Willem Foss

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2024

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“THE LAST COMMUNIST [Un mise-en-scène]” by Willem Foss

Submitted to Contest #279

(Warning: Bad words, politics, violence)[Outside, carrioncrows and sparrows gale out their evensongs, ancient honeyed melodies now become obsolete bitter-birdsweet lichsongs for long-dead Father Winter. An evergreen Yulemonth clambers over the corpse of November with the red-eyed fervor of a fascistic sucker-peasant serviceman, dragging its bloody tobroken body up over a bloody tobroken battlefield and skittering down amongst the trenches, servilely crawl-marching a mouth-foaming triumph for Summer Tyrant-King’s victory over all other yearti...

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“THAT THING ON THE HILL” by Willem Foss

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #274

(Warning: Gore, bad words)Ya hear scientists and suchlike, -ologists of all stripes, they go say they’re reasonable. Ethical. Good. You show ‘em the whole history of their profession, how for every Carl Sagan or Marie Curie, there’s ten Unit 731’s and an electroshock clinic and an Ahnenerbe and a Tuskegee and every kind of secret pervert and sadist and psychopath under the sun, how the AIs they’ve built help our overlordly parasites in grey corporate Olympii suck up what’s left o’ our humanity, how their drugs work only for symptoms and prof...

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Author bio

Red suns and new gazes Broken clowns and alien moonphases Dances that are not for us Empty loves and deathly trusts Towards a craft where new thoughtways are found abornin Towards the end of sad parabellums come mornin Towards the star and antlers and the redemption of yore Towards the new world where true love is possible once more

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #274
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