Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Painful Prose

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.

This could mean only one thing: The winning entries in this year's Bulwer-Lytton Contest have been announced.

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