Dark Wild Realm by Michael Collier

Author:Michael Collier
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

in the unquenchable flames.

Only her father could have known

who she was. The eyes had melted.

The face no more a face, while flaming blood

leaking from her head fueled the blaze.

But worse was how the flesh like tallow

or pitch sloughed off her bones.

All of this because the viperous poison

had locked her in its invisible jaws.

Schooled by what we'd witnessed, none of us

would touch the body, but her father

rushed to her side, not knowing what he'd find.

Nothing could prepare him for his daughter's

corpse. Misery broke from his voice.

He embraced and kissed her, lamenting,

"Unhappy child, murdered so shamefully,

why do the gods torture an old man like me?

Daughter, let me die with you."

But when his sobbing ceased

and old Creon wanted to rise, he found

he was woven to the fatal dress, stitched

to it like ivy to laurel, unable,

even as he wrestled furiously,

to free himself. The living father

who felt his flesh ripping from his bones

could not match the strength of his dead daughter,

and so he gave up and died, a victim

of her hideous fortune. Together now they lie

an old man and his daughter. Who wouldn't weep?

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