Matthew Hannibal Butler

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“The Red Curtain” by Matthew Hannibal Butler

Submitted to Contest #37

I looked at the loathsome husk in the chair with the skeletal fingers drumming away, with military precision, in time with the furious rain rapping outside. His face was long, gaunt, and drawn; even in the gloom, the skin was deeply wrinkled and flaky. Sunken deep in their sockets, his eyes glowed like a grey pair of wisps. Tall and wide, a giant; he had kept well-fed and strong while growing stiff as a coffin, and his jaw was as sharp and wide as ever, like my father’s, like mine. That was the only thing we had alike. Though receding and th...

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A swashbuckling writer of escapist adventure, hard-boiled pulp and philosophical surrealism inspired by Raphael Sabatini, Michele de Montaigne, Errol Flynn and Ernest Hemingway.