Flickering Dawn was first published in June 2015 by Just100Words after winning their June competition.
Flickering Dawn
He'd never foreseen any of it, ignorantly believing himself to be beloved by his people. They came wordlessly from the oppressive darkness, their torches barely penetrating the night – appearing to him as tiny fireflies, guiding him to his demise. To his surprise, he is calm, death seems comforting now – it is pain he fears. There is but one choice left to make. Stand regal and defiant in the face of death, or cower in fear and beg for a modicum of mercy from the mob? The same mercy that he never once showed a single one of them...
