5/11/2023 0 Comments Matryoshka by Penny Jones![]() ![]() Casting rays of light across the scarecrow’s stitched and sneering countenances painting them in sun and shadow as they danced to the sound of the breeze. The locals placed scarecrows amongst the crops, their leering sackcloth faces surveying over their land sparkling shards of glass and metal chimed amongst them in the wind. Neat hills and furrows, scored and scarified, by claw and beak as birds rooted for seed and worm in the freshly tilled soil. The bad luck didn’t stop once those meagre seeds were planted. Gnarled fingers twisted and turned them as they counted them out to the households that queued all along the lane for their share. Those seeds that hadn’t been eaten were smaller and tougher than the ones usually chosen to be planted as spring slowly edged its way towards summer. The packages containing a mere fraction of what they should have held the rat droppings and carefully woven nests, a sure sign of what had happened to the rest of them. Teeth marks marring the paper, which had been carefully stored away with the previous year’s seeds. ![]() The envelopes had been split and spilled. They knew it was going to be a bad year for the crop, right from the spring. Octoin News tagged Flash of Halloween / Penny Jones by jlwallen Defying Gravity signed paperback $10.00. ![]()
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