Saturday, September 13, 2014

Tweets....tweets....The ducks are roasted.... 13/09

I dunk the ducks into the sauce at 19K words and now awaiting the illustrator for the finer pieces to complete it. Meanwhile I am on Titus Ardonicus with a change of scenes. I done about 7K words this week......

Another sneak preview















Oops! Wrong attachment. You could say I got it 'twisted' into the thongs....I meant tale.

Hang onto it, while the antenna adjust for the correct view........ hahahaha..

This is the correct one.


Titus Adrian; Land Baron and Killer
An adaption of the tale Titus Andronicus.

A savage tale of deaths and blood curling acts

In consolation, I give you a preview of Tamara....

“I present to you, Tamara the Queen.” Titus pulled at the chain that held the Queen by her neck. She stumbled forward and then pulled upright her standing posture as if she was on the throne. The lady was bronze in the skin shades with tinge of darker shades in some areas. Her facial expression was a beauty with deep lashed eyes with full inviting lips. She had her hands bounded to the back while a metal clasp was on her neck while her feet were bare of any walking covers. The clasp there gave out an aura of her submission to the man, but for those who served with her knew her to be the opposite. They were all her enslaved by her beauty. Even Titus was not excluded for he brought her there for the same reason; better a slave to him than to relived as an image in his mind.

Tamara was scantily covered with the spotted animal skin that covered her body with a deeper cleavage caused by an overzealous servant before Titus intervened to safeguard her from more harm. The gap there showed her upper offerings which many of the assembled leaned forward to look. Their eyes trailed her clothing from there to her navel where the hem of the clothing reached higher above her knees displaying her long shapely legs that shamed many of the mistresses they held. The lady was a natural beauty with the features of a full woman on her despite her previous child bearings.




Don't get your urges roaring just yet. Read the next one. 

Away with him! And make a fire straight. And with our swords, upon a pile of wood, let's hew his limbs till they are clean consumed.” Lucas called out to his brothers. They roughly pulled the Goth to the outside of the mansion. There they laid the victim to the ground spread eagled, with each brother holding a limb.

“For our brothers!” Lucas called out and then rained the blows that cracked the joints of the limbs. It was followed by his brothers in unison while the victim cried out in pain from the torture. The young Goth laid there with its four limbs broken while it looked to its tormentors.

“Shoot him, Lucas. The heathen is staring at me.” Quincy called out to the eldest. “Shoot his eyes out.”

Lucas drew his pistol and shot the young Goth in the eyes. They then severed of the limbs before he was thrown onto the pile of burning woods that was set as the funeral pyre. Where there was silence in such an event, at that one was rejoicing among the torturers.

Back in the Library, Tamara heard the shot. She remained still on her knees and whimper at the loss of her son. She looked to the tormentor of her family and cursed.

“O’cruel, irreligious piety!” Tamara hissed out. “In which faith do you believed in to do such acts on another living being?”

Her son, Chiron younger in age to the slain one looked to his other brother. He was trembling with fear and sought his brother’s comfort.





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