Charles Augustus Milverton: Nature Abhors a Vacuum

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: Charles Augustus Milverton: Nature Abhors a Vacuum
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Someone must take his place.

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The word spread fast in the underground, and the time was set.

The day of Milverton’s funeral a cluster of men gathered in a vile Limehouse dogfighting pit.

“You know the rules, you bastards,” growled Sanderson the grave-robber.

“Aye,” said Jack Dickerson, the bull-buggering priest-killer.

Baby-Eating O’Brian grinned. “Last one living…”

“…Is the new Worst Man in London. Now fight!”

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Very clever. Curious as to who won.

[mafief.livejournal.com]

Good luck folks!

Please tell me that you are referencing Muppet Treasure Island’s character Big-Fat-Ugly-Bug-Face-Baby-Eating O'Brien. :)

[alafaye]

Oh, yes. Brilliant.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

^______^

...Worst Man in London... I wondered how this sort of thing was sorted out...

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Bingo! I couldn't put Big Fat Ugly etc. in the story without exceeding the word count.

And Jack the bull-buggering priest-killer is from Blackadder.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Turned out it was 10-year-old Wee Mick the Poisoner. (The other contestants really shouldn't have drunk that particular keg of ale before beginning the bout.)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Well, Sherlock Holmes STILL has to call someone "the worst man in London."

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Maybe if the other big brutes hadn't stopped for a glass of ale before the bout...the title would not have gone to scrawny 10-year-old urchin Wee Mick the Poisoner.

[alafaye]

True, true.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

THE worst man, I suppose they couldn't just draw straws for it. :) I did like Baby-Eating O'Brien. THE woman. THE worst man. Holmes does like his definitive articles, doesn't he?

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

With The Napoleon of Crime gone he has to fill his day somehow.

[debriswoman]

Goodness...

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Goodness has nothing to do with it!