More from the 2016 Bulwer-Lytton Bad Writing Contest:
Eleanor had doubts, as well she should have had, and in truth no one knew the repercussions which might result, yet she felt proud in her way to have been selected to be the first person ever to turn on an “electric light” switch, the woman who would be celebrated forever in history, or fried, which in fact she was, though the inventors combined to hush it up.
— John Holmes, St. Petersburg, FL