Stories tagged “march”

  • Pioneer Days (homophone challenge)

    Beats echoed across the plain, rebounding off tree and rock, making John look up from his plowing. It wasn’t long before he spied them. They were a red blur in the distance. He unhitched Star from the plow and led her to the barn. She followed, b...

  • Elephant Walk

    They walk, lumbering, over the dried ruts and webbed cracks. The dust swirls from their feet and off their swaying backs and when that dust falls off their backs in an avalanche of WHOOPing brown, they look suddenly very tired. How long their weary tra...

  • Keeping a Promise

    Lying on her back, Tara tossed and turned with her eyes snapped shut. Her hair fell in black strands across her pillow, creating an eerie contrast against the almost luminescent white cushion. She pressed her pale hands against her ears, in an attempt ...

  • The March of the Dead

    It was midnight, and the moon was a pale disc in the clear night sky. From the edge of the forest a funeral procession appeared, led by an ashen-faced cleric of some long-forgotten order of faith. Iwata crouched behind a stump on the top of a nearby hi...