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Lyttle Lytton Contest

Welcome to the 2024 edition of the Lyttle Lytton Contest. This is the first year that entries generated by programs such as ChatGPT have been separated out into their own division; I was surprised to find that the increase in such entries from previous years, when computer-generated entries were included with the found entries, was negligible.

The large and beefy Detective Scott was hunched over his desk like an overcooked shrimp, pink and coiled with a rubbery toughness I couldn’t wait to taste in the courtroom. Detective Joe found the body slumped against the alley wall like a deflated bouncy castle, its limp limbs a sad parody of childhood joy. The house was no humble abode but a thriving underground casino married to the unlawful sale of drugs, brandishing the added illicitness of illegal firearms.

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