It was a dark and stormy night ...

The 2008 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for the best bad opening lines to imaginary novels have been announced. Garrison Spik of Washington, D.C., submitted the winning entry:

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."

:)

See the rest here.