Troubled Times
Goodman Roberts
Worthy Homesteader
Toiling Long
Taming Wilderness
Tilling Soil
Raising Animals
Interlopers Arrived
Requesting Succor
They Received
Observing Plenty
They Envied
Slew Everyone
Later Claiming
Goodman Roberts
Shuffled Off
After Selling
Troubled Times
Riding In
Baleful Days
Coming Again
Tilly Preston
Trusted Caregiver
Single mom
Herding Scalawags
Working Too
Nursing Pensioners
Unknowingly Exposed
Virulent Disease
Hot Fever
Muscular Weakness
Bed Ridden
Drug Resistant
Weeping Pustules
Spreading Microbes
Bringing Plague
Killing Slowly
Troubled Times
Riding In
Baleful Days
Coming Again
Many Drivers
Early Commuting
Decent Folks
Working Everyday
Flowing On
Busy Thoroughfares
Tragically Crossing
Compromised Causeway
Steel Breaking
Fracturing Concrete
Bridge Failing
Cars Cascading
Hundreds Plunging
Icy Darkness
Lowest Bid
Cheapest Design
Troubled Times
Riding In
Baleful Days
Coming Again
(all names are of fictional characters)
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