December 2010 Writing Challenge: STORMFEATHER WINS!

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“Historical-Cultural Time-Tours” = Diabolic Forces?


 Aztec pyramids. Celtic pyres. Dahomey councils. The time-tourists roamed ages and continents. Laughing voyeurs, watching prisoners slaughtered to consecrate temples, retainers slain to accompany kings.

No one interested in history, culture. Only in blood.

Inside the time-sphere, invisible to the men with swords, the tourists joked.
The tours had to end.
No one listened to ethical arguments. Only to blood.
She burst the sphere. Laughs became screams. Men with swords turned.
“Kill us,” she said.
 
The Tithe

This was the way of it. The tithe would be paid. One life, for many.

They knelt on the hill, three small figures huddled against the dark. The villagers stood by in a loose circle. Uneasy. Watchful. Thankful.

Suddenly, he was there. ‘Which one is mine?’

She pulled her children close, whispered, ‘I’m sorry, my darlings. I love you.’

When she stood not one in the crowd would meet her gaze.

‘They stay. Take me.’
 
Two Wrongs


“Do two wrongs make a right?” my little son asked.
“It depends on the wrongs,” said I.

“The bishop, he sinned...”
“A sin of the flesh.”
“... wrong, no doubt, in God's eye.”

“True. Cursed we have been, and the land from that very day.”
“But I have atoned, I've bled myself dry... will God see it my way?”

“Suicide? Oh son! I'll pray that he may.”
 
Test Flight


...at minus ten and counting...
All systems at optimal. Green across the board.
Nine...

Guidance systems are go...
- Are you sure you want to do this?
CapCom says go...
Eight...

- I'm sure.
FLT is green...
Seven...

FLT Comstat says go...
Six...

- The first two haven't come back...
Five...

- Yet. They haven't come back yet...
Four...

-You be the first...
Three...

-I'll try...
Two...

-See you soon, starman... I love you.
One...

-I love you t....




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The December Writing Challenge is closed.

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