In Competition No. 3331 you were invited to write a resentful note of departure on behalf of a well-known figure from the field of fact or fiction.
This challenge, set some time ago owing to seasonal production deadlines, was prompted by Suella Braverman’s splenetic broadside, but I decided to widen the brief beyond the political sphere. You duly cast your net far and wide, choosing subjects who ranged from Trollope’s unctuous, scheming curate Obadiah Slope to Nellie the Elephant.
Alan Millard’s Revd William Spooner
earns a commendation: ‘Where is the hind kelp when needed by poor souls like me? Sadly it has been limply sacking from those who should cow more share for their staff. I therefore design as of row with little regret…’. As does Basil Ransome-Davies’s Kissinger and Russell Chamberlain’s John Lennon.
The prizewinning entries printed below net their authors £30 each.
Disappointed to have stay cut short – dashed inconvenience – exemplary house guest – Stately Home – magnificent tidying-up skills – emptied fridge, Bollinger – wine cellar, Bordeaux – expensive affair, that – wrong bed, 2 a.m.
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