Author Topic: The 2009 Lyttle Lytton is up  (Read 2994 times)

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on: June 06, 2009, 02:37:39 AM
I'm a big fan of the Lyttle Lytton Contest.  It's inspired by the better-known Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, but the object of the Lyttle Lytton is to create astonishingly bad bits of prose in 30 words or less.  The winning entries can reduce me to a helpless giggling mass.

The 2009 winners have been posted.  I can't decide if I prefer:

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I have the ability to go through time, he suddenly remembered while at a bus stop near a tree.

Or:

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Farmer John admired the golden corn, sprouting from the ground like buried treasure.

Or:

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Despite having ascended to the most powerful political office in the world, President Zachary Herney was average in height, with a slender build and narrow shoulders.

Actually, that last one is taken from a Dan Brown novel.

"The meteor formed a crater, vampires crawling out of the crater." -  The Lyttle Lytton contest


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Reply #1 on: June 06, 2009, 01:54:42 PM

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Despite having ascended to the most powerful political office in the world, President Zachary Herney was average in height, with a slender build and narrow shoulders.

Actually, that last one is taken from a Dan Brown novel.

 :D beautiful

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