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Submitted to Contest #329
Through the black wastes of an ancient, long dead seabed there wandered a weary warrior, his destination unknown even to him. Tiny, fossilized shells and carapaces were crushed underneath each heavy fall of his bare feet, shredding them as he marched onward. He no longer felt pain, save for the thirst that garroted his throat and pounded at his temples. His already threadbare clothes had fallen away what seemed like ages ago, but that was of no concern, for he had no fear of the sun in this strange land. A perpetually gray sky loomed overhe...
Submitted to Contest #328
A young boy, bright and lively with the spirit of his youth stood impatiently while his father, strong and tired in his age, stooped to examine the tracks left by their quarry. He wandered about while Father looked for… whatever he was looking for. His eyes were drawn, as they ever were, towards the trees. The canopy was bright with the soul of autumn; the evergreen needles a stark contrast to the fiery hued leaves. The ashes and the oaks and the yews reached towards Heaven, towards God, as if to say “See me, Lord! See how I have grown by Yo...
Submitted to Contest #326
Like a thousand-thousand tortured spirits crying out in rage and fear and agony was the sound I had heard before the treeline erupted in an explosion of nude, woad-covered madmen, innumerable and ravenous for the violence about to be committed upon good Roman men. Their primal yawps and deafening horns communicated one thing – there would be no prisoners today. My heart was gripped by an ancient, primordial terror; suddenly all of the drills, the sparring, the training, it all meant nothing in the face of this… this ruinous tide of flesh and...
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