A flying pork product helped an Austin writer claim literary infamy in this year’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which crowns the author of the worst opening sentence to an imaginary novel. Lawrence Person beat out more than 6,300 contestants with his deliberately dreadful description:
“She had a body that reached out and slapped my face like a five-pound ham-hock tossed from a speeding truck.” — Read the rest
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