Hookers & Hangers pt.2 (the Hangin' part)

It's time for part 2 of the Hookers & Hangers Blogfest, hosted by the ladies at Falling For Fiction. Today we're sharing hangers (last lines of chapters)! I don't think I've ever before paid this much attention to my ending lines (or even my beginning ones). First lines are crucial - this lesson has certainly been driven home. But studying these lines out of context, all on their lonesome, has given me a new perspective.

The aim of any last line is, of course, to keep the reader hangin' on for dear life. To make them hungry for more. I'm not sure that my hangers below do that, but I guess that's up to the reader!

I've chosen last lines from chapters of DANNA, as I did with my first lines, but not necessarily from the same chapters. Here they are:

1. That way lies danger. And that’s the way I’m going.
2. Disturbed, I turn back to the window and press my face against it, dying for fresh air and open spaces.
3. For the first time in over a year, I wish my mother would haunt me.
4. Now that’s one hell of a daydream.
5. I think she was onto something and it got her killed.
6. More fun times I have certainly known.
7. Losing balance, falling, and vomiting up everything I ever ate.
8. Then he’s gone, and I’m alone with my shitty thoughts.

Now, I'm going to get around to reading some more people's last lines in just a bit (as well as the first lines I haven't yet checked out), but first I want to say something totally unrelated to the rest of this post. If I were a robot (see image below), maybe I would have had more of a chance of figuring out what's in that first image. Even when I opened the image in a new window, I saw no extra detail. See why I get annoyed with captchas?

Hookers & Hangers Blogfest (sounds rude doesn't it?)

I'm fashionably late for this, as I forgot it started yesterday...ha. Silly me. Anyway, I guess this way I'm more 'in tune' with my northern hemisphere pals, for many of whom it may still be the 16th of July...only just! Anyway, this is such a cool idea for a blogfest. Here is what it's all about:

We all know how important those first and last lines are in every chapter. This blogfest will hopefully get your HOOKERS and HANGERS polished making it impossible for readers to put down your book and leaving them begging for more! 

On July 16th, post the first sentence from each chapter. 

On July 18th, post the last sentence from each chapter. 

Post as many as you like!  

We will be judging everyone’s first three HOOKERS and first three HANGERS. We'll each pick two winners (MOST ENTICING HOOKER and MOST IMPOSSIBLE HANGER) making a total of ten winners! Winners will receive a 10 page (double spaced) critique and a Friday Spotlight on FFF! - Hope Roberson

So, here are my hookers...errr...yeah, you know what I mean (these are from my rough draft of DANNA, one of the novels I started last year for NaNo):

1. Eyes to the front.
2. First she faints, drawing all that attention to herself.
3. Dreaming of Mack Wilson is not a good sign.
4. “Your girlfriend is stalking me.”
5. Once he’s done lying to Melinda, and I’m done caring about what he sent to her—did he tell her I’m crap in bed?—we settle into two chairs facing each other over one of the small classroom desks.
6. I don’t need a capture chamber this time.
7. The marshy air fills my lungs like rising damp.
8. It happens at night, when the world is so quiet I can hear every thought whirling in my head.