Author & Poet Christopher Griffith
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A final
excerpt from what was to become a central scene in William Ottoway's Utopia:
I was about to call him out, tell him how predictable his actions had been
since first we had pulled him from the boat, but then Manou’s almighty scream
from the direction to which Dan had pointed set my hair from my head and I
turned to see the mud covering the Usurper’s grave being pushed up from within.
First one hand, then another broke through the earth, the right fist clenching
the air, vital, pulling its torso and legs up and into view, head emerging
last, shaking itself free of mud and dust, standing rather sullenly as we all
watched in terror and many crossed themselves at sight this undead
resurrection. And it was him. Of that there was no doubt. Momentarily, he
looked back down at the grave from which he had emerged, bent over to pick
something up and in one movement somehow swung it round to strike Manou hard on
the side of his head. It was a corpse, the half-rotting skull smashing into
Manou’s temple with a force that sent him sprawling in that sick sort of motion
which immediately made me fear the worst. Then the Usurper threw the body
towards us and it landed face up on the table, spread-eagled, half a dozen
melons squashed beneath it and the same number of Utopians backing away
feverishly crossing themselves still.
It was Emily.
I gawped at my nemesis.
Death, not even death, had contained him. Somehow he had transcended it,
returned back through the gate, by what soul-killing magic I knew not, so that
here he now stood, commensurate with his new condition, strong, mighty,
immortal, and ready for the last time to harrow our paradise to extinction.
Christopher Griffith’s
Poetry Blog
Recommended Poems:
White Trash
Where's His Mask?
The Lie
My Field
View From The Window
About the Author
Christopher loves television, electronic music, Matthew, poetry,
rip-roaring conspiracies, supermarkets, fantasy fiction from The Lord of the
Rings to Harry Potter, and anything Shakespeare. He writes upon these subjects
that in study of them he will hopefully interest others and learn thereby
himself!
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