Dear Sammy
Xxxxx

Dear Sammy,

Thank you for your April contribution to “The Flasher”.

It’s obvious that you’ve put in a great deal of work. The spelling is perfect. The punctuation? Well, we were just taken aback by the perfection, Sammy. It’s such a relief to edit an author who will never accuse us of being Apostrophe Nazis. Your sentence structure is brilliant – if not a tour de force of the literary art. At the risk of appearing to gush, we congratulate you on your mastery of plot and narrative. It’s not every author who can put a point in only 210 words, in an almost haiku-like manner.

On behalf of the editors, I’d like to thank you for gracing our competition with your work and let you know that you are this month’s winner. Yes, we know April isn’t over, but the choice is already obvious.

Yours sincerely
Xxxxx
For “The Flasher”.

PS: Please let us know where we can pick up Graham. Will we need a stretcher?