IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT - 2021

Below are some "winners" of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest of 2021. Please see the DARK AND STORMY NIGHT post of JULY 8, 2014 for an explanation of this contest. 

 

Grand Prize

A lecherous sunrise flaunted itself over a flatulent sea, ripping the obsidian bodice of night asunder with its rapacious fingers of gold, thus exposing her dusky bosom to the dawn's ogling stare.

Stu Duval 

Auckland, New Zealand

 

Dark & Stormy - Dishonorable Mention

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in Torrance, but not in nearby Rancho Palos Verdes, which is unusual, considering the two towns' proximity.

Steve Lauducci

Bethlehem, PA

Western - Winner

After commandeering the Black Dog Saloon for a day and a half to lay out every map, zoning ordinance, and land deed in the Territory, and after checking and rechecking their cartographic calculations, Tumbleweed Mulligan and Johnny (Trigger) McAllister were forced to admit that there just might be enough room in this town for both of them.

Ben Connor

Wilmington, Delaware

Children's Literature

Even though Bambi the deer grew up to be a sleek and powerful 10-point buck, the other deer frequently chided him about his name, which was a perfectly fine name for a cocktail waitress, but not so much for a male deer.

Greg Homer

San Vito, Costa Rica

Crime and Detective

The Big Joe Palooka murder wasn't just another killing, another, homicide, another manslaughter, another slaying, another hit, another whack, another rubbing-out, another bumping-off, another assassination, another liquidation, another extermination, another execution - but it was nothing new for Johnny Synonymous, Obsessive - Compulsive Crime Fighter.

Paul Scheeler

Buffalo, New York

Odious Outliers

After discovering a business like show business, newly confident Drs. Frankenstein and Jekyll applied for another experimental research grant as they began their quest to find something like a dame. 

James Romag

Colorado Springs, Colorado