Thursday, September 15, 2005

Bad Writing?

Would this make the cut for the bad writing contest?

The Cow Runneth Over

There he was, standing like a Matador in the ring of bulls. What would this enormous cow do? Its horns as sharp as a tout's tongue and its rage as blinding as the noon sun. Should he have been wearing red that day? Or was that just a myth....

-Kentminder Babin Singh

How does it compare with this...an actual award winner for bad writing:

"India, which hangs like a wet washcloth from the towel rack of Asia, presented itself to Tex as he landed in Delhi (or was it Bombay?), as if it mattered because Tex finally had an idea to make his mark and fortune and that idea was a chain of steak houses to serve the millions and he wondered, as he deplaned down the steep, shiny, steel steps, why no one had thought of it before."

Ken Aclin
Shreveport, LA

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