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Title: Drain Flies
Fandom: the Cthulu mythos (Lovecraft)
Rating: Gen
Length: 1500
For: DW 100 Fandoms prompt 075. Snap & DW story works paranormal challenge
Notes: all the quotes are from Lovecraft.
Summary: She didn't want to summon the Old Ones, she just wanted to get rid of the flies.
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Fandom: the Cthulu mythos (Lovecraft)
Rating: Gen
Length: 1500
For: DW 100 Fandoms prompt 075. Snap & DW story works paranormal challenge
Notes: all the quotes are from Lovecraft.
Summary: She didn't want to summon the Old Ones, she just wanted to get rid of the flies.
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Title: It was a Dark and Stormy Night
Fandom: Bunnicula [James Howe]
Rating: Gen
Length: 500
For: DW 100 Fandoms prompt 067. voyage
Summary: How Bunnicula came to be in the movie theatre the night the Monroe family found him.
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Fandom: Bunnicula [James Howe]
Rating: Gen
Length: 500
For: DW 100 Fandoms prompt 067. voyage
Summary: How Bunnicula came to be in the movie theatre the night the Monroe family found him.
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Title: Devil's Spawn Tango
Fandom: "The Great God Pan" (Arthur Machen, 1894)
Characters: Arthur Meyrick, Helen Vaughn, the Devil
Rating: Gen
Length: 700
For: DW 100 Fandoms challenge prompt 049. swing.
Inspired by: Tango bajo la lluvia [Tango in the rain]
Summary: Artist Arthur Meyrick follows Helen Vaughn from London to New York to Buenos Ayres [sic]. In the short story, after Meyrick's death, his sketchbook is sent to Austin by Doctor Harding.
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Fandom: "The Great God Pan" (Arthur Machen, 1894)
Characters: Arthur Meyrick, Helen Vaughn, the Devil
Rating: Gen
Length: 700
For: DW 100 Fandoms challenge prompt 049. swing.
Inspired by: Tango bajo la lluvia [Tango in the rain]
Summary: Artist Arthur Meyrick follows Helen Vaughn from London to New York to Buenos Ayres [sic]. In the short story, after Meyrick's death, his sketchbook is sent to Austin by Doctor Harding.
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My Poem: Turn: The Big Bow Mystery: Gen
Nov. 2nd, 2019 08:12 pmTitle: Turn
Fandom: The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill
Poetic Form: Italian sonnet
Rating: General
Length: 115
For: DW 100 Fandoms prompt .048
Warning: Spoilers for parts of the solution to the mystery.
Notes: The Big Bow Mystery (1892) is considered by some to be the first novel-length locked room mystery. It's a hilarious, delightful story with Dickensian touches. text is available online. And there is a fabulous audiobook version done by a volunteer at Librivox.
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Fandom: The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill
Poetic Form: Italian sonnet
Rating: General
Length: 115
For: DW 100 Fandoms prompt .048
Warning: Spoilers for parts of the solution to the mystery.
Notes: The Big Bow Mystery (1892) is considered by some to be the first novel-length locked room mystery. It's a hilarious, delightful story with Dickensian touches. text is available online. And there is a fabulous audiobook version done by a volunteer at Librivox.
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My Poems: Drawing: Gen
Sep. 29th, 2019 11:27 amTitle: Drawing
Fandom: The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada
Poetic form: haibun, which is a haiku + prose poem
Rating: Gen
100 Fandoms prompt: 084. drawing
Length: 514
Warning: SPOILERS for the manner in which the Azoth murders were carried out and a bit of hint as to the murderer
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Fandom: The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada
Poetic form: haibun, which is a haiku + prose poem
Rating: Gen
100 Fandoms prompt: 084. drawing
Length: 514
Warning: SPOILERS for the manner in which the Azoth murders were carried out and a bit of hint as to the murderer
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Poetry: Mercutio's Sonnet: Gen
Sep. 14th, 2019 07:50 pmTitle: Mercutio's Sonnet
Fandom: Romeo + Juliet [film, 1996]
Poetic form: English sonnet
Length: 100
Rating: Gen
DW 100 Fandoms prompt: 022. fire
A spark of wit ignites a star-crossed plot.
