Penguin puts a series of
books, all of which contain "a dark and stormy night" in the title, filled with entries of their yearly contest.
Good reading, if only to appreciate how good "bad" writing can be.
1990's winner
Dolores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping across smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an overdose of fluoride as a child which caused her 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.