Digger (695 hits)
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Submitted by Snark << snarkk.at.gmail.com (View user info) at 2005-02-17 03:06:47 EST
DIGGER
The dirt is cold and gritty and wrong in his mouth. It's clogging his throat, scarring the soft tissue that his voice used to glide over and making him gag.
He can feel it trying to pry his eyes apart. It wants to rip his lenses raw like it has the inside of his nose but he's got them screwed tightly shut and continues to dig his way up.
The nail of one finger hits a rock then pulls painfully apart from the flesh beneath and the dirt fills the gap hungrily, greedily sucking up the red moisture beneath.
He doesn't give two shits about the pain it injects into him like an anti-drug, he just keeps clawing his way up because he knows if he doesn't it'll be the end of him.
Up is good. Up is far away from the scrabbling rotting fingers digging into the soft pliant flesh of his calves.
Up is light and warmth and safety and the boisterous bullshit world he thumbed his nose at two hours earlier.
Up is the rest of his life and the pain of his straining joints and aching muscles is the spring board to it, the ladder of sensation he almost gratefully scrambles over to get out of the hole.
He grunts and whimpers and scrabbles ever upward, clawing from root to rock to treacherous soil in a mad scramble to escape the mad hunger below.
The wailing throng grasping at his legs in ever increasing numbers. The retched, skeletal, canibal multitude.
His children.
His victims.
Pull.
Reach.
Pull.
Grunt.
Kick.
For a moment he can see it, the proverbial, literal, wound numbing light at the end of the tunnel. It's as if God is beckoning to him, calling him home, but God doesn't exist in this place and the starving soil has other plans.
He reaches out triumphantly to the edge and the side of the tunnel gives way just enough to let him slide back the way he's come.
He tries to scream defiance but can only choke on the food of worms. It fills his mouth again, passing the valve in his throat and dusting his burning lungs with its fetid course richness.
He slides down and the light all but disappears but he's not done. There's strength left in him and the knowledge of what lies beneath boisters his reserves.
He gags and spits and bares his teeth and miraculously finds purchase with one foot, then strong root with the opposite hand. He makes to pull himself up again but a pair of hands, much stronger than the rest, wraps his ankles and almost yanks him the rest of the way down.
He doesn't look to them. He doesn't need to, to know that it's her. He doesn't have to look into the blood caked blue orb of her one remaining eye to know it's full of hate and desperation.
She wants out as much as him if not more and he competely understands that she will gladly feed him to the multitudes below to get what she wants.
He bends at the knee with his loose leg and brings it down hard onto where he her face must be.
Once...
Twice...
...and a final third, before he feels the impact scream through the bones in his ankle and, the bitch who dragged him down the hole to begin with, scream her rage as she takes his place among the hungry wretches waiting below.
Pull.
Reach.
Pull.
Grunt.
Kick.
And it's done.
The sun is hot on his face. It bakes the moist earth on his skin, turning it grey like plaster as her lies wheezing on his back beside the dark mouth of the earth.
He can hear them wailing below and smiles as if it's the sound of a thousand trumpets herralding the arrival of the King.
He is the King.
He is bringer of Gods wrath and the master of dirt.
He is the culler of the weak and the unworthy.
The voice in his head tells him so and now that he's free he can dig a new hole to fill.
All he needs to do is get his strength back and rent a fucking bulldozer.
Fin.
Sorry, I was bored and drunk.
(Necro Friday)
User Reviews
Submitted by Stabkill (user info) at 2005-09-10 05:53:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by mo (user info) at 2005-03-03 23:36:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I mean Snark, Snark thats what I really meant. Cory? Who's Cory? I don't know anyone by that name, really. Mo
Submitted by mo (user info) at 2005-03-03 23:34:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
That was great Cory your usual, I used to know a guy named Digger, he probably would do something like that if he were convinced. Pretty damn scary, if you ask me. Well chow for now . Mo
Submitted by Dannie (user info) at 2005-02-24 16:20:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Ew!
I like Timothy better.
Maybe another story about Digger's past? hmmm
Nice!
Submitted by Otters (user info) at 2005-02-24 16:02:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Yea, all of these interwoven stories are really great and well written and all that.
Submitted by mo (user info) at 2005-02-23 18:24:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Hey Snark, ok your the king. I am biased though since I am your friend. The only reason I know about this site is because of you. I am now not only afraid of whats under the bed, but now I never want to dig a hole again. I mean not that I dig holes or anything. I mean that would be kinda creepy. Anyways keep up the good work, didn't I say that already? See Ya Mo.
Submitted by AshK (user info) at 2005-02-18 11:47:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This gave me the creepy crawlies.
Now I'm horny.
Nice work.
Submitted by Benny (user info) at 2005-02-17 22:07:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
It's funny when I first saw the title to this my immediate thought was of the ANZACs. Since I'm not a crazy person (well not all the time anyway) I wasn't offended when it was infact not related to them at all. The ANZACs got their name digger because WW1 revolved around trench warfare.
Great stuff as per usual Snark.
Submitted by MrRottenTreats (user info) at 2005-02-17 22:03:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Here is a +2 and a Link http://www.ubersite.com/m/59868
Submitted by Jo_of_the_golden_P (user info) at 2005-02-17 21:52:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
<3 you
Submitted by Xena (user info) at 2005-02-17 13:29:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
this made my fingernails hurt...
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2005-02-17 12:49:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Ah, Gallipoli, that's why.
Damn fine movie.
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2005-02-17 12:46:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I have no idea why I know this, but...
ANZAC = Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
Submitted by ellsmall (user info) at 2005-02-17 11:57:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Chilling.
What the fuck's an ANZAC?
Submitted by Kre8rix (user info) at 2005-02-17 11:23:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
nice visuals
very good read.
wtf is an ANZAC?
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:47:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2005-02-17 07:42:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Good stuff as always Snark!!
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2005-02-17 05:38:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Gripping stuff. Sorry, sorry couldn't resist the pun
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-02-17 03:54:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Hi, Snark. I like your post. It made me want to go and jump in a hole.
I mean that in a good way.
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-02-17 03:52:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-02-17 03:46:14 (#)
Ranking: -2
-2 for the disappointment of realising this wasn't a post about the ANZACs.
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You little pissweasel. You stupid hurtful little wretch. You make me ashamed to be Aussie. You make me feel fucking homicidal. You have no redeeming qualities, do you? Not one. Get fucked. "Not about the ANZACS" WHO FUCKING CARES?????? There are over fifty thousand fucking posts on this site not about your bleeding Anzacs. Take you histrionic overblown patriotism and shove it up your mewling childish asshole.
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-02-17 03:46:14 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
-2 for the disappointment of realising this wasn't a post about the ANZACs.
Submitted by Wazza (user info) at 2005-02-17 03:34:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Nothing wrong with drunken grammar at times!
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2005-02-17 03:15:29 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Fucking drunken grammar!
"The sun is hot on his face. It bakes the moist earth on his skin, turning it grey like plaster as her lies wheezing on his back beside the dark mouth of the earth."
HE!!!
That should say "he lies wheezing"!
Fucknut.