week four.therealljidol.numb to terrorism

[fourth_horseman]

Death and the Lion and the Water BuffaloHe was tired. Bone tired, if one didn’t mind the pun. It had been too long now, too many souls in too short a time. Years of relentless reaping and collecting. The souls were harvested intact but the gathering was bloody and terrible. Babies thrashed, children torn limb from limb, young men and women hacked

Comments

[rayaso]

I really, really liked this, especially the opening paragraph. I know you accomplished everything you intended, but I wish the story was longer simply because I enjoyed reading it.

[swirlsofblue]

Love the way you use description here. The whole thing is brilliantly put.

[alycewilson]

Very unsettling, which I am certain was your intent.

[aresrising05]

When two tribes go to war

[halfshellvenus]

He himself never wished death on any living creature, it would come soon enough, but he had begun to find his thoughts longing for an equalizer. Fire and water, life destroyed so that it could spring anew.
I really liked the viewpoint here, of Death wearied by his job when the carnage has become senseless and extreme.

In the end there are simply too many souls, and it seems that it may only be "over" when both sides have been destroyed. What, then, has been won?