#1. By far the best -- and an excerpt of the story:
A grotesque comparison of a steamy love affair to a New York City street has won a Washington man this year's grand prize in an annual contest of bad writing.
Garrison Spik, a 41-year-old communications director and writer, took top honors in San Jose State University's 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest with this opening sentence to a nonexistent novel:
"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."'
Rounding out the top 5 (headlines only):
#2. Gorbachev: Georgia started conflict with Russia [the US is now a mommy]
#3. Reporter gets shot on air, keeps reporting
#4. Baby with huge tumor saved by liquor tycoon
#5. A Tie, between the following *question* headlines:
Is that a Bigfoot carcass in the freezer?
Are itty bitty gymnasts lying about ages?
1 comment:
I hope this is a recurring list!
Except I hope that I never have to see the words moist and manhole in the same sentence again.
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