Rainbow Snippets: Deliberately discarding bodies…

Rainbow Snippets is a Facebook group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week and share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation.

Being a sequel, In Love and Death is set directly after In Pain and Blood. Some snippets will contain spoilers of those events.

Following on from last week’s snippet…

He bent to examine a single mark caused by a boot not too dissimilar to his own. The way it pressed into the ground, deeper nearer the fore, as though hefting something forwards. A deliberate discarding of a body. That put things in line with his first assessment of the site.

Investigating further from the ditch brought scuffs in the dirt, patches of broken foliage with dark smears of dried blood and a handful of other deep footprints. All signs that came from someone carelessly hauling a heavy load.

Returning to the ditch, he dared a fresh count of the bodies. Eight heads. Even accounting for the disarray of limbs caused, there weren’t enough bodies to make that many people. Not anymore.

I’ll be back with more from In Love and Death next weekend. In the meantime, check out these other snippets.

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