Faux Orwell Results

The winner of the 2003 Faux Orwell Writing Contest (see below) has been announced:

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larry laurent

los angeles, ca.

It was a bright cold day in February. The frigid wind sliced through Charles Pilkington like bad tequila goes through a nun. A torn-up poster of The Leader was swirling inside a tiny vortex of wind and dust and dirt. Charles ducked into the nearest doorway for a moment of relief. But the wind had no mercy. It had found its way into the deep furrows of Charles' skin, blowing the dust out of his wrinkles. ...

I have to say that I think the winner reads more like faux Chandler than faux Orwell. My own pick would have been Holly Curtis's "Decline of Good British Retail" as a good faux Orwell essay, or perhaps "Walking, There" by Stephen Mills, which serves as an exellent pastiche of a justly obscure early Orwell novel.