A hero’s foil reflects a tinder bright.
In silver sequins, an element hearth-caught,
who shimmers, frolics, shines in festive light.
By polished heel, a conflagration fierce
of reason-flint beholden to no house
but soul’s abode. Beware the sword-drawn pierce
which to a temper’s flare is deadly douse.
A Venice Beach ablaze, combusting strife
With tat for tit, grave slight repaid in kind.
As friend and kin to all, the party’s life
goes down in flames, laid low by tragic bind.
Remembered on the star-crossed funeral pyre,
the quick Mercutio consumed by fire.
Fandom: Romeo + Juliet [film, 1996]
Poetic form: English sonnet
Length: 100
Rating: Gen
DW 100 Fandoms prompt: 022. fire
A spark of wit ignites a star-crossed plot.
A hero’s foil reflects a tinder bright.
In silver sequins, an element hearth-caught,
who shimmers, frolics, shines in festive light.
By polished heel, a conflagration fierce
of reason-flint beholden to no house
but soul’s abode. Beware the sword-drawn pierce
which to a temper’s flare is deadly douse.
A Venice Beach ablaze, combusting strife
With tat for tit, grave slight repaid in kind.
As friend and kin to all, the party’s life
goes down in flames, laid low by tragic bind.
Remembered on the star-crossed funeral pyre,
the quick Mercutio consumed by fire.
Title: The Dragonets' Poem
Fandom: Wings of Fire series [Book #1, The Dragonet Prophecy, Tui T. Sutherland]
Length: 130
Poetic Form: A very loose variation on a sonnet.
Rating: Gen
DW 100 Fandoms prompt: 032. hope
Beneath the mountain, kept well out of sight,
the dragonets of destiny are hid.
An odd assortment hatched on brightest night
to bring to pass what prophecy has bid.
Escape the only choice to save their own,
yet freedom is but briefest of respite.
Exchanging prison old for one unknown,
they learn about the world, themselves, their fight.
They win together, but when battle’s done,
they splinter, each electing different course.
Bittersweet homecoming awaits the one;
choosing family found, he returns in force.
These dragonets are the heroes of whom the songs are sung;
these dragonets are the stars upon whom much hope is hung.
But these dragonets have their own hopes, guarded in scaly breasts,
And these dragonets will forge their own fates and find grails to their own quests.
Fandom: Wings of Fire series [Book #1, The Dragonet Prophecy, Tui T. Sutherland]
Length: 130
Poetic Form: A very loose variation on a sonnet.
Rating: Gen
DW 100 Fandoms prompt: 032. hope
Beneath the mountain, kept well out of sight,
the dragonets of destiny are hid.
An odd assortment hatched on brightest night
to bring to pass what prophecy has bid.
Escape the only choice to save their own,
yet freedom is but briefest of respite.
Exchanging prison old for one unknown,
they learn about the world, themselves, their fight.
They win together, but when battle’s done,
they splinter, each electing different course.
Bittersweet homecoming awaits the one;
choosing family found, he returns in force.
These dragonets are the heroes of whom the songs are sung;
these dragonets are the stars upon whom much hope is hung.
But these dragonets have their own hopes, guarded in scaly breasts,
And these dragonets will forge their own fates and find grails to their own quests.
My Poetry: Villanelle: Blackheath: Gen
Aug. 26th, 2019 03:37 pmTitle: Blackheath
Fandom: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Stuart Turton)
Length: 157
Rating: Gen
DW 100 Fandoms Prompt: 029. mask
Poetic Form: villanelle
The invitations should’ve come with a funeral wreath,
a ruddy map, a cast of characters, a flask:
welcome to the wondrous masquerade of Blackheath!
