The ‘Dark And Stormy Night’ Godawful Sentence Winner Of 2012 (It’s A Doozy)

“The winners for the 2012 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest” for worst opening sentence to a hypothetical novel “have been announced … The winner this year was Cathy Bryant of Manchester, England, who came up with this beautiful dud: ‘As he told her that he loved her she gazed into his eyes, wondering, as she noted the infestation of eyelash mites, …'”