I promised Pagiedamon that I would post this year's Grand Prize Winner in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest when I got the results. And here it is, by Garrison Spik:

"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."

Spectacular, isn't it?

Results in other categories can be seen here:


http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/scott.rice/blfc2008.htm

Thank you, thank you, Lanfranco! This has exceeded all of my expectations! Ha! I can't wait to read the others. Thanks for remembering. :-)

I love these things ! Thanks for sharing the link! That NYC description is terrific!

I liked this one, too - must be some (interesting-sounding) story of "Oz" set in, maybe, someplace like the lesser parts of Detroit ?

"Dorothy had reasons to be nervous: a young girl alone in a strange land, traveling with three weird, insecure males badly in need of psychiatric help; she tucked her feet under her skirt to keep the night's chill (and lewd stares) away and made sure one more time that the gun was secured in her yet-to-develop bosom."

Those are wonderful. I would be hard pressed to pick a favorite if I were judging them. As I read through, I kept thinking, "Oh, this is the best", until I got to the next, the one after that...you get the picture. Thanks for sharing that!

Well, here's my all-time favorite, the Grand Prize winner from 3 or 4 years ago:

"The sun oozed over the horizon, shoved aside darkness, crept along the greensward, and, with sickly fingers, pushed through the castle window, revealing the pillaged princess, hand at throat, crown asunder, gaping in frenzied horror at the sated, sodden amphibian lying beside her, disbelieving the magnitude of the frog's deception, screaming madly, "You lied!"