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New
York love steam rising
Garrison
Spik won the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for a piece of bad writing.
Entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels.
The 41-year-old winner whose name is pronounced Speak took the prize for
the following.
“Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber,
and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their
bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole
covers stamped ‘Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.’”
The winner receives a $250 (€168) prize.
Spik is the 26th grand prize winner of the contest that began at San Jose
State University in 1982.
An international literary parody contest, the competition honours the
memory of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873).
Bulwer-Lytton opened his own novel Paul Clifford (1830) with the immortal
words: "It was a dark and stormy night."
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