Conferences Are Murder (2011)
Conferences Are Murder
“We await with eagerness reports of experiments in the probation service with electronic tagging; not that we imagine for one minute that we would want to know exactly where people are at crucial moments. Meanwhile, as a trial deterrent, this year delegates will not be paid their conference lunch expense allowance until noon on Friday. So be there or be poor.”
from “Advice for New Delegates”, a Standing Orders Sub-Committee booklet.
It was hard to imagine the crumpled concertina of red metal had... ever been a Ford Escort. It didn’t look as if it could ever have been longer than a Mini. The signpost it had hit first had sliced the car almost in two, before the brick wall of the shopping center had compressed it to half its length. As she watched a salvage crew struggle to get the wreckage away from the shattered wall, the churning in Lindsay’s stomach had nothing to do with the amount of alcohol she’d consumed. She turned away and threw up unceremoniously in the gutter.
When she recovered herself, she saw Paul had turned away and was staring unseeingly at the traffic.MoreLess
from “Advice for New Delegates”, a Standing Orders Sub-Committee booklet.
It was hard to imagine the crumpled concertina of red metal had... ever been a Ford Escort. It didn’t look as if it could ever have been longer than a Mini. The signpost it had hit first had sliced the car almost in two, before the brick wall of the shopping center had compressed it to half its length. As she watched a salvage crew struggle to get the wreckage away from the shattered wall, the churning in Lindsay’s stomach had nothing to do with the amount of alcohol she’d consumed. She turned away and threw up unceremoniously in the gutter.
When she recovered herself, she saw Paul had turned away and was staring unseeingly at the traffic.MoreLess
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