B.R. Schwarz
Bio
I've written poetry and stories since I was a child. I grew up loving being taken away by fantasy novels or learning from autobiographies/biographies in school. I have always been inspired by authors like Steven Kind & J.K. Rowling.
Stories (2)
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Earth After - Chapter One
Earth smelled sweet, but also tainted. Like the smell of something you know has long gone bad, but is somehow still tempting. Like the smell of flowers growing through the bodies of rotten corpses. Beautiful, but with undertones of death. Of millions upon millions of deaths. Maybe it’s because we know Earth’s history, or maybe it was the way it had always been. Earth’s crust has swallowed whole more beings, more living things, than could even be imagined from the beginning of time. It’s inevitable that everything dies, most of us just don’t imagine that those deaths are what builds the dirt beneath our feet. But that is exactly what I thought of as we took our first steps on its soil. I filled my lungs with Earth’s sickeningly sweet scent as we left the only life we’ve ever known behind.
By B.R. Schwarz4 years ago in Fiction
The Stone
Leeland Thomas was a short, stout man with a gruff beard and piercing blue eyes. His sandy auburn hair and round face was the only commonality he ever shared with his estranged father. He longed to know the man when he was a child, always wondering how alike they were. But today, three days past his 40th birthday, as keys jingled in his pocket with every step towards the only thing his late father had left him, he only wondered why his father left his mother and him for this shit-hole. He told himself he was only here to see if anything inside had value before listing the property for sale and saying goodbye to a man he never truly knew for the last time. He wouldn’t admit that a part of him was here to understand him, he couldn’t.
By B.R. Schwarz4 years ago in Fiction
