Awash with unfocused desire, Everett twisted the lobe of his one remaining

ear and felt the presence of somebody else behind him, which caused terror

to push through his nervous system like a flash flood roaring down the

mid-fork of the Feather River before the completion of the Oroville Dam

in 1959.

-- Grand Panjandrum's Special Award, 1984 Bulwer-Lytton

bad fiction contest.