David Quast

Joined August 2021

6 stories

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Conflict is intrinsic to the human condition.

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Scales and Talons
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. They came hunting the carrion that preceded them. Rodents and crows, followed by wolf, wildcat and other vermin. None of us lived from before the onslaught before the air lay deep in smoke. Before the poison turned even the timid to thoughts of violent mutiny.
By David Quast4 years ago in Fiction
Rapacity
“The advantage we hold Gerhardt, is that we never register. Not with anyone. Ideologies rise and fall. Political opponents slay each other, more often verbally and sometimes literally. Either way, it is no concern of ours.”
By David Quast4 years ago in Fiction
Rapacity
“The advantage we hold Gerhardt, is that we never register. Not with anyone. Ideologies rise and fall. Political opponents slay each other, more often verbally and sometimes literally. Either way, it is no concern of ours.”
By David Quast4 years ago in Fiction
Aftermath
Most everyone at sometime or another wishes for somethin’ else. You can spend your whole life thinkin’ about the what-ifs, or the maybes, but that don’t get it done.
By David Quast4 years ago in Fiction
Emancipation
“Your feelings, your desire, your truth matters! Only you can know the true depths your emotions. Do not, ever, let anyone tell you different.
By David Quast4 years ago in Fiction
Cempaxochitl
Shadows pass along a wall, soft voices murmuring in tongues. For the longest time the elements consume me, bone-chilling cold replaced by burning fire. Each thought disappearing with the horror of crashing, monstrous waves. Faces and hands fading each time I cry out, reaching for terra firma, God help me! So then, it is true, in my first moment of consciousness it comes to me that even a heathen will cry out at his end. Only, it does not end.
By David Quast4 years ago in Fiction