Dark and Stormy Rides Again: The Best from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

By: Scott Rice

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Synopsis: The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, named in honor of the Victorian literary has-been Edward Bulwer-Lytton, is the world-famous competition that seeks to find the most atrocious opening sentence to a hypothetical lousy novel. Dark and Stormy Rides Again proves that there are still committed writers out there plumbing their inner souls for truly bad writing. Choice entries include: * "There was considerable consternation among the cats in the coliseum when it was learned that the tigers were taking the lion's share of the prophets." * "Those alarm things that make a real loud honking kind of noise were going off as Captain James Hurley "stared at the screen that showed him the stuff that was outside in space while he sat in the chair that the captain sits in, and slowly reached for the control panel for the thing that makes the ship go real fast."