Terry, thanks for the introduction to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. I hadn't heard of them before, and they're a real treasure!
My favorite, the winner of the Children's Lit category:
As Charlotte meticulously finished her egg sac on the lonely rafter at the county fairgrounds, she thought about the future day when her children would burrow into Wilbur's flesh to consume him from the inside-out, and hummed her favorite song about the wheel of life rolling on.
Robert Greer, Gilbert, AZ
The fastest way for me to lose my status as favorite aunt...
