For those of you who have not yet seen the winner of the annual Bulwer-Lytton
Fiction Contest (for the worst opening sentence to an imaginary novel), it was
written by Larry Brill of the NBC affiliate KXAN in Austin, TX.
"As the fading light of a dying day filtered through the window blinds,
Roger stood over his victim with a smoking .45, surprised at the serenity that
filled him after pumping six slugs into the bloodless tyrant that mocked him
day after day, and then he shuffled out of the office with one last long look
back at the shattered computer terminal lying there like a silicon armadillo
left to rot on the information highway."
The Bulwer-Lytton award is given by the English Department at San Jose
State University.
I am particularly fond of the "silicon armadillo."
Mary Persyn
mpersyn@exodus.valpo.edu
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