He's got Betty Davis eyes!Nice shades.
It is deep into the night. I hurt where I never knew I could. The floodlights are off and only a few auxiliary lights lit paths and put up enough light so the video cameras have enough light to record with.
Some of the younger slaves are doing better than me. I’m not sure that’s any bargain. None of us are dying before daybreak. I understand that. The wind picks up and rain drops splatters against our bodies.
One of the younger rebels- I don’t even know her name- cries out “why don’t they just kill me?”
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I want to tell her they are indeed killing us but what good would that do? Nearer to me Connie looks up at the sky and says “For Christ’s sake what else can happen? Do you think there is a chance the other rebels can save us?”
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“Tree told me beyond his security the IMF has hired more than a thousand mercenaries to cover the perimeter” I tell her.
“Fuck, Barb, how much ‘pillow talk’ do you do with your drunk lover?” Connie asks.
My face reddens and I ask “Do I look like I’m his lover?”
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“Barb, we are all tired. She didn’t mean anything by it. Cut her some slack” Siss says to me.
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-Barb
Tree
View attachment 256227 Tempers flare in our final hours. A dying Rebellion is not a pretty sight ... or is it?
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Finally the radio mercifully dies.
-Barb
Tree
View attachment 256324 At least Wragg beat a hasty retreat after being told to fuck off last night.
We Wraggs know when we're not wanted....we can take a gentle hint.
Like you did in 1783??
Without giving anything away but if youCor, blimey, and I thought I had a long memory for a grudge!
Like you did in 1783??
He didn't though, did he? Came back in 1814 - something about leaving a lit match in the Capitol building.Cor, blimey, and I thought I had a long memory for a grudge!
Daylight comes and even the last rebel crucified has been has been crucified more than 40 hours. Buzzards were already circling overhead even though the first rebel had yet to die. The turkey buzzards in east-central Missouri are reluctant to even leave the road when a car approaches as they eat the roadkill. A crucified slave is just warm fresh meat hanging defenselessly from her cross. The young athletic PKin, even though one of the first crucified, was in one of the slaves in best shape deep into her ordeal. She watched a buzzard land on her cross and begs “Someone kill me now!”
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My body jerks and I open my eyes. I look about. ‘Where the fuck am I?’ It takes a few moments but I realize I am on the Tree house deck. I look at the clock on the wall and see it is nearly 11 AM. Damn, I hate waking up early. I remember I left my radio on the Hill of 100 Crosses™ and start to take the long walk to retrieve it before Rush Limbaugh starts. I’m half-way there when between the trees the howl of twin GE turbines rip the (for me) early morning quiet and a surplus A-10 blows the Hill to ‘smithereens’…
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“Holy fuck” I think “I’m going to have to buy a new radio!”
In the cockpit of the A-10 the ‘Assassin Slave’ says to no one and yet everyone that hears her radio transmission “I couldn’t save you, but you won’t suffer anymore!!!”
Tree
Yeah, there will be an epilog…
Rebels die... rebellions have a way of simmering just below the surface...Who is the mystery "Assassin Slave"? Can't imagine and I thought I was the Rebel Leader. Guess we just have to wait forRevelationthe epilogue
Daylight comes and even the last rebel crucified has been has been crucified more than 40 hours. Buzzards were already circling overhead even though the first rebel had yet to die. The turkey buzzards in east-central Missouri are reluctant to even leave the road when a car approaches as they eat the roadkill. A crucified slave is just warm fresh meat hanging defenselessly from her cross. The young athletic PKin, even though one of the first crucified, was in one of the slaves in best shape deep into her ordeal. She watched a buzzard land on her cross and begs “Someone kill me now!”
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My body jerks and I open my eyes. I look about. ‘Where the fuck am I?’ It takes a few moments but I realize I am on the Tree house deck. I look at the clock on the wall and see it is nearly 11 AM. Damn, I hate waking up early. I remember I left my radio on the Hill of 100 Crosses™ and start to take the long walk to retrieve it before Rush Limbaugh starts. I’m half-way there when between the trees the howl of twin GE turbines rip the (for me) early morning quiet and a surplus A-10 blows the Hill to ‘smithereens’…
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“Holy fuck” I think “I’m going to have to buy a new radio!”
In the cockpit of the A-10 the ‘Assassin Slave’ says to no one and yet everyone that hears her radio transmission “I couldn’t save you, but you won’t suffer anymore!!!”
Tree
Yeah, there will be an epilog…
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Tuesday 30th June 2015
BLOODY A-10s DO IT AGAIN!!!
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A perfectly good hill, supporting 100 perfectly good crosses, 100 perfectly suffering victims, and one perfectly good radio, was today destroyed in an air raid by an A-10 Thunderbolt.
These accursed planes have run through this whole rebellion thing like a dose of the pox.
Sir Despard Wragg, watching from a safe distance after being told to "fuck off" by one of the crucifixion victims, (to whom, paradoxically, he now owes his life) was quick to comment.
"These things are a bane!" he said. "You should see what they did to my house back in England! I've now equipped Cruxton Abbey with surface to air missiles, and I shall be passing the card of my entirely reputable supplier over to my friend Mr Tree. It would be absolutely tragic if the Tree House were to be attacked in the same manner. Poor Leo!"
Asked if he had more sympathy for a cat than for the suffering women on their crosses, he commented, "They should have lasted for hours, if not days. It's a bloody shame. And all that timber that we could have used again next year. Pity."
Mr Tree had less to say: "Fuckin' Bitch."
I think he was referring to the pilot, but....who knows?
Giggle snort....at least I am no longer cold and wet
She's dead, man. Yer talking to a bunch of charred timber and crispy critters. (Not cold and wet anymore, indeed).Thanks for saving my life, sweetie!