Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Sammy Rice is British scientist working with specialist back room team in London during Second World War, Fact2: military scientific research is being managed incompetently, Fact3: use of alcohol as analgesic has led to alcoholism, Fact4: Stuart dictated earlier in day notes, Fact5: Rice returns to London restored by success
Output (English): Sammy Rice David Farrar is a British scientist working with a specialist back room team in London during the Second World War. Rice is embittered because he feels military scientific research is being incompetently managed. He is also enduring unremitting pain from his artificial foot. The painkillers he has been prescribed are ineffective, and his use of alcohol as an analgesic has led to his alcoholism. His girlfriend Susan Kathleen Byron puts up with his selfpitying, selfdestructive behavior as long as she can, but finally breaks up with him, telling him that he lacks the ambition to better himself. Rice is brought in by Captain Stuart Michael Gough to help solve the problem of small boobytrapped explosive devices mines being dropped by Nazi bombers, which have killed four people, including three children. They receive some useful information from a critically wounded young soldier Bryan Forbes in his debut. Two further mines are found at Chesil Beach: they look like common thermos flasks. Stuart is first on the scene but has difficulty getting Rice on the telephone in his flat because Rice is alone following his breakup, angry, drunk and destructive. Rice quickly sobers up, and travels to Chesil Beach only to find that Stuart tried to defuse one of the mines and has been blown up. Rice sets to work on the second mine after listening to the notes Stuart dictated to an ATS corporal Renee Asherson during his effort earlier in the day. He discovers that the mine has two booby traps, not one, and manages to defuse them both. When Rice returns to London, his selfesteem somewhat restored by his success, he is offered an officer commission as of head of the Armys new scientific research unit. He accepts. Susan returns to him and they return to his flat to find Susan has repaired everything he damaged while drunk.