If you're unfamiliar with the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest and are curious to learn about it, here are a couple links for you: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2007.htm.
Here's one of my favorites from last year, although, for the record, don't expect a rosary, Halloween decorations, or the American flag to scare us away!
She'd been strangled with a rosary-not a run-of-the-mill rosary like you might get at a Catholic bookstore where Hail Marys are two for a quarter and indulgences are included on the back flap of the May issue of "Nuns and Roses" magazine, but a fancy heirloom rosary with pearls, rubies, and a solid gold cross, a rosary with attitude, the kind of rosary that said, "Get your Jehovah's Witness butt off my front porch." ~Mark Schweizer
Hopkinsville, KY
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