Time Out

This blog began in 2007, when the author won first prize in the Bulwer-Lytton fiction event. Not that the contest had anything to do with Japan, but starting a blog seemed like a great idea at the time.

This is the sentence that won in 2007:

Lady Guinevere heard it distinctly, a sharp slap, as if a gauntlet had been thrown, and yet it was hardly plausible that she, perched delicately on the back of her cantering steed, should be challenged to ride faster, since protocol determined that Arthur should ride in front, then she, then Lancelot, for that was the order prescribed by Merlin, ever since he invented the carousel.

Celine Shinbutsu

You might want to check out this year's winners at

http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2011.htm