The end of Eve’s Tyrannical Reign
over the village…
was as simple as it was shocking.
They found her at the bottom
of a well… broken arms and neck.
No witnesses, no nothing…
it must have happened between
first light (for that’s when
her husband Fred left for work)
and noon (that’s when Sharla
discovered her, on account
of Eve’s terrier dog Scraps
barking and yelping near the well).
All those lives she ruined
during the Infamous ‘Witch Hunt’,
the burnings and hangings…
I, personally, remember her smugly
and loudly declaring
“I have eradicated each and every
‘Enemy’ without bloodying
a finger”, as a group of thirty of us
walked back along the Old Road…
following the last of the Executions.
© Paul Tristram 2025

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