Prayer for a friend

Praying for my friend the Rambling Educat as she mourns the loss of her sister. Please keep her and her family in your prayers.

Of dark and stormy nights, Bulwer-Lytton, and gerbils

The 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Bad Fiction Writing Contest is in the books, and the winning entry inspired a shudder in me even as I read it the first time. Here's the winning gem, from Molly Ringle of Seattle, Washington:

"For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss--a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil."

There are also winners in the western and mystery categories. Head on over! You do not want to miss them!