Posted by Kal on June 28, 2017 at 11:44:32:
In Reply to: Ta da - winner of the 2016 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest posted by les99 on June 15, 2017 at 11:51:07:
: Even from the hall, the overpowering stench told me the dingy caramel glow in his office would be from a ten-thousand-cigarette layer of nicotine baked on a naked bulb hanging from a frayed wire in the center of a likely cracked and water-stained ceiling, but I was broke, he was cheap, and I had to find her. —
: William "Barry" Brockett, Tallahassee, FL
I like the 2nd winner:
Her grandmother had mopped her brow with the same antique kerchief for twenty years whilst working in the barley fields, and now Anastasia was to wear it on her wedding night knotted into a baggy loose panty; while her lover Anatoly would wear his father's ancient gray and tattered undershorts tied around his neck to honor the old village custom of marital odor-blending. — David S. Nelson, Falls Creek, VA