"It was a dark and stormy night" - Worst Writing Contest Winner

The annual Bulwar-Lytton Fiction Contest, sponsored by San Jose State University, awards one person for the worst opening sentence to a non-existent novel. This year's winner (and a number of rotten runner-ups) can be found here.

And here's the winner (loser)!

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."

Garrison Spik
Washington, D.C.