Did you hear? San Jose State University’s English department announced the 2008 “winners” of its Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, honoring the worst possible opening lines for fiction.
The winner this year: Garrison Spik's intro... “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.’”
Yeah, that deserved to win, huh?
Thursday, August 14, 2008
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Utterly phenomenal. Wordy, meandering, pointless, completely confusing. Yup, that's a winner.
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