[DeTomaso] NPC: short automotive bad prose

Larry - Ohio Time Larry at ohiotimecorp.com
Sat Jan 16 13:22:13 EST 2016


Surly not owners of old Oldsmobile's.



Larry (poetry) - Cleveland


-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Charles
Engles
Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 1:10 PM
To: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC: short automotive bad prose

Dear Forum,

 

 

                         I just found this on the Bulwer-Lytton bad writing
website for winners of the 2015 competition for the worst opening sentence
for a fictional novel.   Warning: NPC

 

 

                       " Long overdue for a tune-up, the ancient and
dilapidated 1956 Oldsmobile -- with PowerGlide transmission and power
steering -- wheezed slowly into the gas station, the long, blue plumes of
exhaust looking like a crop duster full of illegal DDT spraying a field of
asphalt."

 

                                             - Ed Buhrer, Louisa, VA

 

 

                           Warmest literary regards,  Chuck Engles






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