Phil Strahl - The Return

With the eyes of an adult I saw now in broad daylight what I was spared by the night when I had been a kid. What once had been some poor young fuck was splayed out on the ground as if turned from the inside out, guts and organs were splattered around as if from a violent combustion within the man’s body and contrasted the cheerful green of the leaves with a deep red and brown. Something was moving in the pile of gore and broken bones, right in the middle of it. Could he be still alive? Impossible! No, I could make out the shape of an animal, a delicate snout, thin legs and an arch of fur entirely covered in human remains. A newborn fawn, silently licking on a torn trachea as if nothing in the world could disturb it. I gasped and tumbled backwards. The little thing looked up to me and it trapped my gaze instantly with its eyes. Those were not the eyes of an animal you’d see on Discovery, they were black holes that sucked everything into a relentless void. It was impossible to turn away. Not only my gaze was trapped, it was my soul, my existence that was subject to this unassuming animal’s eyes. Now there was only silence. No birds, no wind, no rustling leaves behind me anymore. Just a hot damp breath on my arm.

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I’ve been an artist with a restless creative soul since I can think. I always like to work on various kinds of projects, I like to invent, to ponder and to create. Writing is among all those things that are too important to me to be considered merely a pastime.

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Copyright © 2013 by Phil Strahl

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