Bulwer-Lytton 2004 Winners

[filkertom]

The winners from the 2004 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest are up:

She resolved to end the love affair with Ramon tonight ... summarily, like Martha Stewart ripping the sand vein out of a shrimp's tail ... though the term 'love affair' now struck her as a ridiculous euphemism ... not unlike 'sand vein,' which is after all an intestine, not a vein ... and that tarry substance inside certainly isn't sand ... and that brought her back to Ramon.

-- Dave Zobel, Grand Prize

The notion that they would no longer be a couple dashed Helen's hopes and scrambled her thoughts not unlike the time her sleeve caught the edge of the open egg carton and the contents hit the floor like fragile things hitting cold tiles, more pitiable because they were the expensive organic brown eggs from free-range chickens, and one of them clearly had double yolks entwined in one sac just the way Helen and Richard used to be.

-- Pamela Patchet Hamilton, Runner-Up

The rest of this year's winners are here.

Comments

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! Thank you! I have five (I think) of the collections, but it's been a while since I saw any new ones... :-)