And this year’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Bad Writing Contest Award goes to:
“She resolved to end the love affair with Ramon tonight … summarily, like Martha Stewart ripping the sand vein out of a shrimp’s tail … though the term ‘love affair’ now struck her as a ridiculous euphemism … not unlike ‘sand vein,’ which is after all an intestine, not a vein … and that tarry substance inside certainly isn’t sand … and that brought her back to Ramon.”
-David Zobel, 42
o.O Uh huh…