Squatter's Rites - Volunteer State Community College
Squatter's Rites - Volunteer State Community College Squatter's Rites - Volunteer State Community College
36 Now, years later, I sat atop a skyscraper in Atlanta watching a small group ofpeople scavenging through a storefront searching for food. They always avoided the daylight, thinking the dark would protect them, but the night was like daytime to my eyes. My wings would not actually allow me to fly, but I could glide for hours on the updrafts around the tall buildings. A group of soldiers had shot at me once, but the bullets only bounced off my body. My scorpion skin was much like body armor at my size and their attack on me felt only like bee stings. The look of horror on their faces as I drove my poisonous claws into their bodies was like a narcotic to me. When I consumed their flesh, it did not quell the hatred in my heart, but it did fuel my body like nothing else could. When the hatred first sparked inside of me so long ago in those dark, sweetly sick stenches of the cave, I made a vow to myself that I would have my revenge on those left alive. I dropped off the edge of the building and as the wind quietly whispered across my wings, I began to think of the passages I had once read in the Bible. While I lay crying in that dark cave so many years ago, slipping into madness, I had become the Angel of Death. I had vowed to cover the whole world in a lake of blood, My new life had taken on another purpose. As I focused on the figures below me in my near silent descent, another passage I remembered from the past said that “You always reap what you sow………………” …….end
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