Forwards
Starts
Both words in one sentence
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Glenda knows trashy romance novel tropes backwards and forwards, and doesn't really get a handle on events until she stops thinking in those terms and starts working with Earn Your Happy Ending instead.
Source: Discworld / Unseen Academicals -
After a second, the Big Bad starts coughing up blood, then he stumbles forwards and expires on the floor.
Source: Single-Stroke Battle -
Then the action fast-forwards toward early spring, when Gordon starts setting his Postal Service and things are going smooth.
Source: Literature / The Postman
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