"it was dark and stormy night..."
The results of the 2004 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have been announced! What's that, you say? Why, it's probably the only thing for which the English Dept. at
my school is known -- an annual parody contest in honor of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, who began his novel,
Paul Clifford, with "It was a dark and stormy night..."
Hie thee hither to read the latest "winners" in numerous categories. My favorite at this very moment (there are plenty of good ones, though) is the runner-up:
"The notion that they would no longer be a couple dashed Helen's hopes and scrambled her thoughts not unlike the time her sleeve caught the edge of the open egg carton and the contents hit the floor like fragile things hitting cold tiles, more pitiable because they were the expensive organic brown eggs from free-range chickens, and one of them clearly had double yolks entwined in one sac just the way Helen and Richard used to be." --Pamela Patchet Hamilton, Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada
