Speaking of memorable writing ...
While we must wait until Monday to get the results of the 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest , it behooves us all to reflect soberly on last year's winners , and ask ourselves if we can't do better. In case you did not print this out and frame it when it was first announced, here's last year's winning entry: "Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you've had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean." How they judge these I can't say, since most of them seem equally funny. Here's another, the winner of the detective fiction division: "It was a dreary Monday in September when Constable Lightspeed came across the rotting corpse that resembled one of those zombies from Michael Jackson's "Thriller,...