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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020
Submitted to Contest #58
After five weeks and a day, they bound a rope around his wrists, put a sack over his head and bundled him into the boot of a car. His body shook and sweated and loosened in all the wrong places, yet he was determined to hold on to his mind right to the end. If he couldn't die nobly or bravely, if he couldn't die for some worthwhile cause, at least he could go honestly. With his self intact and with gratitude for all that had made him who he was. Sacks of grain lay alongside him in the boot. He imagined them being put there for his comfort, ...
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