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Alex Prompts Trial by Fire

The Adventurers

This is it, Adventurer,” the villain scoffed. Anisha was bound hand and foot in front of him. “Now it’s time for your trial by fire.”

He lifted his flamethrower and directed it at her face. He blasted her, throwing sparks and the smell of smoke into the air. When he finished, he put the weapon down and pulled his goggles off with a look of satisfaction.

What he didn’t expect to see through the smoke was a now freed Anisha grinning at him like a banshee.

“I passed,” she said cheerfully, covered in soot and officially smug. “No it’s your turn.”

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Trial by...

The prompt of the week is

From the hangings of the Salem witches, to the burning at the stake of saints, trials of all types are heavy in history and can provide a great inspiration!

The rules:

To be included in the masterpost of the prompt, your writing or art should be posted by Sunday the 16th of June, 2019, AEST. Any late posts may miss the boat for inclusion, however will still be read and reblogged.

Tag @alexprompts, and #alexprompts and #alexprompttrialby somewhere in your post

Any style of writing or art is allowed, at any word length or with any theme. However, anything NSFW should be tagged as such so I can do the same.

Please reblog and share with others if planning on participating, to help the page grow and your stories and art reach more people!

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Almost Alive

Hella late for @alexprompts latest prompt, but I keep being told better late than never, so here's a flash fic from the perspective of an executioner's axe.

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The sun gleams off my steel and I know it is my time again. I have been whetted and kept clean for this moment, like all the moments before and still to come. This is my moment. It is our moment.

I regret the time I spend in the shadows, set aside on a wall to watch the people and the End Bringer, but I would not fret even if I had a voice. That time instills patience in me. It gives me an appreciation for these brief moments when I am allowed to feel the air and the pulse. The long hours and days and even weeks when I collect dust in the End Bringer's House of Rest let me savor these moments.

The grip on my haft is a welcome embrace. The End Bringer's hands match my contours perfectly, so accustomed are we to each other. We are an extension of one another, I his arm and he my legs. Together, we share what comes next. Together, we feel it.

On the first swing, I cut only air. He needs to remember my weight, and I need the thrill of expectation.

On the second swing, a fruit, a melon, sliced in two atop the Red Wood. He must test my edge, and I crave the rising tension.

It is always the third swing that is best. I rise, frozen in the twilight for your final heartbeat. Still air. Red sun. You kneeling. Bated breaths.

Then, I fall.

My head quivers in the Red Wood. Tremors up my handle. Trembling ecstacy. I meet you, victim of mine, with razor edge and Bringer's might. I separate mind from heart, soul from body. I know not what follows, save the next swing, and the one after that and after and so on. One last touch for each of you.

Do not hate me, mortals. I do not hate you. I merely crave these intimate moments that bring me as close to like you as I can be, when I tread that line between life and the End, the width of a dying gasp.

But now our time has passed. Now, I return with the Bringer to the House of Rest where I am cleaned and whetted again. I will wait under the dust until our next moment. Until I feel the rush again, when I am almost alive.

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Trial by... Masterpost

The prompt of the week was

and a massive thank you to everyone who participated!

The stories were amazing, and all can be found below!

@sarahcamillabarr wrote an amazing poem about true love, divine intervention, and pain, set during the Spanish Inquisition. Read part one HERE and part two HERE.

@pennedin gave us an awesome short story, featuring a lake and one hell of a resilient main character. Read it HERE.

@alien-from-pluto-writer stunned with a trial in front by the gods, forced by a corrupt king. Read it HERE.

@inexorableblob brought another beautiful story to the table, with a unique tribunal. Trigger warning for suicide for this one. Read it HERE.

@ddesign8or gave us a shock with their haunting short story, which you can read HERE.

@ld9-the-draft provided a story from an incredibly unique perspective, from that of the executioner’s axe. Read it HERE.

Once again, thank you so much to all of you for participating and sharing your work!

This week’s prompt is...

Read more about the prompt HERE.

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