“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