Celebrate Bad Writing
George Savage ·
Jun 30, 2010 at 2:44pm
No, not mine. Not yet, anyway.
AP reports:
San Jose State University said Tuesday that Molly Ringle of Seattle was the grand prize winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which the university has sponsored since 1982.
In her winning entry, Ringle wrote: "For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss — a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil."
Somehow, for me at least, a gerbil cage will never look quite the same.
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May '10
Re: Celebrate Bad Writing
Muskrat love, gerbil romance...
Jun '10
Re: Celebrate Bad Writing
My goodness, leave your diary behind at the Starbucks once, for a few minutes, and your life becomes prize material....
May '10
Re: Celebrate Bad Writing
It was a dark and stormy night....
May '10
Re: Celebrate Bad Writing
....and in the second month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, Ricardo decided to run, run, run away, but he couldn't get away. He was trapped, trapped like he was running in one of those hamster wheel things.
May '10
Re: Celebrate Bad Writing
I sent in an entry in the science fiction category. Looks like it sank like a stone. Is there a humiliation so exquisite as losing a contest of losers?
Re: Celebrate Bad Writing
For those interested in exploring further, you can read the category-winning Bulwer-Lytton entries here. There are many gems such as this runner-up in the Detective category by Dennis Pearce: