happiness-demolishing agonies
The 2009 Lyttle Lytton winners are up!
This is a contest akin to (but not affiliated with) the Bulwer-Lytton contest, which invites people to submit the worst opening sentence to an imaginary novel they can come up with; Lyttle Lytton entries are restricted to 25 words or less, and the contest has stricter rules about genuine badness than the B-L does.
My favorite this year:
Deborah walked briskly down the street with pants on her legs.
Because pants are always hilarious.
The first two found entries are also comedy gold.
This is a contest akin to (but not affiliated with) the Bulwer-Lytton contest, which invites people to submit the worst opening sentence to an imaginary novel they can come up with; Lyttle Lytton entries are restricted to 25 words or less, and the contest has stricter rules about genuine badness than the B-L does.
My favorite this year:
Deborah walked briskly down the street with pants on her legs.
Because pants are always hilarious.
The first two found entries are also comedy gold.