A Good Week_The Butcher_Of Ashe & Aether_Out of Business
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A Good Week
Jaxon was odd. He liked that. Some people even would call him crazy. He liked that too. His name was odd too, though he didn't like that. He hated his name because he thought of it as the only part of oneself that one has no control over. His mother had said that she had been drunk when she had named him. Jaxon knew that was a lie. His mother had never been drunk in her life. She had never experienced the wild, confusing, freeing feeling of drunkenness. He knew his mother had never lived. He knew she had missed out. He liked that. Jaxon was normal for the most part. He did well in school, but...
The Butcher
News just in; the serial killer known as ‘The Butcher’ has been captured today in a massive search co-ordinated by local and state police. An anonymous tip led the authorities to where ‘The Butcher’ was hiding in a bushland shack. Sources say there is evidence of earlier, unknown kills, mounted on the walls like trophies.When I stepped into the spartan room, my eyes locked with those of the woman sitting at the table. A chain linked the cuffs on her wrists together, threaded through a thick metal ring welded onto the tabletop. She didn’t look like a butcher. Her emaciated frame and haunted eye...
Of Ashe & Aether
Emelyn tugged on her shackles—a feeble effort, she knew, but one despair demanded of her. The idonsteel bit into her flesh, and a scab peeled away as the restraints added another gouge to the red-rubbed mess of her wrists. Blood trickled down her arm, striking the floor below, the once-pristine tiles sullied in a rorschach of dried blood; a pitiful reminder of her struggles.She raised her head, despite the protests of her weathered body; gazed past the armored sister-sentries to the door they protected. A threshold to freedom.+It is yours to claim. If only you would let go.+Emelyn twitched at...
Out of Business
“And in the last days it shall be, God declares,that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.”Acts 2:17In a medium-sized, yet growing, Pennsylvania hamlet, the black print on the rippled glass window of a heavy oaken door read:Dr. Evan Blakely, Psy.D.,Dream SpecialistTwww.onedoor.cchree weeks ago, the doctor was about to put a permanently closed sign on that door and search for another way to make a living; the availability of online resources and cheap phone apps made his business o...