The Body

Actually, Lisa, I couldn't think of a more fitting writer than you to stumble upon a body in the woods. That's supposed to be a compliment. foster.

Hmm, yes, it's one thing to imagine such a thing in the context of fiction, another thing entirely (I would think) to be confronted by the stark reality of it... :-) * P * :-) ( Read my blog! - www.oddcourgette.blogspot.com )

“Police officers believe the body was that of a woman in her 20s. They said they were not treating her death as suspicious.” Since when has finding a dead person in the woods been nothing to be suspicious of?!

Maybe it was one of those body snatcher pods growing, waiting for Lisa to fall asleep. Of course the police have already been converted, so naturally it wouldn't be suspicious. Better check your basements folks. Visit me http://www.radiodenver.org/

There's lots of dead people...it's not nice really.

I presume the police removed the body... Cops cop corpse from copse.

Nice one Mykle. When I lived and worked in Oxford many moons ago, there was a mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl. She was discovered 2 weeks later about 50 yards from where I cycled by every day. She had been murdered. It felt very spooky cycling by there again, knowing that I hadn't known that she had been lying there. Odd.

Despite the joking, I can't imagine how horrible it would be to find - stumble across even - a genuine dead body. We are so anaesthetised by the media, high-body-count-action-films, videogames, etc, that I don't suppose anyone who hasn't actually experienced such a thing, in real life, could possibly concieve of how traumatic and life-affecting it could be. What it must be like, as police etc, to deal with such sights day in, day out... :-) * P * :-) ( Read my blog! - www.oddcourgette.blogspot.com )

Thanks Styx. I wasn't sure how many people would get it since a lot of people don't know that 'cop' is a colloquial verb meaning "to take" as well as slang for a policeman.