Monday, March 26, 2012

Death Comes with the Dawn

jungle skull
Image CC-BY-NC-SA by Samuel Maycock

by Peter Morrison



They came for So To Ain in the night and her parents looked on while she kicked and screamed. She reached out for them, desperately, wishing one of them would take her hand, would make this all stop. But they stood with the chieftain and the shaman and looked on like it was their duty – which it was, to preserve the village from the horrors of the wild.