Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

There is a new and deadly threat to the countryside

Is there nowhere left a country girl can go where she is not under siege?

[Photo: rmfox] 
issue 27 November 2021

Surprise, surprise. The person who had the shield taken out of the street light so it shone back into my bedroom window was precisely the person it was always going to be.

I wish the world would shock me more, but it seldom seems to. When the council told me someone had demanded the full glare of the bright white LED bulb be restored, I nursed a forlorn hope that it might not be the obvious suspect.

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