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Clara Orr Burns

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2024

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The Disappointing Truth of Jack the Ripper

Submitted to Contest #273

It never occurred to any of them that it might have been a woman.  Even long after my death, in your books and your films filled with more inaccuracies and twists of artistic license than I can keep track of, it's never a woman. Not that I mind the anonymity. I had more than enough opportunities to show myself to my adoring public and they are adoring. Why else would they continue to visit the sights of my crimes, hoping to catch a glimpse of my ghost? It isn't because they loathe me for the things that I've done, it's because they wish...

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