The Butcher and The Wren

by Alaina Urquhart

A lot of well-adjusted people admire a well-sculpted skull. Most of them don’t even understand how primitively ominous that particular fixation is. Most people don’t allow themselves to see the savage side of a psyche that was crafted millions of years ago out of their ancestors’ often brutal need to survive. These are the traits that evolution deemed to be useful. People are just too dumb to understand that their own predilections are suggestive of a gene pool that is rooted in brutality.

It’s like the universe was asking him to take out its trash. Of course, he obliged.

“You’d be surprised how many secrets the dead have told me.”