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Mercy of the Moon
by A.F. Stewart
She ascends, creature of the forest,
transcendent within the moonlight
and the warm vermillion rain
As the forever cold graveyard wind
howls its vexation against the trees
.
All shall be forgiven under the moon
.
She bestows redemption of a kind,
perpetually shrouded in your sin,
her eternal mark your absolution
Primality of flesh transformation,
rejected conformity, mortality
.
All shall be forgiven under the moon
.
Deliverance is bitter, imperfect, grievous
So wail your fiendish curse to the cosmos,
as your bones rupture and claws forge,
as you endure, bathed in her illumination,
and scream beneath the warm vermillion rain
.
All shall be forgiven under the moon of the wolf
.
Fiction © Copyright A.F. Stewart
Image © Copyright Rie Sheridan Rose
More from A.F. Stewart:
Visions and Nightmares
Tragedy spares no one… and takes no prisoners.
In the twilight shadows, secrets are revealed past the whispers of madness.
Wander into the realm of the old gods with Elenora, where humanity and marriage are a prison.
Step through a looking glass of dark horrors with an Alice you never knew.
Join with Zenna to seek the truth as her death by magic grows closer.
Journey with Olivia as she crosses paths with a monster of the forest and runs for her life.
Watch Isobel summon the faerie to solve her problem of an unwanted husband.
Shiver as Doctor Killbride experiments with corpses to create life from death.
All that and more await within the pages.
Ten stories. Ten women.
Who will survive? Who will fall? And who will succumb to their inner evil?
Find out in Visions and Nightmares.
Warning: This book contains disturbing scenes that may be upsetting to some readers.
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