The day is born and dies with failure to bequeath
to the next day a solution to the same task.
The sun rotations should’ve come with a funeral wreath.
Doctor, butler, dope-fiend. But who lies underneath?
Banker, blackguard, lawyer. Who to trust, who to ask?
Welcome to the maddening masquerade of Blackheath!
Every morn the day dawns anew in a fresh sheath
in the same decaying manor, twisted prison-cask.
The exhumations should’ve come with a funeral wreath.
Copper, artist, a Bishop’s work to dig beneath
too many old secrets, old blood in which to bask.
Welcome to the vexing masquerade of Blackheath!
Name the murderer before evil bares its teeth.
Everybody in the house is wearing a mask.
The invitations should’ve come with a funeral wreath:
welcome to the deadly masquerade of Blackheath!
Fandom: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Stuart Turton)
Length: 157
Rating: Gen
DW 100 Fandoms Prompt: 029. mask
Poetic Form: villanelle
The invitations should’ve come with a funeral wreath,
a ruddy map, a cast of characters, a flask:
welcome to the wondrous masquerade of Blackheath!
The day is born and dies with failure to bequeath
to the next day a solution to the same task.
The sun rotations should’ve come with a funeral wreath.
Doctor, butler, dope-fiend. But who lies underneath?
Banker, blackguard, lawyer. Who to trust, who to ask?
Welcome to the maddening masquerade of Blackheath!
Every morn the day dawns anew in a fresh sheath
in the same decaying manor, twisted prison-cask.
The exhumations should’ve come with a funeral wreath.
Copper, artist, a Bishop’s work to dig beneath
too many old secrets, old blood in which to bask.
Welcome to the vexing masquerade of Blackheath!
Name the murderer before evil bares its teeth.
Everybody in the house is wearing a mask.
The invitations should’ve come with a funeral wreath:
welcome to the deadly masquerade of Blackheath!
My Fic: Peppa Pig & the Bug Friends: Gen
Aug. 23rd, 2019 11:18 pmTitle: Peppa Pig & the Bug Friends
Fandom: Peppa Pig (Neville Astley & Mark Baker)
Rating: Gen
Length: 400
100 Fandoms Prompt: 077. Bug
Summary: Peppa goes outside with a magnifying lens to look at bug friends.
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Fandom: Peppa Pig (Neville Astley & Mark Baker)
Rating: Gen
Length: 400
100 Fandoms Prompt: 077. Bug
Summary: Peppa goes outside with a magnifying lens to look at bug friends.
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My Fic: Inspector Littlejohn: Gen
Aug. 23rd, 2019 10:33 pmTitle: Ladies' Hats
Fandom: Inspector Littlejohn (George Bellairs)
Length: 600
Rating: Gen
100 Fandoms Prompt: 042. Mean.
Notes: Inspired by this quote from The Case of the Demented Spiv (1949): Littlejohn prided himself a bit on his taste in ladies’ hats. This one took the biscuit.
Summary: No one knew that Inspector Littlejohn of Scotland Yard prided himself on his taste in ladies’ hats, and if they had known, no one would’ve suspected the origins of his taste or his pride.
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Fandom: Inspector Littlejohn (George Bellairs)
Length: 600
Rating: Gen
100 Fandoms Prompt: 042. Mean.
Notes: Inspired by this quote from The Case of the Demented Spiv (1949): Littlejohn prided himself a bit on his taste in ladies’ hats. This one took the biscuit.
Summary: No one knew that Inspector Littlejohn of Scotland Yard prided himself on his taste in ladies’ hats, and if they had known, no one would’ve suspected the origins of his taste or his pride.
