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2023 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest winners

She was a beautiful woman; more specifically she was the kind of beautiful woman who had an hourlong skincare routine that made her look either ethereal or like a glazed donut, depending on how attracted to her you were.

Maya Pasic

He wasn’t superficial; in fact, he couldn’t even swim.

Josh Boyd

It was love at first sight—he was tall and broad-shouldered, with a dimpled smile, twinkling green eyes, and in keeping with his combination of statistically unlikely but deeply alluring features, type AB blood, and that condition where cilantro tastes like soap.

Ananya Benegal