And we come to our farewell post for this wondrous Festival
of Drabbles. I shall play you out with a bit of a dark melody…
Rime and Season
The frost wind swirled down from the mountain, and the
icicles hanging from the trees chimed with its passing. It blew down the
cobblestone streets, and around the corners and cracks of brick and mortar. It
rattled the wooden shutters and howled down the chimneys. It churned the snow
drifts and swooshed about the settled grime.
Nothing else moved in the quiet, solemn town.
Nothing else would ever move in this place again.
They occupied each house, every structure. While the wind
howled, while the snow blew, the dead remained. Frozen, lifeless, forever
locked in an eternal world of ice.
~*~
Desert Song
Across the sands, beyond the dunes, when the Mother of Moons
rises in the night sky, you can hear their song on the sirocco winds. A velvet
melody vibrating through the amber radiance, twirling in the light of the
desert moon. They sing arias, of roses blooming in the paradise oasis, of the
first raindrop and its petrichor
echo. Their chorus shivers the firmament that binds the universe, and soothes
the disquieted fires of the soul.
They serenade of all things sacred, but beware, listen too
long…
…and the Night Sisters will sing you to your final place of
dreams.
~*~
Just An Old Tune
The guitar sits in the corner, weather-beaten, with dust
gathering across its worn down varnish and strings. It has some scratches and
some blackened streaks; it has survived much. Countless hands have plucked it
chords—old and young--through wars, through blistering summers, and long cold
winters. It has strummed many a tune, and captured the vivacity of spirits in
the melodies it harmonized.
Spirits it never let go.
Sorry souls that bled their happiness into the hungry maw of
a demon instrument. And now… well that guitar, it’s waiting to be played.
By the next servant of the devil.
© A. F. Stewart 2015 All Rights Reserved
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