resolution

                       thats one word for it

kindalike a friend who texted him about capturing rats or mice

  :  :  Capturing?

  :  :  You know.

  :  :  No. Tell me.  I believe you mean killing them with traps.

  :  :  Same difference.

  :  :  Call it what it is. Death shouldn’t be euphemised.  Don’t be careless.

  :  :  Capturing them.

  :  :  You’re a cunt. I’m not being euphemistic.  Later.

                                                               that was two days ago

he saw texts had arrived but chose to let them languish

captured

 

 

there were too many

it would have been foolish to face them in the open

he retreated  a long arduous way to a cabin built into the crotch of a stoneface beneath an overhang

inside a fireplace outfitted with swiveled hooks to hang pots wood table four chairs two cots cupboard a long heavy iron poker to stir a fire small shovel ash bucket

before it was a flat strewn with rubble except for a narrow wending path

if they followed their assault would be a frontal

                                                       his advantage

four pursued

   haughty apparently liking their odds

a lone woman among them surprised him although she was mannishlooking

                                                                                  maybe a point to prove

they were all business  came easily

                                          when he fled he was unarmed

they faced a stout door wedged shut windows to either side  shutters inside open

attacking they yelled RESOLUTIONsmashed glass with clubs hammered the door a lone assailant at a window he stabbed in the throat with the poker pivotedsuddenly past the door and slashedcracked the head of another leaning in timed the rhythmic pounding at the door kicked away the wedge the door toppled in the man fallingthrough sprawled the back of his bald head a shiningwhite target he bludgeoned once the woman rushed through the doorway knife in hand he smashed it then smashed a knee and fallen he smashed her opposite foot so it turned  one foot naturally forward  it facing behind

he stepped to the bald man smashed his head again

went out bludgeoned the two others

reentered

she was screaming

he ignored her

picked up her knife  his now

he considered

                         breaking her arm

over her howlscream he cried BE IT RESOLVED a break in her emit  IT IS A LONG CRAWL

he left 

AM,  Thursday,  21  11. 24

1006,  Thursday