The winner of the 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest seems to be written as a warning for people who go to volcanoes for fun.
Gerald began--but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them "permanently" meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash--to pee.
Jim Gleeson
Madison, WI
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