"Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped 'Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.'" — The winning entry of the 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, the object of which is to write the worst possible opening sentence to a novel. The winning author has two master's degrees, a job in corporate communications and I am guessing a few prospective literary agents, given it is August. [Washington Post]