It was a dark and stormy night
Posted at 8:47am on Wednesday, November 24th, 2004Any fan of Peanuts will know the line “it was a dark and stormy night”… This line has inspired the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest - a competition to write the worst possible opening line of the worst possible novel. The winners of 2004 have been announced… My favourite (from the Children’s Literature category) is:
Jack planted the magic beans and in one night a giant beanstalk grew all the way from the earth up to the clouds–which sounds like a lie, but it can be done with genetic engineering, and although a few people are against eating gene-engineered foods like those beans it’s a high-paying career to think about for when you grow up.
You may remember the same post from last year…
