Record of a recent exchange
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:40 am
Me: I so wish I could write like this:Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever
skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious
to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an
overdose of fluoride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic
apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless
as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a
steroid-free fitness center.[Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest]
She: You do, John. You do.
skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious
to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an
overdose of fluoride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic
apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless
as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a
steroid-free fitness center.[Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest]
She: You do, John. You do.