Posted on 06/30/2009 6:49:55 AM PDT by JoeProBono
SAN JOSE, Calif. - A shambling sentence about sea fellows who bellow took top honors in an annual contest celebrating bad writing. David McKenzie, a 55-year-old Washington man, won grand prize in San Jose State University's 27th Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest with this:
"Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin' off Nantucket Sound from the nor' east and the dogs are howlin' for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the "Ellie May," a sturdy whaler Captained by John McTavish; for it was on just such a night when the rum was flowin' and, Davey Jones be damned, big John brought his men on deck for the first of several screaming contests."
“The night was sultry.”
“The night was sultry.”
Dot’s all write.
We get both of your points two.
It was a dark and stormy night, because, well, it was night and that is usually dark, in fact, most of the time, unless you are in the Arctic in midsummer, it is dark at night, in which case dark is the operative word for the night; and as for stormy, yes the weather patterns over the city, predicted by weathermen who are not normally accurate, but in this case extremely so, indicated that this would be one of the stormiest nights on record, so in fact it WAS a dark and story night.
Quite so.
That’s some more shabby ritin
Runner up?
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