5 DECEMBER 1987, Page 67

No. 1503: Short short story

You are invited to write a story (maximum 150 words, excluding the given phrases) ending or beginning, 'The banana was clearly artificial' and ending or beginning, `If only I hadn't been Scottish'. Entries to `Competition No. 1503' by 18 December. N.B. Last week's Competition was wrongly numbered: it should have been 1502.