David Holt Biddle

Down here, on the Deep South Coast, the pre-holiday panic is on. Supermarkets are full of frantic buyers, local authorities, understandably a little torpid during the rest of the year, are giving a spit and polish to those corners of the Hibiscus Coast that need it. This year, however, it’s been different, very different — the out-of-town holiday-makers have all been beaten to it by the purple alien …