She felt something searingly hot close to her flesh,
and the hooded thing spoke.
‘May your entrails burn as your heart bursts,’ it
said. ‘Even above the wind and thunder, your shrieks will
be heard when this flaming instrument of justice enters
your bowels.’
Carl Hughes is an award-winning writer whose fiction and non-fiction has
been published in newspapers, anthologies and magazines worldwide. He
has also won many writing competitions and has worked for the national
and provincial press in his own country, as well as for television and radio.
He lives in the county of Norfolk, England, with wife Linda and
specialises in writing horror, the offbeat and bizarre. More of his stories can
be read in ‘Lester’s Locket & Other Horrors’, ‘That’s Your Funeral &
Other Horrors’, among other ebooks.
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