death – Page 46 – Tale Told

Amazed

The slaughter was amazing. That seemed a bathetic descriptor, but amazing it was. The hapless carnage, leaving no escape into ignorance, no matter how willful, buggered the mind. You simply…

Memories of a Shadow

"The silent silhouette, passing through the light, there and gone, is burned into my mind. Someone else was there. A savior, perhaps. It's not much to go on, a memory…

A New World

1 Jan 202531 Dec 2024

They both reformed, slowly. There was a point, as the flesh and tissues began covering the bones, that he knew pain again. The transition from a sort of disembodied consciousness,…

Nothing to Take in the End

31 Dec 202424 Sep 2025

Let us set the scene. The sun is low, but it has been low many hours now, and that dim glow on the horizon, changeless, growing neither darker nor brighter,…

One With the Storm

Stupid. That's all I can think. Stupid. Swallowing my anger, I close my eyes and try to breathe a moment. In the distance, I can hear the religious chanting from…

The Graverobber

29 Dec 202428 Dec 2024

The graverobber leaned on his shovel and sighed. His breath went forth as a white cloud that December morning, and it seemed all the weariness of his scoured soul was…

Run

On the third day of my journey, I saw one. There are few pathways in those woods, and I had to climb over a knobby mound of raised roots where…

A Dream of Mine I Fear

I sat beside a mighty stonewhere little moss had grownand in its shadow felt a chillthat haunts me this day stillFor I had stopped to picnic thereand breathe the open…

In the Dear Dark

The tiger coils in the dark,his eyes are emerald flames.In lightless seas there swims the shark;his hunger no soul tames.The watchful owl waits in the night,no mercy in its glare.In…

The Killers’ Dance

The killers, dancing in the night, all envy, hate, desire,have finally begun to fightaround the fading fire. They struggle in the dying lightand clench in an embrace. The dance here…