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The Best of the Worst

April 15, 2014 //  by Wendy Lawton//  208 Comments

Blogger: Wendy Lawton

One of the things you may not know about me is that I won the infamous Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest in 1999 for the worst first line in children’s literature.

My line read:

The greedy schoolbus crept through …

The Best of the WorstRead More

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