Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers discussion

Okay. This time we each will add 5 words to the story. This time let's try to actually write a story that makes sense.

Total number of posts 1000 (excluding this one) so at message 1001 I will lock this thread and we will start anew again.

I think we will try having a place and time this time.

Place: Paris
Year: 1924

Setting: A night club


So it is the year 1924, we are in Paris and the setting is a night club. Let's go.

Here are a few pictures to help set the mood.

As I opened the doors

To the cafè on the

Left Bank which had been

an unofficial meeting place for

My ill fated love affair

with the tall, dark singer

who wanted a gig at

so that she could meet

who was the person that

sang the most smashing tunes

at playing the trumpet with

the Rive Gauche Five quartet

great name of a jazz band Portia!!


who were taking the main

(I thought so :)

Stage at midnight, the best

time slot. Agate adjusted her

Cloche and knotted her pearls

while the band set up

the drums and other instruments.

They soon had everything in

to play a slow jazz

To play "It Again, Sam"

Mademoiselle Mimi de Moulin Rouge

the audience sat in stunned silence

When Mimi opened her mouth

and began to sing the

French national anthem La Marseillaise

in german, because she could!

She could only speak German

and a little bit of

Spanish, because her mother was

And so was her grandmother

who was descended from the

defamed bloodline of Eva Braun

which they never spoke about

The inherit madness that drove

and seemed to come from

deep within her, that drove

her to jump from the

Roof of the rooming house

Eiffel Tower when the city

smells overwhelmed her. She ran

through the streets thinking about

Escape the men in black

who had come to Paris

With nothing good in mind

the secrets that the singer

wrote down on her finger

with a very tiny pen.

She desperately wanted to have