The 2010 winner of what contest, whose purpose is to “to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels” was Molly Ringle, of Seattle, Wa, with “For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss–a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.”?
Opening sentence an example of a short opening sentence. Formulaic openings are generally eschewed, but expected in certain genres, such as fairy tales beginning "Once upon a time...". Inspired by the opening, "It was a dark and stormy night...", the annual tongue-in-cheek Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest invites entrants to compose "the opening sentence of the worst of all possible novels", and its derivative, the Lyttle Lytton Contest, for its equivalent in brevity. The opening sentence may sometimes be also used as the title for the work, e.g. "Everything I Possess I Carry With Me"; papal encyclicals and bulls are titled according to their
If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man) out of him mouth. His head explodes and he transforms into a shocked Marilyn Monroe lookalike. She walks down the steps, and blows a kiss to Bonnie as she walks past, who blows another back, while continuing the song. More singing and dancing through to the end - the boy in leather looks up at Bonnie. Marilyn leaves the club, blowing a kiss to the camera. Walking alone in the dark alley - now desolate, small fires burning. The voice of the elderly woman repeats as she did in the opening - "Down in the deep end, behind the walls