Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest crowns a “winner”

Jim Glee­son has been declared the “win­ner” of San Jose State University’s 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fic­tion Con­test. Bulwer-Lytton is remem­bered as the author of the “It was a dark and stormy night” as well as other pieces of truly tor­tured syn­tax. Gleeson’s entry:

Ger­ald began — but was inter­rupted by a pierc­ing whis­tle which cost him ten per cent 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.

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