If you have ever wondered about the quality of your writing, take heart. The San Jose State University’s 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest has a new winner for the worst opening line:

“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 offensive entry was submitted by Garrison Spik. Each year, the content looks for bad writing, and its named after the author Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, whose novel “Paul Clifford” begins with “It was a dark and stormy night.

You can read more about the content and some honorable mentions on CNN.

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