Sandra

Very good point about the fuel Richard. I’m sure the BRM would have relied on fuel evaporation for cooling too – looking at those early 50s cars, the radiators don’t seem as big as you might expect, and the Alfettas often seemed to have part of the intake blanked off.

I can see the initial appeal of the H16. The V8 was a darn good engine,…[Read more]

337 words (inc. the title) and I managed ‘mood’ and ‘uniform’

FREEDOM JONES; AN INTRODUCTION

He remembered a time when he had been ordinary; when he had played with the other boys. A time when he ran, fought, laughed, and scraped knees with the other boys. When they had climbed trees and stolen fruit and snatched apple scones from the kitchen…[Read more]

I’m not surprise your story was picked @Libby, it was really top notch piece of writing.

Thanks for the theme, @Seagreen. It certainly made me think hard!

Thank you for indulging me with these entries and apologies once again for being so late with the results.

@Jill: you gave me exactly what I asked for – an insight into the mind of a killer – in this case, a victim of domestic abuse who was finally pushed too far. Your words paint a quiet picture of an unseen tempest.

@Sandra: Your words pai…[Read more]

Apologies, all. Just home from work and, while the mind is willing, the body is most definitely wrecked. It’ll be tomorrow before I get a chance to read the entries.

Read the others. Wow what hides under the surface!

Body of evidence.

It’s not as though this is the first body I’ve seen, and it’s not as though this is the first person I’ve killed. As a death it was unremarkable: quick, expected, and I imagine she knew nothing about it. A clean shot through the back of the head in mid-conversation. Only a few of my targets have been so lucky, but my intenti…[Read more]

The original idea came from Harry Bingham on the WordCloud, who presented a bottle of something similar to Champagne as a prize each month. When it began to fall apart it was taken up by Wrathnar the Unreasonable (sans Champagne) and then by the winner of the competition each month.

It was adopted by the Den when the Cloud finally closed