Bulwer-Lytton 2009 contest winners

[Towse]

"Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon,
when the wind is blowin' off Nantucket Sound from the nor' east and the
dogs are howlin' for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams
of the crew of the "Ellie May," a sturdy whaler Captained by John
McTavish; for it was on just such a night when the rum was flowin' and,
Davey Jones be damned, big John brought his men on deck for the first of
several screaming contests."

David McKenzie
Federal Way, WA

... and the runners-up and the Grand Panjandrum's Special Award and ...

<http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2009.htm>

["Since 1982 the English Department at San Jose State University has
sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical literary
competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to
the worst of all possible novels."]
--
Sal

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