{"id":58,"date":"2023-06-12T20:01:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T02:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/?p=58"},"modified":"2025-05-05T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:19:16","slug":"the-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/the-slaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Yesterday, I remembered this bit of flash fiction I wrote long before I knew what flash fiction was. I only recall that I was living in Texas at the time, and after a bit of yard work, this idea hit me. I\u2019m proud of it, so I found it among my files to give it a post. Enjoy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sweet smell of death permeates the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They stood proud and resilient, but they were ignorant of their inevitable massacre. As many before them unwillingly discovered, their death wasn\u2019t calm. Crushing dismemberment never is. Serenity only came with the slaughter\u2019s end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At my feet and strewn about, corpses lay in haphazard piles. Thousands of carcasses rest upon each other, tossed about with no concern nor remorse. Only mild satisfaction remains from the previous events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can feel the sticky guts of the fallen smeared on my hands. I gaze down to confirm that their blood is indeed on me, but I regard the sight as nothing more than stains to be washed away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I stand and scan the killing fields, I inhale deeply death\u2019s aroma. I will murder again; I have to. It is my nature and my direction. But today\u2019s slayings will sate the need, for now, until I return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I turn my back to the slain and stroll away until such time that I weed again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I remembered this bit of flash fiction I wrote long before I knew what flash fiction was. I only recall that I was living in Texas at the time, and after a bit of yard work, this idea hit me. I\u2019m proud of it, so I found it among my files to give it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedragoncorps.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}