Are you ready? It's time for a second helping of...

Sometimes all it takes is one good sentence or paragraph to get you hooked on a story, and this time around, I want to see some recommendations of stories that do just that: stories that kick off with a bang, that grab you and rivet you to your seat and scream "read me!"

As with the "Kelly Girl" prompt, I have a few limitations I want to put in place:

--Stories featuring sexual content are okay this time around, but try to make recommendations that don't focus on that too much.

--Stories that are either complete or currently in-progress are preferred.

Once again, if you feel up to providing a link to the story -- or stories -- you recommend, that would be fantastic and make it easier for others to check them out. Likewise, we saw quite a few suggestions of stories not featured on the site last time -- I don't want to discourage that, but I would like to ask that if you provide links to content outside the site, you try to make sure they're safe.

Thanks again, and I'm looking forward to seeing what folks have in store!

Melanie E.