Bludworth had a few decades’ amount of blood in pails around the fine doors of Mansion House. Where did it come from? The blood leaked from the boils of the plague of 1665, gathering in pails and soaking the wooden beams of the houses that were now going up in smoke. The men brought the blood to him. It sat… Read it
Author - Rebecca Smith
Rebecca is completing a Creative Writing Masters, at Manchester Metropolitan University. She writes scripts, poetry and flash fiction. She is one third of Stirred Poetry collective.