Results are Out!

[Maine-iac]

For the 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest!

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/scott.rice/blfc2008.htm

And the grand prize winner is:

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."

[Anitha Desai]

:lol:
Heard it on NPR this morning!

[Browncoat]

:clap:

Can't wait to read em!!!

[Rockhound]

The winning entry is a little too inside jokish. The panel needs some non-city dwellers on their board.

[Maine-iac]

Well, the Romance category winner has a feel of the suburbs:


Bill swore the affair had ended, but Louise knew he was lying, after discovering Tupperware containers under the seat of his car, which were not the off-brand containers that she bought to save money, but authentic, burpable, lidded Tupperware; and she knew he would see that woman again, because unlike the flimsy, fake containers that should always be recycled responsibly, real Tupperware must be returned to its rightful owner.


And for rural, we have this "purple prose" dishonorable mention:


The pancake batter looked almost perfect, like the morning sun shining on the cream-colored bare shoulder of a gorgeous young blonde driving 30 miles over the speed limit down a rural Nebraska highway with the rental car's sunroof open, except it had a few lumps.

[Listeria]

rofl the Tupperware

[JMO]

The winning entry is a little too inside jokish. The panel needs some non-city dwellers on their board.

Disagree. I have only been to NYC for SOA meetings, but it still made me laugh. I could picture most of it right here.

ETA: rofl the lumpy pancake batter

[Uncle Ted]

:hfbb:

[Dahlia]

The dishonorable mentions are just too funny!

Watching Felicia walk into the bar was like watching two fat Rottweilers in yellow spandex and spike heels that had treed a scrawny bleach blond cat at the top of a skinny flagpole that for some reason had decided to sprout casaba melons.

Melissa Alliston
Coraopolis, PA

[Fuzzy]

The pancake batter looked almost perfect, like the morning sun shining on the cream-colored bare shoulder of a gorgeous young blonde driving 30 miles over the speed limit down a rural Nebraska highway with the rental car's sunroof open, except it had a few lumps. I can't help myself, but isn't it the lumps that make it more than "almost" perfect?:rimshot:

[Maine-iac]

I rather liked the "Adventure" runner-up:


"Die, commie pigs!" grunted Sergeant "Rocky" Steele through his cigar stub as he machine-gunned the North Korean farm animals.

Dave Ranson
Calgary, Alberta