Four letter word
In Competition No. 2706 you were invited to submit an entertaining and plausible piece of prose using words of only four letters.
‘This must hold some sick joke!’ wailed Shirley Curran. ‘Lucy, show more pity next time,’ pleaded Barry Baldwin.

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