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STORY NOW DIVERTED FROM HERE, AS IT’S DUE TO FEATURE IN THE CHARITY ANTHOLOGY CHRISTMAS LITES 2019<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As a holiday extra, greydogtales<\/em> offers you an exclusive short story, Something Annoying This Way Comes<\/strong>, by the renowned British author J Linseed Grant<\/strong><\/span>. Mr Linseed Grant is well known to our listeners, and to lawyers throughout the developed world, for his charming and light-hearted tales of unspeakable abominations on the Yorkshire moors.<\/p>\n

The history of this particular story is also well known. Written in 1982, during his enforced exile in the Orkneys, it was submitted to an American magazine, Astounding Fantasies (incorporating the Amateur Bicyclist)<\/em> in the November of that year, and rejected seventeen minutes later. After a series of injunctions, Mr Linseed Grant agreed not to submit any further stories to the United States. Ever.<\/p>\n

Fortunately the original draft, most of which was written on a discarded sheep*, found its way to us at greydogtales.<\/em><\/p>\n

*The sheep, a ram of the North Ronaldsay variety, lived to be an astonishing twenty three years old, though it never spoke again after the incident.<\/p>\n

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greydogtales returns after Christmas, unless you’re very good…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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