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Excerpt #4 from "The Gnome Wars" A Novel by Richard C Strong
Do something, anything he said to himself, yet he remained still. The fatigue was overwhelming, the self isolation crippling. The years had been kinder to him than some, harsher than others. One thing was becoming painfully apparent as time rolled on however. Things that had been easy in his youth, were now harder, sometimes impossible.


Fuck the golden years drifted across his lips as he rolled out of bed moaning and groaning with muscles stiffer than his cock had been lately. He was 6'1 solidly built, toned and fit but that middle aged spread was knocking at the door every day. His head was slick and shaved, balanced by a salt and pepper beard. He was rugged like the life he lived and he had always thought it to be one of his finer qualities.


Now 55 he had began to wander at times what the hell it had all been for. His wife and two daughters had been taken 17 years ago during the first days of the gnome wars. Since then his life had been about revenge, retribution, just staying alive long enough to kill as many of those little fuckers as possible.


He had only been married to his wife for 5 years but it had been a great 5 years. Two years in his wife gave him twin daughters and it was the happiest time of his life, until the night....they came. He had heard the stories, saw some of the news footage but it was a world away and the shit they were reporting wasn't even near believable. Like who would believe things that almost crossed the boundaries of sanity. He remembered the report coming out of Russia about a three acre field of corn, except it wasn't corn. The corn had been pulled out and where ever a stalk had been there was now a human penis. 8043 if he remembered accurately. Then came the discovery of where they came from and he suddenly wished he hadn't thought of it at all. Authorities had entered a village approximately 20 miles from the field to question the locals but on that day they would get no answers. On that day the world began its decent into something resembling Dante's Inferno.


Every man woman and child in the village had been killed, if you could call it that. It was more like they had been savaged, tortured, subjected to almost unimaginable levels of brutality. All the men had been castrated, the hard way. Their members were simply torn off without regard to where they were or what they were doing. He recalled a couple had been been found naked and dead in their bed. They had evidently been in the middle of copulation. The man was frozen in rigamortis on top of the woman, his mouth still open , eyes closed with head tilted towards cieling as if he had just shot his load. If he had it was his last. His penis had been ripped off while in the woman's vagina and pulled through her anus, balls left hanging out by their spermatic cords. She had evidently been dispatched at the same time in a similarly brutal fashion. Her breast tissue gouged out and rammed down her trachea with such force that her lungs had exploded inside her. They had then been screwed to the floor with eight ....six foot long auger bits. One through each of their limbs, one through their heads, two through their backs and the final one through their rectum. Some responders were so traumatized by the scene that they had to be committed to a psych ward.