Friday, July 18, 2008

from the trees

from the trees came tesl, gun in hand, bullets obvious
bernard, knocked off guard, stumbled forwards, then backwards, after turning to face the trees
tesl was moving so fast he tumbled into bernard, not getting off a single decent shot
he was so excited at the top of the hill that he lost all control until the bottom of it
and out of the trees he flew
sporadically shooting
as bernard staggered underneath him and deliver a clean blow
throw his stomach

blackness

and tesl woke up, laying next to bernard who lay unconscious with a smash about his head
tesl bled
the grass red
with bernard not dead
he fired
but the gun lay empty instead
in his hand trembling
his breathe swallowing
every ounce of air thinning
bernard began to wake

the sun was hot and bright

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