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The Mystery of Sam Adams’s Death Writers’ Cramp 38 Sam Adams was a paranormal detective For the Cosmos Institute in Berkeley, California A real-life X files funded by black CIA money Their mission explaining the unexplainable Explaining the paranormal Exposing hoaxes and fraudulent claims Of the supernatural One day his uncle died and left him An old haunted house in Eagle Creek, Oregon A small southern Oregon town That Sam had grown up in. He had not been back In decades as he had grown up In a dysfunctional family Spoke to his siblings once a year His father and mother have long gone. In the house, they found the dead body Of his distant eccentric uncle Who left beside his body, A letter, his will, and the infamous Neromicron A book bound in scarlet leather. The letter ended, “Turn to page 666, and recite the chants The truth will set you free.” He started chanting A spinning scarlet portal appeared The grim reaper walked through. Sam Adams asked him “What happened to my uncle” The grim reaper said “He got what was coming to him As all who summons us to do. Be prepared to meet your maker For judgment day is at hand”. Sam spends the night At the mansion where his uncle had left him Sorting through his stuff. The next morning a crater Was found where the house had stood. And his notes left behind The scarlet leather bond Necromicron Solved the mysteries of his uncle’s death And his disappearance. On Dec 1st, 1887, the first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet", appeared in print. Write a poem or story in which: * The narrator/POV character is a detective (or his assistant) * A mystery is solved by the end of the piece * One of the clues used to solve the mystery is scarlet One of your genres must be MYSTERY NB: The mystery can be 'traditional' (e.g. solving a murder), more light-hearted (who stole my socks?), or even more abstract (figuring out the cause of galaxies' redshift). |