War

By Stacey Jaine McIntosh

Iron Faerie Publishing brings you... Plague! The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse! Four figures in the Book of Revelations who symbolize the evils to come at the end of the world. Take a look at the stories these talented writers can tell in just 100 words! Featuring: Andra Dill Andrea L. Staum Beth W. Patterson Bill Adler Charlotte Langtree Chisto Healy Chris Bannor Chris Hall Chris Hewitt Claire Davon Connor Sassmannshausen David Green Dawn Debraal Declan Liam McKendrick DJ Elton Ella Everly Emma K Leadley Jasiah Witkofsky Jessica Wilcox Katie Jordan Kimberly Rei Kristin Cragg Luis Manuel Torres Maggie D Brace Majanka Verstraete McKenzie Richardson Michelle Brett Natasha Sinclair Nerisha Kemraj Patrick Winters R.A. Goli S.O. Green Sam. Phebe-McGarvey Scarlett Lake William Snider

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stacey Jaine McIntosh
• Release date: Apr 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215063910

Stacey Jaine McIntosh

Stacey Jaine McIntosh is the author of ten short stories. "Freya" and "Blood Sacrifice" were published late 2011 and "Fallen Angel" published in 2012. "Life or Death", "Exiles of Eden" and "Morrighan" published in 2013. "Red" and "The Summer Girl" were published in June 2015 and "The Hunter Million" and "Shadows of Annwn" are due to be published later in 2015. She lives in Perth, Western Australia with her husband and four young children.

Book preview

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows, and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

—Eric Hoffer

A Job Well Done

ANDREA L. STAUM

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Sweat broke out across his forehead as he tried to pull on his boots. He was becoming fat, a glutton who could barely swing up into the saddle as he fed on the chaos. There was so much. It used to require skill. A well placed whisper to about doubt and suspicion. Now he barely left his living room. Mankind did it to themselves without assistance. It no longer had to be a bloodbath. They were ripe for the picking. Had he done his job too well earlier? Was there any reason to ride out when it was already done?

A Little Push

CHARLOTTE LANGTREE

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General Brenik watched as men across the field shifted into horrific creatures with scaly skin and gaping maws. One beast, blood dripping from elongated teeth, raised a woman to his mouth and gorged on her flesh.

Monsters! the general shouted. Attack!

They charged, meeting their enemy with a cacophony of clanging steel.

Nearby, two figures observed the battle.

Hallucinations, War? Really?

War, imposing atop his red horse, smiled. The agonised screams were music to his ears. Monsters weren’t real, but blood ran like a river; red was his favourite colour. They were suggesting a truce. A little push was necessary.

A Purpose Met

DAVID GREEN

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With every battle, War’s prowess grew.

Missiles hit their targets; men, women and children died.

Biological weapons came next, ravaging those its toxic tendrils touched.

Nuclear warheads devastated cities, killing the earth itself.

War rode in the carnage’s midst. His red steed charged into every fray. Beasts from both Heaven and Hell answered his