Krieg Verzehrt
_ **Krieg Verzehrt** _ _ **2023 by Zorha** _ **_Lechfeld, Bavaria August 10th, 955_** As the fierce mid-day sun beat down upon the battlefield, the unending clash of metal tipped spears against shields filled the air. The cacophony of twenty...
Nuthin’ Stops The Beast
Nuthin' Stops The Beast 2023 by Zorha You're afraid of the stupidest shit as a youngin'. The Dark. Skeletons in the closet. Backwoods witches that hollar up in Stout Hollow on All Hallows Eve. Lookin' back, a younger me had no right bein'...
The Eternal Forest - Chapter IV
The Eternal Forest Chapter IV 2022 by Zorha Lucus reficiat Silva Marciana 41 AD The distant tweets of birds stirred Reprobus from the depths of unconsciousness. He blinked his right eye open to the warm rays of late morning coming through one of...
The Eternal Forest - Chapter III
_The Eternal Forest_ _Chapter III_ _2022 by Zorha_ _genius loci_ _Silva Marciana_ _41 AD_ The wind whistled through the interlaced branches of the Black Forest. Its ancient trees swayed against each other, leaves rustling as if in a collective...
The Eternal Forest - Chapter II
_The Eternal Forest_ _Chapter II_ _2022 by Zorha_ _Tapetum lucidum imminente morte_ _Silva Marciana_ _41 AD_ Garin Odermahn of Tribe Chatti stopped dead in his tracks as a bloodthirsty howl erupted from somewhere out of the inky darkness...
The Eternal Forest - Chapter I
_The Eternal Forest_ _Chapter I _ _2022 by Zorha_ _Homo, id est animal rationale mortale_ _Limes Germanicus_ _41 AD_ The fierce sun hung at mid-day, rays beating down on the worn cobblestones of the Danube Way. Optio Reprobus blinked up to...
The Eternal Forest - Chapter VI
_The Eternal Forest_ _Chapter VI_ _2022 by Zorha_ _Athleta Christi_ _Samos, Lycia_ _Anno Domini, 251 _ Christophoros turned his head to the creak of his prison cell door opening. A small fire in the center of the cold room...
The Eternal Forest - Chapter V
_The Eternal Forest - Chapter V_ _2022 by Zorha_ _And you're a cherry blossom_ _You're about to bloom_ _You look so pretty, but you're gone so soon_ _Silva Marciana_ _41 AD_ The ominous boom of thunder made Reprobus' eyes shoot open. The canopy...
Moment’s Monument
Moment's Monument 2022 by Zorha Highgate Cemetery London, England October 18th, 1899 As the heavy stone door slid open, the silvery light from a full moon crept across the mausoleum floor. A gust of bitter wind blew desiccated rose pedals...
Wolfbann
**Matters of the Hart** **2022 by Zorha** **The lonesome wolf lingering somewhere in the gloomy, snow shrouded depths of the Black Forest howled again. Inside a decrepit cottage, an old woman and her adoptive granddaughter looked up from a sordid...
Pakt des Wildgrafen
Matters of the Hart 2022 by Zorha A long time ago, in the Blackest Forest known to the Queen's Harts, sat a lone cottage of no importance. The coldest winter in recent memory settled into this land, and most nights, no doe crept from her safe, warm...
Screaming Alice and the Throne of Bone
_ **Screaming Alice and the Throne of Bone** _ 2023 by Zorha South London Junction Railway September 3rd, 1873 Another disjunction in the track jostled an already cantankerous Michael Faraday. It slowed the passenger train down ever so...