The iron hook slid free from his shoulder with a wet metallic shriek. Something black and arterial splashed across the stones between them.
The torturer stepped back instinctively. Not out of mercy. Out of surprise. The prisoner laughed. Not loudly. Worse than loudly. Softly. Like he had just remembered a private joke older than civilization.
âYou still think pain is a language,â he said.
Another blow. This time across the mouth. Teeth cracked. Blood sheeted down his chin in long ribbons.
The interrogator hissed through clenched teeth. âTell me where God went.â
The prisoner turned his head slowly. There was blood in his smile now.
âThere are organisms,â he said, âliving beneath Antarctic ice that have never seen the sun and have still learned how to eat.â
The room had gone very still. Somewhere in the dark, machinery groaned.
The interrogator grabbed him by the jaw hard enough to bruise bone.
âYou think this makes you immortal?â
The prisoner spat a clot of red onto the floor between them.
âI think it makes you temporary.â
For one impossible second, the interrogator became aware of his own pulse. The heat in his veins. The soft wetness of his eyes. The damp animal electricity inside every living thing. The prisoner watched realization bloom across his face and smiled wider, blood running between his teeth.
âYou cannot threaten a creature from the dirt,â he said, âwith returning to the dirt.â
â excerpt from Shit I Just Made Up To Exemplify How All This Tumblr Prose Sounds
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