Hollow

by Brian Catling

“What you must understand is that what you witness is not a manifestation of evil but the workings of the mind of God.”

“We are the weird of what is going and what will come,

Women like her had to watch their actions and pretend to know their place. Women who were wise in the old ways but who had married into the world of men and the church.

Even in the cinder hearts of the most callous, there is a cusp for rapture. Even in the souls of those who would joke or spill life and death, there is a pause just long enough to be surprised by the taste of air. So it was with these pilgrims on the brink of their night. Soon they would descend into blindness, cold, and terror, but they had been given this day, this vision, and the sweet taste of rabbit flesh before they devoured the inevitable.

“Writing is the shame of man. It dilutes the guts of meaning. If thou be not man enough to hold great learning and the saying of events in your memory, then thou should not attempt to keep them imprisoned. The world was turned by scrolls and books. The making of those bricks of paper even contaminated the tower of language itself, making it less than a woodpile or an old maid’s collection of rags. Words are power, and writing is only a pissed shadow.”

i know several authors that should understand this wisdom.