NationStates Jolt Archive


And the Winner is....

Syniks
03-08-2005, 17:20
As he stared at her ample bosom, he day-dreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop manual.All Hail Dan McKay of Fargo, N.D. (US), who will get $250 for winning the overall 2005 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

The Purple Prose award goes to Chicago English teacher Rick Holinger for this:

Horatio Keelhaul sailed buoyantly up Cutter Street ironclad in his resolve to torpedo the reviewer of his literary launches who threatened his Titanic reputation with accusations of relying solely on nautical parlance to propel his gondolaic characters through the sinuous canals of his plots.

Kudos! :D
The Czardaian envoy
03-08-2005, 17:30
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Congratulations to whoever those people are, although I'm sure I would have won their prizes had I entered!