Competition No. 2522: Right on
You are invited to submit a right-wing protest song (16 lines maximum). Entries to ‘Competition 2522’ by 22 November or email lucy@spectator.co.uk.
In Competition 2519 you were invited to submit a short story entitled ‘A Song from under the Floorboards’.
There is a track of the same name by the post-punk band Magazine whose cheerless first line, ‘I am angry, I am ill and I’m as ugly as sin’, is delivered such relish by frontman Howard Devoto that it almost makes you wish you were him; equally mesmerising is James Mason’s performance as the narrator in the 1953 animated adaptation of the spine-tingling Edgar Allen Poe short story ‘The Tell-tale Heart’, which some of you alluded to. Your entries this week were varied and entertaining. Shirley Curran and the Alex Cassells are obviously on the same wavelength; both their stories feature a cat and a canary. The winners are printed below and get £25 each.
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