As the world prepares to celebrate Valentine’s Day, RU is thrilled to announce our first annual Tainted Love Contest.

We want your absolute worst.

The most wretched, overwrought and bruise-worthy purple prose you can possibly fit into one sentence containing no more than seventy words. 

Here’s an example written by RU staffer Becke Martin Davis:

Sloppy kisses sounded romantic in a bodice-ripping way, but with his tongue slithering down her throat like a slightly furred snake and his stale tobacco flavored saliva mixing disgustingly with hers, she decided to leave French kissing to the French in the future, and to avoid men with hot eyes and flecks of egg in their beards altogether. 

Place your entry under our comments section on Valentine’s Day, Tuesday, February 14th. Entries must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. PST on February 14th.

One entry per person.

One sentence containing no more than seventy words.

Judges: Editor Theresa Stevens and the RU staff 

Prizes awarded to the first, second and third place winners.

Winners will be announced on Sunday, February 19th.

We hope you’ll join in the fun!

Entry deadline is January 5, 2012. All works must have an original
publication date between January 1 and December 31, 2011.

For more information, please see: http://www.gccrwa.com/starcontest/

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