The 2003 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Results are In!
Detective Inspector Mike Norman slipped six fingers into his overcoat pocket, five of them clad in a latex glove and attached to his palm, while the sixth was wrapped in a plastic evidence bag and apparently belonged to the kidnapped pianist Ricardo Moore, or, as it now seemed likely, the kidnapped ex-pianist Ricardo Moore.
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a challenge to come up with the worst possible sentence with which to open a novel. Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton was a minor Victorian novelist responsible for the opening line: "It was a dark and stormy night..." (in addition to his more respected, yet no less cliché, "the pen is mightier than the sword")
Anyway, the entries are hilarious... Check them out.
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a challenge to come up with the worst possible sentence with which to open a novel. Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton was a minor Victorian novelist responsible for the opening line: "It was a dark and stormy night..." (in addition to his more respected, yet no less cliché, "the pen is mightier than the sword")
Anyway, the entries are hilarious... Check them out.
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