Hookers and Hangers Wanna Play?

I'm a day behind, but had to join in this one. Part 1 of the Hookers & Hangers Blogfest. For part 1 participants post first sentences from each chapter and for part 2 last sentences of each chapter. You can post as many as you want. Since I'm launching a new book this month, I guess you're going to read my hookers from Alligators Overhead.


1. Pete chewed on what was left of his right thumbnail, stared up at the round-faced clock above Aunt Lizzie's desk and watched it tick off his last minutes of freedom.


2. A giant ten-foot-tall Harriet Hadley held Pete up by the shirtfront and shook him until his eyes rolled like marbles in their sockets.


3. They moved as fast as the dark mist allowed--down the path and into the swamp just the way they'd done hundreds of times before.


Any of these HOOK you? Hope so. Here's some others having fun and trying to hook your interest. 

1.	Writing on the Wall	2.	Between the Bookends
3.	Tobi Summers - Chock Full of Words	4.	Unyielding
5.	Lisa Regan	6.	Cassie Mae
7.	Writing Off The Edge	8.	Cutest Landing
9.	Michael Abayomi	10.	Amanda Olivieri
11.	Darci Cole	12.	Jenny Morris
13.	Writing with Hope	14.	A.J. Locke
15.	Another Author	16.	Fanatic for Fiction
17.	Ink in the Book	18.	Suzi- Literary Engineer
19.	tara tyler	20.	Scattergun Scribblings
21.	used bikes in london - Second hand bikes london	22.	Queendsheena
23.	Emily R. King	24.	Mutterings from the Oubliette
25.	My Inner Fairy	26.	Scribble Babble
27.	the sands of writing	28.	Amy Sonnichsen
29.	Kim Karras	30.	And Then She Was Like Blah Blah Blah
31.	Leigh Covington	32.	J. A. Bennett - A Writer's Journey
33.	Thardrandian Thoughts	34.	Jade Hart
35.	Gina Denny	36.	Freya Morris
37.	Use Your Words...	38.	Sydney Aaliyah
39.	Whatever	40.	Tasha Seegmiller
41.	Clare Dugmore Writes	42.	C.M. Brown
43.	Ilima Todd	44.	Donna Hole
45.	The Art of Infiltration	46.	Write Here, Write Now
47.	Carrie-Anne's Magick Theatre	48.	T.L. Bodine
49.	Tara @ More Than Fiction	50.	Melissa Sugar
51.	Roxanne @ Books and Blossoms	52.	Medeia Sharif
53.	Tyson McFrost (Frost Lord)	54.	Michael Pierce
55.	T.F. Walsh	56.	Putting Pen To Paper
57.	VikLit	58.	Rantings of a Writer
59.	Stina Lindenblatt	60.	L.M. Miller
61.	EM Castellan	62.	The Intrinsic Writer
63.	Teardrops On My Book	64.	1000th.monkey
65.	Sue K.	66.	Lindz Pagel
67.	Flame Writer	68.	Beth's Blog
69.	Trisha @ WORD STUFF	70.	Cristina dos Santos
71.	Deana Barnhart	72.	Krista McLaughlin
73.	ali cross	74.	SC Write -- Writing, Publishing, and Harry Potter
75.	Entertaining Interests	76.	Martin at 'From Sand to Glass'
77.	For Science!	78.	Nancy S. Thompson
79.	Postcards From My Mind	80.	It's All in My Head
81.	Soul Destruction	82.	Theresa Paolo
83.	Lynn(e) @ The Submission Process	84.	Your Daily Dose
85.	Folio Road	86.	dreamwritepublish
87.	Word by Word	88.	Father Thunder
89.	Madeleine	90.	story of her life
91.	The Write Game