"It Was A Dark And Stormy Night" | 28th Edward Bulwer-Lytton Prize

Congratulations to Molly Ringle of Seattle, winner of the 2010 Edward Bulwer-Lytton prize for bad writing. Her winning prose:

For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss—a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil.

From runner-up Tom Wallace:

Through the verdant plains of North Umbria walked Waylon Ogglethorpe and, as he walked, the clouds whispered his name, the birds of the air sang his praises, and the beasts of the fields from smallest to greatest said, "There goes the most noble among men" -- in other words, a typical stroll for a schizophrenic ventriloquist with delusions of grandeur.

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