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Weekly Contest #369
Gray stretches across the entire sky as I wonder why this fish-woman refuses to murder me. A wave crashes against our stone, a spray of mist raining down on us as her exasperated breaths fan across my face. Her fingers curl against the loose grit tumbling around either side of my face, scratching. “Please keep singing,” I croak out, reaching for her pale face. “It sounded beautiful.” My arm falls onto jagged edges before my fingers can graze her cheek, which is covered in aquamarine scales. My flesh could’ve been dragging over a piece ...
Weekly Contest #366
I should have known better than to have trusted those gravediggers.The weather was…well, I’m not actually sure how the weather was. I couldn’t exactly see the sky, or feel the breeze—if there were one—against my skin.Darkness clung to me, as did the cold that naturally came along with being stuck inside a coffin. Even with those circumstances, however, I was no longer suffocated. At least, not by the weather or the lack of light.When I was alive, I always hated the cold. Now though, my teeth did not chatter. Nor did trembles rack my bod...
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