IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT - 2020

Below are some "winners" from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest of 2020. Please see DARK AND STORMY NIGHT post of JULY 8, 2014 for an explanation of this contest.

Grand Prize

Her Dear John missive flapped unambiguously in the windy breeze, hanging like a pizza menu on the doorknob of my mind.

Lisa Kluber, San Francisco

Grand Panjandrum's Special Award

As hard-nosed P.I. Dan McKinnon stepped out into the gray gritty dawn, a bone-chilling gust of filth-strewn wind wrapped the loose ends of his trench coat around him like a day-old flour tortilla around a breakfast burrito with hash browns, sausage, and scrambled eggs, hold the pico.

Lisa Hanks, Euless, Texas

Western - Dishonorable Mention

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a female undocumented immigrant.

Steve Lynch, Tucson, Arizona

Miscellaneous Dishonorable Mention

Having lost part of her left ear while working in a circus knife-throwing act during the summer between her junior and senior years, Karen felt all the more re-assured about her decision to major in statistics, but she couldn't help but to ponder the probability of regaining physical symmetry were she to return to the circus for one more summer after she graduated.

Steve Cormier, Slatington, Pennsylvania

Vile Puns - Dishonorable Mention

Enid shrewdly considered the lushness of litigation for copyright infringement as she once more reviewed her genealogical studies which revealed that her aunt, Senta Berger, whose first husband was Gregor Mendel and second was Carl Czerny made her a Senta Mendel Czerny. 

F. Michael Angelo, Plowville, Pennsylvania