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Submitted to Contest #309
My dearest Emily, Thank you so much for your letter. You will know by now that it takes quite a while for post to reach us here, so we always look forward to it most eagerly. Furthermore, I won’t deny that things here can be a trifle bleak at times, so I cannot overstate how much of a tonic it is to see your words on the page and to hear your voice in my mind as I read them. It never fails to bring me a renewed sense of vigour and cheerfulness. I'm always so glad to hear news from home, too. It hardly seems possible that Charlotte cou...
Shortlisted for Contest #281 ⭐️
Everyone in Longstanton knows the story of Tom Forbes. It began as a ghoulish news item in the South Cambridgeshire Recorder in December of 1962, fuelled village gossip for months afterwards and finally passed into local folklore. The Rev and Mrs D.P. Goodwin were scandalised when they heard that their beloved daughter, Caroline, had been accosted by Tom, an uncouth young farm labourer. (Accosted repeatedly in fact and, I might add, a very enthusiastic participant in the accosting.) The ever-respectable vicar forbade Caroline from seeing Tom...
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