A Woman Was Accused...

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Sometimes I'm flicking through the local paper and a line leaps out; a line almost sublime in it's ability to open up an entire story of mood, events and characterisation, and yet reveal nothing further.

I saw such a line in the Dumfries Courier under the Court Files section, which said,

A woman was accused at Dumfries Sheriff court of wiping blood from her nose and flicking it at a policeman..

You could spend years trying to come up with a line like that.
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