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The Lyttle Lytton Meme

The Lyttle Lytton Contest, for those who don't know, is a yearly contest held to see who can write bar none the worst opening sentence to a story possible. And now we all can be terrible writers too!

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Post your character.
2. Go to the Lyttle Lytton site and pick any sentence from any of the years' winners. Note that some of them have names, so you'll have to do the appropriate replacements between you and your RP partner. (Alternatively, just use this handy list that's pre-templated.)
3. Tag another character with your chosen sentence.
4. Be terrible together.

Have fun!

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It was a beautiful night, and the full moon glew like it had never glown before.

"The cattle-rustler’s whip sang through the air like a long thin snake."

Oh yea! Let's get this story goin'!

1. The captain, one might have said, had a sly, sneering-smile expression upon his face.

2. They had the mettle of men, and yet they ate the biscuits of dogs.

3. [Your character] fell into Souji’s manful arms and cried against his waiting muscles.

4. “You are in pain; both physical and emotional,” his heart informed him.

5. WILDCARD - Throw anything you want at me!

Edited 2015-09-11 04:53 (UTC)

[The captain, one might have said, had a sly, sneering-smile expression upon his face.

She was marooned in the jaws of a human minefield, and with every step the noose grew tighter.]

1. PEWPEW — Lasers! — PEWPEWPEW!

2. ‘Pfft’ — he knew the silent but deadly whisper of a silenced SIG SG 550 rifle with a 650mm barrel and a 254mm rifling twisting rate.

3. "The sex I had with a girl last night filled me with a feeling of 100% Grade A joy."

[[ or toss a prompt at me! ]]

1) “No!” raged the swimmer, his opponent streaking by to touch the wall like a dolphin, “No.”

2) (character) entered out of the rain, drenched from that selfsame precipitate.

3) I draw a hot sorrow bath in my despair room.

Or whatever you'd like!

1. Mongoose-to-cobra, two serpentine forms, he was my rival; are we fighting in these holes, or are we really making love?

2. "Crime," declared the police captain, "is everywhere, crime, crime!"

3. New York in the 80s: money was tight, but homies were tighter.

4. The rain loudly hits the sidewalk like bacon sizzles in a skillet, thinks Matt as he holds his coat collar closed, wishing he could trade the bitter cold for that meaty heat.

1. - “You are the greatest human in the world,” the dragon told the boy who desperately wanted to be a dragon, too.

2. - I couldn’t believe what I heard as I read the words in her note which, like daggers, sliced up all my feels.

3 - It was a beautiful night, and the full moon glew like it had never glown before.

o1.} Ah, poetic Paris: with its pâtés and beaujolais, tiramisu and au jus.
o2.} [{Your muse} was aware that many had stood before {her/him} at this sacred place, with their own reasons, but with surprisingly few footprints.]
o3.} [Altaïr had already gotten up obviously because there was no Altaïr in Altaïr's pile of pillows.]
>> or byop!

1. The family road trip in America is as old as covered wagons headed west — older, if you consider the ocean a road.

2. It was a beautiful night, and the full moon glew like it had never glown before.

3. Her golden hair bounced in the breeze like farm-fresh honey flowing from a jar.

001: The moon shone like a star, while tears of heaven rained the sky.

002: Big Boss knew today felt wrong, as he listened to “Heart Cooks Brain,” by the band “Modest Mouse,” from the album “Lonesome Crowded West.”

003: BUDDABUDABDABUDDA, went the bullets.

or 004: choose your own!

1. The men greeted each other, wearing various smiles on their faces.

2. Clark entered out of the rain, drenched from that selfsame precipitate.

3. “BOOM!” said the bomb very loudly.

1. “This sure is a bad murder,” quietly thought Detective Lynne as she was investigating a hell of a crime at the Colosseum in Ancient Rome.

2. “BOOM!” said the bomb very loudly.

3. Lynne woke up instantly; it was that dream again — the one with the face, and the man, with the face.

1. I awakened with renewed hope that I grimly tried to suppress.

2. He, from a physical stature, was short.

3. As I stood there, looking at the ground, I thought to myself, “Was it all worth it?”, but then my train of thought was interrupted by a small, yet angry, cobra.

4. Minato Arisato had never held a gun, but he was holding one now.

1. Listen: once upon a time (well, actually twice but I think the first one doesn't really count...or is that "didn't") there was some gal!

2. In 3010, the potatoes triumphed. (Potato horror, anyone?)

3. The moon was full, the hot-dog-eating contest was over, and the volleyball team had a lot of throwing up to do.

1. "David fell into Greg’s manful arms and cried against his waiting muscles."
2. "So we all had dicks, all of the boys — can I go on?"
3. WILDCARD

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