Truman's Own Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest!
Compose just ONE sentence that would be the opening sentence to the world's worst novel. Entries must be original and consist of a single sentence. Limit 3 entries per person. Open only to Truman students.
***Submit entries to windfall@truman.edu by October 15th***
Visit http://bulwer-lytton.com/ for inspiration
Bulwer-Lytton's opening line to his novel Paul Clifford (1830):
"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."