We have a tie in this month's 75 Worder between Daysman and Dan Jones -- so here is where we sort out who wins!
The rules for the tie-break are simple:
Please keep comments to the Discussion thread -- any comments posted here will be moved.
To remind you, here are the stories, in order of posting:
The rules for the tie-break are simple:
Any Chrons members can vote
The members involved in a tie-break can't vote for their own story
The poll will close 2 days after the poll is set up ie at 8.06 GMT on Monday, 31 October 2022 (the clocks go back this weekend in the UK!)
Please keep comments to the Discussion thread -- any comments posted here will be moved.
To remind you, here are the stories, in order of posting:
A Sliver of Shade by Daysman
In Arbogast, near dusk, the newly dead walk the shadow's edge, street to street, in search of hallowed ground.
Their bereaved see them, making the same wrong turns to the same dead ends.
On my father's death, he too circled the town.
Like others, I blocked the narrow sun between houses that he might cross.
Oblivious, he continued on.
I still walk with him sometimes.
The sun will find a line for him one day.
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Last Dance Upon The Heath by Dan Jones
The Earl’s manor, that crumbling black ingot amid acres of virgin October snow, sleeps with shutters down, doors locked, tight as secrets. He sits within, a beslippered, regretful Havisham, holding frigid vigils beside unlit candles.
An old melody promising endless pleasure and flashes of light taunts him.
At midnight’s toll he drags himself to the manor’s modest cemetery. He stands by her grave, countenance fierce, frozen hands gripping his trusty shovel.
They will dance again.
