Jonathan Peach
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Butcher
Sebastian Stiles called it art – to me it was butchery of the most violent and monstrous kind. I am a hollow man, a wretch doomed to an afterlife of purgatory and everlasting suffering and this destiny is exactly what I deserve. To serve a man like Stiles was not without benefits, social standing came without question, endless quantities of money and good times to name a few, it was all there. Mr. Stiles became the toast of the town and I hung onto his coat tails and relished every second. However, that was two years back, now I speak these words as I languish in my cell, it is a foul-smelling detestable place fit only for the rats and eight legged creatures that roam freely amongst its dark corners of damp and disease.
By Jonathan Peach3 years ago in Horror
Heartless at the beach
I went down to the beach today, it seemed like a good idea and I was drawn there, it being such a glorious day. There was a lone man on the shoreline standing like a statue in a long woollen coat and trilby hat gazing at me as the ocean crashed loudly onto the shingle a few yards behind. The concentration of his stare was so overwhelming that I couldn’t think whether I should interact or just walk away as the contact between us was strangely chilling. For a moment it felt like some kind of hallucination where time faulters and leeches into a dreamscape, then with the snap of a hypnotists fingers the scene changed once more to the sound of seagulls calling and the slushing of salty water on sand flooded my ears. The man pointed a finger at me hidden in a leather glove, there was a dog’s lead wrapped around his wrist, but he had no dog and in the other hand he held a brightly coloured plastic bucket and spade, but there were no children. The constant dread of that lost look was overpowering. I had to leave, the stranger’s presence was bothering me, there was a freakish nature about him that was reminiscent of an escapee from an institute for the insane.
By Jonathan Peach3 years ago in Fiction
