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Cave of Souls
by Marge Simon
Beyond is a world of many shapes and colors that the gods have created, with the addition of mortals for entertainment. Most of them are stupid and can be dangerous, so I stand unmoving at the exit. There are bodies of small birds just outside my cave. Poor things thought they could fly inside, but my cave is sealed with an impenetrable screen that keeps all living things outside.
It is always night in my cave. Always cold, but that doesn’t bother me. There is a living wind of spirits that rise and fall with wails of unbearable misery. When the voices grow old and begin to fade, I’m allowed to pass outside to the mortal world to select new ones. I believe the mortals’ children must sense the time of my coming, because it invariably happens on the last night of October.
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Fiction © Copyright Marge Simon
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com
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Cool story, feels like a modern twist on the Wild Hunt folklore.
Thank you, A.F. — I promise I wasn’t thinking of Wild Hunt of the Stars. 🙂
The last line made me smile in a tense anxious kind of way 🙂 enjoyed this a lot