Eilum’s vacant eyes stared into the morning sky. The officer looked down at the peaceful, almost joyful face — moments before he had covered up the festering abdominal wound. There surprisingly little blood since the pressure from his intestines pushing through the…
The creature that was once Eilum thrusts its pointed snout into the warm evening air. His previous life was a fading memory. The little that remained was harder to recall. He could only remember the master and son as he…
The Civil Peace Officer met Si Hotep’s vacant gaze in the mid-morning light. Despite the horrible wounds that covered his body, Si seemed to be awake and aware.
The family alerted the authorities at sunrise when Si did not return the…
Em-tiri’s fists pulled the blanket tightly around her shoulders as she buried her chin into her chest. Si-Hotep slowly dressed at the foot of her bed, methodically adjusting each pleat of his robe, knowing she was fighting back a river of…
"I will not ask you a second time Una, where is that little maggot?" The doubled rope dangled from Kel's hand before his younger brother. His knuckles were white with anticipation for another game.
Eilum had been missing all afternoon. The…
The doubled rope cracked acrossEilum's back. There was no counting how many times he had been hit, or how long this beating had lasted. This was a game between him and Kel, the oldest of Si-Hotep's sons.
The rope would continue…