It Was a Dark and Stormy Night ...
Minnesota's on-going contribution to our nation's high standards of education and culture. "Russ Winter, of Janesville, Minn., was runner-up last week in the detective division of San Jose State University's 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for writing an opening sentence to a nonexistent novel." -Mpls Strib
While his was amusing, the Grand Prize winner was truly momentous.
Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped 'Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.'
and who thought north Jersey couldn't be romantic?
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Manhole covers have never turned me on and I don't expect they will in the future. Much less the 'warm, moist, white breath' that rises from them and smells most foul. Clearly the writer ignored the senses of touch and smell, two senses that are highly erotic and would have REALLY been a turn on.... And what is "a New York love" anyway?
I had not heard of this particular contest, but there's another for the worst first sentence. And there's a website dedicated to posting writing and having members review it -- I think fanstory.com.
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