God is Empty, Just Like Me
My fifth entry to the Whispering Woods challenge. All my entries for this challenge are interconnected, but should still work as stand alone stories. I will put my author's note in the comments to avoid messing up the word count. I will link all the stories there, and include a content warning for anyone who feels they need it.
Of course, the old witch couldn't live forever, although to me (and I'm sure to many others) it felt like she had. As much as I'd despised her, I had to admit that she'd become, in her own way, a pillar in the community. Her funeral was well-attended, the little chapel bursting at its seams with snivelling women of all ages. Each one, surely, remembering their gratitude for her awful service. Each one a wicked, wicked sinner. A flood of gorgeous blooms, perhaps one for each seedling she uprooted and cast away, as if no more than a weed.
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Comments (11)
5 stories?! WOW! You are not only a talented writer, but you're whirlwind fast! This story is absoluely mesmerizing. Your writing draws the reader right in. I will definitely have to check out the other parts of this story!
This was a grand fucked up fairytale. It really felt connected to one of your other whispering woods challenge stories
A/N (updated): As promised, here are all my entries to this challenge, in order of publication:- First: https://shopping-feedback.today/fiction/the-nevergreens%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E Second: https://shopping-feedback.today/fiction/deep-in-the-neverwood%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E Third: https://shopping-feedback.today/fiction/the-speaking-of-trees%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E Fourth: https://shopping-feedback.today/fiction/that-infernal-clock%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E Content warning (if you have already read any of the previous ones, this is unneeded, but if this is your first foray into my twisted up leafy world): These stories deal with the following themes: unwanted pregnancy, abortion, human sacrifice. This one also alludes to a kind of animal sacrifice and there's religious imagery and themes. The image was created by AI, and it's not quite what I asked for but I felt it fit the story quite well. As ever, your eyeballs are valued! I encourage feedback, I enjoy engaging with readers as much as I can, and I do my best to reciprocate reads as much as humanly possible.
The reluctant & terrified, become the crone for her child's sake.
Holy heck, this was one hell of a story. Incredible imagery! I'd read a whole novel set with this story, the witch before her and whatever is to come next. Horrifying in the best way possible. Badass entry!! 🖤
Jesus. This was terrifyingly and horrifyingly epic. I think this might be my favourite entry of yours.
Well-wrought! "Perhaps I'll meet a talking beaver on my way home, I thought bitterly." Or perhaps a faun by a lamppost? This clever reference gave me a little extra something to love about this story!
This is fantastic, and horrific. Excellent entry, once again.
Proper horror story, this. Nightmarish throughout.
This is a wonderfully horrific tale you are continuing LC!
Nice and horrific take on the challenge