Red Rabbit

by Alex Grecian

Rumors about how Olivia’s bones had broken and reknit themselves in bizarre configurations, how her flesh had run in rivulets across her wasted muscles, then solidified again in peaks and troughs, scales and horns. He hoped her face had resumed its human features in death.

Worm?

When Joe and Rose had sex, an act that was both infrequent and awkward, Rose would wait for Joe to begin snoring, then make herself a tea of boiled thistles and arsenic to keep his seed from taking root in her.

Love that for her

“Do you think you’ll see them again?” Joe said. “Your wife and boy?” “Heavens,” Mr James said. “I certainly hope not.”

Man.....

“Don’t taste much like horse, do he?” Rigby said. Every time McDaniel remembered that first taste of human flesh he began to sweat. His skin tingled and his stomach turned. And yet he had taken a second portion of thigh meat that evening.

Oh! Cannibals!

“I could swear we told you not to go in there,” McDaniel said. “Can’t tell a slave nothing,” Rigby said. “You got to show him.”

Oh fuck

“You’re not the man we took from the woods,” she said. “Who are you?” “My apologies,” he said. “My name is Benito Cortez, and I hope you are taking me away from Texas.”

No shit?!?!?!

Willie nodded and held the puppy up to the lamplight so he could examine it from every angle. It was, he thought, the best penny he had ever spent.

Awwww

“We men aren’t devious like those wicked women. They like to take advantage of our inherent nobility.”

Oh BROTHER

The man who had called himself Noble Crane was tied by his wrists and ankles to a crisscross of spruce branches. He had been sliced open, from his throat to his groin, and his entrails lay steaming at his feet.

Good.

Moses plunked his unused nickel on the countertop. “There’s five cents if you keep your thoughts to yourself until we’re out of this place.” Benito scooped up the coin and stuck it in his pocket. “I have no thoughts,” he said.

Lolllll

“No, I mean I seen it before I went into that shop. And all those bibles … Moses, every bit of that stuff was took off of dead children.”

Oh shit....

“No, Mr Mullins, but it’s what they do here. Ever since they had that big blizzard so many years ago. They ate each other from necessity, starting with a man named Nestor, but I think now they’ve got a taste for it.”

MORE cannibals?????

The toad scrambled over Charlie’s open lips and slithered into the cooling darkness.

Oh fuuuuuck

By morning there would be new growth in the pasture. From the looks of him, Albert would be added to the ranks of stubby evergreens that dotted the meadow. It pleased Sadie that even the ugliest things could be made beautiful with a little work.

She's an icon fr

The puppy growled at the bear, but Willie waved and called out to her. “I named my dog Sadie,” he yelled.

HOW CUTE

At last Charlie grew tired of watching the old rancher twist in the dirt, and cut off Teddy’s head with a butcher’s knife. He made the old man’s body continue to dance about, but he no longer found it amusing. In the second hour, he shut all but four of the remaining ranch hands in the mess hall and sealed it with wards at the door and at each of the windows. He set the building on fire and stood at the edge of the flames listening to the shrieks of the burning men.

Jesus fucking christ

The Huntsman knelt beside Benito and frowned. “I am dead,” Benito said. “Not yet,” Jacob said. “I can finish you, if you like. It would be a mercy.” “No,” Benito said. “Thank you, but I believe I will lie here and look at the sky. It’s very clear and bright today.”

BENITO NOOOOO

The man on the ground wasn’t dead yet, but Ned Hemingway was nearly unrecognizable. Half his head was a pulpy mess that reminded Roy of beef stew. Moses was busy picking big splinters of wood out of his friend’s face, and Roy turned to scan the building behind them. It looked like a rifle round had blown out the corner of the sheriff’s office, and it wasn’t hard to figure out that Ned had been standing in the wrong place and caught a face full of wood.

Nooooo why is everyone dying :'(

“Would you give my hat to Benito? It’s a good hat and it shouldn’t go to waste. Would you do that?” “You’re going to need that hat,” Moses said. “Just do that one thing for me.” Moses nodded. “Good,” Ned said. “Kid needs a decent hat.”

I'm gonna cry

“Hello, Grandfather,” she said. “Will you take me the rest of the way now?”

I KNEW IT

Sadie wasn’t sure what she might have said to Sarah if she’d had the chance. She couldn’t think of anything that would help either of them feel better about what had happened. She had overstayed her welcome, and Willie had paid the price.

:'((((

Joe guessed the stone Willie sat on was as far from his body as he could get. “I have a farmhouse down south,” he said. “It’s not much, but I like it pretty well.” Willie grinned at him and hopped up. Joe found the essence of dittany in his pocket and said the words Sadie Grace had taught him, then Willie left his body behind and they walked away together.

AWWWWW FULL CIRCLE MOMENT