{"id":2108,"date":"2009-10-28T10:15:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T17:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/10\/the-awful-screams-of-the-crew-of-the-ellie-may\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T16:24:50","slug":"the-awful-screams-of-the-crew-of-the-ellie-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/28\/the-awful-screams-of-the-crew-of-the-ellie-may\/","title":{"rendered":"“The awful screams of the crew of the ‘Ellie May’.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Bulwer-Lytton.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
\n2009 Results<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is\u00a0<\/em>blowin<\/em><\/span>‘ off Nantucket Sound from the nor’ east and the dogs are\u00a0<\/em>howlin<\/em><\/span>‘ for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the \u201cEllie May,” a sturdy whaler Captained by John\u00a0<\/em>McTavish<\/em><\/span>; for it was on just such a night when the rum was\u00a0<\/em>flowin<\/em><\/span>‘ and, Davey Jones be damned, big John brought his men on deck for the first of several screaming contests.<\/em><\/p>\n

David\u00a0McKenzie
\nFederal Way,\u00a0WA<\/em><\/p>\n

The winner of 2009 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is David McKenzie, a 55-year-old Quality Systems consultant and writer from\u00a0. A contest recidivist, he has formerly won the Western and Children’s Literature categories. David McKenzie is the 27th grand prize winner of the contest that began at\u00a0 San Jose State University\u00a0in 1982.<\/p>\n

An international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory (if not the reputation) of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. Although best known for “The Last Days of Pompeii” (1834), which has been made into a movie three times, originating the expression “the pen is mightier than the sword,” and phrases like “the great unwashed” and “the almighty dollar,” Bulwer-Lytton opened his novel Paul Clifford (1830) with the immortal words that the “Peanuts” beagle Snoopy plagiarized for years, “It was a dark and stormy night.”<\/p>\n

Most entries are submitted electronically through the Contest’s Web site:\u00a0http:\/\/www.bulwer-lytton.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

[ click to read this year’s other winner entries<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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