Mr Robert Marshall

The Wheelchair Bandits Mr Robert Marshall

This is a story of intrigue, forth rightness, and the essence of humanity in its need to 'do the right thing'. Also there may be some reference to the sexual habits of the human species, which the author hopes will not offend anyone. On the other hand he doesn't really care one way or the other. This story was born out of my membership of Scarborough Writers' Society. Once upon a time, in order to kick-start the creative process, the Society's leader would provide two to four random words or phrases, to be incorporated into a short piece to be read out at the following meeting. Whilst there was no official limit to the number of words in the story, a recommended reading-time of fifteen to twenty minutes set the target and resulted in 'chapter-sized' stories. This story started out as a 'one-off', stand-alone story about a bank robbery, but after encouragement from the other members and following the lead of one of the members, I decided to continue the story using the three or four random words we were given each week, which I have used as the titles of the first ten chapters. The story developed a life of its own, so much so, that when the random words were no longer supplied, the story continued to its natural, or 'unnatural' conclusion.