Wisconsin ‘writer’ wins 2007 Bulwer-Lytton
Posted by Daniel Stout on Tue 31 Jul 2007 at 9:14 PM
I love the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. It’s an annual contest put on by San Jose State to imagine the most horrifically written first line of a novel. It’s named after the guy who wrote: “It was a dark and stormy night.” Anyway, the 2007 winner of the contest is Jim Gleeson from Madison, Wis. Congrats, Mr. Gleeson, and here is his winning entry:
Gerald began – but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them “permanently” meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash – to pee.
The rest of this year’s delightful winners in all categories can be found here. Enjoy!
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