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Competition

Fifty-something

15 March 2014

9:00 AM

15 March 2014

9:00 AM

In Competition 2838 you were invited to submit a short story entitled Fifty Shades of whatever you chose.

It was a bit of a mixed bag this week but I liked Gerard Benson’s twist on Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity, Josh Ekroy’s 50 Shades of Ukip and Carolyn Thomas-Coxhead’s clever, grisly tale of a woman reduced to a piece of meat.

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