IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT

The following piece was selected by Scott Rice, coordinator of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. It appeared in Reader's Digest in 2009.

   "With a curvaceous figure that Venus would have envied, a tanned unblemished oval face framed with lustrous, thick brown hair, deep azure-blue eyes fringed with long black lashes, perfect teeth that vied for competition, and a small straight nose, Marilee had a beauty that defied description."