The worse opening sentences of what? Books? Are they named anywhere? Edit: the books don't exist: 'Since 1982 the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest has challenged

The worse opening sentences of what? Books? Are they named anywhere? Edit: the books don't exist: 'Since 1982 the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest has challenged participants to write an atrocious opening sentence to the worst novel never written. Our whimsical literary competition honors Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel Paul Clifford begins with "It was a dark and stormy night."'