The 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

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The winner of this year's Bulwer-Lytton contest was 41-year-old Garrison Spik, from Washington, DC:

"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.”

Runner Up, from Andrew Bowers:

"Hmm . . ." thought Abigail as she gazed languidly from the veranda past the bright white patio to the cerulean sea beyond, where dolphins played and seagulls sang, where splashing surf sounded like the tintinnabulation of a thousand tiny bells, where great gray whales bellowed and the sunlight sparkled off the myriad of sequins on the flyfish's bow ties, "time to get my meds checked."

My favorite, though, is this entry from David Potter:

"The KGB agent known only as the Spider, milk solids oozing from his mouth and nose, surveyed the spreading wound in his abdomen caused by the crushing blow of the low but deadly hassock and begged of his attacker to explain why she gone to the trouble of feeding him tainted milk products before effecting his assassination with such an inferior object as this ottoman, only to hear in his dying moments an escaping Miss Muffet of the MI-5 whisper, "it is my whey."

:D

Full results here.
 
The winner of this year's Bulwer-Lytton contest was 41-year-old Garrison Spik, from Washington, DC:

"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.”

Runner Up, from Andrew Bowers:

"Hmm . . ." thought Abigail as she gazed languidly from the veranda past the bright white patio to the cerulean sea beyond, where dolphins played and seagulls sang, where splashing surf sounded like the tintinnabulation of a thousand tiny bells, where great gray whales bellowed and the sunlight sparkled off the myriad of sequins on the flyfish's bow ties, "time to get my meds checked."

My favorite, though, is this entry from David Potter:

"The KGB agent known only as the Spider, milk solids oozing from his mouth and nose, surveyed the spreading wound in his abdomen caused by the crushing blow of the low but deadly hassock and begged of his attacker to explain why she gone to the trouble of feeding him tainted milk products before effecting his assassination with such an inferior object as this ottoman, only to hear in his dying moments an escaping Miss Muffet of the MI-5 whisper, "it is my whey."

:D

Full results here.

The puns! OH, the puns!

These are great!

:D:D:D
 
I'm still reading these.

Way down in the Dishonorable Honorable Mentions - I love this one! :D:D

Her name was Mauve, like the color of paint, which was apt: not only was she "pretty as a painting," she was also "smart as paint," and certainly as thin (assuming sufficient solvents had been added); she was, however, Arnold discovered when she stepped from the shower, a lot more fun to watch dry.

Steven W Alloway
Granada Hills, CA
 
For sheer elegance, I think this one's the best:

Bryson the Plainsman seldom spoke a discouraging word but he did when he filed for divorce after discovering his dear and an interloper played.

That one evoked an "Oh, JEEE-zus!!" when I read it.
 
A man who make so vile a pun, would not scruple to pick a pocket. -- Charles Lamb.


And such a man can have a pint with me anytime they like. -- Salvor Hardon
 
For sheer elegance, I think this one's the best:

Bryson the Plainsman seldom spoke a discouraging word but he did when he filed for divorce after discovering his dear and an interloper played.

That one evoked an "Oh, JEEE-zus!!" when I read it.

I'm not sure how, perhaps on a bronze plate somewhere, but that needs to be preserved for posterity. Wow!
 
My favorite is last year's winner:
Jim Gleeson said:
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.
 
Some of these are breathtaking - but where could they go after that first full point?
 
Now this is funny:

"Watching Felecia walk into a bar was like watching two fat Rottweilers in yellow spandex and spike heels that had treed a scrawny bleach blonde cat at the top of a skinny flagpole that for some reason had decided to sprout Casaba melons."

Melissa Alliston
Coraopolis PA

:D
 
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