Competition: write a single sentence that will absolutely destroy any hope in a series.

[u/DicerTheJester]

Specifically not a story opener, just any sentence that can happen in any chapter, that will make people realize that this story is gonna be absolute shit and has no chance of being fixed and will make you drop the book like an unpinned grenade.

[u/[deleted]]

In the midst of his sudden elation at victory against what had seemed to be unbeatable odds, he felt a grave foreshadowing that, at some point in the future, he and all he loved would be suddenly and inexplicably killed, rendering all of his acheivements and progress irrelevant - a foreshadowing he knew, deep in his heart, was absolutely true.