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leelee101
leelee101

Life And Death In The End

#sundayrepost It's a recent piece, with two new lines. It is reposted by request. Who am I to argue with that.

36 19 446 words
leelee101
leelee101

Life And Death In The End

Borne upon the breeze, the sound of gypsy mandolins Tunes played for a ha'penny, accompanied by violins The public house is full again, for beer and life are cheap But the smell as you walk past is...

16 16 399 words
letslive1959
letslive1959

Ladies Of The Night

Jack the ripper. Rather than stay home with pipe and slipper. He'd rather be out and about. Finding his victims and making them shout. Slashing with knife. And finally taking their life.

14 0 74 words
elf_girl
elf_girl

The Blood Mile

(An excerpt from The Blood Mile) Paris 1789 BANG. The jewel encrusted goblet came crashing to the floor after I had rather foolishly attempted to keep it in balance.

6 0 787 words
smellyfingers
smellyfingers

Family Tree

Why do we all run just to stand still. Looking down on the summit of manmade hills.

14 0 257 words
sjw
sjw

Gaslight Pt 2.

A conclusion to @leelee101 Gaslight pt 1 Abberline turned and was greeted by a familiar face, who he had met many times in the past few months although he didn't recall his voice being quite so...

20 16 500 words
leelee101
leelee101

Gaslight pt.1

'You dirty bastard.

32 32 458 words
Odd
Odd

Lizzy Borden

#nightdwellers There was a girl called Lizzy Who fell in love. But she was too rich, And was used to her white gloves. Refused to allow their marriage. Her courtship came to and end.

22 0 83 words
redapples99
redapples99

Greed..

#household I'm imaging this as a song on horrible histories!!. Don't know why!!. ;) My father told me not, To be greedy, to be, Happy with what I had got.

8 3 158 words
Samurai
Samurai

Dice with Death

Chapter 4 The Conman The gamble had been made and for The Conman it was a game he knew well.

30 5 577 words
JackHeeley
JackHeeley

Jack The Ripper

They all say that we have a few skeletons in the closet. If that were true, this creature would be sleeping next to a graveyard. If he sat next to you in on a park bench, he appeared a regular man.

22 17 437 words