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My Fic: Carnacki's Birthday: Gen
Jul. 31st, 2019 03:02 pmTitle: Carnacki's Birthday
Fandom: Carnacki the Ghost-finder (William Hope Hodgson)
Length: 1000
Rating: Gen
Notes: Carnacki is an occult detective, the protagonist of 6 stories written between 1910 and 1912. The stories take the same form of Carnacki recounting his adventure to four friends who he invites to his home for dinner. Sometimes there is a supernatural reason behind the mystery, sometimes a human one, and sometimes both. When the story's over, he sends them off, saying "Out you go!"
100 Fandoms Prompt: 019. crack
Summary: The lads want to surprise Carnacki on his birthday.
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Fandom: Carnacki the Ghost-finder (William Hope Hodgson)
Length: 1000
Rating: Gen
Notes: Carnacki is an occult detective, the protagonist of 6 stories written between 1910 and 1912. The stories take the same form of Carnacki recounting his adventure to four friends who he invites to his home for dinner. Sometimes there is a supernatural reason behind the mystery, sometimes a human one, and sometimes both. When the story's over, he sends them off, saying "Out you go!"
100 Fandoms Prompt: 019. crack
Summary: The lads want to surprise Carnacki on his birthday.
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My Drabble: Albert Campion: Gen
Jul. 5th, 2019 10:36 pmTitle: More Work for the Undertaker
Fandom: Albert Campion [book 'verse, specifically, #13 in the series, More Work for the Undertaker, Margery Allingham].
Length: 100
Rating: Gen
Notes: Song [to a tune in my head].
Prompt: 100 Fandoms .058 late (I am up to 59 fandoms!)
More work for the undertaker,
more work for the sleuth.
Got to dig a little bit deeper
to unearth the laid-to-rest truth.
There’s a house full of odd ducks,
dropping one by one.
More work for the undertaker
is a sleuth’s idea of fun.
Some grave misunderstandings,
some things not what they seem.
Everyone’s buried a secret;
everyone’s re-hearsed a scheme.
More work for the undertaker,
that coffin cart won’t wait.
Every passenger’s departed;
every first-class fare is late.
Call a shovel a spade,
call a little a lot.
More work for the undertaker,
but the sleuth exhumes the plot!
Fandom: Albert Campion [book 'verse, specifically, #13 in the series, More Work for the Undertaker, Margery Allingham].
Length: 100
Rating: Gen
Notes: Song [to a tune in my head].
Prompt: 100 Fandoms .058 late (I am up to 59 fandoms!)
More work for the undertaker,
more work for the sleuth.
Got to dig a little bit deeper
to unearth the laid-to-rest truth.
There’s a house full of odd ducks,
dropping one by one.
More work for the undertaker
is a sleuth’s idea of fun.
Some grave misunderstandings,
some things not what they seem.
Everyone’s buried a secret;
everyone’s re-hearsed a scheme.
More work for the undertaker,
that coffin cart won’t wait.
Every passenger’s departed;
every first-class fare is late.
Call a shovel a spade,
call a little a lot.
More work for the undertaker,
but the sleuth exhumes the plot!
Poetry: The Ballad of Temeraire: Gen
Jul. 2nd, 2019 11:04 pmTitle: The Ballad of Temeraire
Fandom: Temeraire [book 1, His Majesty's Dragon, Naomi Novik]
Poetic Form: Ballad
Rating: Gen
Word Count: 298
Prompt: 100 Fandoms Challenge 031. courage
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Fandom: Temeraire [book 1, His Majesty's Dragon, Naomi Novik]
Poetic Form: Ballad
Rating: Gen
Word Count: 298
Prompt: 100 Fandoms Challenge 031. courage
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Title: Work
Fandom: Adam Dalgliesh [books, P.D. James]
Length: 200
Rating: Gen
Prompt: DW 100 Fandoms .046: Work.
Summary: Dalgliesh had long since given up trying to decide if he was a police officer who wrote poetry or a poet who solved crimes.
Author's Note: I'm at 50 fandoms for the DW 100 Fandoms challenge! Half-way! I'm going to take a break for a while now.
