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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread And the B-L winner is... #130585 07/20/2004 8:33 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2004 Results She resolved to end the love affair with Ramon tonight . . . summarily, like Martha Stewart ripping the sand vein out of a shrimp's tail . . . though the term "love affair" now struck her as a ridiculous euphemism . . . not unlike "sand vein," which is after all an intestine, not a vein . . . and that tarry substance inside certainly isn't sand . . . and that brought her back to Ramon. Dave Zobel Manhattan Beach, CA http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2004.htm Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And the B-L winner is... #130586 07/20/2004 5:25 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago Mehbee our new *member "stdvltrs" will be interested! BTW, stdvltrs, I appreciate your spelling skills more than most everything else... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And the B-L winner is... #130587 07/20/2004 7:01 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK shanks old hand shanks old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK And they said there were no new ideas. Or was it that there were only 36 plots? I can see hundreds, in embryo, in those gems. Thanks for that. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: And the B-L winner is... #130588 07/20/2004 7:10 PM Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Zed Pooh-Bah Zed Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada "stark and dormy night" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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