The 2004 Bulwer-Lytton contest winners have been announced. For those of you that haven’t heard of the contest, the goal is “childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels.” This year’s winner in the fiction category is hilarious:
She resolved to end the love affair with Ramon tonight … summarily, like Martha Stewart ripping the sand vein out of a shrimp’s tail … though the term “love affair” now struck her as a ridiculous euphemism … not unlike “sand vein,” which is after all an intestine, not a vein … and that tarry substance inside certainly isn’t sand … and that brought her back to Ramon.
Be sure to check out the winners in other categories, as well as runners-up and honorable mentions… 🙂
