"Karma is a motherfucker. I had heard all the folk-tale warnings about things coming back to haunt someone. A man robs a bank on Friday. On Saturday some random criminal burglarizes his home and discovers the stolen loot. Life has a brutal sense of humor sometimes. Poetic justice can sneak up behind even the most cautious hoodlum. I always understood this. I always respected the idea of karma and never attempted to run game on someone who didn’t deserve it. That's why I couldn't understand why my girl would try to fuck me over so badly."
This is the first paragraph to a short story I wrote several years ago. I have always had a special fondness for this opening, as I felt it told a lot about the character without having to say much of anything in particular. I have always loved being able to show my audience that a certain character is, let's say, angry and upset without having to actually write "He's angry and upset."
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