Award Season is upon us! Let’s start with the Lyttle Lytton Contest and in the next post you’ll get my rundown of the Bulwer-Lytton winners.

Here’s the complete list.

Original Sentences

Pika … chu, thought Pikachu.
anonymous

For many, surfing can be a pleasant and enjoyable pastime, if you like surfing, but not Peter.
Cormac Leggatt

Zamboni doubled — nay, TRIPLED over in happiness-demolishing agonies.
Leon Arnott

I have the ability to go through time, he suddenly remembered while at a bus stop near a tree.
Adam Box

Deep space. The silence of the void. Shh.
Anthony Hope

Deborah walked briskly down the street with pants on her legs.
Susie Thai

“Ooh la la!” whispered Larry in French.
Jim Van Donsel

Found In Actual Published Books

Despite having ascended to the most powerful political office in the world, President Zachary Herney was average in height, with a slender build and narrow shoulders.
Scott Silverstein, quoting Dan Brown’s Deception Point

A leg and part of a torso lay on the sidewalk — the remains of Alan Tompkins.
Mark Wells, quoting LaHaye and Jenkins’s Left Behind

Org of Otterland was not Duke Og and Duchess Dina’s first child, for that honor belonged to Natalya, brown-haired, eyed, and furred.
not signed, quoting Duke Otterland’s Org’s Odyssey

[Okay, this last one’s self-published. But still…]