Wrong guess I guess... thought that was you Becca.

All right. I confess. . . Having only just joined WW, and unable as yet to pluck up the courage to upload anything, I thought Becca’s gender bender was a, er, novel way of making some sort of effort. And there was also the added (malicious) bonus of no-one being able to figure out who the writer was (but congratulations to those who identified the gender). Unfortunately time was short last night so the piece was a ten minute garble that wound up being even more opaque than intended, because although – as everyone guessed – the narrative was deliberately fudged (a transvestite gunfighter? Iy yi yi) the text was supposed to provide a clue in the way it was topped and tailed.

Without wishing to be too, um, explicit about this, it seemed to me that in the context of Becca’s challenge – consideration of gender: how to tell the one from the other – the traditional way has always been to focus upon the, how can one put this, smallest things.

Right. I’m probably banned now so will go and finish that bottle of red. Thanks to everyone who took the trouble to read Gunfight At The AC/DC Corral. And no, none of it was in autobiographical: I even had to spell check 'gingham'.

Richard

So which ever one of us spotted 'pocketed the lipstick' was very astute here.

That was Hilary, Becca - well done Hilary, and well done Richard too - I hope you'll upload something soon.

Yes, I hope you load something up too, Richard.

OK. Here it comes: debut piece about to be uploaded now into Fiction Group III. Aaagh.

Richard

Can I say though, that it's David who is producing the goods here, not me. I've done no work on it.