“A Curse Thrown from the Hanging Tree”

Published in Stories To Take To Your Grave: Judicial Homicide by Undertaker Books

A fledgling town near an old craggy shore

is the setting of this woeful tale—

a story of need and of lies and of greed

and a hanging that more or less failed.

This town had a church that was led by a man

who on Sundays would preach against sin,

but by Tuesday nights with his breeches too tight

he would seek sweet relief at an inn.

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