IX. Three Men219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCvhkhjpM0S
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At the edge of the cornfield laid a heap of dry stalk.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdmyy8qmIp
It laid stale and dehydrated, decomposing in death.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpNl6197Sh
It crunched beneath the man and his boots in scratchy movements,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvoOCsEc9Sa
blasting him with clouds of dust.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZtFRG9vcN2
The dust stuck to the man’s moist skin in layers, drying his sweat in219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9klxG5ice
thick coats.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡija8zEFkda
His knobby fingers would grasp the wooden helms of his tools, one in219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkst72uOIsX
each of his hands, and rub on the sores and blisters that were rotting219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZsvdsfDmc
away his skin.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzIQTr7MMA
He could feel the warmth his blood gave the wood of his handles,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWaq5NjyJwC
the warmth from the constant touch of a man’s rough hands upon them.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6YSg6TUvcg
Heat had passed along his sweltering palms so that his clutch was perspiring.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdDO1TUoDzW
He was feeble and tired but he forced a solid hold around the slick instruments in hand.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2SHESmDyv
He let warm blood flow from his wounds to the wood in his clenched219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUq6LKU9nvt
fist.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3DF4PqXbR9
The man’s eyes were red-rimmed and weary.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6ddpxBOha
He viewed the scene in delusional blurs.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwCisYPlYZ
The hot weather baked the ears of corn, bringing puffs of sweet kernels219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALpsvLZ1O7
to the man’s nostrils.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQoZFwmoKo
He breathed in the earthy odor and looked upon his crop.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQGmpaxnw7S
The air was boiling the ground in an aggressive blaze, grilling it so that it219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVklVFMrmQz
was pulsating visible waves of heat beneath the summit of the sun.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhkjyCndQY
The sweltering temperatures ate away at the man like a starving mammal219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9B8LYOm2pn
eating it’s entrails.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ZSj01fkZL
The heat enveloped every part of him until he went mad.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCK0vIuhHta
His overworked spirit became possessed with insanity.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZWO1XFlej9
His mind ran wild with dementia and so the man became three men,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBBr9Vrm1g
three figures, three figments of his own rancid mind.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnKWHqjPjt7
These three men were as real as the farmer was real to himself.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZb3wXgtMN
The one man became those three men.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXFTriN9v2
The first man was wailing horribly loud sobs and groaning in misery.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3IuyDW3zv3
He was a vision of pain.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwulU4xlUPM
In black robes that settled around his cradled position, the first man219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLwi80LOAOB
cried in the dirt.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlK8APiCCUW
He bawled in utter hopelessness, unaware of anything other than the219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshxxEo0KHK
deep rooted suffering at the core of his very being.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUVxAilkeuE
Streaking down his filthy face was black fluid that seeped from his eyes219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0TiykXQVQO
like tears, staining his sight so that all he could see was darkness.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEO2YYlrMmY
He did nothing but howl and moan in fits of melancholic torture.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1qt8M5gGm9
He could channel no hope and no desire in his agonized mind, for the219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRaEgIoCnHh
aching of this soul brought down all of his defenses,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ0AYJLYXUs
like a vicious illness fashioned to make the greatest men fall into the219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu8EafDsUdz
arms of anguish.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwyXvKixp8X
All that first man understood was a squirming shade of man’s melancholy.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5yradgdEu9
Ripped open and maimed, he grieved his torment in convulsions of sorrow.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡltXyCz3WW6
The second man stood behind the first, holding a sickle, the iron shaped219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpWeUBvspk
in a curve like a crescent moon.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdFMXIpoWDA
He had the most familiar resemblance of the man who owned the plot.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvIodH4KVaD
He was stark naked in the scorching air, bare in all aspects, for he wore219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIsYarc1PJ
no emotion upon his brow.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8h1zqnu4ZX
His legs gave him a poised balance and he was god-like, sculpted and219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL3kLxuwtpS
morphed in the name of perfection.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9kdJdCNH57
He was the essence of composure.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZ0DLMRSNX
He peered down and through the lines of growth and he observed the219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAEfP9LGJ5
weeping man with a deadpan expression.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVPL6WcDkf
His impassive eyes swept over the land in scrutiny.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw96msMvVPB
