First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel

The crow waits until the guilty one disappears; then he flies down the hallway. How he wound up in this part of the hotel, he cannot recall. He has no memory of the tartan wallpaper, the dim flicker of the sconces. He does not know which humans lie behind which doors.
He knows only to obey the scream of his instincts.
Leave.
Now.
Go.
Danger hangs over this place like a blackening cloud. The people inside are not to be trusted. The crow rests for a moment on the horse hanging from the sky. He dares not wait long. Soon they will all rise again. Soon there will be much commotion.
He did not catch more than a glimpse, but a glimpse was all he needed. Such an ugly shape the limbs made, the neck contorted. The thing hardly looked human at all.
Review: The Shadows of Who We Once Were, Vol. 1
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ The Good Demon

Late one night she whispered me awake.
This was long before they came for Her – before Reverend Sanders and his boy pinned me down and prayed the words over me and ripped Her straight from my soul. It was during the best years, back when I was thirteen and it was just me and Her always, and I thought it always would be.