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Fandom: Adam Dalgliesh [books, P.D. James]
Length: 200
Rating: Gen
Prompt: DW 100 Fandoms .046: Work.
Summary: Dalgliesh had long since given up trying to decide if he was a police officer who wrote poetry or a poet who solved crimes.
Author's Note: I'm at 50 fandoms for the DW 100 Fandoms challenge! Half-way! I'm going to take a break for a while now.
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Title: Acidic
Fandom: Carmilla [book, J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Laura/Carmilla
Warning/Notes: Frottage. Vampires.
Poetic form: Spenserian stanza x 4.
Length: 272
No. of lines: 36
Prompt: Acidic
Also: 100 Fandoms .052: quell and Day 27: 2019 Merry Month of Masturbation.
Summary: Laura cannot rid herself of the memory of the vampire Carmilla.
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Fandom: Carmilla [book, J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Laura/Carmilla
Warning/Notes: Frottage. Vampires.
Poetic form: Spenserian stanza x 4.
Length: 272
No. of lines: 36
Prompt: Acidic
Also: 100 Fandoms .052: quell and Day 27: 2019 Merry Month of Masturbation.
Summary: Laura cannot rid herself of the memory of the vampire Carmilla.
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Title: The Ballad of Hill House
Fandom: The Haunting of Hill House [Shirley Jackson, book 'verse]
Poetic form: Ballad
Length: 182
No. of lines: 36
Rating: Gen
Prompt: BANG
there Hill House stands against its hills
what walks there walks alone
some eighty years of leprous ills
contained in wood and stone
two new-found cousins meet, after
explore surrounding grounds
‘pleasant mirth hath pleasant laughter’
sweet picnic-planning sounds
‘journey’s end in lovers’ meeting’
when two and two make four
gathered after dinner, greeting
to hear the Hill House lore
a tour by day shows misdirects
by architect’s design
at night a ghostly cold infects
and BANGs upon door’s spine.
‘in delay there is no plenty’
but writing on the wall
in blood and coal, the words empty
as baby’s plaintive call
when the sun’s over the yardarm,
a squabbling pair set out
a ghostly picnic sparks alarm,
the searched and searching shout
the house goes dancing, turns about,
when two and four make six
its hospitality they flout
with talking boards and sticks
a mind resumes its wandering
‘as we have done before’
a sanity breaks pondering
Eleanor, Eleanor
the tale ends not walled up alive
but crushed against a tree
not sane, Hill House resumes its thrive
evil held faithfully
Fandom: The Haunting of Hill House [Shirley Jackson, book 'verse]
Poetic form: Ballad
Length: 182
No. of lines: 36
Rating: Gen
Prompt: BANG
there Hill House stands against its hills
what walks there walks alone
some eighty years of leprous ills
contained in wood and stone
two new-found cousins meet, after
explore surrounding grounds
‘pleasant mirth hath pleasant laughter’
sweet picnic-planning sounds
‘journey’s end in lovers’ meeting’
when two and two make four
gathered after dinner, greeting
to hear the Hill House lore
a tour by day shows misdirects
by architect’s design
at night a ghostly cold infects
and BANGs upon door’s spine.
‘in delay there is no plenty’
but writing on the wall
in blood and coal, the words empty
as baby’s plaintive call
when the sun’s over the yardarm,
a squabbling pair set out
a ghostly picnic sparks alarm,
the searched and searching shout
the house goes dancing, turns about,
when two and four make six
its hospitality they flout
with talking boards and sticks
a mind resumes its wandering
‘as we have done before’
a sanity breaks pondering
Eleanor, Eleanor
the tale ends not walled up alive
but crushed against a tree
not sane, Hill House resumes its thrive
evil held faithfully
Poetry + Prose: Trent's Clerihew: Gen
Apr. 29th, 2019 02:33 pmTitle: Trent's Clerihew
Fandom: Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley (1913)
Length: 100
Poetic Form: Clerihew
100 Fandoms prompt: .100 Final
Notes: I learned this month that C in E. C. Bentley stands for clerihew, and that he invented the clerihew. Trent's Last Case is usually spoken of along with The Moonstone and The Murders in the Rogue Morgue as an important milestone in detective fiction (it's also a send up of the 'infallible amateur sleuth' archetype that was Sherlock Holmes). It was a sort of surprisingly discovery that Bentley was a poet, too. So I gave Trent's Last Case another listen [the narrator was Simon Vance, who is one of the best professional narrators] and wrote a clerihew for the protagonist Phillip Trent.
