Named after Edward George Bulwer-Lytton who originally wrote “It was a dark and stormy night...”, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest is “a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.” And, the 2002 Winners have been announced — here’s one of my favorites:
The blood dripped from his nose like hot grease from a roasting bratwurst pierced with a fork except that grease isn't red and the blood wasn’t that hot and it wasn’t a fork that poked him in the nose but there was a faint aroma of nutmeg in the air and it is of noses we speak not to mention that if you looked at it in the right profile, his nose did sort of look like a sausage.
Jim Sheppeck
Farmington, NM
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