Del Dryden tagged me in a Lucky 7, which means I have to open up a WIP, go to page 77, 7th line, and post the subsequent 7 sentences/lines. Since my WIP is a 20,000-word story (sixty-five pages), I went with the equivalent sentences from page 7, instead.

The sky was nearly light now, a gleaming pale-blue tribute to morning over the increasingly urban suburbs.He shifted, and the train seat creaked. “Are you asking why it took so long for me to come out here?”She nodded.“If I answer that, will you tell me why you left without trying to work things out?”She pressed her nose to the window. “I didn't think there was anything to work out.”

These seven sentences are part of Ticket Home, one story in an anthology-to-be tentatively titled Strangers on a Train.And now, for the next lucky seven (including a couple of Strangers on a Train co-conspirators):

• Donna Cummings
• Samantha Hunter
• Karla Doyle
• Isabelle Flynn
• Karen B. Booth
• Edie Harris
• Theresa Romain