Tag: despair
-
SELF DISCOVERY
‘You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. We’re the all singing, all dancing crap of the world.’ ‘So that’s a no then?’ ‘You’re damn right that’s a no.’ I had only asked for a…
-
A STARK CHOICE
The contrast of the plain below was stark. Beyond the edge of the forest, across the boundary to the other country, there lay only barren, empty land. Parched and dry it would provide for no man. The drums of war beat on. He can hear them getting louder behind him. The choice is clear, the…