The Yellow Scorned King

Along the desolate lonely deserts on an alien wasteland of an unknown planet, where human flesh and machine are combined as one: a simple curator and keeper of the dead, goes about his normal duties aboard The Tomb. Souls sent from distant lands in a chosen trail to deem worthy. A city in itself, Polis, where corpses are succumbed to the feeding of the soul, it is breathed out into the cosmos by a magical touch for The Silent Yellow King to devour. Strange the Keeper may be in figure and in mind, he walks the black steel steps that had once held many like himself, long gone and lost to time, he is satisfied with taking his rightful place within the coffins.

Suddenly, a young girl from another planet is transported to The Tomb. Filled with peppering questions for the curator, a bubbly attitude, and an intelligence unlike any for her age, The Keeper of the dead, might just be in for a different type of luck, a unique person he has never crossed paths before within his fragile existence.

Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the lake, The shadows lengthen

In Polis.

Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But stranger still is

Lost Polis.

Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the Yellow King, Must die unheard in

Dim Polis.

Song of my soul, my voice is dead; Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in

Lost Polis. 

Pages: 57

File Type: PDF Format

Genre: Scifi Horror

Book Type: Short Story

Author: Jack Buie