Last story of the series Perpetuality! Destruction. He perpetually destroyed because he could. Not out of perpetual necessity. Not out of perpetual vengeance. Not even out of cruelty, for cruelty at least acknowledged the other. He destroyed in the same manner a storm passes through a sleeping town. “Why not?” he would often say...
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This is the third story in the Perpetuality series! “Why do you kill?” asked the Guillotined Man, his voice barely audible, shaking with fear. “To think. To live,” replied the Camel Rider, his tone devoid of feeling, as he stood by the guillotine. The Guillotined Man stared in horror. Was survival meant to demand bloodshed? Of...
Second Part of Perpetuality! Read the First Part here Wonder. He perpetually wondered how it must feel to watch a life unravel: not in violent spasms, but in the quiet, deliberate retreat of breath, in the surrender of blood to the soil, in the resignation that no mercy was coming. It was a question, that unfortunately, had been answered for he...
First Part of “Perpetuality”! Wonder. He perpetually wondered what it would feel like for life to slowly wither away: not in the dramatic fashion of a sudden end, but in the gradual, inexorable manner like an autumn’s final leaf detaching from the branch, drifting to the earth, and serving as ridicule for bypassers feet. To...