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Creative Writing: Downfall - School Essays

Creative Writing: Downfall

I have heard insidious tales of black rains that fall on ashen
fields and metal that screams. Until now I have consoled myself that these
were nothing more than the delusions of some poor fevered mind. But today
I met a harbinger from this desolate place, and now I fear the truth.
The harbinger had been influencing my destiny even before I awoke
this morning. Throughout the night my mind was haunted with the visions of
a desolate land which inspired such a feeling of pure hopelessness and a
sheer will to die that I awoke to find my pillow soaked in tears. In the
center of the cursed landscape stood an ancient chapel; the same chapel
which lies at the outskirts of the village, and so ...

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I found myself staring at the rickety old
sign at the border of our town which read Melas. As I came nearer to the
chapel I expected the tormenting sensation in my head to diminish. Alas,
it did not. The truth is that the throbbing increased to what I can only
describe as a cranial vibration. This timbre was not painful, however, nor
uncomfortable, but pleasant.
Up ahead loomed the ancient chapel. It had been abandoned for
nearly a century and some invisible force kept the decrepit mortar and pale
stones in their places. But before I was close enough to glimpse the
building itself, I saw the glow. An eerie crimson light radiated from the
three small windows on the side of the chapel visible to me. Mysterious
figures within caused the glow to dance and flicker over the tombstones of
the graveyard which neighbored the chapel. The shadows seemed alive.
Shadows? This was when I first realized that the sky was dark. It
had been morning mere minutes ago when I'd left my home. ...

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Added: 11/29/2004 09:44:28 AM
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