Jenna Holt

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“A Grave Departure” by Jenna Holt

Submitted to Contest #135

There are more of them now. They linger in the shadows, a sad, unavoidable consequence of the plague that has decimated our numbers. Misery draws them, and the sickly-sweet stench of dead beckons from the mass graves. They barely look different from the corpses they feed upon- sallow skin, teeth rotten and black. Or so I’m told- I’ve only ever seen them from a distance. No one dares draw near, terrified of the pestilence they may carry.   These ghouls are carrion vultures.  They emerge when night cools the ai...

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