atw: Bulwer-Lytton 2009 Results
- From: Janice Gelb <Janice.Gelb@xxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:04:27 +1000
The results of the 2009 Bulwer-Lytton contest have
been announced. (For those not familiar with the
contest, it is "a whimsical literary competition
that challenges entrants to compose the opening
sentence to the worst of all possible novels." It
is named after the author of the infamous prose
beginning "It was a dark and stormy night...")
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2009.htm
This year's winner is David McKenzie of Federal Way, WA:
"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."
-- Janice
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