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Title: The 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for Worst Writing
Post by: Martin on August 14, 2008, 06:35:27 PM
The winners for the 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for Worst Writing (http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/scott.rice/blfc2008.htm) have been announced. And the overall winner is...

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Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped "Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J."

Garrison Spik
Washington, D.C.

I also like the runner-up:

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"Hmm . . ." thought Abigail as she gazed languidly from the veranda past the bright white patio to the cerulean sea beyond, where dolphins played and seagulls sang, where splashing surf sounded like the tintinnabulation of a thousand tiny bells, where great gray whales bellowed and the sunlight sparkled off the myriad of sequins on the flyfish's bow ties, "time to get my meds checked."

Andrew Bowers



Title: Re: The 2008 Bulwer-Litton Fiction Contest for Worst Writing
Post by: Gibby on August 14, 2008, 06:38:23 PM
I'm sorry but this:

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She had the kind of body that made a man want to have sex with her.

Barry J. Drucker
Bentonville, AR

is brilliant.
Title: Re: The 2008 Bulwer-Litton Fiction Contest for Worst Writing
Post by: Andy on August 14, 2008, 06:54:29 PM
holy shit I can't wait to read these.
Title: Re: The 2008 Bulwer-Litton Fiction Contest for Worst Writing
Post by: Jason on August 14, 2008, 07:04:25 PM
It's Bulwer-Lytton.
I know that makes me an irritating pedant but I grew up on the corner of Bulwer Road and Lytton Road.
Title: Re: The 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for Worst Writing
Post by: Martin on August 14, 2008, 07:16:03 PM
Fixed!