Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2007 Results!

The winning entry in this year’s international literary parody contest:

Gerald began - but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them “permanently” meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash - to pee.

Jim Gleeson, Madison, WI

Gleeson’s - ah, official - biography:

Purportedly splitting his time between living in Madison and living in his own head, Gleeson claims to be working on a self-help book for slackers, “Self-Improvement Through Total Inactivity.”

That’s the spirit, Jim! Many more winning entries can be found on the Bulwer-Lytton website.