The Best of Sci-Fi Writing (Imagine Shatner Reading These)

`He shuddered, awash in adrenaline, his sphincter pulling unpleasantly tight as he recognized his own youthful scrawl on the outside tab.

My sphincter has tightened at the sight of, sound of, thought of more things and in more situations than I care to recall, but recall them, I did after reading that, for clarification's sake, and I'm certain: "Tightened" does not need to be modified by "unpleasantly." That's the only way a sphincter tightens.

I am, though, a reasonable man. If you have recollections of your sphincter tightening pleasantly, I'd like to hear about it. Use the supplied Comments form. (Entrants are subject to ridicule.)