Biddlecombe

That evening, Samuel decided that there was no point in telling any grown-up in Biddlecombe of what he knew.

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Oh, everyone accepted that something had happened in Biddlecombe, but, officially, nobody seemed entirely sure of what that something might have been, not even the scientists responsible for the Large Hadron Collider, who, in the wake of what had occurred, decided that in future they needed to keep a very close eye on their experiments.

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Still, Doris had insisted that they come along and join their new friends, who had recently moved to the town of Biddlecombe, for an evening of “fun.”

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There was clear evidence of demonic nastiness to be seen: three elderly male members of the Biddlecombe Shooting Club, who had been taking potshots at clay pigeons when the invasion began, had made the mistake of turning their shotguns on a gorgon, its hair a mass of hissing serpents and its eyes so black that they were less organs of sight than dark vacuums, or jellied orbs of nothingness.

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I think it is in the basement of number 666, Crowley Road, in the town of Biddlecombe, England.

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St. Timidus became famous when, in 1378 A.D., he decided to go and live in a cave outside Biddlecombe so that he would not be tempted to do bad things.

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The bishop of Biddlecombe at the time was named Bernard, but he was known far and wide as Bishop Bernard the Bad.

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She was smiling as she brought down all communications within a ten-mile radius of Biddlecombe.

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IT TOOK A LONG time for Biddlecombe to return to normal.

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Eventually Biddlecombe began to fade from the headlines, and that suited everyone in the town just fine.

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