LordPeter List Literary Contest

Vane had found a dancer from a Russian land, who'd died. But had death come by his own hand, there on that beachside? And now in a hotel lounge, half crying, a sad, lonely woman sits sighing. She knows not that her young lover floats beyond the dark sand. For, here in this sparkling place, his friends dance Danube's tune. They have not heard his sad fate: that he drifts in silence upon the waves, beneath a mourning moon.

While plotters schemed and swilled mediocre Krug, Paul dreamed of life in royal Saint Petersburg. Three men were greedy, but just two planned foul, evil things. Mind Paul's proud boast just 'fore he felt the blade, "I'm Paul Alexis, the king of kings!"

-- "Placet"

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