It was a dark and stormy night...

The San Jose State University's 22nd Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest celebrates bad writing. The 2003 winner Mariann Sims wrote the following opening line for a fictional novel to bag the $250 prize.
"They had but one last remaining night together, so they embraced each other as tightly as that two-flavor entwined string cheese that is orange and yellowish-white, the orange probably being a bland Cheddar and the white . . . Mozzarella, although it could possibly be Provolone or just plain American, as it really doesn't taste distinctly dissimilar from the orange, yet they would have you believe it does by coloring it differently"

The children's literature section winner:
"The Prince looked down at the motionless form of Sleeping Beauty, wondering how her supple lips would feel against his own and contemplating whether or not an Altoid was strong enough to stand up against the kind of morning breath only a hundred year's nap could create."

Read all the hilarirous entries here!