Intentionally bad first lines from nonexistent novels, from the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest in the USA:
Corinne considered the colours (palest green, grey and lavender) and texture (downy as the finest velvet) and wondered,"How long have these cold cuts been in my refrigerator?"
Linda Boatright
Tucked in a dim corner of
The Ample Bounty Bar & Grille, Alice welcomed the fervent touch of the mysterious stranger's experienced hands because she had not been this close with a man in an achingly long time and, quivering breathlessly, began to think that this could be the beginning of something real, something forever, and not just a one-time encounter with a good Samaritan who was skilled at the Heimlich Manoeuvre.
Mark Wisnewski
Courtesy: Reader's Digest
Corinne considered the colours (palest green, grey and lavender) and texture (downy as the finest velvet) and wondered,"How long have these cold cuts been in my refrigerator?"
Linda BoatrightTucked in a dim corner of
The Ample Bounty Bar & Grille, Alice welcomed the fervent touch of the mysterious stranger's experienced hands because she had not been this close with a man in an achingly long time and, quivering breathlessly, began to think that this could be the beginning of something real, something forever, and not just a one-time encounter with a good Samaritan who was skilled at the Heimlich Manoeuvre.
Mark Wisnewski
Courtesy: Reader's Digest
I like both of them, but especially the first one.
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