war – Tale Told

First Thoughts | One Genocide or Another

One of the things I find interesting about this is that it's rational; to a certain extent, even biblical. As Christians, or at least, the ruins of a Christian civilization,…

A Broad Road to Travel

8 Sep 20268 Sep 2026

…Thereby correlating our data with certain necessary preferences dictated to us by that highest of all authorities, the will of the people, I think we will be able to correctly…

The Wall

There's a change that took place. Maybe it's indefinable, that je ne sais quoi, but whatever had been wasn't. Like when you meet up with an old friend and realize…

A Short, Smuggled, Communiqué

16 Jul 202610 Jul 2026

I believe we are not welcome here, my Lord. I do not know exactly what faux pas my predecessor committed that they returned him to us in four pieces, but…

Sanguine Wounds

11 May 20269 May 2026

The new day shone upon me from over the dark hills, its light like a gleaming diamond. So small, this renewed beginning, just a luminous pinprick in the darkness, but…

Regal Adruin

17 Apr 202611 Apr 2026

Banners unfurled in every regal color. I had not seen such pageantry since the war, since those banners waved over the bloody field of Adruin, and the foes of man…

Stitches

4 Mar 202628 Feb 2026

“Yes,” said Nightspore in a slow voice, without surprise. “But what is your name on Earth?” “It is pain.” “That, too, I must have known.” ~A Voyage to Arcturus There…

A Ghost in the Mirror

31 Jul 202531 Jul 2025

Into the darkness of my mind, I descend, and you are there, writhing in the black chains I've forged from nightmares. You are part of me, and nothing more, the…

Poem: The Death-Light

23 Jul 202522 Jul 2025

Please Read:The Death-Light https://tale-told.com/poems-2/the-death-light/

The Peace

The zombie lifted up his putrid head and met my eyes. There was almost a smile there on the rotting lips. Then it held out its hand to me. I'd…