Submissions by A_Failed_Artist
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Dante's Finest Part IX: Zombies
If you're feeling kinda sluggish and you've got a taste for meth, time to get up from that sofa because your life's come to an end.
The virus spreads all over like a desperate junkie's legs. Say, "Give it to me baby. I got lovin you for days!"
All the zombies wanna dance around, with their limp dicks swinging in the air.
What a perfect show! Everybody's playing in the burning snow.
Get me the hell out of here before it takes me.
I don't wanna be what they cannot see.
The virus spreads all over like a desperate junkie's legs. Say, "Give it to me baby. I got lovin you for days!"
All the zombies wanna dance around, with their limp dicks swinging in the air.
What a perfect show! Everybody's playing in the burning snow.
Get me the hell out of here before it takes me.
I don't wanna be what they cannot see.
#drugs
#ShortStory
#mythology #zombies
#mythology #zombies
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Dante's Finest Part VIII: Broken
Stop. Just stop.
It's killing me.
No matter how much you pray, he's never coming back.
How can you sit there and still have faith when your son is in the ground?
Focus on what matters: your family.
The family who's still living.
Your zombie daughters, your distant husband, your broken son.
It's killing me.
No matter how much you pray, he's never coming back.
How can you sit there and still have faith when your son is in the ground?
Focus on what matters: your family.
The family who's still living.
Your zombie daughters, your distant husband, your broken son.
#family
#ShortStory
#mythology #zombies
#mythology #zombies
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Dante's Finest Part VII: O Brother
O Brother, have you found God?
Is she as lovely and bright as the sun?
O Brother, can you see me?
Inside, I'm shaking. I crawl on my knees.
O Brother, I am so lost.
Can't tell if my pride is worth what it costs.
O Brother, tell me the truth.
If it was me, would you kill or refuse?
Is she as lovely and bright as the sun?
O Brother, can you see me?
Inside, I'm shaking. I crawl on my knees.
O Brother, I am so lost.
Can't tell if my pride is worth what it costs.
O Brother, tell me the truth.
If it was me, would you kill or refuse?
#brother
#ShortStory
#mythology #morality
#mythology #morality
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Dante's Finest Part VI: Pixie Cut
Black is the color of the soul and the clothes she wears.
White is the color of the foundation she smears on her wrists.
Blue is the color of her wings, or at least they were.
Red is the color of the stitches on her back, nothing is the color of her dreams.
White is the color of the foundation she smears on her wrists.
Blue is the color of her wings, or at least they were.
Red is the color of the stitches on her back, nothing is the color of her dreams.
#SelfHarm
#ShortStory
#mythology
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Dante's Finest Part V: Best Friend
In a world where nothing makes sense, who do you trust?
Satyrs? Been there, done that.
Good ol' boy goofing off during coven sessions.
One day, I felt his company draining.
He never forgave me for leaving.
He'd always find a way to get under my skin.
Looking back on it, I think he was just trying to get my attention.
A form of closeness we haven't shared on years.
Maybe I would've stopped him.
My most recent best friend was human, just like me.
I've known him nearly my whole life and what he did makes it hard to mention the good...
Satyrs? Been there, done that.
Good ol' boy goofing off during coven sessions.
One day, I felt his company draining.
He never forgave me for leaving.
He'd always find a way to get under my skin.
Looking back on it, I think he was just trying to get my attention.
A form of closeness we haven't shared on years.
Maybe I would've stopped him.
My most recent best friend was human, just like me.
I've known him nearly my whole life and what he did makes it hard to mention the good...
#friendship
#vampires
#ShortStory #mythology
#ShortStory #mythology
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Dante's Finest Part IV: Swimming With Spirits
So below...
So below...
I have left the world above...
To swim with the spirts in the ocean...
I didn't believe until I saw her...
Kissed on the lips, transparent fish...
Ladies of the lake gather the flesh...
So below...
I have left the world above...
To swim with the spirts in the ocean...
I didn't believe until I saw her...
Kissed on the lips, transparent fish...
Ladies of the lake gather the flesh...
#death
#ShortStory
#mythology #mermaids
#mythology #mermaids
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Dante's Finest Part III: Escape
When we first met, you were a broken down soul.
You're still a broken down soul, but you're mine.
I wish to be your escape from the grief you hold on to.
If you love me, you'll let go of your evil ways.
See as they are, not what they are, love.
You're still a broken down soul, but you're mine.
I wish to be your escape from the grief you hold on to.
If you love me, you'll let go of your evil ways.
See as they are, not what they are, love.
#vampires
#ShortStory
#mythology
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Dante's Finest Part II: The New Kid
What the fuck am I looking at?
Daddy fucked a human and left her to be famous.
Senator to POTUS while she was raising monsters.
Thrown away in solitude, the children only had themselves and their mother. Oh, how modern.
Red head, gangly thing. Not what I expected.
Black robe, sharp fangs, he was the opposite.
Sure love to wrap my hand around his throat and pull out the stake and hear his scream echo.
Daddy fucked a human and left her to be famous.
Senator to POTUS while she was raising monsters.
Thrown away in solitude, the children only had themselves and their mother. Oh, how modern.
Red head, gangly thing. Not what I expected.
Black robe, sharp fangs, he was the opposite.
Sure love to wrap my hand around his throat and pull out the stake and hear his scream echo.
#narrative
#vampires
#ShortStory #mythology
#ShortStory #mythology
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Go
I see myself running into traffic
Red means go
Red means go
#suicide
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Dante's Finest Part I: Kill All Vampires
The name's Gerald Harker, please call me GG.
I come from the wastelands of Dante, Missouri,
Where the hicks are enlightened with the power of Wicca and the satyr jocks are horny for nymphs.
Two bitch sisters and a brother named Scott, just like me he was a little bit off.
Before leaving to join the marines, he told me to do one thing:
Kill all vampires.
Kill all vampires, stick em up to hell.
Pull out their teeth and chop off their heads.
Do what you can and whatever you do, if you get bitten, there's no help for you.
When...
I come from the wastelands of Dante, Missouri,
Where the hicks are enlightened with the power of Wicca and the satyr jocks are horny for nymphs.
Two bitch sisters and a brother named Scott, just like me he was a little bit off.
Before leaving to join the marines, he told me to do one thing:
Kill all vampires.
Kill all vampires, stick em up to hell.
Pull out their teeth and chop off their heads.
Do what you can and whatever you do, if you get bitten, there's no help for you.
When...
#vampires
#ShortStory
#mythology #morality
#mythology #morality
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Virginia
I wanna feel you but I don't feel anything.
All the loving kisses and bite marks do nothing for me.
I don't want to be with you but I do.
Just tell me, am I it?
Tell me I'm not a chemical reaction.
I wish you were.
All the loving kisses and bite marks do nothing for me.
I don't want to be with you but I do.
Just tell me, am I it?
Tell me I'm not a chemical reaction.
I wish you were.
#love
#lust
#confusion
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Bath
In a lukewarm bath, I hold you close to my chest.
Small body resting while I cleanse your delicate skin.
You smile, the waters dirty.
I smile back.
I see now that you are not real and I am not your mother.
Even so, I see your face and weep.
The child I never had is gone and I miss her.
Small body resting while I cleanse your delicate skin.
You smile, the waters dirty.
I smile back.
I see now that you are not real and I am not your mother.
Even so, I see your face and weep.
The child I never had is gone and I miss her.
#sadness
#children
#dreams
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