-
![Profile picture of Atticus Abbey]()
Atticus Abbey wrote a new post
![]()
Read MoreHis name, Lester "Less" Hope. The coffee was black as crude oil, and just as bitter. He drank it without flinching, eyes fixed on the crow out the window. Its lips parched from the asphalt, so hot that you...
2 Comments-
![Profile picture of Atticus Abbey]()
I worked on that for a couple of days.
-
![Profile picture of Harriet-Jacqui xx]()
Harriet-Jacqui xx wrote a new post
![]()
Read More‘Is it tonight?’‘Yes.’‘Why?’She didn’t answer. Instead, she cut off the call. I stuffed my phone into my back pocket and entered the forest. Treading the path that I had trodden so many times before. The looped path. The path...
-
![Profile picture of Harriet-Jacqui xx]()
Harriet-Jacqui xx wrote a new post
-
![Profile picture of D. Ignatov]()
D. Ignatov and
Fia Naturie are now friends
![]()
![Profile Photo]()
-
-
![Profile picture of Al Ashcott]()
Unsettling and very depressing, Dmitry. All those post-apocalyptic stories are horrid in their own way, but this was extra painful as the main characters were kids. Your story reminded me of the movie The Blue Lagoon from 1980. Two teenagers stranded on a deserted island and tried to cope with the situation the best they could. They even had a baby of their own, and at some point they saw no other way out, and decided to end their lives by eating some poisonous berries …
Al
-
![Profile picture of D. Ignatov]()
Thank you! I love evoking emotions in readers.
But in “The Blue Lagoon” (part two), the heroes actually survived. In my story – no. No chance 😉
-
-
![Profile picture of Fia Naturie]()
I agree with Al this was unsettling. Well written and conveyed allot not leaving the mind to wonder what happened next.
-
![Profile picture of D. Ignatov]()
Thank you 🙂
-
-
- Load More Posts
Beautiful use of Tam o’ Shanter. As always, your mind roams the deepest caverns without a lantern, and that final twist caught me way off guard