First Paragraphs From Stories I'll Never Write Episode 2
The nails didn't hurt nearly as much as I'd expected going in, but the pain bombshell blossomed as they dropped the post into the hole and levered us upright.
My brother's head was wobbling a bit on our right shoulder as I glanced over, but he felt my eyes on him, and snapped back into his customary 200-watt anchorman idiot grin, winked. "It's not like we didn't expect this, eh?" I couldn't argue. We'd had a pretty good run.
Raising his face to the sky, still grinning, he bellowed "Father! Why has thou forsaken us, dude?" My conjoined brother, the son of god. Smart-ass to the last.