Memento Mori - Life drabble
Crews finds Reese's father. 100 words precisely. Also, floods and sand flies.
Memento Mori
People may keep secrets, but the ground here was untrustworthy. The earth was transient in this part of the world. Floods and mudslides turn the earth, moving soil, trees, rocks, houses. Bodies.
The body had no fingertips, and only a few teeth. Earthworms and maggots had claimed sections of flesh, burrowing as these slithering creatures do into their food source. They hadn’t gone near the tattoo, though. Crews waved his hand slowly through the swarm of sand flies, and touched the tattoo with a gloved finger. The flesh was soft beneath his finger. He looked up, and said “It’s him.”
Memento Mori
People may keep secrets, but the ground here was untrustworthy. The earth was transient in this part of the world. Floods and mudslides turn the earth, moving soil, trees, rocks, houses. Bodies.
The body had no fingertips, and only a few teeth. Earthworms and maggots had claimed sections of flesh, burrowing as these slithering creatures do into their food source. They hadn’t gone near the tattoo, though. Crews waved his hand slowly through the swarm of sand flies, and touched the tattoo with a gloved finger. The flesh was soft beneath his finger. He looked up, and said “It’s him.”