How Should it Begin?

Opening Lines

How should we judge a story? On the simple value of its topic or on the boundaries left in its wake? Should it move us, hurt us?

How should it begin?

Should we be entitled to thread our way through the pages and read as we please, aimlessly wandering across the lines?

Should we religiously believe in the world unveiling before our eyes? Should we give ourselves a chance to like it with guilty pleasure or would it be wiser to lock it inside an old closet and forget all about it?

Should we give up like the soldier gives up to the battlefield, running straight ahead, blinded by the fire and the fury but still running without turning back?

Wouldn’t it be better to resist, to break away from the fable so not to risk losing precious hours, tears or spirits, and in truth, being deceived by the mind of a stranger?

Here, reader, is a book without answers.

Here is a place where words come to birth. Here is a story that will live and die by the winds of the world.