Posts Tagged ‘New York Writing’
City - Wednesday, September 3, 2008 12:59 - 0 Comments
Worst First Sentence About New York
“Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped ‘Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.’ ”
This painfully trite gem is the baby of Mr. Garrison Spik, a resident of Washington who has visited New York City many times. It won the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, the goal of which is to come up with the worst first sentence of an imaginary novel.
