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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into Mrs. Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 1:48 am • 66 3

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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy Mrs. Dalloway is unhappy in its own way.

mar 31, 2025, 1:50 am • 2 0 • view
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking Mrs. Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 1:51 am • 2 0 • view
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: In our family, there was no clear line between Mrs. Dalloway and fly-fishing.

mar 31, 2025, 1:54 am • 3 0 • view
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: A screaming comes across Mrs. Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 1:50 am • 23 0 • view
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Ken Rudman @krudman.bsky.social

I would have thought “A Mrs. Dalloway comes screaming across the sky.”

mar 31, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Mrs. Dalloway and a ride home.

mar 31, 2025, 1:54 am • 29 0 • view
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: "Where's Mrs. Dalloway going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.

mar 31, 2025, 1:58 am • 83 5 • view
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volcanicsand.bsky.social @volcanicsand.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when Mrs. Dalloway began to take hold."

mar 31, 2025, 2:01 am • 2 0 • view
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social

I was just coming here to do that exact one.

mar 31, 2025, 2:06 am • 4 0 • view
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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social

Just waiting for: "Mrs. Dalloway, light of my life, fire of my loins . . . "

mar 31, 2025, 2:09 am • 4 0 • view
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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social

Call me Mrs. Dalloway

mar 31, 2025, 2:09 am • 17 1 • view
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psm25.bsky.social @psm25.bsky.social

Mrs. Dalloway was getting very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do.

mar 31, 2025, 2:05 am • 1 0 • view
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: In the great green room there was a telephone and a red balloon and a picture of Mrs. Dalloway jumping over the moon

mar 31, 2025, 2:03 am • 96 5 • view
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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social

Ah, you got there first!

mar 31, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of Mrs. Dalloway buried.

mar 31, 2025, 2:11 am • 3 1 • view
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Renee Dickinson @drwren.bsky.social

Mrs. Dalloway was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom.

mar 31, 2025, 1:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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jacqznyc @jacqznyc.bsky.social

It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that Mrs Dalloway had come to see me.

mar 31, 2025, 2:15 am • 1 0 • view
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Richard Dickson @dailyrich.bsky.social

"In a hole in Mrs. Dalloway there lived a hobbit." I don't think I'm doing this right.

mar 31, 2025, 2:57 am • 1 0 • view
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David Curley @justified.bsky.social

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of Mrs. Dalloway

mar 31, 2025, 2:01 am • 0 0 • view
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Bernadette Murphy @bernadetmurphy.bsky.social

My fav!

mar 31, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social

I am Mrs. Dalloway. Mrs. Dalloway I am.

mar 31, 2025, 1:56 am • 2 0 • view
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Elvis-it's a nickname @zolascola.bsky.social

Once upon a Mrs. Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 1:51 am • 0 0 • view
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Brian Russell @brianprussell.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: In my younger and more vulnerable years Mrs. Dalloway gave me some of advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

mar 31, 2025, 1:58 am • 1 0 • view