In Competition 2623 you were invited to submit an extract from a novel or a play, of which one letter of the title had been changed, in the style of the original author.
It was especially tough this week to whittle a large postbag down to just six. Oh, to have the space to share with readers the delights of The Drapes of Wrath, Finnegans Cake, Wailing for Godot and Lady Chatterley’s Liver. Well done, one and all. D.A. Prince shone with ‘Paradise Post’, but, as I stipulated a novel or a play, she is excluded from the winning line-up. It’s £25 each to the victors, and Alan Millard nabs the bonus fiver.
Such was the variety to be observed from the esplanade shelter that, to Scabber Crout, none resembled another. Nor was it those on the face of the Jubilee Clock that so obsessed him, but rather those attached to the arms of each passer-by, whether walking towards the Nothe or in the opposite direction towards Greenhill.
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