A Forsworn Fantasy

All of author Gabriel De Palo’s ramblings, works, WIPs and general discussion.

Tag: horror

  • Fourteen

    Fourteen

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    Gabriel De Palo
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    The smell of cooked meat flooded my nostrils and I gagged violently, coughing and spluttering all over the ground. It took me a while to settle, and I just sat there, staring at the leg of charred meat in my hand.  “Good. You didn’t throw up.” Reece sat opposite me, eating a leg of his…

  • Nine

    Nine

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    Twelve years ago, the Guardian responded to a distressing signal from a world at the edge of the galaxy. Since then, his seat had been collecting dust, a memory of him haunting the place he once sat, looking out over the worlds that he could no longer protect.  Another seat was built for his successor.…

  • Six

    Six

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    Gabriel De Palo
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    There they stood.  The six oldest members of our village.  Sentenced to death for the crime of being elderly.  Though it wasn’t quite a crime, nor a sentencing. They all knew it was coming. All six of them, standing there stone-faced and unmoving, not willing to fight the inevitable.   They know they are burdens to…