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To: bagster

“It was a dark stormy night”

A fan of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest are you? I think it originated somewhere up in your neck of the woods- San Jose State.

In honor of worst opening sentence in literature here is a sample from a list of recent winners at the site: Enjoy

Dropping his now-empty Remington .30-06 and tearing across the tundra after two weeks of hunting in the Alaskan wilderness in the company of none other than three-time Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt—the rustic outing being the spoils of his winning bid at the Sun Valley Country Day School live-auction fundraiser—Bart Michaelman realized with dismay that, in this particular instance, he did in fact have to outrun the bear.

Andrew Lundberg, Los Angeles, CA


1,098 posted on 08/27/2020 9:04:18 AM PDT by bunster
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To: bunster

1,111 posted on 08/27/2020 9:49:41 AM PDT by HippyLoggerBiker (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.)
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