The Bulwer-Lytton Erotica Contest Our esteemed judge, Felix Lance Falkon, has returned his verdict. Forthwith, herewith, herein and hereunder are the results of our little contest. Quoth the judge, "all were excellent. It was hard to pick the best." My thanks to everyone who entered (which is everyone listed here) and to our judge. (Oddly enough, no one entered and then withdrew and then re-entered slowly, and then entered again and again until with a spasmodic heaving and a Vesuvian eruption of words they spewed an opening sentence out across the creamy whiteness of the page--but perhaps that would be a "Worst Orgasmic Sentence," and I'll let someone else run that contest.) The worst sentence in this contest, and therefore the winner: In accordance with the courtship traditions of his people, Mazoul went out and purchased the finest timepiece he could afford (to represent his wish that he and his intended would grow old together); he took it home and wrapped it in fresh green corn husks (to represent the wish for fertility and abundance for all their days), and, with trembling hands, he presented the parcel to Lydia, of the secretarial pool, whom he had admired from afar for lo these many months (if she unwrapped the bundle, then by ancient tradition, she would be accepting him as a suitor); but his nervousness turned to surprise at her reaction when he shyly asked her if she would shuck his clock. [Vinnie Tesla] Honourable (or dishonourable) mentions for these: He stood at an angle to her; his cock, upthrust and backlit by the smog-tinged ochre sun whose dying rays reflected off the cool Pacific shore, tickled her fancy; a little drop of saliva bubbled at the corner of her mouth as she thought about the pungent gift locked up in the swollen balls, dangling so jouncily in the fleshy sack between his legs; the tingle in her quim wouldn't stop, she should have brought a towel to sit on, getting some sand trapped in the crotch of her string bikini kept rubbing her the wrong way, his cock and even the fluid now oozing forth couldn't stop the gritty irritation, there was only one solution - yes she thought, I shall disturb the universe and leave this guy hanging and go take a bath. [Allison George] "My God" she screamed, or possibly creamed, as her back arched in a shape reminiscent of the Arc de Triumph and her fingernails penetrated my skin with the irresistible force of a locomotive at full throttle driven by an engineer with a belly full of cheap scotch while her body shook with quakes that would have registered a nine on any Richter scale; all because I had accidently set her vibrator to "Frappe". [Mr Slot] Agog at the exquisite instrument that was her prostrate body, with all the curvaceousness and sultry Mediterranean hue of a Stradivarius, he could not resist but a momentary snicker when, through diligence and, true, some bit of God-given dexterity (didn't his first piano teacher, Mrs. Baumgarten, intimate as much about his chopsticks even before their duets, while he was yet only polishing her keys), he coaxed from it a reedy leuteslied of a bedroom sigh that waxed under his attentive ministrations to a traipsingly delightful sonata, and then to nothing less than a capable scherzo, until alas it mushroomed to a Beethovien crescendo, and not anything as clumsy as the Master's Allegro assai in the hands of a savage Toscanini where it becomes a ring-eyed cigar-smoking whore, or an overexuberant Bernstein's American floozy hiccuping her cheap New Years bubbly through her nostrils, no, but with the precision and musculature of the Molto vivace by the Four Horsemen of the Chicago marshaled beneath the dictatorial beauty, the scientific agony! of the Hungarian Solti as stern helmsman, such was the Svengali-dance of his fingers upon this wanton pagan clitoris, one might fairly say. [PleaseCain] Henry was a piano tuner by trade, the kind of man with nimble fingers and a sensitive ear, and damn if my baby grand wasn't way out of tune. [Virago Blue] Kissed, licked, and petted until her reluctance over the next step had long disappeared to be replaced first by acquiescence and then by all the stages of desire up to burning impatience, she had herself removed the panties which were not only the last vestige of her clothing but also the last symbol of the denial which had become her self denial more than her denial of his desire of the entrance for which he continued to prepare her with his teasing tongue and gently stretching fingers until -- now more afraid of further delay to the stroke which she had so long resisted than of either the pain or the scandal that she might be risking by this act -- she, after pulling him forward over her torso and between her thighs as he kissed everywhere he could reach -- belly, breasts, throat, chin -- until finally their mouths could meet, was parting her nether lips with her fingers as eagerly as she parted her upper ones to his tongue, inviting the rupture of that membrane which she had so long protected in return for its protection of her innocence, and anticipating the invasion that -- when it did come -- tore from her tears as well as blood, while never imagining that the kisses with which he removed each tear from her face was but a sign of triumph to him nor that the pain that she suffered was more his goal than the tight friction which he enjoyed until, with a shouted curse, he erupted the evidence of his pleasure into her body. [Uther Pendragon]