• oatscoop@midwest.social
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    14 days ago

    My favorite of all time and winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

    For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss—a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.

    – Molly Ringle, Seattle WA

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      thanks, today i learned :
      The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (BLFC) was a tongue-in-cheek contest, held annually and sponsored by the English Department of San José State University in San Jose, California until 2025. Entrants were invited “to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels” – that is, one which was deliberately bad. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulwer-Lytton_Fiction_Contest