The journalist and artist Phillip Trent
discovered his time was much better spent
not solving crimes; his deducing days past,
the Manderson case was to be his last.
Trent was dumbfounded. Yes, in that moment, he found himself very dumb, indeed. He’d gathered all the clues, well, most of the clues, well, some of the clues, and he’d put them together and arrived at wrong conclusions. It was like Sherlock Holmes when he urged the stalwart Watson to whisper ‘Norbury’ in his ear if he showed signs of overconfidence, except Trent’s word was ‘Manderson’ and he would never require reminder.
Fandom: Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley (1913)
Length: 100
Poetic Form: Clerihew
100 Fandoms prompt: .100 Final
Notes: I learned this month that C in E. C. Bentley stands for clerihew, and that he invented the clerihew. Trent's Last Case is usually spoken of along with The Moonstone and The Murders in the Rogue Morgue as an important milestone in detective fiction (it's also a send up of the 'infallible amateur sleuth' archetype that was Sherlock Holmes). It was a sort of surprisingly discovery that Bentley was a poet, too. So I gave Trent's Last Case another listen [the narrator was Simon Vance, who is one of the best professional narrators] and wrote a clerihew for the protagonist Phillip Trent.
The journalist and artist Phillip Trent
discovered his time was much better spent
not solving crimes; his deducing days past,
the Manderson case was to be his last.
Trent was dumbfounded. Yes, in that moment, he found himself very dumb, indeed. He’d gathered all the clues, well, most of the clues, well, some of the clues, and he’d put them together and arrived at wrong conclusions. It was like Sherlock Holmes when he urged the stalwart Watson to whisper ‘Norbury’ in his ear if he showed signs of overconfidence, except Trent’s word was ‘Manderson’ and he would never require reminder.
Title: The Great Grimpen Mine
Fandom: Thomas the Tank Engine [Rev. Awdry]
Length: 500
Rating: Gen
Warning: Not a full story. Just the beginning of one, which may or may never be written.
Characters: Thomas & Percy
100 Fandoms prompt: 014. Blue
Summary: Percy tells Thomas of the haunted Great Grimpen Mine.
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Fandom: Thomas the Tank Engine [Rev. Awdry]
Length: 500
Rating: Gen
Warning: Not a full story. Just the beginning of one, which may or may never be written.
Characters: Thomas & Percy
100 Fandoms prompt: 014. Blue
Summary: Percy tells Thomas of the haunted Great Grimpen Mine.
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Title: A Very un-English Murder
Fandom: Inspector Grant [Josephine Tey, specifically Book 1: The Man in the Queue]
Warning: Spoilers for the solution to the murder, including the murderer
Form: Pantoum
Length: 462
100 Fandoms prompt: .099 Unless
Notes: Upon a re-listen of The Man in the Queue, I got a bit tired of Grant going on an on about how un-English the murder was, so I expressed my displeasure in verse!
( It was a very un-English murder. )
Fandom: Inspector Grant [Josephine Tey, specifically Book 1: The Man in the Queue]
Warning: Spoilers for the solution to the murder, including the murderer
Form: Pantoum
Length: 462
100 Fandoms prompt: .099 Unless
Notes: Upon a re-listen of The Man in the Queue, I got a bit tired of Grant going on an on about how un-English the murder was, so I expressed my displeasure in verse!
( It was a very un-English murder. )
