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It was a dark and stormy gerbil: Writing a love scene or How not to

Courtesy of my friend and colleague, Aimee, the latest Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for bad writing. I had been contemplating a post on writing love scenes badly, but I think this takes the biscuit:

“For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kissĀ – a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking
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