A Tale
by Christopher T. Dabrowski
Translated from Polish by Julia Mraczny
Once upon a time, in the land of acid rains, where the air is
saturated with poisonous fumes, there were living corpses - dull minds
stuck in bodies.
Although life was smouldering in them they were already dead, as
programmed robots.
Mechanically, they were going through every new day: to work, from
work, children, eating, sleeping, fucking, goddamn it!
Their lifeless existence was submerged in the senseless vegetation.
Probably that's why they accepted with joy and liveliness the fact
that any day now a meteorite will hit the Earth. They were glad that it
would free them from the ugly lifelessness.
© 2020 Christopher T. Dabrowski
Christopher T. Dabrowski has published in the USA and Spain:
Anomaly (2019 - Royal Hawaiian Press), Escape (2019 -
Royal
Hawaiian Press);
in Poland: Deathbirth (2008 - Armoryka publishing house),
Anima vilis (2010 - Initium publishing house), Grobbing
(2012 -
Novae Res publishing house), Deathbirth and other stories (2012
&
2017 - Agharta & Armoryka publishing house), Z życia Dr Abble
(2013 - Agharta publishing house), Orgazmokalipsa (2016 -
Alternatywne publishing house), Anomalia (Forma publishing
house),
Ucieczka (2017 - Dom Horroru publishing house);
he has been included in anthologies in USA, Poland, Russia, and
Germany,
and has had stories published in PLAYBOY
magazine (Slovak edition), USA, England, Czech Republic, Russia,
Brasil, Spain,
Argentina, Germany, Italy,
Hungary, Mexico
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