Charlie Nihil
Bio
Aspiring novelist. Writer of realist dystopian fiction. Trying to capture our existential reality and all the beauty surrounding it. Also write a lot of casual free verse poems.
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Stories (13/0)
The Town Mayor
The Town Mayor Two men talk secretly in a dark room. The room is handcrafted out of planks of thick wood; the corners of the room are built from entire stumps, and above them are rafters of crudely hacked thinner pieces of long timber. In one corner stands a collection of oil lamps near a small table; on the table is a map pierced by a knife with an aged wooden handle standing sharply from its point. In the other is a standing lamp, which is lit; the light from this lamp bathes the room in an orange glow that casts deep shadows into the features of the men, especially around the eyes, which are filled with flat black shadow. There is a gun on the table between the men; now and then, both men take a glimpse towards it. Neither of them wanders too far from the pistol. Finally, one man takes a shot of refined screech that is made around the island's swamps. Then, the man grimaces, stating while gazing out the window an arm's length from the table, "look at that, a mist comes from the sea'there."
By Charlie Nihil3 years ago in Fiction