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Quinn Chapman and the Altar of Evil I

Quinn Chapman and the Altar of Evil The flames of Hades flickered off the rough hewn walls of the cavern as I stumbled my way deeper into the earthen maw. Acrid, black smoke invaded my eyes, blurring my vision and clouding my lungs. Dark voices shouted in a rhythmic chant somewhere beyond the hall of fire through which I now walked. My body was cut and bruised; my clothes turned to rags barely clinging to my sweat glistened flesh.  What maligned road led me to my current state of depravity? My mind flickered back to that fateful day in the warrens of Singapore, to one of the myriad of seedy opium dens lining the alleys. It was there that I found the remnants of the infamous Anglo explorer Sir Percival Covington.  I pushed back the shoddy veil of the curtain to find Sir Percival upon his back, clad in sweat-stained khaki and a weeks' worth of grime. So much for the hero of the British Empire. His glazed eyes alighted upon me, and a flicker of recognition danced across his ...

Poetry: Gone are the Days

 Gone are the Days

A river flowing through the mountains of North America.


Gone are the days
Where man can wander free
Not constrained by all this society

Gone are the days
Where the lands were wide open
Not full of all this civilized commotion

Gone are the days
Where the waters were pure
Not full of our plastic manure

Gone are the days
Where the herds roamed unbounded
Not fleeing our expansion, utterly surrounded

Gone are the days
Where the world was quiet
Not reverberating with our cacophonous riot

Gone are the days
Where man was free
Not enslaved by technology

What makes one good at poetry? I cannot answer this question.

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