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The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenged entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels. I’d written Echoes of Nam: Absence from war is not the same peace of the soul and thought about a ‘how it came about’ story.I did a tongue-in-cheek for the contest. |
Would you continue reading a novel that started with a one sentence paragraph like the one below?
I’m Maria Conception Aquino and being an omniscient, all-knowing in literature voice only, observer, in-the-right place, at-the right-time, I put forth this biography of Hacker Lee Goor including but not limited to the lives of Brandon Taylor Grame and Adam William Brax for your most earnest consideration, so believe me – facts I don’t know personally or for which I have no written or recorded oral testimony are not guessed or supposed in this document; however, some conversations based on verifiable evidence are put into my words and phrases to further the story, but if you were there and know differently, please forgive my assumptions, and if you were not a witness, it matters not to me because just like many things we did not observe, they reasonably could have been.
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest was founded in 1982 at San Jose State University.
None of my entries were published, and as explained in the post here none will ever be.
1 For reasons I cannot explain, I say, having repeated myself over and over again, I do therefore declare again: I am often random, so another post may interrupt the series I first intended to post in sequence.
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