Halloween Wimseyficlet
Oct. 31st, 2015 09:09 amThere was a one (to five) sentence Halloween horror thread on
fail_fandomanon, so I had a go.
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Bunter stopped on the threshold and saw that his lordship was not alone in his bedroom after all, but kneeling pyjama-clad at the feet of a woman, a woman with the stench of the grave on her, a prisoner's uniform, and a noose around her neck. Beside him one of his collection of incunabula lay open in a circle of what looked like blood.
'Harriet, it worked! Will you marry me?'
His voice was filled with joy.
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Bunter stopped on the threshold and saw that his lordship was not alone in his bedroom after all, but kneeling pyjama-clad at the feet of a woman, a woman with the stench of the grave on her, a prisoner's uniform, and a noose around her neck. Beside him one of his collection of incunabula lay open in a circle of what looked like blood.
'Harriet, it worked! Will you marry me?'
His voice was filled with joy.