by Robin on May 13th, 2017, 11:13 am
Great Job Elin! Wonderful work of art!
It was blistering hot... not a cloud in sight... One had to cover themselves head to toe so as not to get an instant irritated burn. A few tumbleweeds were carried along by the hot breeze... with trace of a weird sent... Carrion? Heat rose from the cracked black asphalt... cooking anything that touched it. A lone cayote... panting and starved... was pacing the side of the road.. unsure if it should go across. There was movement on the other side... a lizard zipping through the sand. The cayote finally had the motivation it needed but whimpered painfully as it ran across. Though it extremely hurt.. the cayote kept running... way too hungry to care at the moment. Chasing the lizard across the desert, the cayote was oblivious to anything else... after a few minutes it caught it's prey, killing it with one bite to the neck... It layed down with satisfaction and stayed there to catch it's breath...
But wait- what was that sound...? The cayote jerked it's head up as it noticed the noise... it scanned the horizon with radar-like ears moving around... the sent of rot drifted through it's nose.. it was carried in the wind............
The same as the approaching moans.....
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