{"sf1_id":1385317,"sf2_id":"Oe5DYk01","title":"Red Claw's Rhyme","author":"Mantrid_Brizon","words":93,"posted_at":"2018-11-09T14:40:39.000Z","tags":["Anthro","Blood","Cannibalism","Death","Fear","Furry","Horror","Human","Magic","Monster","Multiple Species","Murder","Mystic","Pain","Poem","Rhyme","Story","Story Series","Violence","Violence (Not In Yiff)"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1385317-red-claw-s-rhyme","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Oe5DYk01","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/c3/13/c31326c6-c2e5-43a0-8877-196856871afd","description":"While lying down to sleep, I left on Pumpkinhead (1988). Enthralled by the eponymous creature's nursery rhyme, I invented my own for a dangerous but sympathetic character who emerges in the second of my 'Hejira' books, Sanguine Wave. It will also appear in an edited chapter, when I find the time.  \n  \n[https://www.sofurry.com/browse/folder/stories?by=547665\u0026folder=69581](https://www.sofurry.com/browse/folder/stories?by=547665\u0026folder=69581)","content":"Red Claw's Rhyme\n\n(11/09/2018)\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nProwling in a moonlit night,\n\nA beast who causes quite a fright,\n\nAlways he is hunting prey,\n\nSuffering is here today,\n\nChilling wind is blowing through,\n\nBodies turn a pale blue,\n\nHuman blood drains in the sand,\n\nSahvorai fleeing from their land,\n\nFallen curled in a ball,\n\nEven the madrogos fall,\n\nNothing known can stop the beast,\n\nIn purple fire your flesh he'll feast,\n\nChildren hide under their beds,\n\nBlankets pulled over their heads,\n\nYou will know when you are dead,\n\nWhen you see the claw of Red.","series":{"name":"Poetry","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1356189-sterling.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1400016-michigan-winter.json"}}