Grueberfest- Restless, No Time For Sleep (491 hits)
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Submitted by beeltea (View user info) at 2007-10-11 23:58:02 EDT
My name is William Stubbe, and I am a damned man.
I am the third great-grandson of Peter Stubbe, legendary werewolf and a killer of women and children. His story is classic. Mine is simply tragic. As I feel the coming of the Hunter's moon I can hold my silence no longer.
I was born into a poor farmer's family, the seventh of their offspring. My father and mother had raised six daughters before I was born, and lived with them in content sustenance on the frontier of this country; a place where none could trace my father's lineage, a place where the family curse could follow them no longer; a place where the Stubbe line could finally live, and die; in peace.
I should have never been conceived.
The arrogance of man, or perhaps his mortality, is why I came to exist. My father, a simple waterfront porter, married my mother, the penniless daughter of a farmer; and they subsequently bore six children; all of them female. Six children were more than enough for both of them, I can assure you; and all six of my sisters were raised well. They helped care for the farm and the livestock, and there is many a man who would call himself blessed to raise even one girl as wonderful, precious, and miraculous as these young ladies were.
My father, however, still wanted a boy; wanted his line to continue, and despite knowing of the curse, a boy was indeed born. I am that boy.
I was never christened into the Catholic Church, mind you. My sisters, yes; but my ritual into this world (curse in mind, of course) steeped more into superstition. It was not holy water I was dipped into, but instead the demonic combination of nightshade, bat's blood, garlic, wormwood, anise seed, and boiled feline fat. It was not "Our Father" that was prayed over my infant body, but instead a prayer of
Hail, hail, great Wolf Spirit, hail
A boon I ask thee, mighty shade,
Within this circle I have made.
Make me a werewolf strong and bold,
The terror alike of young and old.
So it was and so it is testified that the seventh child of the seventh child shall become a man-beast. Therefore most farmers never had a seventh child. Many thought perhaps this was mandated by human governor to prevent overburden to the taxpayer, but that was not the reason. My father was the seventh child, and I am the seventh child of his. Despite all the attempts to turnabout the curse put upon my family, a man-beast I have become. My dark christening were simply vain attempts to evade that... but one cannot evade a curse.
I would have never wished for this. At heart, I am simply a peaceful farmer, and I only wish to stay here; on my father's land, which was his fathers before him, with my six wonderful sisters and the husbands they have bonded and the nephews and nieces they have born. I ask of you, gentle reader, to forgive the crimes I will be compelled to commit. I never wanted these powers, and I curse the day I was born.
The hunter's moon begins to rise, and with it comes course fur rising from my skin and sharp fangs stabbing through my gums. I'm afraid I can stay with you no more, gentle reader. The full moon makes me restless and hungry, and I smell fresh human meat asleep in the farmhouse.
Before you condemn me, remember... I should have never been born in the first place...
User Reviews
Submitted by St_Jimmy (user info) at 2007-10-12 17:53:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Going with hour_man on this one.
Too much intro, not enough story.
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-10-12 16:54:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
i agree with the comments, I wish I had started this idea earlier. I wasn't posting at the deadline to be dramatic.
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2007-10-12 15:18:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
it does seem an introduction but i still enjoyed it.
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2007-10-12 13:13:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
An introduction doesn't seem good enough for a contest entry.
Whether or not it was your intention, that's what this post felt like, to me at least.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-10-12 11:57:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Last night I washed my ferrets. Ferrets are odd creatures, completely fearless, but hardly a danger.
When I got done, the male jumped at my face with the same speed and ferocity of an Alien face-hugger, and his face looked exactly like your werewolf picture's.
I guess he doesn't like bathing.
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2007-10-12 09:40:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
No Comment
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-10-12 09:38:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Good, but not really scary or gruesome...assuming that such details will follow in a subsequent chapter.
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2007-10-12 03:34:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
That picture is scaring me.
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2007-10-12 00:48:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'd hit that
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2007-10-12 00:43:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
This was a really nice introduction.
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-10-12 00:28:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
indeed, interesting. Reminds me of awful werewolf movies, made great by watching them with people I don't mind remembering.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-10-12 00:12:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
d'backs lose -2
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2007-10-12 00:08:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
" I'm the seventh of the seventh son, and in the whole wide world, there is
only one, I'm the one. . ."
-Johnny Rivers- 1966
not bad. . .
Submitted by DeMoNiC (user info) at 2007-10-12 00:03:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
T'was good though a little short, and that poem confused me. It sounded like you were invoking the wolf spirit yes? I thought it was supposed to be preventing it, maybe I'm just mis-interprating. +2 because I'm a sucker for wolf & vampire stories!