IX. Three Men164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Du7RzBANq
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At the edge of the cornfield laid a heap of dry stalk.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo6tQOeyRmh
It laid stale and dehydrated, decomposing in death.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYOLFw4M5OR
It crunched beneath the man and his boots in scratchy movements,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡevnH95ucWZ
blasting him with clouds of dust.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXVWraRs059
The dust stuck to the man’s moist skin in layers, drying his sweat in164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeV9SJQEWbh
thick coats.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Do5doFyV5
His knobby fingers would grasp the wooden helms of his tools, one in164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0IygQ88KLN
each of his hands, and rub on the sores and blisters that were rotting164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrGGHOdt8N8
away his skin.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHaLDOs0wA
He could feel the warmth his blood gave the wood of his handles,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyh5oiHQu2N
the warmth from the constant touch of a man’s rough hands upon them.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6aPMVlOhD
Heat had passed along his sweltering palms so that his clutch was perspiring.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRwtxj6KD3z
He was feeble and tired but he forced a solid hold around the slick instruments in hand.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZobvAqkFUR
He let warm blood flow from his wounds to the wood in his clenched164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMQ2jGp9iGC
fist.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1D5jyvYn7j
The man’s eyes were red-rimmed and weary.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQD9Tl4Z2kp
He viewed the scene in delusional blurs.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNX0BQQDGTo
The hot weather baked the ears of corn, bringing puffs of sweet kernels164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAS5Kh4MnhM
to the man’s nostrils.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfF3BS3BHQ
He breathed in the earthy odor and looked upon his crop.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBwaYaHYmx
The air was boiling the ground in an aggressive blaze, grilling it so that it164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQKrsB64Mm
was pulsating visible waves of heat beneath the summit of the sun.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHIXezyfUeh
The sweltering temperatures ate away at the man like a starving mammal164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAk8IdVGaTQ
eating it’s entrails.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvIybEHjSSg
The heat enveloped every part of him until he went mad.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmS9AbnApIr
His overworked spirit became possessed with insanity.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbS1TeXgCEN
His mind ran wild with dementia and so the man became three men,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3IAzzHG43q
three figures, three figments of his own rancid mind.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD8nJQatS4G
These three men were as real as the farmer was real to himself.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡecnwTlU9B4
The one man became those three men.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBWanKkcR7U
The first man was wailing horribly loud sobs and groaning in misery.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8CkaWAjU5
He was a vision of pain.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKHQwbVZ17
In black robes that settled around his cradled position, the first man164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOJNBcE33o5
cried in the dirt.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3zqgGwP6ks
He bawled in utter hopelessness, unaware of anything other than the164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxbMjZtVDw
deep rooted suffering at the core of his very being.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyUhxYuG1M8
Streaking down his filthy face was black fluid that seeped from his eyes164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuObUYtZt2j
like tears, staining his sight so that all he could see was darkness.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NKS5ZQhrY
He did nothing but howl and moan in fits of melancholic torture.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnot9IBWf3
He could channel no hope and no desire in his agonized mind, for the164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKmZF5yyJR
aching of this soul brought down all of his defenses,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZSuPVcL23
like a vicious illness fashioned to make the greatest men fall into the164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dzcxv8fp9
arms of anguish.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zLCuLNSzU
All that first man understood was a squirming shade of man’s melancholy.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIMtvXasodC
Ripped open and maimed, he grieved his torment in convulsions of sorrow.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVItknjUyr
The second man stood behind the first, holding a sickle, the iron shaped164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZYZqoyV2D
in a curve like a crescent moon.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbx1zvFjXG4
He had the most familiar resemblance of the man who owned the plot.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSpvM2DSEFL
He was stark naked in the scorching air, bare in all aspects, for he wore164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7EkzEVnQtL
no emotion upon his brow.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXTLE2G7DkW
His legs gave him a poised balance and he was god-like, sculpted and164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡryAK6WiYBb
morphed in the name of perfection.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NpOaA6t8s
He was the essence of composure.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HSSJLryW8
He peered down and through the lines of growth and he observed the164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTFQVMMlew
weeping man with a deadpan expression.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJNK7GZc8d
His impassive eyes swept over the land in scrutiny.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7aWF1DLB8
