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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
EzLHolley
EzLHolley

Harsh Reality

Coat drawn tight around his shrivelled body ,Sam stood ,stooped over against the cold and shifted his weight laboriously onto his walking stick,on the rough cobbles of Swan Street.

0 0 652 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
Bluegerbil
Bluegerbil

Raven

I've already posted bits of this story, but I realised that I never actually posted the end. So, I decided to post the whole thing in four or three parts, and, well, here's the first one.

8 2 957 words
Bluegerbil
Bluegerbil

Detective Story Start Thing

I am writing a detective story in English, and thought I might put the start of it on Opuss, to see what you think. I woke in a cold sweat, eyes darting frantically around the room.

10 8 1674 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
mikeballet
mikeballet

Spring Heeled Jack - Chapter Excerpt

Prologue All was quite on the empty London street save for the incessant fluttering of moths around incandescing street lamps.

18 4 1649 words