Is this the worst sentence of the year?

Mira Prabhu:

The worst sentence of the year! And how’s this for a bloodthirsty pun?: “Old Man Dracula forgot to put his teeth in one night, and so had to come home hungry, with a sort of “nothing dentured, nothing veined” look on his face.” Read Bridget Whelan’s post for more.

Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Every year the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest  at San Jose State University honours the author of an obscure 1830 novel, Paul Clifford, which opens with this  famous opening sentence. Thousands of writers from around the world compete against each other to come up with something that comes close to the awfulness of the original.

This year Joel Phillips from New Jersey won with this entry:

Seeing how the victim’s body, or what remained of it, was wedged between the grill of the Peterbilt 389 and the bumper of the 2008 Cadillac Escalade EXT, officer…

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