And the Worst Sentence Is…
The winner of the 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is Jim Gleeson, a 47-year-old media technician from Madison, Wisconsin, who penned the following for the international literary parody contest:
Sponsored by the Department of English & Comparative Literature at San Jose State University and begun in 1982, the department asks writers to submit the worst opening sentence of the worst imaginary novel they can, well, imagine.
The contest is named after the Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, who penned a novel with the immortal opening line, "It was a dark and stormy night."
Gerald began -- but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them "permanently" meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash -- to pee.
Sponsored by the Department of English & Comparative Literature at San Jose State University and begun in 1982, the department asks writers to submit the worst opening sentence of the worst imaginary novel they can, well, imagine.
The contest is named after the Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, who penned a novel with the immortal opening line, "It was a dark and stormy night."
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