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Book submitted for your proofing and reading pleasure. Son of "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" By Scott Rice MORE WRETCHED WRITING FROM THE CONTEST THAT PROVES "NOTHING IS SO POWERFUL AS A BAD IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME."Scott Rice, organizer of the notorious-and hilarious-BulwerLytton "bad" writing contest, has once again collected the best opening sentences of the worst novels never published. Here, penned by the literary vigilantes who prowl the subways of literature, is a sampling of winning entries: "'I want something more in life,' Wesley fumed as the lime- scented Jacuzzi bubbles collected between his secretary's breasts." "The November snow was thin and slushy-almost as if the angels in Heaven were brushing their teeth and dribbling toothpaste over the earth." "Fall had come to the city; the trees had turned to yellows and the winos had turned to reds." As the Tallahassee Democrat said (it Was a Dark and Stormy Night: "This is a book to be enjoyed one stinky sentence at a time." The great literary tradition continues...
Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT And Guinevere: Golden Lady Guide Dog guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs for the Blind Alumni Association www.guidedogs.comThe people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence;
rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness.The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. -Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944)
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