It was a dark and stormy night....

The results of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have been announced! Here is a sample (runner-up, detective category):

As Holmes, who had a nose for danger, quietly fingered the bloody knife and eyed the various body parts strewn along the dark, deserted highway, he placed his ear to the ground and, with his heart in his throat, silently mouthed to his companion, "Arm yourself, Watson, there is an evil hand afoot ahead."

-- Dennis Pearce