Dishonorable mention
Someone out there is going to win $250 by penning the worst opening sentence possible to a novel.
Last year's winner:
Gerald began -- but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them "permanently" meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash -- to pee.
Here is the official contest page at http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
funwithrage, I'm looking at you.
Last year's winner:
Gerald began -- but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them "permanently" meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash -- to pee.
Here is the official contest page at http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
funwithrage, I'm looking at you.