Lawrence Person Wrote Worst Opening

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges writers to create the worst possible opening sentence for an imaginary novel. In 2024, an Austin writer named Lawrence Person won the grand prize with "She had a body that reached out and slapped my face like a five-pound ham-hock tossed from a speeding truck." His deliberately overwrought comparison topped entries across categories ranging from romance and crime to science fiction and horror.

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