re: #114 Mattand
“It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out.”
one of my favs: Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest
Since 1982 the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest has challenged participants to write an atrocious opening sentence to the worst novel never written. The whimsical literary competition honors Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel Paul Clifford begins with “It was a dark and stormy night.”