And Now, Writers...

I present the winners of the 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Bad Fiction-Writing Award. It is a contest wherein writers are asked to submit the worst possible opening sentences to imaginary novels.

Our proud winner:

"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."

Garrison Spik
Washington, D.C.