belladonna

An Introduction and a Reminder

9 years ago, I wandered onto this platform (well, not this one... but you know This was my introduction post: >Hello, I'm Bella, Belladonna in actual fact. >Par...

Next to make a comeback... Bubonic Plague?

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Little Red Riding-Hood - for the 21st Century

Little Red Riding-Hood - for the 21st Century Charles Perrault wrote an addition to the story. The Moral From this short story easy we discern What conduct all ...

Little Red Riding-Hood - for the 21st Century

Once Upon A Time – that’s how stories are supposed to start, right? The fairy stories of my childhood started like this. Disney still subscribes to this kind of...

Today in history

If it's your birthday today, Happy Birthday! You share your birthday with these momentous events! From Google On this day, 27 June, 678 St Agatho began his reig...

On this day 142 years ago - Custer's Last Stand

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass George Armstrong Custer and 265 men under his c...

Lacy Riding Mistress Part 7

Lacy Riding Mistress 1 & 2 Lacy Riding Mistress 3 Lacy Riding Mistress 4 Lacy Riding Mistress 5 Lacy Riding Mistress 6 Previously She waved from the gate but di...

Lacy Riding Mistress Part 6

Lacy Riding Mistress 1 & 2 Lacy Riding Mistress 3 Lacy Riding Mistress 4 Lacy Riding Mistress 5 Previously While she lay gasping for breath with the waves slowl...

Lacy Riding Mistress Part 5

Lacy Riding Mistress 1 & 2 Lacy Riding Mistress 3 Lacy Riding Mistress 4 Previously He knelt above her, straddling her body and stripped off his jacket. She tho...

Ghost walk at the Gothic Church

I live alone. A single woman in a large city in a multi-storey building where you only hear neighbours, you hardly ever see them. There’s no way you can make fr...

Lacy - Riding Mistress Part 4

Lacy Riding Mistress 1 & 2 Lacy Riding Mistress 3 Previously... “I don’t like you laughing at me,” he said and took a step toward her. She could only stand up s...

On this day 280 years ago...

Dick Turpin – Highwayman - was hanged. Image from York Dungeon Born: 21 September 1705, Hempstead, Essex Died: 7 April 1739, Knavesmire 32 years old, died on th...

Lacy - Riding Mistress Part 3

First part Nathaniel was annoyed – because she had caught him naked, because she had laughed and because he had made a further fool of himself when he fell. Lac...

Lacy - Riding Mistress Parts 1 & 2

This story started a while ago. Because of that, I'm re-posting the start so you can catch up without too much trouble. The continuation of the story carries on...

Coinbase 10 BTC Prize

I use Coinbase for some of my transactions. Nothing unusual there, I bet a lot of Crypto users do exactly the same thing. Yesterday, I received an email saying ...

Have you ever wondered...? @jerrybanfield's Supernatural Writing Contest SWC

Have you ever wondered how legends and myths got started? Have you thought about why we hanker for the darker side of the human psyche? Why we’re fascinated by ...

Serial Killers in our society - Part 1

Have you ever wondered what criteria you have to fill in order to be classed as a SERIAL KILLER? No? Good, that’s a relief! Well, now we’re on the subject, I’ll...

Lacy - Riding Mistress

Lacy leaned over the hay bales, reaching for the hay net she had thrown too far earlier, in a rush to get on with some other work. It wasn’t that the hay bales ...

The Many Faces Of Me

A brief introduction... who am I, you ask? Oi, grab a seat, a comfy one, this could take a while. I am a mother, a crafter, a PTSAD survivor, an orphan, an off ...

Me too...

Over on Facebook there is a wave of dignified and (almost) silent protest and it’s growing. The first thing you’ll see on the status is: Me too This is to show ...