Re: why write?

Josh Hill wrote:

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:22:16 -0700, Bill Penrose <penrose@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Oct 24, 9:57 am, Josh Hill <userepl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Swift clouds thudded across the blue sky as Claggart pulled back on
the stick of his F-39 "Wonder Duck" and eased upward, the roar of 22
million bellowing horses leaving a long trail of white smoke as if a
pope had been elected in a moderate wind. Ellen had walked out on him
last night, had taken everything and walked. *** it. He had gook to
kill.

Wow. Post Chapter Two, quick!

I smell Bulwer-Lytton here.

I checked their web site, and submissions are limited to a single
sentence. The presumption! Have they no artistic integrity whatsoever?

"Bulwer-Lytton" was a he who died before the Web was invented.

Methinks Penrose was talking of the man, not Scott Rice's annual contest.


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