He said nothing for his stony disposition offered nothing to be said.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgTgTP9Rtgc
Like an ancient statue, the second man stood wise and regal.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJo2AARa63
He was still and calm, an image of equanimity.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFBlOgY2Ng
The third man was the most peculiar.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRhYZE7uX6
Standing in tower over the other two men, the third man held a scythe.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnKgAKz57X8
The tall blade of his weapon jutt from out the wooden staff, angled164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3WJE3wy1uj
crosswise behind the third man’s withered body.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXxXwweG1sM
When he raised his scythe you would see his rib bones present themselves, like clenched fingers of a skeleton.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT6gwHahHqX
He would carve down the rows of corn in swift, ordered movements164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡao0osEMn4z
with his blade, progressing his unshod steps in stride.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSgnasFgK1T
He carried out his artistry in habitual repetition, carving a massacre164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXhK5AROWV
through continuous resolution.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1yWs1rp8pm
He was the epitome of death.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAcLdoQJeYD
His bare feet were mangled and hairy and his toes were long like fingers,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEHsvRlkFQd
digging themselves into the soil like hooks beneath his crooked stance.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnQzDSjA8bF
Clad in ratty, black cloth, his trousers reached his waistline and latched164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3gbwgUzCC
onto his hips, hiding the broken stance his misshapen legs would reveal.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyKbcnO8qwv
His chest and stomach were freakishly collapsed, as all the bones beneath his skin were out of place, presenting a very disfigured form of164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjeM4GpYgyz
man.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdEuKntTnc
Dark dirt and blood smeared against his blistering skin, skin that slowly164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIIUuFwMNUU
peeled away in deterioration.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGMnisNSzm
Most disturbing was that this third man had no face.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVdWKbPRBe
His skin molded over where a man’s eyes and nose and mouth would be.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJTMLFMJuL
He had no ears and no hair.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdW41d6t3x
Beneath the foul skin that enclosed the the third man was but a body of164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsprgOtcxDI
meat.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09aj4uB5BZ
He displayed the shadow of man against the harsh sunlight164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTaXBt4BF19
but he was a soulless creature with a flesh crust.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN9NtKwxjHy
All that accompanied his callous head was subtle lumps and bumps in164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPxdb1oWVQb
complexion, giving rise to mounds of undeveloped features.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvk1u8As8Y5
In this aspect, this third man was no man at all, but a mere presence.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5BYlzNRW8k
His senseless existence conditioned his absence from the realities the164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM84njytHRl
other two men experienced.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhy3Ctw9pw
He was forevermore detached from the world entirely.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2cATfegonQ
The three men seized the stalk in increments, harvesting their work in164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDdntdB2lZ
three fold one man’s time.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxOFEJyyvEL
They haunched over the field, decrypted and aged far beyond their164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxLPD4ZqK1h
years,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3rN6fBpuAA
weak and on the brink of death,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtspAC8USS4
until finally they raked in their collection of completion.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4vQrWwBvd
The three men then fell towards one another until they became one164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7GXBoAbXqn
man,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpC4wWsF6th
and that one man stared upon the fresh yield of crop.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDgOVgK49n
He had gone through the harvest in a deranged case of brotherhood,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn6JdjfRnsh
cutting the field barren in an unending heat.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡME3JMUdeyo
He stared at his strong accomplishment, looking upon the disheveled164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn36lkGlxYb
mounds of soil that he had bred and grew.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapLMUojUlj
He thought of when the roots of his corn first raised their stems in164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JgFeUODe8
spout,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkj6pdOU6t
protruding tall legs of corn that stretched their tassels to the sky.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfscRq6xMFa
He thought of when the ears of corn first brought their short silk164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUriryalgjQ
strands to caress his rough skin.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzpqeX9jVaM
He remembered their birth and honored how they had come to their164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUZZ0J5ob1
death.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFow5B0lgpr
He laid himself in a pile of leaves against the newly cut plants and he164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG2bVy21cyf
closed his eyelids,164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzcgURVc4uq
allowing his passing to overtake him if it so wished.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWclTH04Kn0
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