"They had but one last remaining night together, so they embraced each other as tightly as that two-flavor entwined string cheese that is orange and yellowish-white, the orange probably being a bland Cheddar and the white ... Mozzarella, although it could possibly be Provolone or just plain American, as it really doesn't taste distinctly dissimilar from the orange, yet they would have you believe it does by coloring it differently."

This was the winning entry in this year's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a parody honoring the writer of the worst beginning to an imaginary novel.

The writer was Mariann Simms of Wetumpka, Alabama.