Lyttle Lytton Contest
The 2024 Lyttle Lytton Contest winners featured creative and humorous entries, with the top sentence likening a slamming door to an "acoustic lemon." Diverse submissions showcased imaginative storytelling and unconventional writing styles.
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The 2024 Lyttle Lytton Contest announced its winners, with the top entry being a sentence comparing a slamming door to an "acoustic lemon." The contest highlighted various entries showcasing creative and humorous writing styles, including sentences about crime, mystery, romance, and quirky comparisons. Computer-generated entries also made an appearance, adding a unique twist to the submissions. The winning sentence stood out for its absurdity, while other entries played with language, humor, and storytelling techniques. Despite variations in themes and styles, the contest celebrated creativity and unconventional writing approaches. The diverse range of entries demonstrated the participants' imaginative storytelling abilities and their knack for crafting engaging and entertaining sentences within the constraints of the competition.
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8 comments> Gerald began – but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them “permanently” meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash – to pee.
"Detective Joe found the body slumped against the alley wall like a deflated bouncy castle, its limp limbs a sad parody of childhood joy."
"She had a face like a chair, in all the best ways."I think its not really about the sound, it is about the response you might make after a big hit of lemon flavor: puckering up, wincing, pulling your neck back - I can definitely imagine responding to a distasteful and loud sound in the same way.
"One day a month go there was a huge accident on the left side of town involving some people and some stuff."
The line "She had a face like a chair, in all the best ways." is also fantastic.
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