happiness-demolishing agonies

[angevin2]

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

Comments

[whatifoundthere]

These are great! Thanks for linking. Are you going to make icons again? I've gotten a lot of use out of this one :)

[angevin2]

Yeah, I am. Probably not today, though, as I have work and grading and class prep to do.

[executrix]

25 words or less? I'm surprised it's not #Bulwer-Twytton.

[angevin2]

It probably would have been if it didn't predate Twitter!

[cisic]

I love this one:

“Ooh la la!” whispered Larry in French.

[lnhammer]

I beg your pardon -- I resemble that remark!

---L.

[reconditarmonia]

As a huge fan of the Baroque Cycle, I love the first found entry. :D