Golden Embers
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Last published Tue, Jan 27, 2026
My life was a lie, my reality burning away right in front of me. This was not the life I knew. All of the lies of my life were falling into place, like ash falling to the ground. Maybe I was doomed from the start to be condemned to this hell? Was this my fate? To simply rot away to nothing? To become the very thing that I hate? The villain?
I never meant for any of this to happen. I never meant to kill them, to doom them all to death. As I stood there watching everything burn, I knew this was yet the end of my story. I knew I would rise and get my vengeance. I wiped my bloody hands against my shirt and kneeled against the ground.
I cradled the dead body of my mother in my arms, her vivid orbs glazed over devoid of all life.I sobbed silently as I held her, wondering why this had happened. I held her pale, ash covered hand close to my chest, clenching my eyes shut. I didn't have her for long, but I knew I loved her.
Was fate really this cruel to give me someone to love only to snatch their life away at a mild inconvenience? I was bound to such cruelty in this life. I never had the strength to save her but I would find the strength to kill the one that did this. I held her closer as her body turned cold. I threw my head back, the smoky plumes meeting my vision. I let out an earth shattering scream as my world collapsed around me.
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