Look What I Found Today! » Bad Writing http://lookwhatifoundtoday.net Interesting stuff from here and there. Tue, 04 May 2010 19:33:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 It Was A Dark And Stormy Contest… http://lookwhatifoundtoday.net/index.php/archive/it-was-a-dark-and-stormy-contest/ http://lookwhatifoundtoday.net/index.php/archive/it-was-a-dark-and-stormy-contest/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:10:50 +0000 Julie http://lookwhatifoundtoday.barrettmanor.com/?p=49 Yes, it’s that time of year, again! Time for San Jose State University to announce the winners of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Ficton Contest.

The contest is named for EdwardGeorge Bulwer-Lytton, a Victorian novelist perhaps best known for the phrase, “It was a dark and stormy night.”

This year’s winner is Garrison Spik of Washington, D. C., who wrote:

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.”

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