IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT - 2011

Below are some "winners" and dishonorable mentions from the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Please see the DARK AND STORMY NIGHT post for July 8, 2014 for an explanation of this contest.

As his small boat scudded before a brisk breeze under a sapphire sky dappled with cerulean clouds with indigo bases, through cobalt seas that deepened to navy nearer the boat and faded to azure at the horizon, Ian was at a loss as to why he felt blue.
Mike Pedersen, North Berwick, ME

Maggie said they were birth marks and they very well could be, but the three very small black moles in a horizontal line just above her right eyebrow looked like an ellipsis to some, but to others who did not know what an ellipsis was, they looked like three very small black moles in a horizontal line just above Maggie's  right eyebrow.
Betty Jean Murray, Richland, TX

They kissed with the fury and passion of a rubber-tipped suction dart that was shot onto the back of the bus driver's fat bald head by the red-headed kid who was too big for his age (the rumor was he was "held back") and everyone knew was going to end up in prison, or perhaps a stand-up comic if he straightened out in time.
D. Drake Daggett, Omro, WI