'Suffering strips away that which is not eternal. It strips the blinders off.'

Father John Libone

'She'd been strangled with a rosary -- not a run-of-the-mill rosary like you might get at a Catholic bookstore where Hail Marys are two for a quarter and indulgences are included on the back flap of the May issue of "Nuns and Roses" magazine, but a fancy heirloom rosary with pearls, rubies, and a solid gold cross, a rosary with attitude, the kind of rosary that said, "Get your Jehovah's Witness butt off my front porch."'

Mark Schweizer, Hopkinsville, KY,
runner up in Detective category of2007 entries in the Bulwer-Lytton contest