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2009 Bulwer-Lytton Contest Winners Announced |
2009-10-07 |
The winner: 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. David McKenzie Federal Way, WA Runner-up: The wind dry-shaved the cracked earth like a dull razor--the double edge kind from the plastic bag that you shouldn't use more than twice, but you do; but Trevor Earp had to face it as he started the second morning of his hopeless search for Drover, the Irish Wolfhound he had found as a pup near death from a fight with a prairie dog and nursed back to health, stolen by a traveling circus so that the monkey would have something to ride. Warren Blair Ashburn, VA More award-winning Bulwer-Lyttony at the link. |
Posted by:Mike |
#7 :-D |
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-10-07 23:48 |
#6 Aaaaand Barbara takes the thread! ;-) |
Posted by: trailing wife 2009-10-07 22:21 |
#5 Can't read what hasn't been written yet, Parabellum. |
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-10-07 20:52 |
#4 I thought just about every other sentence from The Da Vinci Code would have been a perfect fit for Bulwer-Lytton Contest entries... |
Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2009-10-07 18:52 |
#3 No one has read it yet. |
Posted by: Parabellum 2009-10-07 17:57 |
#2 Did no one nominate Obama's healthcare bill? |
Posted by: Iblis 2009-10-07 17:21 |
#1 Thank God for sanity ... |
Posted by: Adriane 2009-10-07 15:44 |