Drabble Cascade #77 - 'Barrow'
Sep. 10th, 2014 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charisstoma
Title: The Device Yet Works (Horror)
Author: charisstoma
Word count: 100
Lifting the light higher, Warren studied the ancient carvings in the Neolithic barrow, trying not to think of the heavy weight of surrounding soil. Figures undulated, twining around the walls in some kind of fertility rites and a spiral wound upon the floor.
A noise, felt not heard, shook the ground and Warren whirled wildly; watching as the figures started up in slow seductive dancing, increasing as the spiral spun before the lantern failed to darting flashes, shrill cries and the frenetic coupling of bodies.
Etched in the stone, archeologists wondered at what appeared to be a modern seeming figure.
