Submitted by acmfox on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 9:54pm

 Everyone loves a great beginning... right? It's that opening that has to grab the reader's attention immediately, pull them into the story and hook them into continuing. That first chapter is critical. The first page, even more so. That first paragraph better be the best in the whole damn book. Hell, the first sentence... !!!

So this is a tiny little challenge. In the micro fiction challenge you wrote a whole story in just 100 words. This is going to be a cakewalk. Just write one sentence. The first one.

Lucky for us, there's even a contest devoted to this, The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (http://www.bulwer-lytton.com).

So the challenge is this: In Bulwer-Lytton style, write and post as a child page to this one, an opening sentence. It can be as long and complex as you can draw out compound phrases, but it must be only one sentence.