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Charlotte

  • Dissolute libertine
  • Here's to ol' D.H. Lawrence...
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"It was a dark and stormy night."
« on: 08 July, 2009, 04:17:29 pm »
The 2009 results of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have just been announced.
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RJ

  • Droll rat
Re: "It was a dark and stormy night."
« Reply #1 on: 08 July, 2009, 06:10:36 pm »
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The first time I saw her she took my breath away with her long blonde hair that flowed over her shoulders like cheese sauce on a bed of nachos, making my stomach grumble as she stepped into the room, her red knit dress locking in curves better than a Ferrari at a Grand Prix.
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Classy  :D
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Flying_Monkey

Re: "It was a dark and stormy night."
« Reply #2 on: 08 July, 2009, 08:03:52 pm »
Don't you find the Bulwer-Lytton gets a bit samey? The Bad Sex awards are so much better because they are given to real novels and they genuinely annoy some 'serious' writers...
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RJ

  • Droll rat
Re: "It was a dark and stormy night."
« Reply #3 on: 08 July, 2009, 11:09:09 pm »
Well, yes - I guess so.  Unintentional cr@pness is much funnier than pastiche. Schadenfreude, of a kind.
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