Lyttle Lytton Contest

I love this contest. I think it's genius. I want to do it. That's really all this post is about. That, and just having a place to keep my favorite entries that I've read safe somewhere where I can read them again and again, and someday perhaps write stories based off them. Viva la inspiracion!

Dr. Metzger turned to greet his new patient, blithely unaware he would seen become a member of a secret brotherhood as old as urology itself. 

- Alec Kyras

Man oh man, you're gonna like this book; boy howdy. 

- Duncan Stevens

The pain wouldn't stop, and Vern still had three cats left. 

- Andrew Davis

Maria's flossing was now complete. 

- Chris Piuma

Leon fell out of the goat.

- Rob Tobias

In anticipation, John licked his own lips. 

- Andrew Lloyd

In 3010, the potatoes triumphed. 

- Nat Gertler

Splashy the whale smiled secretively, flapping his flappers and swimming. 

- Jackie J.

This is a mystery about a murder I committed. 

- Lachlan Redfern

Zandor stood in the doorway, raking the onlooking crowd with the hot coals of his eyes. 

- Mark Caudil

Once upon a time, there was a talking lamp whose lightbulb fell out and hit a person and the person got shocked and destroyed everything.

- Megan Groppe

"You are in pain; both physical and emotional," my heart informed me. 

- Daniel Blackmore

"OMH" texted Sue-Anne to her compatriot Ellen, "MY OWN PARENTS R DED!" It looked like the Mystery Girls had a new mystery!

- G. Paal

Tuesday. Africa. Lion o'clock.

- Jamie Harding

The battlefield stank thick with writhing "progressives."

- Neil Martin

Pika...chu, thought Pikachu.

- anonymous

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

- Leon Arnott

Deep space. The silence of the void. Shh.

- Anthony Hope

As the subtle smell of baking monkeys filtered through the classroom, I wondered where the science experiment had gone wrong. 

- anonymous

Under Bob's fez was another.

- Jeff Marr

PEWPEW - Lasers! - PEWPEWPEW!

- David Poore

The thing is, you can never really tell if a person is looking out from behind their own eyes, or if the eyes are being piloted by tiny mice in swivel-chairs.

- Noah Smith

"Crime," declared the police captain, "is everywhere, crime, crime!" 

- Carl Muckenhoup

For hobos, spring was the season of love.

- Rob Lenzi

The king of ketchups was being dethroned, and I wanted an explanation.

- Dan Schmidt, quoting Leigh Belanger in Cook's Illustrated

This is the cipher key for all that follows: |||||| || |!

- P. Scott Hamilton