In Competition No. 2410 you were provided with opening and closing words and invited to write a story with the above title.
The given words were supposed to be the opening and closing ones of a Maclaren Ross story with this title, but owing to a clerical error, in other words my own foolish blunder, the ending I gave you was the ending of a different story by the same author. The correct ending was ‘I felt I deserved it.’ No matter, you grappled well with the problem presented. I especially enjoyed Basil Ransome-Davies’s cheeky opening: ‘The clock on the street corner said six but it was really five centuries or more since it had said anything else.’ The prizewinners, printed below, get £25 each, and Brian Murdoch scoops the extra fiver.
The clock on the street corner said six but it was really five.
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