The very best of the world's worst literature

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A little story behind the contest
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/07/28/worst.writing.ap/index.html

And the contest entrants/winners:
http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2005.htm

Grand prize winner:
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop manual.

Dan McKay
Fargo, ND

One I just found funny:
Winner: Dark and Stormy Night
It was a dark and stormy night, although technically it wasn't black or anything -- more of a gravy color like the spine of the 1969 Scribner's Sons edition of "A Farewell to Arms," and, truth be told, the storm didn't sound any more fierce than the opening to Leon Russell's 1975 classic, "Back to the Island."

Kevin Hogg
Cranbrook, BC
Canada
 
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