The Witch in the Wood

10/16/2024

10/16/2024

07/23/2024

The Dance of Death
A short story written by Kara Websdale:

The wind blew the dust across the barren field.
She stood starring at her former lover.
Blood flowing from the cuts on her face and arms. Her sword hanging heavy in her grip.
"Kill me then" she screamed at him.
His face emotionless as he raised his sword and ran at her.
Tears and blood mixing on her cheeks as she braced herself for his blow. She raised her sword blocking the second he came within striking distance.
An angry snarl ripped out of him as he moved to strike her with the back of his armored hand. she twisted quickly out of his reach, twirled and raised her sword again aiming for his neck.
He blocked her attack just as quickly as she evaded his.
"You would have my head on the ground?" He spit at her
"As you would mine!" She shouted back at him " I should have known this is what would come of it! Two soldiers in different armies would always be enemies!"
"We could have left, could have run, i would have taken you away, we could have lived!" he screamed at her almost begging.
She laughed, cold and distant.
"We will now die becasue my honor is worth more than yours."
"Honor?! You think your king gives a sh*t about you? Do you think my king gives a sh*t about me? No! We are pawns in this fued! I loved you! Every breath in me was your f***ing name! F**k kings and glory I wanted to die an old man with you by my side!"
Tears slid down her cheeks " and if I die in this battle," she said " if I kill, and die, my family will live."
The earth shattered beneath him, her words ringing in his ears. She raised her sword and lunged. The two lovers locked in a dance of death, both unwilling to succumb to the others blade.
Exhaustion weighing heavy he glimpsed her eyes. Full of pain, Agony, betrayal, loathing, and love.
As their blade tips met again he grabbed her hilt and tipped her sword towards his heart. In tandem she did the same. The exhausted lovers eyes met, tears streaming down both their faces. With one hand still holding the hilt he grabbed her with his other hand and she reached for him. As the lovers embraced their swords found their mark. Slowly they fell to the ground unable to be together in life, but forever bound in death.

07/16/2024

The rabbit.

A rabbit goes walking in the woods
Carefree is this rabbit.
Trusting is this rabbit.
Innocent is this rabbit.
One day the rabbit falls down a hole.
A deep dark hole.
This was no place for rabbits.
Snakes lived there.
The snakes do what snakes do best.
They hurt the rabbit.
They bit the rabbit.
The poisoned the rabbit.
But the rabbit climbed out of the hole.
The rabbit survived to live another day.
Never the same again.

~Kara Websdale

05/15/2024

Ashes and dust

Cremate me and scatter me to the wind
Don't leave a tombstone to be left in ruin
Don't leave my body for I wish to be free
Cremate me and scatter me

I do not want to be buried in the ground
For people forget what once was profound
Even a tomb left for hundreds of years
Will always be found and forever cleared

Do not cage me within the ground
Worms withering all around
Do not put me in a box sheilded from the sky
For I have always wanted to fly

Burn my body in cleansing fire,
Scatter me to the wind so I might fly higher
Scatter me in the waves of a lake or the sea
So I may float forever free

Don't leave me to my fellow man
Who never once offered a hand
I wish to return to ashes and dust
For my fellow man I could never trust

~Kara Websdale

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Bwhaha🤣🤣

01/30/2024

Plants is life 🌱

01/29/2024

It's exhausting picking something to watch!

01/27/2024

🤣🤣 just getting some water 🤣🤣