck this ziz botch. Hope she gets killed in prison.

I'm not paying the $9.99 to find out the first sentence of "My True Hidden Hollywood Story: My Memoir of Sexual Harassment, Blacklisting, and Love Affairs with the Most Powerful Men in Hollywood."

I'm not paying the $9.99 to find out the first sentence of "My True Hidden Hollywood Story: My Memoir of Sexual Harassment, Blacklisting, and Love Affairs with the Most Powerful Men in Hollywood." And then the killings began.

Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. And then the killings began.

(Still not understanding the assignment)

There is no "assignment".

Let your creativity flow. Or ooze as the case may be.

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of Number 4 Privet Drive, were happy to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. And then the killings began.

In his new boots, Joe Buck was six-foot-one and life was different. And then the killings began.

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. And then the killings began.

People change and forget to tell each other. And then the killings began.

This brochure is your guide to preparing and installing the SKYTTA system by yourself. And then the killings began.

Tyger Tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night. And then the Killings began.

This thread seems to be running out of steam. Ever since the killings began.

“And then the killings began” works best with third person, past tense narratives.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. And then the killings began

It was love at first sight. And then the killings began.

Zizians in a Rivian, none of them named Vivian.

A screaming comes across the sky. And then the killings began.

"There are still things to be thankful for." And then the killings began.

What makes Iago evil? And then the killings began.

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? And then the killings began.

He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the work was mad. And then the killings began.

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. And then the killings began.

Well, I'm a-runnin' down the road tryna loosen my load, I've got seven women on my mind; four that wanna own me, two that wanna stone me, one says she's a friend of mine. And then the killings began.

I love you bitches.

When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. And then the killings began.

R80 meet R…

Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. And then the killings began.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

Only this and nothing more.”

And then the killings began

She?

Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. And then the killings began.

I never saw a purple cow. And then the killings began.

R87 please stay on the topic of this thread

Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot. And then the killings began.

The little old kitchen had quieted down from the bustle and confusion of midday. And then the killings began.

Once upon a time, a little girl named Laura traveled in a covered wagon across the giant prairie. And then the killings began.

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde’s door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof.

And then the killings began.

A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine. And then the killinges beganne

If I had my life to live over, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

And then the killings began.