Sunday 26 August 2007

The worst opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels...

Couple of entries for a competition at work inspired by the Bulwer-Lytton site's "worst opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels"
I knew it was a mistake, but it was a mistake I liked making, and making mistakes was my middle name - when I didn't get it wrong (on purpose).

and
You know how it is when you wake up hung-over and handcuffed in the back of a car with no driver bouncing down the side of a hill to certain oblivion below, and you have a cigarette between your lips but no way of lighting it? 'No,' she whispered.

People (Abe) complained the last entry was two sentences, but I still insist it reads as one... ;)