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A Scenic Sight

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By Zo GrimmwoodPublished about a year ago 1 min read
A Scenic Sight
Photo by Micael Rodrigues on Unsplash

The breeze blows

the smell of carrion.

Fields of stinking corpses

All rotting in a pile.

Jagged horns, crooked antlers.

A meadow of carcasses

like a bouquet of flies.

The perfect scenery,

malignant blight,

That rancid aroma.

Ah, what a sight.

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About the Creator

Zo Grimmwood

Hi! I'm Zo, a Black American, dark fiction writer in Southern California. I narrate and produce my own audio stories.

I have been in the anthology Blood in the Rain 3, published by JitterPress and in Gypsum Sound Tales’s Colp Magazine.

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