Oh, joy! The results are in from the annual Bulwer-Lytton bad openings contest, honoring (in a way) the Victorian novelist Bulwer-Lytton who first used the immortal opening lines: "It was a dark and stormy night . . ."
Here's a goodie by Warren Blair of Ashburn, VA. Not the grand winner but a runner up.
Here's a goodie by Warren Blair of Ashburn, VA. Not the grand winner but a runner up.
The wind dry-shaved the cracked earth like a dull razor--the double edge kind from the plastic bag that you shouldn't use more than twice, but you do; but Trevor Earp had to face it as he started the second morning of his hopeless search for Drover, the Irish Wolfhound he had found as a pup near death from a fight with a prairie dog and nursed back to health, stolen by a traveling circus so that the monkey would have something to ride.
You can read all the winners here and you can learn more about the contest at
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/.
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