Posted by Jain on July 14, 2009 at 20:00:08:
In Reply to: Ta da - the winner of the 2008 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest posted by Les99 on July 14, 2009 at 19:56:36:
I thought some of the runners up were better. Like this one:
Carmen's romance with Broderick had thus far been like a train ride, not the kind that slowly leaves the station, builds momentum, and then races across the countryside at breathtaking speed, but rather the one that spends all day moving freight cars around at the local steel mill.
Bruce Portzer
Seattle, WA
: The winner:
: 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.
: See all the winners here:
: http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/scott.rice/blfc2008.htm