A Shrike Alighting Upon Her ✔
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The vast prairies of rural Saskatchewan seem the perfect getaway to escape the pandemonium of city life. It's an empty place to unload one's whirling thoughts, a quiet place to rest one's head when it's fit to burst. But the prairie's aren't all-together empty, and in a world so famously vacant there's nowhere to hide.
A horror short just in time for Halloween :)
Content warnings: impaling, mild body horror, natural predation, death of small animals, creepy imagery
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