I never quite know if #BulwerLytton is actually in earnest or if it's a years-long troll, because some of these are hilarious and I wouldn't mind reading the rest of these
Or maybe I just unironically love bad fiction
"She was a beautiful woman; more specifically she was the kind of beautiful woman who had an hourlong skincare routine that made her look either ethereal or like a glazed donut, depending on how attracted to her you were."
The winners of this year's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (which challenges entrants to come up with the worst possible opening sentence for a novel) have been posted: