SAN JOSE, Calif. — An unseemly sentence that compares a kiss to  the union of a thirsty gerbil and a giant water bottle has won the top  prize in an annual bad writing contest. 
      San Jose
  State University said Tuesday that Molly Ringle of Seattle was the grand  prize winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which the  university has sponsored since 1982.
 In her winning entry, Ringle wrote: "For the first month of Ricardo  and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen  rendezvous with a kiss — a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and  sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water  bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil."