Twisted Roads – Twisted Horror Stories by Matthew Tonks

Today’s prose is brought to life by the following prompt…

Weekend Writing Prompt #374: This weekend your challenge is to write a poem or a piece of prose in exactly 68 words using the word “Belligerent”.

Words written into text, broken verses made to hurt, perplexed. I awoke, the world broke. Entitlement seekers, bright red sneakers. Empty plains, bullets in our brains. We seek forgiveness, dying of a man-made sickness, yet belligerent words are spoken, dreams and hearts are broken. My cup empty, a letter sent to me. Words written in blood, knees in the mud. A sigh, we die, forgiveness, is a lie…