Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

  IN MY CRAFT OR SULLEN ART In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie...

There is an extraordinary number of superstitions about shoes, though most are now unfamiliar to we 21 st century mortals.  ...

This is a short ‘gaslamp fantasy' set in Victorian London, in Wapping, circa 1870. With the single exception of  ‘Mr Eden’...