As you may know, a TV network here is re-running _Doctor Who_ all the way through from the beginning. Yesterday's episode was the first in the series to include a certain proper noun starting with 'A', and I found myself thinking of BKWillis and his merry band of homicidal maniacs... ---- TDF: Answering Insult with Injury A Drabble by Paul Andinach The dark-haired young man walked along the road to This Time Round, unaware that he was being watched from the undergrowth. It was almost a pity, Number One thought, raising his rifle; the target wasn't a bad person, but the idea he represented was intolerable... The remains were found by an ADF patrol, who breathed a collective sigh of relief when they realised it wasn't Adric. "Who *was* it, then?" "Looks like Morton Dill - you know, the hick Alabaman from 'The Chase'?" "Who would hate a one-shot comic-relief character enough to do *that*?" "Dunno. Somebody with no sense of humor?" |