“ Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin’ off Nantucket Sound from the nor’ east and the dogs are howlin’ for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the Ellie May, a sturdy whaler Captained by John McTavish; for it was on just such a night when the rum was flowin’ and, Davey Jones be damned, big John brought his men on deck for the first of several screaming contests.
this year’s winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Content, which challenges people to create the worst first line of a novel. Bulwer-Lytton, if you don’t know, was the one who first used “It was a dark and stormy night.”
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