The wind attacked the house with a voracious appetite, lapping hungrily at
the eaves, whipping the gutter refuse into a frothy shake of leaves and
dirt, while rattling the slate shingles like an orphan banging his plate for
more.
-- Shauna Banta's entry to the 2001 annual Bulwer-Lytton contest
Quote #565
Virgule gazed across the vast, cold eel expanse past his inquisitor to
witness the full consequence of his previous decision - feral, withered
children, in tattered, filthy garments, toiled mindlessly at his command in
a single chamber which reeked of oil and burning animal flesh - his time had
come to deliver the final instructio...
Quote #564
With wild gesticulations and loud, gutteral shou Father Steve" jerked
the desperately ill patient back and forth while pelting him with oil,
dousing him with holy water, and beating him vigorously about the head with
a pocket New Testament (the words of Jesus being written in red) in his own
unique version of Xtreme Unction....
Quote #554
Rodney knew that he was going to die a horrible creaming, unspeakable
death, when he arrived on the bridge in a uniform that did not match the
others, was referred to only as "yeoman" and was to be sent planetside with
Captain Kirk and the regular away team....
Quote #562
Unbeknownst to Stan, his convulsive celebratory leap into the air at the
winning Manchester goal, propelled his sausage from between the clenched
grasp of bread and mustard into the wildly cheering crowd, only to land
harmlessly beneath the bleachers in a turgidly congealed pool of spilt beer
and the random effluvia typically present at sporting events of this nature....
Quote #563
Her low-cut, revealing gown was black - black like her hea although not
really because everyone knows that a heart is just an internal organ whose
natural pigment is pink just like the lungs, except, of course, for the
lungs of a long-time smoker which may be as black as her low-cut, revealing
gown....
Quote #560
Unwittingly, Bob pressed the Enter key ending a stream of zeros and ones
in electronic form across the computer's bus, through the processor, out the
serial cable, through the 56K modem, and into the seamy and unfathomable
world of the Internet where his MasterCard number became as ubiquitous as
the cute chord that plays when you boot up a Windows based computer....