Opening Shots: "My Lips Destroy"

May Twentieth... I met her last night. I met her last night, and I'm marrying her tomorrow.

"My Lips Destroy"
by Cornell Woolrich
From the collection Beyond the Night
(Avon, 1959)

What I love about this one is its simple components. Little more than a dateline and two short sentences—one of them repeated, even. And it's impossible to stop reading.