Basel, do you know what happens when you blow yourself up? You don`t go to heaven. You go into a hole in the ground, and you get covered up with dirt."
Rafiq Hamdouna, a former Fatah leader, to his son who said he wanted to be a martyr bomber. Quoted in The New Yorker, September 11, 2006
The assignment this week is to write the first sentence for ten different short stories. The tutor intends to choose one and I suspect he is going to make us write a short story using it!
[Later] The ten first lines, for what they're worth, can be seen here