Category — Fiction

© Cathrene Gehue, 2001
Based on a character created by S. Nicklin.

A Retelling of a Gworcid legend by the Wizard Zequ, from his disertation “Sorceric Aberrations of the Ancient World” written in the year 36 AT.

Pipolytus be nimble
Pipolytus be quick
With a sword he doth prick
the feral mice and slathering tick
and turns to dust the Foulness thick.

Once upon a Gworcid Nation, Foulness was afoot… Hold on!

Once upon a Gworcid Nation, Foulness was a foot. It was born from the dark sorcery of necromancy, from the warped imaginings of the child Vajek, intending to keep company with the infant Emperor to be, until one day his toes led him astray. Away Foulness roamed, calloused heel to grungy toe (and sometimes grungy toe to calloused heel), when he chanced upon verdant Obscurian fields spotted with tiny purple lizards.

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Her name was Tina,
but that’s not what we called her.

She wore fishnet stockings, black and torn;
green faded hair with hooks in her nose.
She chewed with her mouth open,
and kissed with her eyes closed.

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Somewhere I was lost
In a maze of misdirection,
But when I slipped down the rabbit hole,
Misdirection stumbled onward,
And my ember remembered the loss of me.

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In a dream I called to him
In the night he swiftly came
Emissary saint, the Lily Angel

Wrapped in his bridled embrace
I lay a cradled child
His unfolding flower, his yielding prey

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