THE BELLROPE
Parish magazine of St Ninian's, Hallowdene
No. 214 · the fourteenth of October

It comes through the door on the fourteenth of every month, folded once, with the flower rota and the oil-fund appeal and a paragraph about the churchyard wall.

You read none of it. You turn it over, because the crossword is on the back, and you have done the crossword every month for eleven years.

It is set by someone who signs himself FRANK. You have never met him.