You too can submit an entry to the Bulwer-Lytton contest to the address below:
The deadline is April 15, 2010.
Submit your entry on a postcard, address on address side, entry on writing surface side.
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Department of English
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA 95192-0090
Deadline 4-15-10
One sentence. Category general. Keep it under 50 to 60 words, stay away from puns.
This is my submission only I am not going to actually submit it to San Jose as the website did not actually give an email address....soooooo......
The chef hunched over his bowl inhaling the smell of saccharomyces cerevisiae and was immediately reminded of his childhood breakfast which consisted occasionally of three sour dough pancakes discarding the first test pancake if the pan was not hot enough because the little sprinkle of water just sort of sat there and did not dance into exuberant steam immediately and topped with syrup not the fake maple syrup but the real genuine maple syrup the kind that comes in a glass bottle shaped like a maple leaf and can be used to hold wild flowers once it has been emptied and rinsed or as a candle holder.
3 comments:
High Five, word,you betcha !!
The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest is so much fun! .. both to try and to read.
There is an e-mail address. Click on Bulwer-Lytton's nose. They accept late entries into May so you still might have time.
What brand of maple syrup was it? :)
dr. e
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