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Tuesday 26 July 2011

It was a Dark and Stormy Night....

Winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Prize for Fiction, 2011:
Cheryl's mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories.

My favourite is a runner-up in the Bad Pun section:
Monroe Mills' innovative new fabric-dyeing technique was a huge improvement over stone-washing: denim apparel was soaked in color and cured in an 800-degree oven, and the company's valued young dye department supervisor was as skilled as they came; yes, no one could say Marilyn was a normal jean baker.
To which I'd add:

Her personal life she lived like the tarnished container that held the dye, cooled and preserved by icy blasts as frigid as the supervisor was not - a can, dull, in the wind.
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2 comments:

  1. SophieWednesday, July 27, 2011 1:52:00 am

    800 degrees ? Some like it hot...

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  2. AnonymousThursday, July 28, 2011 12:02:00 am

    The local entry (ACT) was rather spunky.

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