He said nothing for his stony disposition offered nothing to be said.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfrc8sQuotH
Like an ancient statue, the second man stood wise and regal.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD1PR5nkPZ1
He was still and calm, an image of equanimity.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDscCHf5GzP
The third man was the most peculiar.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPHZfiDqf8
Standing in tower over the other two men, the third man held a scythe.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCediXtZ1Xk
The tall blade of his weapon jutt from out the wooden staff, angled219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDCXH9pGXl
crosswise behind the third man’s withered body.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQD0Q1SwZFO
When he raised his scythe you would see his rib bones present themselves, like clenched fingers of a skeleton.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRh6ZnvZDMd
He would carve down the rows of corn in swift, ordered movements219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDV6xzBqjY
with his blade, progressing his unshod steps in stride.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFE3hekgf1r
He carried out his artistry in habitual repetition, carving a massacre219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR5XyVrt3o8
through continuous resolution.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7u0PSSosuw
He was the epitome of death.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbq1jGbigIc
His bare feet were mangled and hairy and his toes were long like fingers,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvdJMQSz2Qo
digging themselves into the soil like hooks beneath his crooked stance.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAL4LhZiUM
Clad in ratty, black cloth, his trousers reached his waistline and latched219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5heVhKUvG3
onto his hips, hiding the broken stance his misshapen legs would reveal.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcOkCMK418q
His chest and stomach were freakishly collapsed, as all the bones beneath his skin were out of place, presenting a very disfigured form of219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡICJwvhuCbD
man.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyuTLhU3knw
Dark dirt and blood smeared against his blistering skin, skin that slowly219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOH1MSvTYx7
peeled away in deterioration.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJ5E3JrqdM
Most disturbing was that this third man had no face.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSn1VZwlqQH
His skin molded over where a man’s eyes and nose and mouth would be.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡliI8gq2orh
He had no ears and no hair.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLVAnuF6Rv
Beneath the foul skin that enclosed the the third man was but a body of219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0Iwl1lXIT
meat.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz4e3QPg9qK
He displayed the shadow of man against the harsh sunlight219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR5dOCGANsX
but he was a soulless creature with a flesh crust.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7sVatpxq9X
All that accompanied his callous head was subtle lumps and bumps in219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIXlpwolRMM
complexion, giving rise to mounds of undeveloped features.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWrNjJtrAHt
In this aspect, this third man was no man at all, but a mere presence.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEttQBkgI0X
His senseless existence conditioned his absence from the realities the219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSCPCcO0EI
other two men experienced.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEUvfgq6PaR
He was forevermore detached from the world entirely.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkTBWEwc4qM
The three men seized the stalk in increments, harvesting their work in219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPUq2eZP0e1
three fold one man’s time.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTivWHzILyl
They haunched over the field, decrypted and aged far beyond their219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkTF5jUIsx
years,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTDdYQSiiuk
weak and on the brink of death,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfU1iSlhXFM
until finally they raked in their collection of completion.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9dnU853WEg
The three men then fell towards one another until they became one219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4cu7lefyBF
man,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6cQPvdaltl
and that one man stared upon the fresh yield of crop.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqKSRgpJewp
He had gone through the harvest in a deranged case of brotherhood,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZE0Ofe8CN2
cutting the field barren in an unending heat.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDRhExzJfkE
He stared at his strong accomplishment, looking upon the disheveled219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHlL4QjmpHQ
mounds of soil that he had bred and grew.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbMqBPoBmWq
He thought of when the roots of his corn first raised their stems in219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLwJ5etnY2
spout,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBUBb5Z4ADY
protruding tall legs of corn that stretched their tassels to the sky.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxS92vXoj1r
He thought of when the ears of corn first brought their short silk219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡytU2XBnNBo
strands to caress his rough skin.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCXF9thotr
He remembered their birth and honored how they had come to their219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSrFLVttVPM
death.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnX51Y9hBZ
He laid himself in a pile of leaves against the newly cut plants and he219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Oz3z1e8TC
closed his eyelids,219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnIeh6C6f1m
allowing his passing to overtake him if it so wished.219Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOcy31wfZu
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