Craven Manor

by Darcy Coates

The sky had entered the twilight stage

Most of these are just cool writer words or phrases with cadence.

when shapes began to lose their colour.

centaurs,

minotaurs

but Kyle had been hardball about it.

Love the baseball metaphor.

eccentric

fortnight.

malaise.

wisps.

Opulent,

copse

silhouette.

flint

opulent

ichor

Sisyphean

Dead branches grazed his arms and neck as he wove past them. They reminded Daniel of brittle fingers scrabbling at his skin.

Excellent metaphor.

He staggered into the ring of statues. The half-nude ladies and centaurs seemed less carefree than before. Although their poses were relaxed—arms thrown overhead, feet dancing—their gazes were accusatory, and the stains running through their garments seemed harsher.

Nice and creepy description.

beacon.

inexorable.

loamy

murder of crows

Is there any cooler description of a group of animals?

Three large wingback chairs were spaced around it, and the bright flames sent twisting shadows rollicking up the wood-panel walls.

Nice description.

minestrone.

bleak mirth

intractable.

femurs,

altruism,

enclave.

precarious.

hearth,

hessian

porous

insipid

antiseptic and bleach

pedant

farrier,

stalemate,

eddies

faun

arctic,

lynchpin.

oesophagus.

hypothermia

abscond