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Dead Alexis: "Godforsaken"
Apr. 28th, 2011 05:21 pmSample from the story I'm working on.
Critiques welcome.
Somewhere, lost in the middle of the desert like a dying animal, exists a small town with a peculiar property. It’s the stereotype of a forgotten and dying old west town. Very few people. One general store. A tavern. Absolutely picture perfect image of this sort of town. Except for that one peculiar. This town is old enough, and out of the way enough, and unimportant enough, that not only has life forgotten about it, but death has forgotten about it as well.
Every single person who resides here and stays within it’s incorporated limits, lives eternal. There is sickness, there is hunger, and there is thirst (oh god is there thirst), but no one dies.
If there is one thing this town has learned, it’s this: Immortality is no prize. Cut off from the rest of a world that has moved on without them, while they cannot die, they also cannot truly be considered alive. When you have countless days, no one day ever stands out.
Forgotten by life, forgotten by death, and more than likely, forgotten by God.
Welcome to “Godforsaken, Arizona”.
The perfect place to find peace and quite, if you’re the angel of vengeance.
( Read more... )
Critiques welcome.
Somewhere, lost in the middle of the desert like a dying animal, exists a small town with a peculiar property. It’s the stereotype of a forgotten and dying old west town. Very few people. One general store. A tavern. Absolutely picture perfect image of this sort of town. Except for that one peculiar. This town is old enough, and out of the way enough, and unimportant enough, that not only has life forgotten about it, but death has forgotten about it as well.
Every single person who resides here and stays within it’s incorporated limits, lives eternal. There is sickness, there is hunger, and there is thirst (oh god is there thirst), but no one dies.
If there is one thing this town has learned, it’s this: Immortality is no prize. Cut off from the rest of a world that has moved on without them, while they cannot die, they also cannot truly be considered alive. When you have countless days, no one day ever stands out.
Forgotten by life, forgotten by death, and more than likely, forgotten by God.
Welcome to “Godforsaken, Arizona”.
The perfect place to find peace and quite, if you’re the angel of vengeance.
( Read more... )
