_________________________________________ / Delores breezed along the surface of \ | her life like a flat stone forever | | skipping along smooth water, rippling | | reality sporadically but oblivious to | | it consistently, until she finally lost | | momentum, sank, and due to an overdose | | of flouride as a child which caused her | | to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed | | herself to lie forever on the floor of | | her life as useless as an appendix and | | as lonely as a five-hundred pound | | barbell in a steroid-free fitness | | center. | | | | -- Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton | \ bad fiction contest. / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||