The recent call for publicity blurbs that sell the bible to a modern audience attracted a host of new competitors as well as the old-timers. Kieran Corcoran’s entry presented Jesus as a social media sensation — ‘He used to have 12 followers but now he has TWO BILLION!’. Derek Morgan’s pitched the Good Book as the go-to self-help manual: ‘Going to a garden party and nothing to wear? Trouble finding accommodation at peak season in a small town in the sticks? A house on a flood plain and weather forecast looks bad?…’. And Josh Ekroy had his sights on the how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people market: ‘Just quoting this book at home and in the workplace will make you powerful, respected and financially enhanced.’ Other strong performers in an uneven field were John O’Byrne and Sylvia Fairley.
The prizewinners, printed below, earn £30. The bonus fiver belongs to Pamela Dow.
Pamela Dow ‘His name’s Christ. Jesus Christ.’
The classic franchise is transported to the Levant where our hero has to interpret an unclear mission from ‘G’ with the help of an eclectic pool of talented agents, some of whom have almost certainly been ‘turned’ by an evil underworld kingpin with designs on global domination.
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