By [didn't get it]
Date: 17 February 2001
This year's Bulwer Lytton contest winner
I thought you all might enjoy this almost-poetic piece. This was the top
entrant in this year's Bulwer Lytton contest (run by the English Dept of
San Jose State University), wherein one writes only the first line of a bad novel.
"The sun oozed over the horizon, shoved aside darkness, crept along the
greensward, and, with sickly fingers, pushed through the castle window,
revealing the pillaged princess, hand at throat, crown asunder, gaping in
frenzied horror at the sated, sodden amphibian lying beside her,
disbelieving the magnitude of the frog's deception, screaming madly, 'You lied!'"
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