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Submitted to Contest #282
Marie always knew freedom would be bitter. What she hadn’t expected was for sand and dried blood to stain her tastebuds salty, instead of sweet. Bare feet trudged and scrapped against the sandy excuse of a pavement, flayed and baked by the afternoon sun. The world felt like it had a fever, violently wringing the sweat from Marie’s skin, like what one would do to a slightly damp towel. Overheated, the teenager waddled down the side of the desolate highway. The blood that was splattered on Marie’s person had dried and with each langu...
Submitted to Contest #227
Dark clouds fog over the grey sheet of sky, cascading the world in shadow in the middle of the day. Nature shakes and small entities are thrown off balance by a wind that knows no restraint. The end of Autumn always brings about this sentiment of the world closing and cracking open into a melancholic chapter of life, Aspen finds. The leaves have all fallen, dissolving into the roots of civilisation, to be called upon once more when this empty page of the Earth’s cycle has ended. Trees are bare and skinny; branches stand at awkward ends wit...
Submitted to Contest #221
The act of raising the dead is not a simple task but not impossible for a professional like Celeste Douab, Contracted Communicator and Specialist of the Dark Arts; her official title (though may need a bit of renovating). However, an impressive trade requires an impressive title and Celeste was risking her life by abiding to the needs of her clients. The Dark Arts were outlawed ten years ago in all the Seven Regions, rendering it more dangerous than it was already by nature. Just walking into a graveyard, a client by her side, with the inten...
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