Posts Tagged sacrifice
She thought it was a metaphor
Posted by me in FREE Fiction on June 24
Image text: She thought it was a metaphor, being fed to the Gods When the acolytes stripped her, she feared for her virtue. When the face appeared and opened its flaming maw she knew her soul as well as her life were soon to be lost.
The pit with no bottom
Posted by me in FREE Fiction on June 18
Image text: The text in the moldering book had led him to this spot. The hired men had dug for days in the rocky soil. When the cracking sound had filled the air and the men had screamed to be lifted from the pit he began the chant which was written in blood in […]
Sacrificed to the slime
Posted by me in FREE Fiction on June 17
Image text: The putrid slime, reeking of decay and death, oozed down the side of the cliff toward where he lay bound by the savages. The savages, barely human creatures, knelt and chanted some gutteral word over and over. He understood that they intended to sacrifice him. Was the slime some acid or other […]